Final Jeopardy: Comedic Actresses (1-30-14)
The Final Jeopardy question (1/30/2014), in the category “Comedic Actresses” was:
She’s won Emmys for 3 different TV shows & in 2013 she broke Lucille Ball’s record for most noms. by a comedic actress.
We’ve got our first co-champs since 7/3/13 today: Arthur Chu and Carolyn Collins won $26,800 each yesterday. Arthur has a 2-day total of $64,000. They compete against each other for a second time and against Maura McKenna, from Philadelphia, PA for the first time.
Arthur found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double, before the first break, in “Black and White and Read” under the $800 clue. He was in the lead with $3,800, $2,600 ahead of Carolyn in second place. He bet $1,000 and thought it was Ernest Hemingway. That was WRONG.
This author’s 1936 novel “Black Spring’, a bawdy tale of Paris, came between 2 more famous books. show
Arthur finished in the lead with $6,000. Maura was second with $5,600 and Carolyn was last with $2,400.
Arthur found the first Daily Double in “Hey ‘Pal'” under the $1,600 clue. He was in the lead with $12,800, twice as much as Maura in second place. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
This U.S. church is in communion with the See of Canterbury. show
Arthur found the last Daily Double in “Kings of England Not Born in England” under the $1,200 clue. In the lead with $20,200, he had $13,400 more than Maura in second place. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
Born in Hanover, Germany in 1660, he was 54 when he took the English throne in 1714. show
Arthur finished in the lead with a runaway $20,800. There will be no playing for a tie today. Maura was next with $7,200 and Carolyn was in third place with $2,800.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
In July 2013, Julia Louis-Dreyfus “made Emmy history when she received her 14th Emmy nomination in the category of outstanding lead actress in a comedy series, surpassing the record long-held by I Love Lucy star – and enduring TV favorite – Lucille Ball.” (People Magazine)
Carolyn wrote down Tina Fey. She bet and lost it all.
Maura got it right and added $1,599 to finish with $8,799.
Arthur thought it was Mary Tyler Moore. He lost $2,000. That left him $18,800 in winnings for today. His 3-day total is $82,800.
Kudos to Arthur. Great job and impressive knowledge of the British monarchy. He still needs a win tomorrow to knock 3 time winner Carlos Ross ($89,774) off our Top 12 TOC list.
Jeopardy Calendar Clue of the Day: ($400) Heisman Trophy Winners
On January 1, 2006, this 1984 Heisman winner from Boston College executed the first drop kick in the NFL in 65 years. show
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No one cares what I think — there’s no reason anyone should — but I don’t care for Arthur’s overly aggressive manner of playing.
I know he’s trying to psych out the other players by jumping all over the board and starting with the higher priced clues — and it seems to work. But he’s “all business” and I don’t enjoy watching the show this way.
If he’s that way in real life, no wonder his wife is sick all the time and he doesn’t have any friends.
I am not a fan of Arthur’s playing from bottom to top much either, Tom. But in this particular game, after he blew all his money in that DD, I guess he felt it was his best chance to get back on top.
plus, tom, he is not playing to please you or anyone else i guess. he plays the way how he thinks he has the best chance of winning maybe? if you were him: would you play to please the audience or to win?????
and he did.
and as a p.s.: kind of a little prejudiced way to characterize someone after seeing him play for A LOT of money for 20 minutes per show, don’t you think. j is a competition, not a beauty pageant.
I said no one cares what I think … and no one cares what you think, either.
I bet you a dollar to a doughnut that the Jeopardy! people don’t like the Chu Way, either. The game is much more suspenseful when you start with the lower value clues and build up to the big ones. It’s silly to start off with the challenging ones — often before it’s really understood what the category is about! — and then end with the cheap, easy ones. Talk about anticlimactic!
well, then send me a dollar. just going from right to left and from top to bottom gets rather boring after a while, but that’s just mho. there is nothing wrong with “fishing” or strategy to either find a dd and hope it’s in a category in which you are good or prevent somebody else from getting it. even ken (remember him?) was known to fish once in a while.
and i beg to differ. there are a few people who DO care what i think. no need to be so agressive, sir!
For me, the DD hunting or bottom to top strategies aren’t half so tragic as leaving a DD on the board, esp if it’s because of long videos clues read very slowly!
exactemundo…..
how did that Habs / Haps thing get started? Maybe because it was more offensive to hear Americans says Habs than Haps?
i think it’s just a language thing… when you listen to discussions or documentaries about the habsburgs on pbs for instance, they spell and pronounce it correctly. after all, it is a family name and as such unique. it would be the same as if for pronunciation reasons you would say “kennety” instead of “kennedY”. Somebody started it and since it fits better as “p” when you pronounce it american instead of german, it stuck. but the last cab driver or conductor in austria would correct you if you were to spell haPsburg, immediately.
boy, this was easy!!! i knew the answer as soon as i read the first line of the clue. the lineage of british and before english monarchy is something one could not completely learn in 5 lifetimes….
i know it’s common, but i hate it when they spell HANNOVER as HANOVER or HABSBURG as HAPSBURG….. e.g. the habsburg family: their fortress was the HABICHTSBURG (hawk’s fortress) in today’s switzerland. habicht = hawk and is spelled HABICHT and not HAPICHT. just one of many examples. Even though hannover was once spelled with one “n”, habsburg was NEVER spelled with a “P” except in america.
i am not only a monarchist at heart, but habsburg STILL represents austria. you can’t go anywhere in vienna e.g. without having their history on every corner.