Final Jeopardy: The Solar System (10-16-18)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/16/2018) in the category “The Solar System” was:
Features on this body include Tombaugh Regio & Sleipnir Fossa, named for a horse that carried Odin to the Underworld
2x champ Alan Dunn, a software development manager from Johns Creek, GA, has won $51,600 now. In Game 3, he is up against: Hila Saxer, an ASL interpreter from Washington, PA; and Prairie Rose Clayton, a taxonomist from Cambridge, MA.
Round 1 Categories: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral, Ends in an F Sound, Really Big Sports Stars, War Fare, Emilys, List
Prairie found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Emilys” under the $2,000 clue, with only one clue left after it. She was in second place with $6,000, $3,800 less than Alan’s lead. She made it a true Daily Double and thought it was Beowulf. That was WRONG.
Emily Wilson begins the 1st Eng. trans. by a woman of this epic, “Tell me about a complicated man. Muse, tell me how he wandered. show
Alan finished in the lead with $9,600. Hila was second with $800 and Prairie was last with $0.
Round 2 Categories: If 1800s America Had Today’s Technology, In the Dictionary – Biblically Inspired Literature – Conquered After Everest – Anthropology – Their Final Film Role
Alan found the first Daily Double in “In the Dictionary” under the $2,000 clue on the 5th pick. He was in the lead with $13,200 now, $12,400 more than Hila in second place. He bet $6,000 and said false color imaging. That was WRONG.
An image like the one seen here accompanies the entry under the letter “T” for this type of infrared imaging based on heat.
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Alan found the last Daily Double in “Biblically Inspired Literature” under the $800 clue, with 3 clues to go after it. In the lead with $10,000, he had $400 more than Prairie in second place. He bet $2,000, and he was RIGHT.
In “Moby Dick” a man named Elijah warns this character not to sail on Ahab’s boat. show
Alan finished in the lead with $13,200. Prairie was next with $9,600 and Hila was in third place with $6,800.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
The International Astronomical Union decides how stuff in the Solar System is named and… well, it’s amazing! According to wikipedia’s article on Pluto’s geographical figures, a fossa is a ditch-like feature. Out of 7 fossae on Pluto, only Sleipnir Fossa and 2 others are official. There are 2 named regiones (a region geographically distinct from its surroundings) on Pluto but only the Tombaugh Regio is official.
Back in the day when it was still one of THE PLANETS ($500) It’s the only planet in our solar system discovered by an American, Clyde Tombaugh
Hila wrote down Pegasus. That cost her $6,500 and left her with $300.
Prairie got it right. She bet $8,150, bringing her up to $17,750.
Alan got it right, too, after crossing out the beginning of Venus. He bet $6,001 and won this one with $19,201. His 3-day total is $70,801.
Besides the 2 $6K DDs, these were the only clues missed in the whole game!!
ANTHROPOLOGY ($2000) Hides & hay were used to replicate these super comfy shoes of Otzi, the 5,000-year-old mummy known by this nickname
THEIR FINAL FILM ROLE ($800) A brief appearance as Plutarch Heavensbee in “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2”
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Funnymen”
He’s won 4 Emmys, 3 Grammys, an Oscar & 3 Tonys, & 3 of his films rank on AFI’s list of Funniest Movies of All Time. show
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I thought the FJ was real easy. Perhaps a better FJ would have been: Clyde W. Tombaugh, the discoverer of the planet Pluto in 1930, is the great-uncle of what current major League pitcher and triple winner of the Cy Young Award. Response: Clayton Kershaw (of the Los Angeles Dodgers). Of course, Prairie Rose Clayton just might know that. Good show.
Another well played game by Alan. But the mistakes made by Hila in the daily double and the final jeopardy cost her dearly. Obviously she must have misread the clue since Pegasus is clearly a constellation called Sagittarius which I believe you have studied in earth science,.John and VJ? Plus I really hope Alan can make small bets on the daily doubles in tomorrow’s game if he wants to win game 4. Plus that Odyssey response should have pointed Hila to Homer.
@Lou, Actually, Pegasus and Sagittarius are 2 different constellation . (I am born under the sign of Sagittarius)…..I believe you wanted to say “…”like” Sagittarius, not “called”? They are in different quadrants. So yes, I know about Sagittarius.
Congrats to Alan.
Btw, I was pleasantly surprised that 2 got it! The highest guess was 1.
It ended my winning “guess” streak, but better with a higher score than vice versa.
@Lou, well, that game was something — 2 players losing $6K each on their DDs. They were the 2 main contenders by the end and they were the 2 that got FJ right! The wind seemed to go out of Alan’s sails a little after his DD miss but, fortunately for him, he still was able to keep the lead.
Prairie Rose is such a pretty name!
LINK: 10 more clues from the game (that the players solved since the only 2 triple stumpers are already in the recap)
It IS a pretty name. There must be some other connection than MA though I think. Prairie Rose is not exactly a common MA first name.More like the Dakotas,OK,TX,IL (The Prairie State),CO,WY…..
Suzanne Koppleman is out.
Yes. His victory sealed Suzanne Koppelman’s fate.
Well, how sad.