Final Jeopardy: Games (3-13-25)
The Final Jeopardy question (3/13/2025) in the category “Games” was:
This game inaugurated a craze that “scandalized the puritanical and drove chiropractors wild with delight”
2x champ James Corson, a nuclear engineer from Frederick, MD, has now won $70,800. In Game 3, his opponents are: Jack Goldfisher, a screenwriter & director from Los Angeles, CA; and Liz Engelhardt, a teacher from Concord, NH.
Round 1 Categories: Feetnotes in History – US & Stem – Musical Chairs – America Parks – Yes, We Halve That – Beastly Verbs
James found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “America Parks” under the $600 clue on the 9th pick of the round. He was in last place with $800, $1,200 less than Jack’s lead. James bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
This airport in Wash. named for 2 cities has one of the largest parking garages in the U.S.– 13,000 spaces, 8 stories high show
Jack finished in the lead with $7,600. Liz was second with $4,400 and James was last with $2,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: That’s Quite a ‘stache! – A Bit of Lit – Hand Me a Mallet – Scientifically Titled Movies – National Anthems – Begins & Ends With “A”
Liz found the first Daily Double in “A Bit of Lit” under the $1,200 clue on the 5th pick of the round. She was in second place with $7,600, $2,000 less than Jack’s lead. Liz bet $5,000 and she was RIGHT.
Regarding the double-talk name of this character in “Lolita”, Nabokov said, “it is a hateful name for a hateful person” show
Jack found the last Daily Double in “National Anthems” under the $1,200 clue on the 16th pick of the round. He was in second place with $13,200, $2,200 less than Liz’s lead. Jack bet $5,200 and he was RIGHT.
Because of political pressure, it uses “Guo Qi Ge”, the “National Banner Song”, in place of its anthem at international events show
Jack finished in the lead with $20,400. Liz was second with $16,200 and James was last with $13,200. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS TWISTER?
In 1966, a new game called Pretzel was shown to Milton Bradley by Reyn Guyer, Chuck Foley and Neil Rabens, who called their creation Pretzel, “the game that ties you up in knots.” The game pieces were people, who took turns placing their hands or feet on colored circles on a floor mat, getting tangled up until someone fell down. Milton Bradley had to rename Twister, because the name Pretzel was already taken by a toy dog. Initially, toy companies weren’t lining up to stock the game until Milton Bradley’s PR company arranged to have Twister featured on the Tonight Show. Host Johnny Carson, and guest star Eva Gabor demonstrated how to play Twister. That was the start of the Twister craze, rocketing the game to top seller status for 1967.
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James wrote down the sea shells by the seashore tongue twister because he didn’t bet anything. His score remained at $13,200.
Liz went with the hula hoop. That cost her $10,400 and left her with $5,800.
Jack got it right. He bet $10,001 and won the game with $32,401. Jack Goldfisher is the new Jeopardy! champ.
2 triple stumpers from the last round:
THAT’S QUITE A ‘STACHE! ($2000) This mustachioed composer was best known for his opera “Pagliacci”
A BIT OF LIT ($2000) In 1935 his semi-autobiographical “Of Time and the River” was published as a sequel to “Look Homeward, Angel”
2 years ago: NEITHER player left in FJ got this clue in “1980s MOVIES”
A writer & producer of this movie said he wanted it to be like a Western or James Bond film, “only it takes place in the ’30s” show
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I was 3/3 on DD, and got FJ. Concur with the high caliber contestants. I saw James repetitively getting beaten on the buzzer. That had to be that falling with the scientific and nuclear clues!
It was another terrific game, and I scored somewhat above average. Regarding the FJ, I went with the ‘Operation’ game by Milton Bradley. You know, the ‘Operation’ game never did appeal to us kids. In fact, we never played it. No, the FJ couldn’t have been that easy if two of the contestants couldn’t come up with the correct response. Yeah, we played the ‘Twister’ game a long time ago, but it was not all that appealing to us.
We don’t know that James couldn’t come up with the answer. With a zero bet and nothing at stake, he took the opportunity to get Ken to say a tongue twister and Ken played along.
I liked the Operation game commercial. 🎶Operation… you’re the doctor!
Yes VJ, but I have never ever been aware of any contestant who opted to omit a response in FJ if he/she knew the answer. Actually all we could assume here was that James simply could not come up with the correct response.
Not we, Rick — you could assume that if you like. I assume James had a prank answer up his sleeve if he got a chance to go with it.
I have seen plenty of players opt for a joke answer, Sometimes it happens when a player has a runaway. Other times, when the player has nothing to lose.
Yes, who could ever forget that woman exclaiming ‘Operation!” at the end of the commercial?
Another powerhouse group. I’m thinking the staff front-loaded the contestant pool with the strongest qualifiers for when the seemingly endless tournament games were over. But I was surprised only one got the easy FJ and no one knew the author of “Look Homeward, Angel.” All 3 DDs went my way, too, a pretty rare occurrence. And many of the $1000/2000 clues were not that difficult. All of which probably explains the high scores entering FJ.
0 for 5 on the Science Movies, yikes. Got a couple of the beastly verbs.