Final Jeopardy: Animals (10-24-16)

The Final Jeopardy question (10/24/2016) in the category “Animals” was:

In Greek myth she was a half-serpent & mother of the sphinx; in zoology it’s a weird mammal that lays eggs.

New champ Lani Gonzalez won $16,800 on Friday last. In her second game, she takes on these two players: Norm Burnosky, from Reston, VA; and Susan Logan, from Glenview, IL.

Round 1 Categories: The Gig Economy – Characters in Children’s Literature – Scene It – Etiquette – Islands – In Cognito

Norm found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Islands” under the $800 clue on the 18th pick of the round. He was in third place with $1,600, $3,400 less than Lani’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.

These islands were uninhabited when Portugal claimed them in 1431. They are now home to a quarter of a million people 

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WHAT ARE THE AZORES?

Lani finished in the lead with $5,600. Susan was second with $4,200 and Norm was last with $3,200.

Round 2 Categories: The New Golden Age of Television – The Sopranos – House of Cards – Veep – The “American”s – Breaking Bad

Lani found the first Daily Double in “The ‘American’s” under the $1,600 clue on the 8th pick. She had $10,800 at this point, $5,600 more than Norm in second place. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT..

James Truslow Adams popularized this phrase, a hope for life “richer and fuller… with opportunity for each” show

WHAT IS THE AMERICAN DREAM?

Lani got the last Daily Double in “The Sopranos” under the $800 clue. It was the very last clue of the round. In the lead with a runaway $16,800, she had $10,000 more than Norm in second place. She bet $2,000 again and she was RIGHT again.

Kathleen Battle excelled in Mozart operas like this one where she was Susanna, whose wedding is alluded to in the title. show

WHAT IS “THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO”?

Lani had the game in the bag with $18,800. Norm was next with $6,800 and Susan was in third place with $6,600.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS ECHIDNA?

Theoi Greek Mythology’s page on Ekhidna (Greek) or Echidna (Latin) describes her as a half-woman, half-snake “she-dragon” who with her consort, Typhoeus, gave birth to a bunch of monsters. It lists various sources and quotes that named Echidna as the mother of the Sphinx. Its page for the Sphinx lists Echidna and Tyhpoeus as parents, and also the Chimera, with 2 different fathers. However, the second prompt in the clue shows that the cluewriters went with Echidna as the mommy.

Online Biology’s dictionary has a common definition of echidna as “a monster, half maid and half serpent.” and this zoological definition: “a genus of monotremata found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea….” Then if you click on monotremata, it’s a “subdivision of the class Mammalia comprised of mammals laying eggs rather than giving birth to live young.”

Susan got it right. She bet $6,599 and that brought her up to $13,199.

Norm wrote down “Medusa.” That cost him $6,600. He had $200 left.

Lani wrote down the platypus. (Feel better, petit lapin?) She didn’t bet anything and she won the match with that $18,800. Lani’s 2-day total from her back-to-back runaway games is $35,600.

A triple stumper from each round:

THE GIG ECONOMY ($800) The Bolt DVR from this video recording pioneer unifies your TV watching with its minimum 500 GB hard drive

HOUSE OF CARDS ($1600) Chemin de Fer and Punto Banco are related to this card game whose magic number is 9, & you can take that to its bank

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Rock & Roll”

A restaurant chain took its name from a British band’s fourth chart-topper, this 1967 song. show

WHAT IS RUBY TUESDAY?

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