Final Jeopardy: State Names Origins (1-5-21)
Here are 6 more triple stumpers from the 1/5/2021 Jeopardy! game:
HISTORIC HAPPENINGS ($1000) Usman Dan Fodio, founder of Africa’s Sokoto caliphate, made an 1804 trip from Gobir to Gudu called this, like Muhammad’s journey
MAPS ($600) The Peutinger Table, a rare ancient Roman map, is basically this type that Rand McNally is famous for, complete with mileage figures
ADVERBS ($400) Referring to a time in the past, this non-ly adverb is the first word of a 1965 Beatles classic
COLORFUL SCIENCE ($) This color “shift” is the increase in wavelength of light emitted by a source moving away from an observer
($1200) Spirogyra is one genus of this common algae type
($2000) The Sun is a G2 V star, or this type of dwarf
Sneak Peek clues — HER FIRST NO. 1 HIT
($200) “Time After Time” (1984)
($400) “The Way We Were” (1974)
($600) “I Kissed a Girl” (2008)
($800) “The Power of Love” (1994)
($1000) “A Moment Like This” (2002)
ANSWERS: show
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I’ll miss those creepy faces Brayden made during Daily Doubles.
The final was a cinch if you knew the Carolinas were named after King Charles. (I learned that just a few years ago.) Can’t help but think that the best Jeopardy players all would have nailed that.
Brayden was fortunate that he got handed $2000 for the correction, but he gave far too many wrong answers tonight, and it cost him the lead and a possible 6th win.
And I know all too well that one wrong answer too many before Final Jeopardy can cost you thousands of dollars and a return appearance.
After seeing somewhere that Brayden Smith was Alex Trebek’s last champion, I was convinced that Brayden would sweep this entire week, win all 5 Games, and become our 1st Mega Champion since Mackenzie Jones, who won 8 Games almost a year ago, and thanks to tough material with tough categories, tough clues, tough Daily Doubles, even though that 1st Daily Double in the Double Jeopardy! Round helped Brayden tie with Manisha, and even a tough Final Jeopardy! clue, I was proven wrong AGAIN! Still, great run, Brayden. 5 wins & $115,798. We’ll see you in the Tournament of Champions. Let’s just hope that in tomorrow’s show, the material will be easy for the contestants all the way through.
Second straight triple stumper this week as nobody knows about geography.
I’d argue this clue dealt more with history than geography, as the key was knowing which king would have been executed in the referenced year. And then linguistics is still probably more important than geography, as everyone knows the name ‘Carolina’, but a small percentage would know that “Carolina” is etymologically related to the name “Charles”.
or just knowing which states were named after royalty. Besides the Carolinas and Maryland, the others are:
Georgia (after George II of Great Britain)
Louisiana (after Louis XIV of France)
Virginia (after Queen Elizabeth I)
Brayden had a good five game run despite missing three final jeopardy clues. Still he will perform better in the tournament of champions when it comes around. Two triple stumper in final this week but we do need a triple solve soon. I never heard of Jean Ribaut but still a tough Geography final. Hopefully manisha will have better luck tomorrow even if she won’t win five games.
A tough final. And a tough Jeopardy Round Daily Double, at least for me, with my ignorance of fashion. Granted it would be possible to deduce the correct answer via ‘collections’ in the clue, but I was stuck trying to decode ‘LVMH’.