Final Jeopardy: The Ancient World (1-9-24)
The Final Jeopardy question (1/9/2024) in the category “The Ancient World” was:
This text helped the soul, or ka, navigate a journey into a region called Amenti
A new Second Chance tournament begins today and the contestants are: Rotimi Kukoyi, a health policy & management student from Hoover, AL; April Marquet, a digital production artist from Oakland, CA; and Pam Warren, a high school science teacher from Petersburg, IL.
Round 1 Categories: “F” in Geography – Sports Takes – College Prep – 3 of the Same Letter – A Recipe for… – Disaster
Pam found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “‘F’ in Geography” under the $600 clue on the 2nd pick. She was the only one on the board with $1,000. Pam bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.
This city in Alaska has hosted the Midnight Sun Festival for more than 40 years show
April finished in the lead with $4,600. Pam was in second place with $4,400 and Rotimi was last with $3,400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Fictional Characters’ Occupations – In My Art Deco Era – U.S. Nobel Peace Prize Winners – 4-Letter Fish – Women of Country Music – Waterlogged Words
Rotimi found the first Daily Double in “U.S. Noble Peace Prize Winners” under the $1,600 clue on the 8th pick of the round. He was in last place with $5,400, $2,000 less than April’s lead. Rotimi made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
”Soldier of Peace” is the subtitle of a biography of this general who helped Europe recover following World War II show
Pam got the last Daily Double in “4-Letter Fish” under the $2,000 with 8 clues left after it. She was in the lead with $11,200, $1,400 more than April in second place. Pam bet $6,000 and said bass. That was WRONG.
The muskellunge or muskie, a large member of this 4-letter family can eat frogs and waterfowl show
April finished in the lead with $10,200. Rotimi was in second place with $9,600. Pam was last with $8,000. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS THE BOOK OF THE DEAD?
Per Brittanica: The Book of the Dead is “an ancient Egyptian collection of mortuary texts made up of spells or magic formulas, placed in tombs and believed to protect and aid the deceased in the hereafter … Many copies of the book have been found in Egyptian tombs, but none contains all of the approximately 200 known chapters. The collection, literally titled “The Chapters of Coming-Forth-by-Day,” received its present name from Karl Richard Lepsius, the German Egyptologist who published the first collection of the texts in 1842.”
Learn more: The Egyptian Soul, the ka, the ba and the akh
Pam got it right. She bet it all and doubled her score to $16,000.
Rotimi got it right, too. He bet $6,401 and finished with $16,001.
April thought it was the Bhagavad Gita. She lost $9,001 and finished with $1,199. So Rotimi Kukoyi is this tournament’s first finalist.
2 triple stumpers from IN MY ART DECO ERA:
($400) The Petersen Automotive Museum has a Phantom from this car company that “epitomizes the prewar art deco school of design”
($800) Before this music hall opened in 1932, A N.Y. newspaper glowed, “the whole theatre interior lends itself to this effect at sunrise”
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Word Origins”
From the Greek for “ring”, the first ones were built by the Romans, including one that could hold 250,000 show
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Rotimi might have won, but, if he continues his strategy, he won’t get far. He wagered for second place. This tournament is win or go home.
I got FJ wrong. Like the lady in the middle, I said “The Bhagavad Gita”.
This show was definitely Second Chancers. They looked like why they didn’t win their games.
Got a little more than half the TS correct.
Pretty tight game, although I thought Pam’s $6K wager with the lead was reckless, and ultimately cost her the win.
FJ out of my comfort zone. I meekly said Koran, which I figured was not it.
The Phantom automobile was not difficult. Neither was the NY music hall. Those two odd-named cities pretty much gave away the F country. The $1000 Sports clue was a toughie, but I figured it out. The NHL penalty answer was not the one I came up with, but mine might have been acceptable.
What was your answer, in place of “diving”? I’m a big hockey fan, so that one was reflexive. Daniel Brière played for the Sabres about 17 years ago, when embellishment became a penalty, and the NHL sent out a video for referees to see. The absolute first one shown, of a player diving, was Daniel Brière!
I love hockey, but am much more into basketball and football, so I said “flop.”
For lack of a better response, all I could come up with was the Dead Sea Scrolls which I knew wasn’t going to fly. Anyways, it was another great game, and I’m glad that Rotimi was going to the finals.
Rotimi was originally invited back for the High School Reunion Tournament, but he was tested positive to COVID-19.