Final Jeopardy: Name’s the Same (11-15-22)
Here are some more clues from the 11/15/2022 Jeopardy! game. Please don’t put the answers to these clues in the comments so people who missed the game can have a chance to answer them. It is okay to refer to them by category and clue value or by part of the clue.
USA ($1000) The northernmost point in the lower 48 is this 130-square-mile area on Minnesota’s Lake of the Woods
LITTLE PEACE OF HISTORY ($400) Not a game show prize, the San Francisco Treaty of 1951 says in Article 1 the state of war between this country & the Allies is over
The players missed 4 clues in FIRST-TIME RESPONSES:
($400) The occupation seen at work on the left, or the pro football retiree on the right
($800) The first woman to represent Arizona in the Senate, this Democrat is known for her retro fashion
($1200) This type of cymbal keeps steady rhythm rather than providing the occasional crash; we’ve done that cymbal to death
($1600) We’ve gone for Fort Lauderdale but not for this Florida “Fort” city where Edison & Henry Ford had winter homes
($2000) An old French word gives us this term for a cut gem that’s rounded & polished but not faceted
FIRST-TIME RESPONSES ANSWERS: show
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Sneak Peek clues — CHAMPION WORDS
($400) Cheeta, co-star of several Tarzan films, was a famous one
($800) These seeds can make a healthy pudding & grow a “pet”
($1200) We’re serving poke with this as the main protein
($1600) This adjective means relating to speech sounds
($2000) This symbol of Judaism is Hebrew for “life”
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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So, like the contestants, I got FJ! wrong. I said “Nelson”, knowing I was wrong. Who wasn’t? My wife, who is not a J! fan. I read her the FJ clues from time to time, and this day, she got it from the novelist, not the ship captain.
I was really rooting for Sam although I was definitely happy when Andrew won yesterday I don’t care if Amy ever wins again she’s so full of herself.
I hope tomorrow Andrew or Sam win… I think both of them are twice as smart as Amy.
I have always been confused that they don’t go right to the bottom level and rack up as much money as they can…getting the top level doesn’t seem like it’s worth the effort.
Glad to see Amy make that comeback for the win. Andrew is a formidable opponent. Her wager in FJ was smart. Andrew could have outsmarted her by betting zero, as it turned out, but he pretty much had to go almost all-in. By wagering only $1100. she locked out Sam completely and knew Andrew had to miss.
The first 2 DDs were pretty easy, the 3rd one and the FJ total brainbusters.
I had an unpleasant trip to Florida that included an unscheduled layover in that Fort city that no one got. Surprised it was a stumper; not that many cities in Florida beginning with Fort.
I’m fairly certain that Sam is a popular professor. Since he is a data scientist, who has taught future astronauts, etc., I bet his postgraduate students and doctoral students find his humor a relief. If anyone likes reference books about statistics, Sam’s book “A Data Scientist’s Guide to Acquiring, Cleaning, and Managing Data in R,” is a good reference. It simplifies statistical modelling imo.
Man, I was so mad when Sam didn’t even try to find the DD in the first round and went up to the top rows! And sure enough, that enabled Andrew to get it.
VJ, Don’t be mad. Have you watched Sam’s interview videos online recorded in his office at the Naval Postgraduate School? He said he doesn’t believe in going to the bottom first. He believes in starting at the top to build up money and then hunt for the daily doubles. Imo it’s weird logic but he’s the Data Scientist not me. That appears to be his approach and he seems to be sticking with it.
I could imagine going to the top rows to build up some money for the very first clues of the first round might be better than searching for and wasting a daily double before one has accumulated any money. But as soon as any contestant has a thousand dollars or more, the daily doubles become the most valuable and important clues on the board.
I suppose a computer programmer could write a computer program to simulate such scenarios and see which strategy comes out on top…
Thanks, Jacob, for the info but this was near the end of the round!
P.S. re: Nelson’s dying words. Before the kiss part, Nelson was talking about his wife,”poor Lady Hamilton “, so I believe he meant to say “kiss her for me; Hardy”
Happy to see Amy winning today. I am rooting for Sam to get a win.
And we got our first triple stumper this week as today’s Final is a tough one and is also a James Holhauzer level.