Final Jeopardy: Explorers (12-30-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (12/30/2021) in the category “Explorers” was:
Confirming a theory, fossils found with this explorer in 1912 included a plant from more than 250 million years ago
20x champ Amy Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, CA went over $800K yesterday and has now won $806,000. In Game 22, her challengers are: Nate Levy, a script coordinator from Los Angeles, CA; and Sarah Wrase, a certified public accountant from Monroe, MI.
Round 1 Categories: New Year’s Rockin’ Eve – Facts & Figures – World Islands – Pants – Drawing – A____
Sarah found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Pants” under the $400 clue on the second pick of the round. She was the only one on the board with $200. Sarah bet the $1,000 allowance and she was RIGHT.
This type of short pant inspired the name of a Big Apple sports team. show
Amy finished in the lead with $10,000. Nate was second with $5,800 and Sarah was last with $1,600. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: Quick History – Global Lit – Word of Mouth – The First African-American… – Movie Landmarks – Female Name Words
Amy found the first Daily Double in “Quick History” under the $1,600 clue on the 4th pick. In first place with $11,600, she had $5,000 more than Nate in second place. Amy bet $4,000 and she was RIGHT.
This group smashed labor-saving machinery in England in 1811. show
Sarah got the last Daily Double in “Word of Mouth” under the $1,600 clue at the halfway mark. In second place with $6,800 now, she had $8,400 less than Amy in first place. Sarah bet $6,000 and she was RIGHT.
This common childhood infection is an inflammation of lymphatic tissue at the back of the mouth. show
Amy finished in the lead with $19,600. Sarah was second with $12,400 and Nate was last with $11,400. No clues went uncovered.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WH0 IS ROBERT FALCON SCOTT?
In Nov. 2011, Megan Lane wrote a great article for BBC News Magazine (Four things Captain Scott found in Antarctica (and one that found him)) that I believe goes a little deeper into the reasons for Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition and what he and his crew found in Antarctica and preserved, despite losing their own lives. The most pertinent item to this Final Jeopardy! clue is the “Missing link fossil: The prize fossil found alongside Scott’s body was the plant Glossopteris indica, an extinct beech-like tree from 250 million years ago.” This was an important find that lent proof to the theory that Antarctica had once been part of a super-continent when its climate was warm enough to support plant life.
Nate wrote down “Leake.” He lost his $4,399 bet and finished with $7,001.
Sarah thought it was Amundson. That cost her $12,399 and left her with $1.00.
Amy got it right. She bet $6,000 and won the game with $25,600. Her 22-day total is $831,600.
2 triple stumpers from the last round:
GLOBAL LIT ($1600) Many expected this blind Argentine “Labyrinths” writer to win a Nobel Prize, but he never did
THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN… ($2000) to sing at this music festival was Grace Bumbry, as Venus in “Tannhauser”
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “19th Century History”
Wanting more French influence in the area he called Latin America, Napoleon III installed an emperor in this country show
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I wouldn’t know about that; it sounds kind of fishy to me. Yeah sure, a 250 million year old extinct plant fossil that Captain Scott left behind. I mean, the mainstream media sure goes to great lengths in heaping the praises on Captain Robert Scott while a clearly more experienced explorer such as Roald Amundsen typically receives little mention. Okay, I ranted enough. Anyways, Roald Amundsen was my choice.
Keep it going, Amy.
Polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott is so associated with the year 1912 I assumed it must be him despite not knowing about this discovery of his till now. The Antarctic continent has fascinated me since boyhood (as it has ace teen eco champion Greta Thunberg) because of its wonderful status as an international zone of science, peace, and nature. I even received permission to do my 4th grade world geography half-year project on Antarctica, creating a plaster of Paris white map on a piece of plywood, with science stations marked with little flags on sticks. Each of us students in class were to pick a country but I obtained permission from my teacher Mrs. Hisey to instead focus on Antarctica. I also read “Alone: by Richard E. Byrd, among other polar books. In college, I was able to write about Antarctica for the UMCP student daily The Diamondback and for The Sun of Baltimore. Always great to learn/reinforce knowledge via TV’S JEOPARDY! as with FJ today. Look forward to watching in one hour!
Leake? What kind of name is that? Sarah was pretty good on the daily doubles today and made a good challenge for Amy today.
There are people with the surname Leake. That being said, I’m pretty sure Nate was going for Louis Leakey. I don’t know if he ran out of time or he thought the surname was spelled that way but Ken (and my closed caption) said Leakey).