Final Jeopardy: Fictional Characters (12-27-24)
The Final Jeopardy question (12/27/2024) in the category “Fictional Characters” was:
In his very first appearance by name, this character comes downstairs “bump-bump-bump on the back of his head”
6x champ Laura Faddah, a manager from Memphis, TN, brought her winnings up to $79,400 with a runaway game yesterday. In Game 7, she competes against: Megan Riddell, a human resources data analyst from Linthicum, MD; and Herb Jeong, a retired pension administrator from San Francisco, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Starts & Ends With “O” – Hodgepodge – Cups & Glasses – F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Last Tycoon – This Side of Parodies
Megan found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “The Last Tycoon” under the $600 on the 20th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $3,000, $1,800 more than Laura in second place. Megan bet $2,000 and said Dumb Earl. That was WRONG.
Jay Gould was so unscrupulously wealthy he could be the prototypical this, with a criminal & a noble title in the name show
Laura finished in the lead with $3,400. Megan was second with $1,800 and Herb was last with $1,800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Shopping for Souvenirs – Science – Minor League Baseball Team Geography – The “D.C.” Universe – The Dreaded Lesser-Known Opera Category – Double Double Letters
Laura found the first Daily Double in “Science” under the $1,200 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. She was in the lead with $4,200, $2,400 more than Megan in second place. Laura bet $1,800 but had no response so she was WRONG.
Gymnosperms like the pine tree reproduce via these organs also called strobili show
Herb found the last Daily Double in “Double Double Letters” under the $1,200 clue on the 13th pick of the round. He was in second place with $1,600, $4,400 less than Laura’s lead. Herb bet $2,000 and didn’t know. He was WRONG.
This synonym for clown comes from the Italian for “puff out the cheeks” show
Laura finished in the lead with a runaway $10,000. Herb was second with $3,200 and Megan was last with $1,400. 3 Dreaded Opera clues worth $4,000 were not shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS WINNIE THE POOH or EDWARD BEAR?
A.A. Milne first introduced Edward Bear in a volume of poems entitled “When We Were Young” (1924). Two years later, the character reappeared in the first sentence of “Winnie-the-Pooh”: “Here is Edward Bear, coming down the stairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.” The explanation of how Edward Bear morphed into Winnie-the-Pooh isn’t in Chapter 1. It’s in the introduction.
Sterling Holloway was the voice of Winnie-the-Pooh in film, on TV and in records for many years. He did the voices of many other characters for Disney, such as Kaa in “The Jungle Book” and the Cheshire Cat in “Alice in Wonderland”. Don’t get him confused with Stanley Holloway, who was Eliza Doolittle’s father in “My Fair Lady”.
Megan got it right. She bet $52 and finished with $1,452.
Herb began with the right response but crossed it out in favor of the Velveteen Rabbit. He lost $300 and finished with $2,900.
Laura didn’t have a response. She lost her $2,000 bet and won the game with the $8,000 she had left. So, between runaway games and a couple of lucky breaks, Laura swept the week. Her 7-day total is $87,400. Laura will return in March of next year after a bunch of tournaments.
2 triple stumpers from the last round:
SHOPPING FOR SOUVENIRS ($2000) From Venice, hop a boat to this nearby island and buy some authentic glass of the same name, maybe a vase
SCIENCE ($2000) No. 12 on the periodic table, it’s the third-most plentiful structural metal in the world after aluminum & iron
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “U.S. BODIES OF WATER”
Continuing a downward trend, in July 2022 it was at 27% capacity, its lowest level since 1937 when it was first being filled show
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Working strictly off the recap, I was stymied by the 3 DDs and FJ, not to mention all of the raft of stumpers other than the 50s sitcom and Fitzgerald’s ladies. Probably should have remembered the name of the “Good Place” actress because I read that she went to college here in Oregon.
How about the word that begins with a woman’s name, Howard? I thought you’d say that one was easy.
I knew the glass with an acrobatic name. Nikki had a doll with a similar name. It had weights in it so it could live up to its name. Once she said can you hand me that doll Mom? I said that’s not a doll, it’s a weapon. So she said can you hand me that weapon?
It was another great game, and I performed a tad above average. As for Winnie the Pooh, I never did watch the feature as it just didn’t appeal to me. Instead, for lack of a better choice, I went for Humpty Dumpty. Anyways, Ken made a boo boo while signing off when he retorted: “We’ll see you back next year”. Actually, the game will return next Monday which would be December 30, 2024, and not next year.
We end the week with 3 missed DDs resulted our eighth skunking of the season. I’m sure William Weyser will say darn those daily doubles to the contestants.
What a lucky week for our champion Lucky Laura. She gets to spend the entire winter as a 7 day champion. We’ll see if she can stay lucky when she returns on early March of 2025 to make it 8 wins. Second Chance begins on Monday.