Final Jeopardy: Name’s the Same (12/5/16)

The Final Jeopardy question (12/5/2016) in the category “Name’s the Same” was:

Name shared by one of a trio of young chums in a popular book series & the daughter of Menelaus & Helen of Troy.

New champ Tim Aten won $35,000 last Friday. Pretty awesome, huh? Let’s see how he does against these two players today: Matthew Martinez, from San Antonio, TX; and Yi Deng, from Jersey City, NJ.

Round 1 Categories: Holiday Albums – Classic Monopoly – Literary Characters – Mottoes – 19th Century America – Name That Noun

Yi found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Literary Characters” under the $400 clue on the 14th pick of the round. She was in second place with $1,400, $1,600 less than Tim’s lead. She made it a true Daily Double and guessed Frankenstein’s monster. That was WRONG.

Per his creator “He could spring twenty feet across space at the dizzy heights of the forest top” show

WHO IS TARZAN?

Matthew finished in the lead with $3,600. Tim was second with $3,400 and Yi was last with $2,000.

Round 2 Categories: You, Sir, Are an Impasto – Tough 3-Letter Words – The Space Race – Going to the Dog’s Breed – Volcanoes – Who “AR” They?

Tim found the first Daily Double in “Volcanoes” under the $1,600 clue on the 5th pick. He was in the lead with $5,000 at this point, $1,000 more than Matthew in second place. He bet $3,000 and guessed Guam. That was WRONG.

The island of Tutuila in this U.S. territory is dominated by the eroded Pago Volcano. show

WHAT IS AMERICAN SAMOA?

Matthew found the last Daily Double in “Space Race” under the $2,000 clue, with 8 clues left after it. In the lead with $10,400, he had $2,800 more than Yi in second place. He bet $4,000 and tried Cooper. That was WRONG.

This commander on his 1970 flight: “Our mission was a failure but I like to think it was a successful failure.” show

WHAT IS JAMES LOVELL?

Yi finished in the lead with $12,000. Matthew was next with $7,600 and Tim was in third place with $6,800.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS HERMIONE?

There is a whole essay on The Harry Potter Lexicon website devoted to figuring out how many students attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It has the list of the school chums referred to in the clue. Only one has the same name as the daughter of King Menelaus of Sparta and Helen of Troy.

Tim got it right. He bet $6,000, bringing him up to $12,800.

Matthew came up with Ajax. He bet and lost it all.

Yi thought it was Leto. She lost her $3,300 bet, finishing with $8,700. So Tim remains the champ and now has a 2-day total of $47,800.

These 2 stumpers are from the “WHO ‘AR’ THEY?” category:

($800) Abu Ammar was the nom de guerre of this longtime leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization

($1600) Florence Nightingale Graham was the real name of this cosmetics queen

2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Movie Title References”

For this 1971 film, the reference is to the 1948 film “Red River”. show

WHAT IS “THE LAST PICTURE SHOW”?

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