Final Jeopardy: TV Characters (12-19-13)
The Final Jeopardy question (12/19/2013), in the category “TV Characters” was:
Jerry Jones, Mark Cuban & Mayor Mike Rawlings were 3 of the real folks at the 2013 memorial for this TV character.
Varun Shekhar is back today after winning the title and $7,199 in yesterday’s match. Today he goes for a second win against these two players: Jenna Johnson, from Minneapolis, MN; and Mary Gildea, from Marietta, PA.
As Alex noted, they’ve been throwing some tough stuff at the contestants in Final Jeopardy! for the past week and a half. Let’s see how they make out today.
Mary found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Libraries” under the $1,000 clue. She was in a tie for the lead with Varun. They both had $2,000, $1,200 more than Jenna in second place. She bet $1,000, and she was RIGHT.
The National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, MD. began with the collection of Dr. Joseph Lovell, this official. show
Jenna finished in the lead with $5,000. Mary was second with $3,400 and Varun was last with $3,200.
Jenna found the first Daily Double in “Historic Names” under the $2,000 clue. She was in the lead with $11,400, $5,400 ahead of Varun in second place. She bet $2,000 and came up with Sabato. That was WRONG.
In 1861, 4 years after being selected to preside over Mexico’s Supreme Court, he was elected president. show
Time ran out before we could see the last Daily Double which was under one of the four clues left on the board in “Look for the Union Label.” Only the $2,000 clue was read and Mary lost 2K on it for leaving the ‘s’ off Communications.
Jenna finished in the lead with $11,400. Varun was next with $6,800 and Mary was in third place with $4,600.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS J.R. EWING?
Actor Larry Hagman will always be remembered for his portrayal of the dastardly Texas oil baron J.R. Ewing. Hagman and most of the stars from the original series returned for TNT’s new “Dallas” featuring the younger Ewing and Barnes members all grown up and ready to feud. After a successful first season, Hagman filmed several segments for the second season, scheduled to air in January 2013. When Hagman died on November 23, 2012, the decision was made to let the character die along with the actor and J.R.’s memorial service took place in the 8th episode of Season 2, J.R.’s Masterpiece, on March 11, 2013.
You can see Dallas Mayor Rawlings, Dallas Mavericks’ owner Mark Cuban and Dallas Cowboy’s owner Jerry Jones in attendance a little over a minute into the youtube.
Mary began to write down Hank Hill. She bet everything and finished with nothing.
Varun got it right, much to his surprise. He added $4,601 to finish with $11,401.
Jenna drew a blank. She lost her $2,201 and finished in second place with $9,199.
So Varun prevailed again and he now has a 2-day total of $18,601. Tough break for Jenna, but a good solve for Varun!
This FJ was rated very easy for sports fans by sonnyboy, the first person it was put to. He got it right away and said sports fans would get Dallas right away, and should be able to relate that to the TV character most associated with that city pretty quickly.
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These people did not attend a memorial for a t.v. character. They attended a memorial for Larry Hagman, a man that played said character. If you asked any one of these men if they attended J.R. Ewing’s memorial they would, without doubt, say no and correctly say they went to Larry Hagman’s memorial. The answer and question are therefore not only flawed, but wrong.
Nevermind. I guess it was on the new show.
Did you watch the youtube? It’s from the actual episode showing the 3 real people in the clue at the memorial for the TV character, not Larry Hagman. They are greeted by the TV character Bobby Ewing (J.R.’s brother, played by Patrick Duffy).
Ken Jennings wrote “Who is Jones?” in his first game, for Marion Jones. Had he been ruled incorrect, well, …
For the third time in six games, the leader added $1 to her wager where it could have really come back to bite her. Had Mary doubled up, she’d have had $9,200, a buck more than Jenna.
I suppose that’s a good argument, but the problem wasn’t just with the fact that he only said the last name (Jeopardy always allows that), but in this case that last name could have referred to many people from the show Dallas. I noted Alex’s hesitation to give that answer as correct, and was told after a bit of a delay by the judges that it was allowed. I wasn’t sure if it should be.
Technically, J.R. Ewing could refer to 3 characters on the show. Hagman’s character’s full name was John Ross Ewing, Jr.
The character played by Jim Davis was his father, John Ross Ewing Sr. called Jock.
The character played by Josh Henderson (Jr.’s son) is John Ross Ewing III.
J.R. Jr. had another son with the initials J.R., too. James Richard. But that one’s last name was Beaumont.
The contestants should have to remember to put the correct punctuation, a question mark, after their response to show their knowlege of English grammar. In the event of a tie, this should be the first tie-breaker. Keyboards should be used for Final jeopardy to avoid uncertain responses hidden with bad handwritting.
Why do you think that? They are not competing based on their knowledge of grammar.
THey probably would have said first and last names are needed before the clue was revealed, as they tell the contestants to write WHo or What before the clue is revealed nowadays( a few contestants lost a game because of not phrasing in FJ! in the early Trebek years)
None of the contestants got final Jeopardy correct. The answer should have been JR Ewing. Ewing should have been unacceptable as the answer was incomplete. There were other characters with the last name Ewing on the show. Clearly Varun could not think of or did not know the actual character otherwise he would have written JR Ewing.
I agree. The woman on the right should have won. When Jeopardy is picky about other things, that there was BS.
I don’t agree. The sports team owners left room for an educated guess even if a contestant wasn’t totally familiar with the show and its characters and, as aaaa pointed out, they didn’t specify both names were needed, or he would have been judged wrong. Varun deserves his props.