Final Jeopardy: Today’s Innovators (10-30-18)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/30/2018) in the category “Today’s Innovators” was:
The ballbarrow was an early invention by this British man who’s had greater success with sophisticated household devices
2x champ Tori Campbell, an attorney from Chicago, IL, has now won $21,799. In Game 3, she is up against: Allen Adams, a writer & editor from Bangor, ME; and Emily Frey, a professor from Swarthmore, PA.
Round 1 Categories: Picture the Play – National Memorials – Etymology – ’60s Music Potpourri – A Bit Old Fashion – Eponymouse
Allen found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Etymology” under the $1,000 clue on the 10th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $2,600, $1,800 more than Tori in second place. He bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
This British term for a police officer comes from an old word for the person in charge of horsey homes. show
Allen finished in the lead with $7,800. Tori was second with $5,400 and Emily was last with $2,800.
Round 2 Categories: No Oscar for You! – Art for Art’s Sake – African Geography – The 3 F Club – The Cardinal Rules – Journalism
Emily found the first Daily Double in “Art for Art’s Sake” under the $1,600 clue on the 2nd pick. She was in third place with $1,600 now, $6,200 behind Allen’s lead. She bet the $2,000 allowance and she was RIGHT.
Max Klinger (a German symbolist, not a “M*A*S*H” character) is among painters of this 5-letter theme of a grieving Mary. show
Allen found the last Daily Double in “No Oscar For You” under the $1,600 clue on the 13th pick. In third place with $6,600, he had $3,600 less than Tori’s lead. He bet $3,500 and he was RIGHT.
Nominated 3 times but with no wins, this reclusive Swede didn’t show up in 1955 to collect her honorary Oscar. show
Allen finished in the lead with $17,700. Tori was next with $14,200 and Emily was in third place with $10,000.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Even though James Dyson calls his experience with the Ballbarrow “My Biggest Mistake”, he was not talking about the big ball he put in between the wheels of his plastic wheelbarrow to prevent it from sinking into soft ground. After “cleaning up” with his line of bagless vacs, he adapted the ball idea for increased mobility in a new line of vacuums. Fortune has a list of Dyson inventions here.
This is Dyson’s 3rd clue and first FJ! This was the 1st: LET’S GET READY TO ROOMBA! ($800) Roomba sucked up this rival vacuum cleaner that uses cyclone technology, named for Brit designer James
Emily got it right. She bet $7,701, bringing her up to $17,701.
Tori had Elon Musk. That cost her $6,000 and left her with $8,200.
Allen thought it was Richard Branson. He lost $10,777, landing in third place with $6,923. And the first shall be last etc: Emily Frey is the new Jeopardy! champ!
2 triple stumpers from Round 2:
NO OSCAR FOR YOU! ($1600) His 7 nominations included ones for “Equus” & “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
ART FOR ART’S SAKE ($1200) This giant of Flemish art was a mentor to Anthony Van Dyck, who did a 1621 portrait of the older master’s wife
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “European Countries”
This nation joined the Warsaw Pact in 1955 & NATO in 2009, & was alphabetically first in each. show
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No links today, my love has gone away…..the bottle stands forlorn, a symbol of the dawn..?
@John, your little parody of that Herman’s Hermits song is funny 😀
“How could they know just what this message means, the end of my hopes, the end of all my dreams”
LINK: 9 more clues from the match
Wow, just like that, we have a new Jeopardy! champion after she’s the only one got it correct. It was really a neck-and-neck game until the end. This FJ! is a visual one, can you please add that? Besides, I’m not familiar with ballbarrows.
Congrats to Emily although this game is preempted for me due to the elections going on between lamont and stefanoski. Also dyson vacuum cleaners are quite popular in America. I wonder though VJ or John have you guys ever used dyson vacuum cleaners in the past? Richard Branson is actually a entrepreneur who used to be on shark tank so Allen wasn’t close. Elon musk is a Tesla car inventor by the way. I hope Emily can break the curse this week and eliminate erik from the toc list.
@Lou, sorry, I meant to answer you earlier — we have never had a Dyson vacuum. My daughter has a Roomba and that thing really gets on my nerves when it’s tooling around in the kitchen. LOL.
Congratulations to Emily and the ToC clock is reset again.
Looks like now WE are jinxed….we covered all the bases today except the right one. Almost the same yesterday…….Well, the professor got it, so let’s see what’s on the menu tomorrow.
A female professor,an engineer (Swapna? F/M?) and what people w/o respect would call sort of a shrink. But then FJ may be playing into none of these categories, most likely it won’t.
Hopefully one of US will be right tomorrow too…🙄
Quite nice numbers, so I guess not too many TS moments.
Ha! The sheriff and his whole posse couldn’t lift you off the ground. En Garde!
How is it a big mystery whether Swapna is M/F when her picture is on Jeopardy.com? smh
@VJ, Because I didn’t think of it and didn’t look. Morning lazy.