Final Jeopardy: State Birds (10-25-18)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/25/2018) in the category “State Birds” was:
The 2-word name of this black & orange or black & golden state bird derives in part from the Latin for “golden”
New champ Hannah McIntyre, an author from Whistler, British Columbia, won $20,200 yesterday. In Game 2, her challengers are: Jill Hurtt, a teacher & librarian from Hemingford, NE; and Dhruv Srinivasachar, a medical & doctoral student from Richmond, VA.
Round 1 Categories: Doc Trebek’s Diagnosis – TV – Serious Talk – Hey Joe – Where You Going? – With That Lunch in Your Hand
Dhruv got the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Serious Talk” under the $600 clue on the 19th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $2,800, $2,000 ahead of Jill in second place. He bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
Said one way it means to think carefully; another, what a jury does to decide one’s fate. show
Dhruv finished in the lead with $6,000. Jill was second with $5,000 and Hannah was last with $800.
Round 2 Categories: Conquistadors – Long Movies – Tools of Their Trade – Fictional Books in Books – Geography of the Moon – Words With a “Way”
Hannah found the first Daily Double in “Word with a ‘Way'” under the $1,200 clue on the 9th pick. She was in third place with $2,800 now, $4,400 less than Dhruv’s lead. She made it a true Daily Double but put in an extra word that made it WRONG.
It’s the oldest Committee of the U.S. Congress. show
5 clues later, Hannah found the last Daily Double in “Conquistadors” under the $1,200 clue. In third place with $1,200, she had $6,800 less than Dhruv’s lead. She bet what she had and she was RIGHT.
The Cabrillo National Monument sits in this California City where Juan sailed in 1542. show
Dhruv finished in the lead with $12,400. Jill was next with $10,600 and Hannah was in third place with $6,400. After a convoluted reversal, Dhruv and Jill switched places with Jill leading with $13,800 and Dhruv at $10,800. (I will put the explanation in the comments)
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Here is a link to the etymology of oriole, the “golden” part of the clue. The Bird-Watching Bliss website has lots of info on the bird, with nest-building and baby-feeding videos. It is also noted that the Baltimore Oriole became Maryland’s official state bird in 1947. The Baltimore Orioles baseball team got their name more than half a century earlier in 1894.
This $200 clue was in the 10/19/16 game: “This orange & black state bird of Maryland is also called a Firebird or golden robin” – Alex asked the player to be more specific on her one-word response.
Hannah just had “oriole.” She lost her $1,501 bet, leaving her with $4,899.
Dhruv got it right. He bet $6,800 so his score rose to $17,600.
Jill just had “oriole” too. She lost $7,801, landing in second place with $5,999. Dhruv Srinivasachar is the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
WHERE YOU GOING? ($600) Maybe braving this desert referred to as Dorsland or “Thirstland” by the Boers who trekked through it
TOOLS OF THEIR TRADE ($2000) Mouth gag, cropping tools, spay hook
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “British Pop Music”
This song released on July 11, 1969 to coincide with the Apollo 11 mission was used in the BBC’s coverage of the moon landing. show
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If there ever was an example of “tinky tells’ it was tonight’s ridiculous game. So happy Drew won. Wasn’t right to take his $ away esp when he w ahead.
That clue about the moon was too ambiguous I mean the writers had confused themselves and it should have been rewritten better. I can only say congratulations to dhruv since he could be a possible candidate for the toc. Dhruv gaur will have competition with the new dhruv hopefully if he wins five games. John and VJ, do you guys think the writers has been a little to harsh on the contestants?
@Lou
Maybe the writers smoked something that is made from the papaver somniferum??? Just a possibility. As I said, they should stay away from ambiguous clus. If the WRITERS are not sure, how are the players supposed to know? Sometimes the clue writers are tripping themselves up when they want to be extra fancy. Just my observation over the years and almost decades…
I dunno, Lou — what I was referring to was how the money was adjusted. That is what Trebek said he dreaded explaining and I’m pretty sick of it myself.
Jill was given back the $1600 the wrong ruling cost her plus another $1600 for being right.
Dhruv got $1600 taken away for giving an answer that was ruled correct but was really wrong. He did not get another $1600 taken away from him because if they had accepted Jill’s answer to begin with, he would not have answered the clue at all.
Or something like that.
Fortunately it did not matter in the end. (maybe they should supply the judges with an abacus???) :):):)🤣
The reversal was on this clue in GEOGRAPHY OF THE MOON: ($1600) The moon even has marshes– there’s the Marsh of Epidemics, the Marsh of Decay & this Marsh, aka Palus Somnii
Jill’s response of Marsh of Dreams was rejected. Dhruv’s Marsh of Slumber was accepted. It turned out that Jill was right and Dhruv was wrong. So they adjusted the scores accordingly. (Like Alex, I dread the explanations so feel free if you don’t)
That dentist answer on the $2000 Tools of the Trade clue was so funny. Yesterday, I had to go get a little filling. I might have cancelled my appointment if I saw “mouth gag” and it was right. LOL!!
LINK: 9 more clues from the match, including the Doc Trebek category
It’a a complicated noun. SOMNUS (sing)=sleep, SOMNII (pl.)=dreams.Papaver somniferum= opium poppy (which is actually a misnomer since only a few papaver somniferum yield/produce opium).Why don’t the writers stay away from such ambiguous clues?
Congratulations to Dhruv….maybe he will be the second “Dhruv” in the ToC? His wager was a little unusual though.
The ladies were apparently not much into baseball. The moment I thought of “oriol” the word “Baltimore ” popped in my head. If not for anyone else then for Cal Ripken jr., an icon, though I really never watch any Orioles’ games. Like you think football, you think Unitas. Or science = Einstein.