Final Jeopardy: Books of the Bible (3-13-24)
The Final Jeopardy question (3/14/2024) in the category “Books of the Bible” was:
This book is named for a tribe of Israel that carried out judgment of the idolaters of the golden calf
It’s final game #2 in the 2024 Tournament of Champions with our 3 finalists: Yogesh Raut, a social and personality psychologist from Vancouver, WA; Troy Meyer, a music executive from Tampa, FL; and Ben Chan, a philosophy professor from Green Bay, WI.
Games won at the starting line:
Yogesh 0 Troy 0 Ben 1
Round 1 Categories: World Capital Attractions – Virtuo-so Good – “Bit”ting at the Champs – The Clock & the Calendar – Real Names of Unreal People – Smash that Subscribe Button
Troy found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “World Capital Attractions” under the $1,000 clue on the 4th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $1,400 now, $400 more than Ben in second place. Troy bet it all and he was RIGHT.
Museo Botero & Plaza de Bolivar show
Troy finished in the lead with $5,800. Ben was in second place with $5,600. Yogesh was last with $4,800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: “H” Is for History – Official State Stuff – 17th Century Writing – Sky & Sea – Singers – Diacritical Thinking
Yogesh found the first Daily Double in “17th Century Writing” under the $1,200 clue on the 10th pick of the round. He was in second place with $9,200, $1,800 less than Troy’s lead. Yogesh made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
In his 1624 history of Virginia & New England, he included the famous story of his rescue show
Troy found the last Daily Double in “Official State Stuff” under the $800 clue on the 19th pick of the round. In the lead with $21,800, he had $3,400 more than Yogesh in second place. Troy boldly put it all on the line with a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
Arizona’s state fossil is this tree product; Arizona is also home to a forest full of it show
Troy finished in the lead with a runaway $46,800. Yogesh was in second place with $20,400. Ben was last with $10,400. All clues were shown.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS LEVITICUS?
Exodus 32:26-28 tells the story of how the “sons of Levi” (Levites) stood with Moses and were tasked with meting out punishment to those who worshiped the golden calf. The Levites, one of the 12 tribes of Israel, were descendants of Jacob’s son, Levi.
bibleq.net suggests that Leviticus, the Bible book after Exodus, was so named because the book mostly deals with priestly matters and, according to Deut. 18:1, the priests were Levites.
Ben stood pat on his $10,400.
Yogesh bet it all and doubled his score to $40,800.
Troy stood pat on his runaway $46,800.
Games won at the finish line:
Yogesh 0 Troy 1 Ben 1
A triple stumper from each round:
THE CLOCK & THE CALENDAR ($400) Months on the Islamic calendar traditionally begin when this type of moon is sighted in the western sky
17TH CENTURY WRITING ($400) In his first speech in “Paradise Lost”, he says let’s not rebel against one prohibition–we have pruning to do!
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Epitaphs”
Her epitaph, from a 1925 poem by her, ends, “She knows that her dust is very pretty”; “dust” was in another she wrote for herself show
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Boy, the writers really amp up the difficulty of the clues for the ToC, but the players are nearly always up to the task. That’s what separates them from we mere mortals. Knew the Ramadan moon only because I’d read it somewhere 2-3 days earlier.
The action was all in the game. No strategy was needed for FJ. The fellow that said they liked this better, I think this is the down side (vs the two-day, total point affair).
Good on Troy for keeping the pressure on, even after the DD hit, to ensure his runaway.
Ben did seem to be more restrained this game. A little bit, at least!
Troy Meyer’s 46,800 is the highest score going into Final knocking out Juveria Zaheer’s 45,600 in Second Chance. Troy’s 21,800 is the highest true daily double we seen in the entire history of the show and Yogesh’s 20,400 is the highest second place score going into Final in a lock game. Normally that would be enough for Yogesh to win but not today. I hope Yogesh claims his first win tomorrow because of his strong play today so we can have a three way tie at 1 win apiece.
Actually, on the show this evening (Thursday), the day after, Ken said it’s the third highest daily double wager ever, and the top two are James Holzhauer.
I’m not sure from where you get your facts.