Final Jeopardy: 19th Century Presidential Campaigns (2-18-21)
There was one triple stumper in each of these categories in the 2/18/2021 Jeopardy! game:
A DEFINING MOMENT:
($400) “Concerted revolt against… the lawful commands of a superior officer”, especially at sea
($800) “Allocation of treatment to… disaster victims according to a system of priorities… to maximize the number of survivors”
($1200) “Decorative fringe”, or “the art of tying knots in patterns”
($1600) “Latin, literally, voice of the people”
*($2000) “A local or regional meeting of party members to choose candidates”
ANSWERS: show
Sneak Peek clues — SITCOMS BY CHARACTERS:
($200) Michael Scott, Dwight Schrute, Pam Beesly
($400) Jackie, Darlene & Dan, Roseanne’s widower
($600) Georgie, Meemaw, the kid version of Mr. Cooper
($800) Charlie Kelly, Frank Reynolds, Mac
($1000) Regine Hunter, Maxine Shaw & Queen Latifah as Khadijah James
ANSWERS: show
And there was one other triple stumper in POTPOURRI ($2000) This city that’s just south of Turin in Italy’s Piedmont region is known for its sparkling wine
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In last night’s game it was the second time with KJ hosting that a contestant (Andy in this case) offered a wrong answer then quickly changed it to the correct answer (first he said one color which was wrong then he said the correct color) and was awarded the points. Judges need to be more careful with that.
Okay, now I’m hot! After nearly four dry months, I hit two Final Jeopardy! “skunks” in a row. I forgot to log yesterday’s, but I had “What is Figure Skating” from the get-go. Then, on this program, I had “Who was William Jennings Bryan” right off the bat. I’m not that happy with beating all the contestants on a technicality, but two-in-a-row happens so seldom, I won’t turn it down. This is only the third time I’ve pulled off a double skunk.
Bryan is the name of the person they were looking for. BRYANT is not the name of the person they were looking for. BRYANT is the name of another person, misspelling or not.
They penalized in this case because BRYANT makes the entire name DIFFERENT. Like as if this person is completly different. The contestant should have known better.
I would concur.
Another triple stumper this week.
I’m not sure but I think they accept misspellings if they don’t create a legimate answer, if he had spelled Bryan with two n’s they might have accepted it because Bryan isn’t spelled with two n’s. Bryant is a legit spelling of a name that other famous people have.
Andy never really had a chance of getting FJ! right as long as he thought the man’s last name was “Bryant”
I think Jeopardy needs to be more consistent in its rule regarding misspelled words in final. He obviously knew who it was and usually they say they don’t penalize for misspellings. I really liked the guy who won, but it didn’t seem fair.
They are pretty consistent about not penalizing for spelling. How about that 12/5/2014 game with 3 misspelled responses that were all accepted? (Manuveur, Hiemlick, and Manuever). No response involved an added letter or syllable, unlike today.
Check out Spelling Decisions There’s a bunch of responses that were not accepted on there, too
according to Alex they don’t penalize for misspelled words, That was a BS call
As long as you don’t change the pronunciation, you won’t get penalized for misspelled words.
Great! I got the final question correct!
That t at the end of Bryan’s name definitely cost Andy the game. Usually final jeopardy does not penalize players for misspelled words (see Mackenzie Jones original run) but today luck wasn’t on his side, VJ. Two triple stumper for final jeopardy but hopefully Alan can at least build on his win and get four or five wins.
I feel such a pain to see Andy’s response of William Jennings Bryant instead of William Jennings Brian making it unacceptable. That really cost him the game. I think we had a same situation at the beginning of the season when contestant Betsy got dinged for writing down Barry Gordy instead of Berry Gordy in the FJ and it was deemed unacceptable.
Right, good memory. Andy also messed up on Vox Populi earlier.
Correct on that one. Names need to be spelled correctly.