Final Jeopardy: Coats of Arms (10-17-14)
The Final Jeopardy question (10/17/2014), in the category “Coats of Arms” was:
This country’s coat of arms features a palm tree & a 19th American sailing ship.
2-day champ John Campbell has won $35,400 so far. Will he rack up another game against these two players: Sarah Horvitz, from Brooklyn, NY; and Alexander Persaud, originally from Dubuque, IA?
John’s long pauses in yesterday’s second round when he had a big lead were not unnoticed on twitter yesterday: @briansalz said: “Tonight’s #jeopardy champ slowed down on purpose with a big lead. Wonder if he’ll see the same outrage as fellow rule-bender @arthur_affect”
Round 1: John found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “The Team, The Team, The Team” under the $400 clue, the second clue chosen. He was the only one with any money, a hot $200. He bet the $1,000 allowance and he was RIGHT.
The athletic teams of this New England school founded in 1861 are called the Engineers. show
John and Sarah finished in a tie for the lead at $4,400. Alexander was not far behind with $3,400.
Round 2: John found the first Daily Double in “O Captain! My Literature Captain!” under the $1,200 clue. He was in third place with $6,000, $1,200 less than Sarah’s lead. He bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.
He “went content to the crocodile”; instead of “Bad form”, his last words should have been “Here’s seconds!” show
Sarah found the last Daily Double in “14 Letters or More” under the $2,000 clue. She was in second place now with $8,400, $200 more than Alexander and $3,200 less than John’s lead. She bet $2,400 and she was RIGHT.
In psychology this means to separate conflicting feels as if into different boxes to cope. show
Sarah finished in the lead with $14,400 by getting a $1,600 clue right before the buzzer went off in this tight round. Alexander was next with $13,000 and John was in third place with $10,000.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS LIBERIA?
Liberia’s Coat of Arms is also called “The Seal of Liberia”. Relief, Inc. says: “The national Seal consists of a palm tree representing the natural resources of Liberia; a plow and spade which illustrate the means of developing those resources; a dove with a scroll which represents communication and living in peaceful coexistence with other nations; the emerging sun which represents the birth of Liberia; a sailing ship representing arriving settlers; and the motto “The Love of Liberty Brought Us Here” also represents the wishes, dreams, and hopes of arriving settlers.”
John came up with the Bahamas. He lost his $4,400 bet and finished with $5,600.
Alexander thought it was the Marshall Islands. That cost him $7,000 and he finished with $6,000.
Sarah wrote down the Philippines. She bet $13,000 so she landed in third place with $1,400.
Ah, gee, guess no one considered standing pat, and because Sarah talked about climbing Kilimanjaro during the chat, we thought she might be the one to think of Africa. But congrats to Alexander. He played very well and $6,000 is still a great payday! We will see him again on Monday.
The links in the players’ answers, by the way, will show you what those countries’ coats of arms look like. The Bahamas actually has a palm tree and a sailing ship — but it is not a 19th century American ship.
2 years ago:: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Cable TV Firsts”
When Turner Classic Movies began broadcasting on April 14, 1994, the first movie shown was this one. show
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I was really disappointed to see John’s long pauses in double jeopardy on last Friday’s show. That’s not what a real champion does. I hope there is a process in place to reprimand that type of obvious behavior. He also took quite a while to read the ENTIRE category name before each clue….”Oh, Captain, My Literary Captain”…c’mon man!! Just say “Oh Captain for $200.” Alex is a smart guy, he’d figure it out.
Actually, I did consider standing pat. But, sometimes with a category that seems out of the blue the clue is crazy obvious. And, I knew if I lost betting 0 coming from the lead, I’d be embarrassed. I should have bet 11,601 but 13 is my luck number and if I was wrong, it wasn’t going to much matter. So, I went for it. Oh well. The clue tripped me up on palm trees – the year should have given it away, but my brain didn’t go to the right place first. I was thinking island.
Coats of Arms is not something I would even think to look up if I was going on Jeopardy! I looked it up on J-archive to see how often it comes up — not very often. They’ve never had an FJ in the category before and most of the clues they’ve had before either give the location and ask for some other info, or otherwise point the player to the location better — as in this 12-01-06 clue in the category “National Coats of Arms” ($400): A banner reading “The Love of Liberty Brought Us Here” tops this West African nation’s coat of arms. — It was not a triple stumper.
In any event, since I don’t know much about coats of arms, I would not have bet anything and was hoping someone would bet zero today.
Either you get this right away or you can guess forever…. i thought at least one would get it, especially with the involvement of the u.s. to create this country, not to mention the similarities: the flag, the motto etc… slavery and finally its abolishment over decades with all kinds of controversy between the european countries that had to gain most from it is a big part of history.
ironically slavery was prohibited by all european countries (except portugal) before the american civil war. after that portugal followed in 1869. the netherlands were also kind of late (final abolition act 1863), the same year lincoln issued the “Emancipation Proclamation”.
but, 6 K is indeed better than nothing AND there is always next time for a bigger haul.