Final Jeopardy: Sports Figures (10-13-14)
The Final Jeopardy question (10/13/2014), in the category “Sports Figures” was:
He was featured on the September 22, 1947 cover of Time with the caption “He and boss took a chance”
New champ Shane Curtis put $18,401 in his pocket on Friday. Today he takes on these two players: Amanda Brown, from Dallas, TX; and Dan Brown, originally from Boston, MA.
Round 1: Dan found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Questionable Grammar in Lyrics” under the $600 clue before the first break. He was in the lead with $2,000, twice as much as Shane in second place. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
“Every little thing she does is magic, everything she do just turns me on” has an issue with agreement of these 2 elements. show
Dan finished in the lead with $5,200. Shane was second with $2,400 and Amanda was last with zero.
Round 2: Shane found the first Daily Double in “International Trade” under the $2,000 clue. He was in second place with $6,400, $800 less than Dan’s lead. He bet $2,000 and guessed Costa Rica. That was WRONG.
Per U.S. D.O.T. figures, this Central American nation has the largest registered merchant fleet in the world. show
Shane found the last Daily Double in “A Confederacy of Dunces” under the $1,200 clue. He was now in the lead with $9,600 and had $2,800 more than Dan in second place. He bet $2,000 and thought it was Gettysburg. That was WRONG.
Union soldiers found Robert E. Lee’s handwritten plans wrapped around 3 cigars and lying in a field east of Sharpsburg, MD, 4 days before this bloody 1862 battle. show
Dan finished in the lead with $10,400. Shane was next with $7,600 and Amanda was in third place with $2,000.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
“Jackie Robinson became the first black player in the major leagues in 1947, signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was named Rookie of the Year in 1947, National League MVP in 1949 and a World Series champ in 1955.” (Biography.com)
The Time Magazine cover is included in Time’s online Best Covers. The full article, it appears, is only available to subscribers.
Amanda drew a blank but she bet nothing so she remained at $2,000.
Shane thought it was Mickey Mantle. He lost his $2,000 bet and finished with $5,600.
Dan came up with Babe Ruth. He lost $4,800 so he ended up with $5,600, too. And once again, we have co-champs, although it doesn’t count as an intentional bet-to-tie game, does it? Shane didn’t even bet enough to beat Dan if he bet zero. Shane has 2-day total of $24,001.
2 years ago:: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Fiction”
A proposed title for this novel sounded too much like a Vegas heist movie, so the number in the title was doubled. show
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Sun? Moon? Dan’s the man!
Jeopardy Contestant Tells the Worst and Longest Story Ever (LINK)
LOL – yes I meant to say something about that yesterday. I was expecting something along the lines of him using a French word incorrectly so that what he meant to say came out very strange – instead he goes into that long and mixed up sun and moon thing…
These were the one-liners from twitter
“My grandma made my jeans into quilts”
“I thought the moon was the sun.”
“I teach Army majors.”
on the one hand you are absolutely right,vj. HOWEVER, if shane figured both would get it wrong and dan would play for a tie and bet accordingly, then the 2K would result in a tie in reverse, so to speak. i don’t know if shane considered it but he might have, otherwise his bet would not make any sense and dan DID play for a tie. maybe i am giving shane too much credit, but who knows??
what DID surprise me though was the miss on the dd re: panama. a registration under panamanian flag is almost as proverbial as the “swiss bank account”. IF shane wagered the way i think he might have done, he took a double risk and made a double assumption:
a. hoping dan would get it wrong and
b. at the same time speculating dan would play for a tie.
had dan wagered the extra buck and gotten it wrong, shane would have won by that one buck. so he had nothing to lose, a tie in the worst case scenario, a win by $1 if dan would wager the extra dollar. always provided of course, dan would get it wrong and would bet conservatively.
hmmm, well, wow is all I can say if he went about it that way. But as far as tagging the games go, I think I will stick with bet-to-tie from the leader’s position
yeah, it’s all hypothetical of course. but i was turning it around and around and that’s the only way i could come up with that the 2 K made sense. IF it was meant that way then it was a brilliant move. but i guess, we’ll never know.
OK, well I looked at the Final Wager video for today and Keith Williams said there was no reason why Dan should have bet more than $4,800, though I don’t understand why, but he did. Then I realized if they both had been right, they would have tied if Shane had doubled up so I am going to count it as bet to tie. Ugh. So confused!
yeah, dan played for a tie to begin with. but with the 2 K wager and everything things got kind out of hand. hopefully tuesday will clarify things once and for all (unless the third player ends up with a runaway…..):):)