Final Jeopardy: Winter Olympic Sports (10-7-21)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 10/7/2021 Jeopardy! game:
COMPOUND WORDS ($800) A technique of NFL bettors is to put money on these when they’re playing at home & they’ll “bark” for you
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT ($1000) He tinkers with history at the Ministry of Truth, gets a girlfriend & has a very bad year
THE EARTH ($2000) Fitting name for the 8-letter volcanic vent seen here (image) letting off a little steam in Iceland
WE DID START THE FIRE ($1200) Breaking with tradition, Hindu daughters are starting to light these for their deceased parents in India
U.S. FRANCHISES ($800) Completes the name of the business started in 2009 after the founder cracked his screen: UBreak…
Sneak Peek clues — “EZ” GEOGRAPHY
($200) An arm of the Red Sea, this gulf bears the name of the canal it feeds into
($400) El Paso, Texas sits just opposite this Mexican city on the Rio Grande
($600) This city on the lower Mississippi takes its name from a Native American people who once lived there
($800) Brigitte Bardot & the filming of “And God Created Woman” made this “saintly”ly French Riviera town an international destination
($1000) This river flows for more than 1,700 miles across Africa, emptying into the Mozambique Channel
ANSWERS: show
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Why can’t the show allow people with zero or less going into the Final still be allowed to answer the Final? Their answers obviously wouldn’t count, but it would still be nice to be allowed a chance to answer the Final. It would have been interesting to see what Maddie would have answered. Just my 2 cents.
Probably because it’s the ruling. If the player has a negative amount, then they won’t have enough to wager and play Final with, unless they are given extra money to play the round of Final Jeopardy!
That happened once in March 16, 2012.
I don’t think it happened then. Check the J! Archive.
When I was updating the Spelling Decisions, I came across this Power Players game (5/13/2004) where Gretchen Carlson’s negative final score was converted to a positive score so she could play FJ! It makes sense because she was playing for charity.
Whoever is below zero, or exactly zero, they cannot participate in Final Jeopardy. They will try again next time!
Nice recovery from Matt after a very costly Final Jeopardy, an example of runaway games that cannot be complacent, and the safest way to do it is to avoid wagering too much. Commiseration to Tyler because he added a syllable to his response, an example of “careful with the spelling”.
Nice job, Matt!! You are so AWESOME at Jeopardy!!
Sorry that the clues were mean to Maddie.
William Weyser would say darn those clues.
It’s fine. But, Matt is still good at Jeopardy! He was originally from Medina, Ohio where I live.
He has won 37 games! So amazing! He is a personal talent at Jeopardy!
It wasn’t Maddie’s day unfortunately but still Matt made another comeback after yesterday’s loss. Too bad Tyler’s response was rejected with the extra a. Still a good game by the players today and no giant killer yet. All the daily doubles are nailed.
This is the second dismissal of the season, Poor Maddie, she was stuck in the red the entire game and never got out of the red. And I disagree with the judges’ decision to neg “biathalon”; in many vocalizations, going from an “th” to an “l” gives a vocalized “schwa” sound; Tyler was simply transcribing that. But his response was rejected by adding an extra syllable.
Yeah, adding an extra syllable won’t help. Spelling is okay but adding even one single letter like “Saragasso” meant for “Sargasso” won’t even help. Another great addition to the “Spelling Decisions” list.