Final Jeopardy: Awards (12-15-21)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 12/15/2021 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.
4-SYLLABLE WORDS ($1000) It’s a term for someone who cuts & polishes precious gems
A CUT ABOVE ($200) 17th century Venetian craftsman Vicenti Peruzzi is said to have come up with this smart-sounding cut for diamonds
WHIRLED MENU ($1000) In Ireland, diners flock to it: HEPPER DISHES
STARTS WITH “W” ($2000) This Chinese word meaning “martial arts” is used for disciplines like kung fu
CZECHS ($1600) This Czech wrote novels like “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting” in exile in France
BALANCES ($2000) This 17th century Dutch scientist was among the first to use a balance spring in the design of watches
Sneak Peek clues — MUSIC STARS
($400) She has 3 of Billboard’s Top 20 songs of 2015, including “Bad Blood”
($800) This singer’s 2021 hit “Take My Breath” is perfect for a Saturday & Sunday
($1200) Do start now & name this English-born woman of Albanian ancestry who was “Levitating” up the charts in 2021
($1600) In 1995 this one-named singer rose to the top of the charts with “Kiss from a Rose”
($2000) In the late 1980s Susanna Hoffs, Debbi Peterson, Vicki Peterson & Michael Steele had 5 top 10 hits as this band
ANSWERS: show
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I am an emergency physician by training, and one hallmark is that we are “three miles wide and one inch deep”, whereas the consultants we call are “one inch wide and three miles deep”. I feel these professors are the same – they don’t share the wide ranging at a moment information the regular contestants have to have. I said what was said above on an earlier day – that these professor contestants are a step below the regular ones. I recall Austin what’s-his-name, and he studied history and music at Macalester College, which is wide ranging. And, what lists do you study if you’re going on the game? US presidents, US states, Canadian provinces, locations of Olympic games and years, MAYBE Nobel Peace Prize winners (not medicine or chemistry or the others). It’s chip shot answers.
And, as an aside, it has continuously been announced that it’s a “$100,000 prize” for winning, not “at least $100k”, although the likelihood of that occurring is, to me, well, unlikely! If there was a stats prof competing, we could throw it to them!
Sam has an undergraduate degree in Statistics from Princeton, a graduate degree in Statistics, and a Doctoral degree in Statistics from UC Berkeley per his CV.
They must have fixed his page over the weekend! Last week, when he was first on, I went to the NPS page for him, and his CV was a 404!
It’s a brief CV. Here’s the link
Regarding the finale, I elected to choose California so I missed it too. Well, better luck next time.
It doesn’t seem like the questions during the tournament have been any more difficult than usual (except for a noticeable increase in scientific studies), but these “professors” seem to confirm the theory that everything I need to know I learned in kindergarten. Scores have been much lower than usual…I certainly expected more from educators. I don’t mean to sound nasty or smug, but I am disappointed. AITA or has anyone else noticed?
i noticed it too and agree with u that the profs have been disappointing. some triple stumpers have been too easy. and then they’ve even shown lack of math awareness in their wagering.
I thought yesterday’s FJ and today’s were way more difficult than most final clues. I fail to see why the clue writers would think at least one-third of the show’s contestants would have any reason to know where Louis L’Amour was born or whether he had anything to do with Teddy Roosevelt. Only those lucky enough to realize that they were separate hints and knew of Roosevelt’s ND connection had a shot at this FJ.
I took at good look at that list of 40-something people who got that award and there is only one person on it that I would immediately recall was from North Dakota because I know a lot about ’60s music. That is Bobby Vee, the singer who was tapped to replace Buddy Holly on tour the Day the Music Died. That’s just me. I have no idea what percentage of contestants would get to North Dakota faster with Bobby Vee than L’Amour or TR.
Second triple stumper so far for the professors tournament but let’s hope this does not happen when Amy returns. I have heard of the rough riders award. But Louis L’Amour was something that I never heard of. But still congrats to the finalists and hopefully we can see an easy final for the two day point affair. Teddy Roosevelt was in the amazon expedition based on the game I played in the past and there is a face of him on mount rushmore in South Dakota.
Another tough final as we got another triple stumper. Just like before, nobody knows about geography.
I would have guessed “ostrichville” for the Welsh city. Tough clue.
JP, I took the same path.
I looked at a couple of “Born in North Dakota” videos on YouTube but they didn’t have Louis L’Amour in them and I thought the man on the street talking to New Yawkers was most amusing.
Teddy Roosevelt was born in New York City.