Final Jeopardy: Word Origins (10-9-24)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/9/2024) in the category “Word Origins” was:
This word for one who cuts a trail comes from a name of a character in an 1840 novel
3x champ Mark Fitzpatrick, a content manager from Riverside, CT, has now won $58,000. In Game 4, he takes on these two players: Robert Franke, a data analyst from Sun Prairie, WI; and Colleen Kelly, a girl-between-gigs from Melrose, MA.
Round 1 Categories: 41 – Green Veggies – World Geography – Alliteration – TV Coupling – Medieval Notables
Mark found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Alliteration” under the $600 on the 4th pick of the round. He was the only one on the board with $2,400. Mark made it a true Daily Double but drew a blank so he was WRONG.
Southern California area of canyons, passes & great views; Bob Seger rhymed them with “diamonds & frills” show
Mark finished in the lead with $5,400. Rob was second with $2,600 and Colleen was last with $0. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: 41 – Anatomy – “U” Know – Place the Book – Miscellany – Color Films
Mark found the first Daily Double in “Anatomy” under the $1,200 clue on the 7th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $8,200 now, $5,600 more than Rob in second place. Mark bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
Type 1 diabetes destroys beta cells in this organ show
On the very next pick, Mark found the last Daily Double in “Color Films” under the $1,200 clue. He was in the lead with $11,200, $8,600 more than Rob in second place. Mark bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth had the two title roles in this 2012 fantasy show
Mark finished in the lead with a runaway $23,600. Rob was second with $6,200 and Colleen was last with $5,600. All clues were shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS PATHFINDER?
Etymology Online credits James Fenimore Cooper with coining the word “pathfinder” in 1839, presumably the year he wrote “The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea” (1840). “The Pathfinder” is the third novel chronologically in “The Leatherstocking Tales”, after “The Last of the Mohicans” (1827). In those two novels, Natty Bumppo is know as La Longue Carabine (Long Rifle), Hawkeye and Pathfinder. Wikipedia has a list of the many uses of the name Pathfinder, from the military to toys and films.
In most of The Leatherstocking Tales, Chingachgook is the Indian companion of Natty Bumppo as Tonto was to the Lone Ranger. Jay Silverheels was Tonto in “The Lone Ranger” TV series (1949-1957), and he also played Chingachgook in “The Pathfinder”, a 1952 movie with George Montgomery in the title role.
Colleen didn’t have a response. She bet and lost her whole $5,600.
Robert went with a shoutout. He lost $130 and finished with $6,070.
Mark’s response was pioneer. He didn’t risk a penny of his runaway so he won the game with $23,600. Mark’s 4-day total is $81,600.
A triple stumper from each round. (Please don’t put the answers in the comments)
MEDIEVAL NOTABLES ($1000) A popular translation of a work by this Persian astronomer-poet has lines like “take the cash, and let the credit go”
COLOR FILMS ($000) A young woman enters a surf competition & romances a football player in this 2002 Hawaii-set film
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “20th CENTURY LEADERS”
In a September 3, 1939 speech, he said, “Everything that I have worked for… has crashed into ruins” show
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I said Leatherstocking, Natty Bumppo, and Chingachgook, and knew it was JF Cooper, but just could NOT come up with the answer. 2/3 on DD.
Colleen gave away a few freebies by giving half an answer.
I didn’t recall the football story exactly, in the 41 category, so, in my minds eye, I said the Cleveland Browns! Oy!
Anna, really, in the Medical Terms category, the $400 clue was about the least medical term one could use; that is, I, as a medical professional, would never say that to another.
Wow, I thought they’d all nail that pretty easy FJ. Couldn’t be trailblazer since “trail” was in the clue. Very surprising. I’ve been to Cooperstown but never read any of his works.
Mark obviously not familiar with that terrific Bob Seger tune. A number of lines in it directly describe my move to LA and meeting my future wife, 50 long years ago.
Brian Piccolo team; thistle veggie; Bush’s two words; DFC medal; big joints; and one-side U word all very gettable. Only the third DD eluded me.
Wow, another great game. As for the FJ, I came up with ‘trailblazer’, but that was just after the clock had run out. Oh well!
For the third game in a row this week. FJ! was a triple stumper. It’s not been a good week so far for FJ! this week. It looks like we won’t get any correct responses this week and there is a chance it might happen with 0 out of 15 correct responses in Final this week.
A lot of tough final this week as we got another triple stumper.