Final Jeopardy: Brand Names (12-5-24)
The Final Jeopardy question (12/5/2024) in the category “Brand Names” was:
They’ve been described as having the unique scent of “slightly earthy soap with pungent, leather-like clay undertones”
2x champ Stevie Ruiz, an asst. front office manager from Montauk, NY, has now won $35,897. In Game 3, his opponents are: Dave Bond, a ret. grant writer from West Henrietta, NY; and Lisa DiLeo, a business support analyst from Garwood, NJ.
Round 1 Categories: Eponyms – The Middle Ages – 4-Word Phrases – On the Movie Map – Play Things – Also in the Toolbox
Dave found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Play Things” under the $800 clue on the 20th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $2,400, $400 more than Stevie in second place. Dave made it a true Daily Double and got half the answer so he was WRONG.
In an interview one of the 2 title characters of this play admits he let Americans down & his political life is over show
Dave finished in the lead with $2,600. Stevie and Lisa were tied in second place with $2,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: The Monterey Bay Aquarium – Sociology – Entertainment Hyphenates – Nonfiction – Geographic Name Changes – Crossword Clues “O”
Lisa found the first Daily Double in “Entertainment Hyphenates” under the $1,600 clue on the 2nd pick. She was in the lead with $3,200 now, $600 more than Dave in second place. Lisa bet $1,200 and took a shot at it with Call of Duty. That was WRONG.
“Global Offensive” is one title in this Valve video game shooter whose name refers to a type of military retaliation show
Dave got the last Daily Double in “Geographic Name Changes” under the $1,600 clue on the 17th pick. In second place with $7,800, he had $600 less than Stevie’s lead. Dave bet $7,000 and he was RIGHT.
After the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, it was good night, Saigon & good morning, this new city name show
Dave finished in the lead with a runaway $25,200. Stevie was next with $12,000 and Lisa was in third place with $2,400. All clues were shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT ARE CRAYOLA CRAYONS?
According to a Suffolk Univ. Law School article, after a 6-year battle, Crayola Properties, Inc. was granted a “scent” trademark in July of 2024 applicable to their iconic crayons. The article tells you how difficult it is to get a scent trademark. It also answers questions like why the company wanted to trademark the “slightly earthy soap with pungent, leather-like clay undertones” scent and what good it is. It reports that “as of 2022”, only 13 active scent trademark registrations existed.
Coincidentally, Crayola first filed its application in 2018, the same year that Hasbro was awarded a scent trademark for Play-Doh described as “sweet, slightly musky, vanilla fragrance, with slight overtones of cherry, combined with the smell of a salted, wheat-based dough.” It only took Hasbro a year.
Lisa didn’t have a response. She lost $400 and finished with $2,000.
Stevie went with Play-Doh. That cost him $4,799 and left him with $7,201.
Dave tried Birkenstocks. He only lost $200 and won the game with $25,000 even. Dave Bond is the new Jeopardy! champ!
2 triple stumpers from ALSO IN THE TOOLBOX:
($800) As a noun, it’s a cutting tool; as a verb, it’s a synonym for cheat
($1000) NFL star Jack Reynolds got this nickname after using one to cut a car in half after a frustrating loss
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “NAME’S THE SAME”
A cocktail, an island & a WWII venture originally called “Development of Substitute Materials” all bear this name show
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Killer final, and I could swear Ken pronounced it “crans.”
I remember Jack Reynolds and his sharp-toothed nickname well.
Poor Lisa repeated Dave’s wrong answer, and also misread a later clue that gave one of the guys the chance to get it.
Thought someone would know the Susan Orlean novel. Part of its title was right in the clue, unusually.
I thought the Hawaiian family clue should have been for $2K, not $800, because the $2K one was much easier. Was that “oligarchy”?
Daring DD wagers by Dave. That 3rd DD was quite easy.
Ken did say “crans”, Howard. I had to turn the cc on to make sure it meant crayons. 🤣
I sure thought that Ken did say “Crayola crayons” VJ. I mean, it was perfectly clear to me at the time. Perhaps the error could be attributed to the telecasts in some areas. In the Grand Rapids, Michigan area for instance (as you might recall), there are typically several brief interruptions during the game. This all seemed to be due to the poor telecasts by the WKZO TV station.
What error, Rick? You seem to be in the minority if you heard Ken say cray-ons (2 syllables). Apparently, “crans” (1 syllable) is a way of saying crayons in the Midwest. Lots of people who never heard it said that way have commented about it on X and elsewhere.
I never heard crayon pronounced as one syllable either. Now I wonder how Ken says hither, thither and yon.
First, it was the contestant killing time yesterday. Today, it was two players with no charisma. And, even, one of them repeating the same wrong response. Ugh.
I had no clue as to FJ. 2/3 on DD.
It was another great game, and we have a new champion. Congratulations Dave! As for FJ, I could only come up with Dove soap, but oh well.. Regarding the Crayola crayons, I was never an admirer of their scent.
Wow that final was very hard, I didn’t even have a guess . Play-Doh was a good one though.
With that, we got a losing week in the final as we got our third triple stumper this week.
Mental Floss has a list of scent trademark owners but it only goes up to 2015, and the first one I checked had been cancelled. I found out about the Play-Doh scent before I saw the game and I wondered if Stevie knew Play-Doh has a trademarked scent or guessed it based off “clay”.
I wonder if Stevie would have made the right guess if the clue had the description Crayola used in their Canadian trademark application: “A unique scent of a pungent, aldehydic fragrance combined with the faint scent of a hydrocarbon wax and an earthy clay.”
Wax is a better hint than clay, imo.
You’re right, VJ. That wording of the clue would have been much more helpful in directing the players to the correct response