Final Jeopardy: Explorers (11-8-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/8/2023) in the category “Explorers” was:
Perhaps inspiring a line 2 centuries later, in 1774 he wrote that he was headed “farther than any other man has been before me”
Today the Champions Wild Card (Diamonds) tournament wraps up with these champs: Emily Sands, ($30,400); Jilana Cotter, ($3,000); and Aaron Craig, ($10,000).
Yesterday’s scores (as shown above) will be added to today’s scores to determine the winner.
Round 1 Categories: Fan Mail to Historic Figures – The “A” Team – I Pity Da Food! – On the Old Map – Metallica – L____O
Jilana found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Fan Mail to Historic Figures” under the $800 clue on the 16th pick of the round. She was in last place with $3,200, $1,400 less than Aaron’s lead. Jilana made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
Will you sign my copy of the “Domesday Book” you commissioned, my King? It’s a first edition from 1086! show
Jilana finished in the lead with $7,200. Emily was in second place with $6,200. Aaron was last with $4,800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: A “C” in Anatomy – “The” Movie – Encyclopedia Brown – Dear Abbey – At a Loss for Worlds – More than One Meaning
Jilana found the first Daily Double in “Dear Abbey” under the $1,200 clue on the 6th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $10,800, $1,400 more than Emily in second place. Jilana bet $10,000 and she was RIGHT.
St. Mary’s Abbey in this city lent part of its name to a theatre that W.B. Yeats co-founded show
3 clues later, Aaron landed on the last Daily Double in “At a Loss for Worlds” under the $1,600 clue. He was in last place with $5,600, $15,200 less than Jilana’s lead. Aaron bet it all and gave the name from the book title. That was WRONG.
It’s the real name of the planet referred to in the title of a 1965 Frank Herbert novel show
Jilana finished in the lead with $24,000 and Emily was second with $20,200. At negative $2,800, Aaron was out of Final Jeopardy. All clues were shown. Before the final round, a reversal (see below) dropped Emily’s score to $16,200.
NEITHER contestant left in Final Jeopardy! got it right.
WHO IS CAPTAIN JAMES COOK?
In 2017, D.K. Abbass, Ph.D. wrote the article “Calling All Trekkies”, saying “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry used the famous 18th century explorer Captain James Cook as the model for James T. Kirk, captain of the star ship Enterprise. Thank goodness they didn’t change the last name to Captain Kook!
This particular part is pertinent to today’s FJ! clue: “At the beginning of the first Star Trek television series, Capt. Kirk says the following: ‘To boldly go where no man has gone before.’ This is a paraphrase from Cook’s journal, where he wrote that he would travel ‘… farther than any man has been before me, but as far as I think it is possible for a man to go.'” Click here for more comparisons between the real-life Cook and the fictional Kirk.
The Captain Cook Society website has a timeline of his life, including the places he explored on 3 voyages around the world
Emily thought it was Magellan. She lost $4,401 and finished with $11,799. Yesterday’s $30,400 brought her final score up to $42,199.
Jilana went with Lewis (as in Meriwether). She bet and lost the whole $24,000, leaving her with a final score of $3,000 from yesterday.
Aaron had nothing to add today but didn’t have to subtract his negative score either. Yesterday’s $10,000 was his final score.
Emily was the grand prize winner of $100,000 and a spot in the next Tournament of Champions. Aaron placed second for $50,000 and Jilana placed third for $25,000.
Reversal: A “C” IN ANATOMY ($2000) If your left brain hemisphere needs to “cc” your right, it’s a good thing they’re connected by this “cc” – Ken didn’t catch the “k” sound in Emily’s response of “corpus coluskum”. $4,000 was deducted from her score when the judges caught it. (Correct response: corpus callosum)
A triple stumper from each round:
FAN MAIL TO HISTORIC FIGURES ($1000) You got the Eastern Roman Empire to pay a ton of gold per year! Will you speak to our “Scourge of God” fan club?
AT A LOSS FOR WORLDS ($2000) Survivors escape to Bronson Beta in the 1933 Philip Wylie & Edwin Balmer novel “When” this happens
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Paintings”
In 2021 experts in Oslo concluded that it was the artist who wrote on this painting, “could only have been painted by a madman” show
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So, that near the end “corpus calloskum”, I heard that, and wholly expected the reversal. Interestingly, during the bumper where, today, they showed the two remaining contestants meeting their wagers, Emily’s score was already corrected. Incidentally, “calossum” is pronounced with a long “o”, like “kuh-low-sum”, not like they did, similar to “colosseum”.
Aaron not getting the Herbert DD was surprising.
I got FJ. However, the clue made me think of Neil Armstrong on the moon, so, that didn’t help, but, the 1775 did.
Emily looked to me like she was on the edge of bursting out laughing all the time. I’ll ascribe that to nerves. Good luck to her!
I liked the article with the Cook & Kirk comparisons. Good find! I’m glad they didn’t name Kirk Captain Kook, too. lmao
One tough final. Didn’t help that I’ve never watched a space show or movie.
The Magellan guess was off by nearly 300 years.
Jilana played as aggressively as I expected and almost pulled it off.
Emily is an excellent player and very personable.
I found out last night that “Jeopardy!” pays the expenses for these tournament players, and they’re also given some healthy prize money.
Hmmmm……..My first thought was Captain Cook for FJ, but then I went for Magellan.
That was a tough final as we got a double stumper.
Aaron actually received 50,000 instead of 25,000. So despite not being in FJ! in the second day of the finals, he wins an extra 25,000 more because he finished ahead of Jilana’s two day total score. Jilana also pulled it off but she made an amazing comeback. Congrats to Emily for winning Diamonds Champions Wildcard. We’ll look forward to seeing her again along with Josh Saak in the next Tournament of Champions.