Final Jeopardy: Cable Networks (2-4-21)
Here are 7 more triple stumpers from the 2/4/2021 Jeopardy! game:
MAN’S PLAIN ($1000) Quebec’s Plains of him were the site of a key 1759 battle between the British & French
HISTORY ACROSS THE AGES ($800) Around 10,000 B.C. the paleolithic phase of this age ended in Europe
($1200) The Iron Age in Britain began around 800 B.C. & ended with the invasion of this empire about 800 years later
($2000) Large glaciers on Asia, Europe & North America began forming about 2.6 million years ago, kicking off this epoch of the Ice Age
POETRY ($1200) In 2020 Patrick Stewart read these on social media starting with No. 116, “Let me not to the marriage of true minds”
CORNERSTONES ($1600) According to tradition, this sacred cornerstone of the Kaaba achieved its color by absorbing the sins of worshippers
MUSICALS BY SONG LYRICS ($800) “You’re just too good to be true, can’t take my eyes off of you”
Sneak Peek clues — “RU” SERIOUS:
($200) It’s the monetary unit of Russia & Belarus
($400) Todd Gurley for the Falcons, or Ezekiel Elliott for the Cowboys
($600) It’s the opposite of urban
($800) This 6-letter grouse gets its name from its collar of neck feathers displayed by the male
($1000) This root vegetable is believed to be a cross between a cabbage & a turnip
ANSWERS: show
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Funny moment: When Stuart said he was going to bet -$2000 on the Poetry DD.
Annoying moment 1: When Nicole bet only $1500 on DD round 1 and then smiled smugly as if she had achieved something huge by adding $1500 to her total. It was early in the game and she could and should have gone big here to put the others on the back foot.
Annoying moment 2: Stuart could also have bet more than just $1000 even though it was only poetry because actually it was a clue near the top of the board. Usually those are easy DD’s.
Oh, I don’t know if Stuart should have bet more just because the DD was in the second row. There’s always the chance of getting a clue you just don’t know, and that could be disastrous in a weak category, esp that late in the game. What if the clue was
Whitman poem that asks, “Do I contradict myself?”
The answer is the same as the $2000 triple stumper in that category today so Stuart would not have known it.
btw, I was not particularly taken with Patrick Stewart’s reading of #116 (the other TS in the Poetry category) so I linked to my favorite reading. It’s beautiful – “Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds”
VJ, you convinced me with that Whitman example. I also thought of “Leaves of Grass”, and I guess most people would do the same when Whitman is mentioned.
Therefore, I rescind Annoying moment 2.
Great to see a triple solve by the players and all the daily doubles nailed. I haven’t watched much of C span, but I prefer CNN and abc. Also VJ, what tv channels have you seen.previously? Maybe stu can definitely build a streak here
I could be wrong, but I think Stuart Crane is the 1st contestant from Montana to win on “Jeopardy!” since Keith Suta, a writer from Bozeman, Montana, who won $15,000, way back in 2006.
Actually, it is since 2007, not 2006, when Vic Sawyer, a snowcoach driver and hotel manager from Yellowstone National Park, Montana.
Can’t think of his name right now, but there was a really smart guy 2-3 years ago, a young grad student who won several times and also (I think) made the ToC, and I’m thinking he was from Montana.