Final Jeopardy: Ancient History (11-4-19)
Here are more 8 triple stumpers from the 11-4-2019 Jeopardy! match (first quarter-final match of the 2019 Tournament of Champions):
I APPOINTED THAT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ($800) William Rehnquist (as associate justice)
HOMOPHONES ($1000) An old word for the Christian cross, or a description of one’s impolite disposition
SAY YES TO THE CHESS ($800) The queen’s gambit is marked by white’s second-move offer to sacrifice one of these, temporarily
($1000) The “hypermodern” Reti opening begins with a move of this piece
AUTO FILL ($1000) Feel the velocity in the _____ Veloster
THE HARVARD LAMPOON ($1000) Writers and performers who’ve gone from the “Lampoon” to “Saturday Night Live” include this young fellow who co-hosts “Weekend Update” with Michael Che
OPERA & BALLET ($2000) This title girl from an Adolphe Adam ballet dies in the first act & must dance for a ghost queen in the second
HARDPODGE ($1200) Ever the man in white, he chronicled “Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers” in 1970
ABBREVS. & ACRONYMS ($2000) Abbreviated Bq, this unit of radioactivity is named for a French physicist
The players missed 3 (*) of the clues in THE PARTY OF THE SECOND PART. (They had to name the actor who played the second part)
($400) “Grace and Frankie”
*($800) “Dharma & Greg”
($1200) “Joanie Loves Chachi”
*($1600) “Rizzoli & Isles”
*($2000) “Mork & Mindy”
ANSWERS: show
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Gilbert’s last 4 winning scores have ended in 801.
Gilbert Collins, our longest waiting participant, becomes our 1st Automatic Semi-Finalist. Congratulations, Gilbert. Well played, and we’ll see you in the Semi-Finals next week. However, this is not the 1st time that this has happened. In the 2015 JEOPARDY! Tournament Of Champions, the longest waiting participant for that TOC was 4-Time Champion: Catherine Hardee, and she became the 1st Automatic Semi-Finalist, but unlike Gilbert, or in this case, I got stuck with him, in a good way, Catherine was not my pick to win her Quarter-Final Game. That would be Vaughn Winchell, who finished in 2nd place in the Wild Card Race with $16,599, and made it to the Semi-Finals, only to get creamed by the eventual winner of the tournament: Alex Jacob.
A good start for Kyle and Gilbert after today’s match. They were pretty dominant today. Emma must be at her very best if she wants to get to Kyle’s score. It’s always best to start at the top first before going to the bottom. Speaking of marathon, there is a game called marathon 2 durandal but I am not sure if you have heard of it for the pc ,VJ?
Kyle only bounced on the board in his first game after the last season premiered.
You could see that the famous James bottom row first strategy doesn’t work out so well for other players today. Alex remarked upon it after everyone missed the first clue picked (Homophones for $1000): “Tough when you start with the more expensive clues. You know that.” Kyle said, “That is true,” then added: “‘Yes to the Chess’ $1,000.” That got an audible chuckle from the audience, and no one knew that one either.
LINK: 13 more clues from the game
The standings after Quarter Final No. 1 (11-4-19) are:
Semifinalists:
Gilbert Collins: $16,801
Wild Cards:
Kyle Jones: $16,800
Anneke Garcia: $4,799