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

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

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

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.

Final Jeopardy (12/19/2016) Cindy Stowell, Jonathan Bill, Kristin Szuhany

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

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14 Responses

  1. Carol steavens says:

    I have such incredible sadness at the prospect of losing the dearest brilliant soul,Cindy.
    I pray she wins again tonight,so we can have her to enjoy a moment in time longer

  2. Ken Brown says:

    The FJ clue sounds familiar, perhaps in the distant past.

  3. smarty says:

    a radical is a math symbol – not a quantity

  4. jacob ska says:

    Is it my imagination or does Cindy look stronger each day in her appearances? It’s weird that someone who seemed to have been getting better is no longer here? She was a classic example of a strong-willed person. What a fighter!

  5. Kathy Neavill says:

    I have such a hard time watching Cindy, knowing she is no longer with us. What a damn shame. She was so sweet.

    • SG says:

      Me too. I am happy every time she wins, but also more sad…..does that make sense to anyone besides me?

      • rhonda says:

        I feel the exact same way. I want her to keep on winning as a way of keeping her here with us, but it saddens me terribly at the same time. What an incredibly sweet, courageous woman. We will hold her forever in our hearts.

  6. rhonda says:

    There was an article in Friday’s NY Times about dear Cindy. She has captured so many hearts with her appearances. So awesome that she made such a comeback and got the only correct response on FJ.

  7. louis j says:

    amazing comeback from cindy. todays round was definitely special to her. Still i would love to see her in the toc if only that cancer did not take her life. VJ are any of your kids good at radicals in math? you know adding or subtracting radicals and using first outer inner last?

    • VJ says:

      @Lou, one of them is good at math. idk about radicals. I never helped anyone with their math homework because they would have gotten an F

  8. aaaa says:

    42/56. Tony Bennett’s round one category helped a little to leave five clues unplayed in DJ! I would imagine.

  9. VJ says:

    That was quite a comeback in the second round for Cindy and a stellar sole get on FJ. It obviously meant a lot to her to win as much money as she could for cancer research. Bravo!

    I got a kick out of the way Tony Bennett chuckled when he read the clue about “Cold Cold Heart” — how Hank Williams called him and asked “What’s the idea of ruining my song?”

    LINK: 11 more clues from the match.

  10. aaaa says:

    Well done for Cindy to get an automatic TofC berth. I don’t guess they could let her relationship partner play in the TofC in her place. He’s a trivia buff, they played bar trivia in Texas together. I guess they’d have to get him to pass the test and audition or whatever first. Would have been a nice idea, but logistically maybe not possibly.