Final Jeopardy: News From the Stork (10-29-24)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/29/2024) in the category “News From the Stork” was:
One of the 10 or so babies born at Argentina’s Esperanza Base in this place was fittingly named Marisa de las Nieves
New champ Ian Taylor, a food sales rep orig. from Cleveland, OH, won $19,601 yesterday by defeating a 4x champ. In Game 2, his challengers are: Aimée Record, a middle school teacher from Long Island, NY; and John Liu, a marketing analyst from Santa Monica, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Alaskan Cities – Singing Through the Centuries – Reality & Competition TV Shows – Going Deep on the Fast Food Menu – Sorry, No Shake Today – The Machine’s Broken
Ian found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Singing Through the Centuries” under the $800 on the 6th pick of the round. He was in second place with $1,000, $600 less than Aimée ’s lead. Ian made it a true Daily Double and guessed Erato. That was WRONG.
Plato called her “The Tenth Muse” & her epithalamia or nuptial songs still inspire passion show
Aimée finished in the lead with $3,800. John was second with $2,600 and Ian was last with $1,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Historic Women – Time for Some Drama – An “A” in Psychology – Join Up! – Movie Outlaws – Prefixes
John found the first Daily Double in “An ‘A’ in Psychology” under the $1,600 clue on the 7th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $5,400, $3,600 more than Ian in second place. John made it a true Daily Double and forgot to answer in the form of a question so even though he was right, he was WRONG.
Broca’s and Wernicke’s are 2 types of condition in which language use & speech are impaired show
John found the last Daily Double in “Historic Women” under the $800 clue with 5 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $3,600 now, $600 more than Ian in second place. John bet $1,600 and he was RIGHT.
Daughter of a bear-keeper in this city, Theodora married Justinian I in 525 & became the Byzantine Empire’s most powerful woman show
John finished in the lead with $5,600. Ian was second with $3,400 and Aimée was last with $600. One $400 clue was not shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS ANTARCTICA?
Esperanza Base is an Argentine research center located in Hope Bay, Trinity Peninsula in Antarctica. Families live there, usually about a year, according to this video. The narrator notes that a number of children were born there. “Marisa of the snows” was the first girl born there, according to Wikipedia’s list.
The narrator also says: “Ten people have gotten married here. Very romantic.”
Aimée thought it was Buenos Aires. She lost $598 and finished with $2.00.
Ian got it right. He bet $2,201 and finished with $5,601.
John also got it right. He bet $2,201 and won the game with $7,801. John Liu is the new Jeopardy! champ. Nice comeback there, John!!
A triple stumper from each round. (Please don’t put the answers in the comments)
ALASKAN CITIES ($1000) This city in Southeast Alaska is home to a historic Russian Orthodox church, St. Michael’s Cathedral
JOIN UP! ($1200) Join a league for doing this–Robert D. Putnam wrote a classic book about how Americans are instead now doing it “Alone”
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “POETS”
Inspired by stories from his grandfather, his “Battle of Lovell’s Pond” appeared in the Portland Gazette in 1820 when he was 13 show
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Missed most of the show but caught FJ. I was fairly sure “nieves” means snow, but couldn’t decide between Antarctica and the Falklands. (Since there was a war over the Falklands, I wasn’t sure which area has a base.) I was surprised to see such low scores, but now I realize why. Seems as if this group studied up on fast food and not much else.
Somehow I guessed the Klondike show. I really liked the Tessitore/Riggle show, but it wasn’t on this past summer. The Aspen tree clue was pretty obvious. The ref’s instructions are as old as time. Remembered the Venus craft. 3-named activist not difficult. Never saw “Fences” but guessed the sport. “She Stoops to” is somewhat well-known. Brit playwright was easy. Experience of emotion/feeling another gimme. Jimmy Cagney’s smash is classic, guess this group never saw it. The “ne plus” phrase wasn’t that impossible. That’s 11 right there.
What an ugly Tuesday game today. Low scoring game with lots of triple stumpers and the material didn’t seem to fit all three players today. All three contestants played very poorly today with 21 triple stumpers and less than 6,000 heading into Final. Not good at all. This has got to be the worst game ever in a long time.
Well, don’t forget that John would have had a much higher score — maybe even a runaway — if only he had remembered to phrase his DD response in question form.
I sure hope he’s more careful tomorrow.
Yeah, that’s one thing I cannot forgive on J! It’s the raison d’etre. Once, maybe, but, twice? That is totally a “you” problem, not a “me” problem.
I said “Islas Malvinas” for FJ. I knew I knew “Nieves”, but could NOT come up with it in time. I had the proverbial “blank”. If I ever get on J!, I’m going to use as many alternative/native names as I can, like “Islas Malvinas”, and “Rapa Nui”. I want them to have to go back at commercial break and look it up, and give me my points!
Ha ha ha, Jason. I would love to see that!
Good thing that we didn’t have a daily double wipeout today.