Final Jeopardy: Words with Multiple Meanings (12-19-16)

The Final Jeopardy question (12/19/2016) in the category “Words with Multiple Meanings” was:

Found in a 1970 Tom Wolfe book title, it’s a chemistry term, a math quantity & a drastic word in politics.

4x champ Cindy Stowell won $62,001 last week. Today her challengers are: Kristin Szuhany, from New York, NY; and Jonathan Bill, from Gig Harbor, WA.

Round 1 Categories: Under the Christmas Tree – Letter-Word – Names in American History – Deck the “Hall” – Double-Name Newspapers – Tony Bennett

Jonathan found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Names in American History” under the $400 clue on the 12th pick of the round. He was at zero, $4,000 less than Kristin’s lead. He bet $600 and he was RIGHT.

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney said no when French Agents asked for a bribe in this 1797 “Affair”. show

WHAT IS THE XYZ AFFAIR?

Kristin and Jonathan finished in a tie with $5,400 each. Cindy was next, in the hole for $800.

Round 2 Categories: Landlocked African Countries – Science News – A Novel Category – Pop Culture – They Said It – From N to N

Cindy found the first Daily Double in “Landlocked African Countries” under the $400 clue on the 5th pick. She was in third place with $3,200 at this point, $3,400 less than Jonathan’s lead. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.

If you turned in 175 quadrillion of this country’s old currency in 2015, you would get 5 U.S. dollars. show

WHAT IS ZIMBABWE?

Kristin found the last Daily Double in “A Novel Category” under the $1,200 clue, with 13 clues left after it. In second place with $9,400, she had $200 less than Cindy’s lead. She bet $2,000 and guessed Iran. That was WRONG.

Khaled Hosseini dedicated “The Kite Runner” in part “to the children of” this country. show

WHAT IS AFGHANISTAN?

Cindy finished in the lead with $11,600. Jonathan was next with $9,000 and Kristin was in third place with $6,200.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS RADICAL?

The Online Etymology Dictionary credits Tom Wolfe with popularizing “if not coining” the phrase “radical chic” with his 1970 essay of the same name. They point to the year 1802 as the earliest use of the word in the political sense as a noun and 1817, as an adjective. The mathematical use is traced to the 1680s and the chemical sense to 1816.

Kristin came up with “extreme.” She lost her $999 bet and finished with $5,201.

Jonathan seemed to be going for “absolute” but didn’t complete it. He lost $3,500 and finished with $5,500.

Cindy got it right. She bet $6,401 so she won the match with $18,001. Her 5-day total is $80,002.

A triple stumper from each round:

DECK THE “HALL” ($1000) 2009 novel by Hilary Mantel about the court of Henry VIII

A NOVEL CATEGORY ($1600) Sweden’s Fredrick Backman became an overnight sensation with his novel about an old curmudgeon, “A Man Called” this

2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “American Authors”

Celebrated in April, National Robotics Week honors this man who coined the word “robotics” in a 1941 story. show

WHO IS ISAAC ASIMOV?

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