Final Jeopardy: U.K. Prime Ministers (1-24-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (1/24/2019) in the category “U.K. Prime Ministers” was:
He was the first U.K. Prime Minister born after Elizabeth II became queen
New champ Rachel Paterno-Mahler, an astrophysicist from Playa Del Rey, CA, won $29,600 yesterday. In Game 2, her opponents are: Aaron Lichtig, a growth marketer from Silver Spring, MD; and Nancy Rohlen, a sales manager from Chicago, IL.
Round 1 Categories: Top Non-Sports Programs of All Time – Edible Homophones – I Named It After You – That’s So “P.C.” – Caracas – Creatures With Blowholes
Aaron found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Creatures with Blowholes” under the $600 clue on the 12th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $2,400, $1,000 more than Nancy in second place. He bet $1,200 and took a guess with river dolphin. That was WRONG.
Monodon monoceros, it has to navigate Arctic ice so it can get air into its blowhole. show
Nancy finished in the lead with $4,400. Aaron and Rachel were tied in second with $3,600 each.
Round 2 Categories: Painters’ Masterpieces – Slogans & Mottoes – Potent Poe Tales -“Bio” – People Power – Before & Actor
Nancy found the first Daily Double in “Slogans & Mottoes” under the $1,200 clue on the 16th pick. She was in second place with $9,200 at this point, a mere $400 behind Aaron’s lead. She bet $2,000 and thought it was truth & wisdom. That was WRONG.
Yale’s motto “Lux et Veritas” means this. show
Rachel found the last Daily Double in “Potent Poe Tales” under the $800 clue, with 8 clues left after it. In third place with $3,600, she had $8,000 less than Aaron’s lead. She made it a true Daily Double and said “the house with the crack in its wall.” Of course, she knew that was WRONG.
This Poe story’s title is realized as the narrator flees the “House” as it cracks & is torn asunder. show
Aaron finished in the lead with $12,400. Nancy was next with $7,200. Rachel was out of the game, at negative $1,600.
BOTH contestants left in Final Jeopardy! got it right.
Elizabeth II became queen of England upon the death of her father, George VI, on February 6, 1952. That occurred during Winston Churchill’s tenure as Prime Minister. Future PM Tony Blair was born on May 6, 1953. Elizabeth II had 9 other prime ministers between Churchill and Blair. Churchill and 3 others were born in the 19th century. Alec Douglas-Home was the first born in the 20th century. This page on wikipedia has a lot of tidbits like that and a sortable chart showing their dates of birth, age at appointment and more.
A 2005 FJ: Surnames: It’s the only surname ever shared by a U.S. president & a British prime minister
Nancy bet $5,201 and finished with $12,401.
Aaron bet $2,001 and won the match with $14,401. Now he’s the new Jeopardy! champ.
2 triple stumpers from SLOGANS & MOTTOES:
($800) Smokey Bear spoke of forest fires until 2001 when his motto became “only you can prevent” these; humans cause most
($1600) He used the slogan “Return to Normalcy” in his 1920 presidential campaign
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “20th Century Playwrights”
He said of his 1949 play & its main character, “I could write about failure only because I could deal with it… I knew how he felt”. show
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So I guess this means Rachel is the first returning champ to wipe out before FJ! after Dylan Gallard. Oh well, whatever happens happens, it’s really no big deal.
It’s Dylan Hamilton. He won 2 games, and won over $25,000, before his challengers in his 3rd game really destroyed him.
Was the word “purloined” pronounced in a strange way? I thought I heard something a little off when I heard the pronunciation.
@Albert, it sounded fine to me
Oh dear, the true DD on Edgar Allan Poe made the DISMISSAL of the returning champion, and Aaron, well, he could be the spoiler.
Well, idk why I even thought it but I was hoping that the DD wasn’t in that Creatures with Blowholes category.
LINK: 13 more clues from the game
Too bad for Rachel that she was dismissed. Those daily doubles were not that hard at all. How come Rachel didn’t know that book by Edgar Allan Poe? But still congratulations to Aaron. I just hope that he could increase his confidence tomorrow. Alex got.kind of confused who defeated whom today. But still glad these guys got Tony Blair. What year did he leave office John and VJ?
@Lou
June 2007, just 2 years into his 3rd term as PM, though before the elections he promised to serve a FULL 5 year 3rd term.Brown took over till 2010 when he got defeated by Cameron and the Tories (conservative party). Cameron then became PM by forging a coalition with the Liberal Party and Cameron then won the 2015 election with an absolute majority.
@Lou
Lux et Veritas was a walk in the park if you know Latin….
So we are finally back to normal again! Congratulations to our – again new- champion, this time Aaron! And I guess rhonda got another carrot in the “clues” contest with the “Painter’s Masterpieces”!! What a difference a day makes! Today all 3 DDs were missed and I guess a lot of TS because the numbers before FJ are kind of low, also the opposite from yesterday.
At least both players left got Blair, Brown was very close timewise….but I guess Blair was TOO prominent and caused quite a stir when he left office 2 years early causing Brown and the Labour Party a crushing defeat, so Cameron took over with the Liberals and won an outright majority in 2015, until May did a stupid snap election….
Also, at the beginning of the episode, Alex said that Rachel, the astrophysicist, defeated a microbiologist. Here’s the problem: Rachel, the astrophysicist, defeated Haley, the copywriter. Haley, the copywriter, defeated John, the microbiologist. Alex, I do understand that you’re old, and your memory tends to fade a little bit, but REALLY? How could you forget?
Guess Alex just got mixed up with the microbiologist and astrophysicist, 2 professions that are not exactly too common. Well, the mind sometimes plays some tricks on you….I think he’ll get his full paycheck anyway!LOL
It’s not a big deal. Trebek doesn’t even know those people and forgets all about them 5 minutes after they are eliminated from the show.