Final Jeopardy: Recent TV (2-2-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (2/2/2022) in the category “Recent TV” was:
The credits on “The Queen’s Gambit” included this man as “Special Consultant”
New champ Scott Plummer, a software developer from Golden, CO won $28,800 yesterday. In Game 2, he is up against: Ben Sloat, an artist and art professor from Brookline, MA; and Emma Saltzberg, a consultant from Brooklyn, NY.
Round 1 Categories: Australiana – In My Words – MLB Team Names, Defined – Car”Z” – Well, It’s Groundhog Day – Again
Emma found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Again” under the $400 clue with 7 clues left after it. Emma was in third place with $1,000, $4,000 less than Scott’s lead. Emma made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
The first use of “instant” this was during the 1963 Army-Navy football game show
Scott finished in the lead with $5,800. Emma was second with $5,000 and Ben was last at $1,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Songs on My Play List – The Leader in Between – Poetry – You’re the Dog – Alliterative Geography – “Ad” It up
Ben found the first Daily Double in “Poetry“ under the $1,200 clue on the 9th pick of the round. He was in third place with $1,400, $8,400 less than Scott’s lead. Ben made it a true Daily Double, but didn’t have a response so he was WRONG.
This pair of adjectives describes how the narrator of “The Raven” pondered “over many a quaint & curious volume of forgotten lore” show
Ben got the last Daily Double in “Alliterative Geography” under the $1,600 clue on the 14th pick of the round. He was in third place with $800, $11,400 less than Scott’s lead. Ben bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
This city was once the capital of the United Provinces of Central America show
Scott finished in the lead with $17,000. Emma was second with $12,200 and Ben was last with $6,800. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS GARRY KASPAROV -or- BRUCE PANDOLFINI?
Since I don’t really know much about “The Queen’s Gambit” (except that I didn’t want to see it), I watched a YouTube with the credit roll earlier today. Click on the above screenshot if you want to watch that. Garry Kasparov and Bruce Pandolfini are both listed as Special Consultants. Then I checked each man’s IMDB page and, if you click on their names, you will see they are both credited as special consultants on the same 7 episodes of “The Queen’s Gambit”.
As sometimes happens in these situations, only one of their names came up in Final Jeopardy! anyway and there was no mention of the other one so that’s all I have to offer by way of additional information today.
Ben got it right with Garry Kasparov. He chose to stand pat with $6,800.
Emma also got it right with Kasparov. She bet $10,000 and finished with $22,200.
Scott thought it was Bobby Fischer, who died in 2008. He lost his $7,401 bet and finished with $9,599. That made Emma Saltzberg the new Jeopardy! champion.
2 triple stumpers from MLB TEAM NAMES, DEFINED:
($400) In 1890 they stole a player from Philadelphia’s team & got this nickname
($800) Named after a law enforcement agency that dates back to the 1820s
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “21st Century Oscar Winners”
This man won Best Supporting Actor twice, both for films that won Best Picture show
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I got totally sidetracked, because I thought of “Arrow”, where, in the flashbacks in the first season, Oliver’s family yacht was “The Queen’s Gambit”, and I completely didn’t think of chess.
When is ken scheduled to return?
He’ll be comin’ ’round the mountain when he comes.
Translation: I don’t know 😁
Never saw the show, but I knew it was chess-related. Only player I’ve heard of in the past 40 years was Garry Kasparov, so that was my guess. Good for Emma! Bobby Fischer died 14 years ago.
I never watched ‘The Queen’s Gambit’, ;but I heard Garry Kasparov’s name being floated around in recent times. Well, now I know why.
I don’t watch the show but figured out the response from the title since I do play chess. Congratulations Emma.
If only Ben had doubled up on his bet on the final that would have made the game in his favor. Congrats to Emma and Ben on getting final right. Anyway, have you played chess in the past, Howard, and how good are you in that game?
I played a little chess as a kid, but wasn’t especially good, and lost interest in it.
Ben would not have won the game had he bet it all; he’d have finished second.