Final Jeopardy: Sports Team Mascots (3-2-18)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/2/2018) in the category “Sports Team Mascots” was:
Echoing a rock band with 8 platinum albums, the teams of the Ark. School for the Deaf are named for this animal.
2x champ Laura McLean has won $19,958 so far and the distinction of being the first champ to win the first tiebreaker in regular play. In Game 3, she takes on these two New Yorkers: Suzie Newman, from New York, NY; and Matt Lisiecki, from Brooklyn, NY.
Round 1 Categories: That Book Title Makes Me Hungry – Charitable Folks – Military Movie Matters – Myanmar – “Shadow” – Strolling Down the Avenue
Suzie found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Charitable Folks” under the $800 clue on the 19th pick of the round. She was in the third place with $400, $3,400 less than Laura’s lead. She bet the $1,000 allowance and guessed Dupont. That was WRONG.
In the 1870s the Will of this man from MD. endowed an orphanage for black children, a university & a hospital. show
Laura finished in the lead with $5,400. Matt was second with $5,200 and Suzie was last with $600.
Round 2 Categories: Sculpture – My TV Dads – Biblical People & Places – You’ve Got a Point – U.N. Milestones – Same First & Last Letter
Matt found the first Daily Double in “Same First & Last Letter” under the $800 clue on the 2nd pick. He was in the lead with $5,600 now, $200 more than Laura in second place. He bet $3,500 and came up with “Heckler & Koch.” That was WRONG.
The AKC call this German import “an inherent protector” show
Matt found the last Daily Double in “Biblical People & Places” under the $800 clue on the 7th pick. In second place with $2,500, he had $2,900 less than Laura’s lead. He bet $1,200 and he was RIGHT.
After the crucifixion, Joseph of this city went to Pilate & asked for the body of Jesus. show
Matt finished in the lead with a runaway $14,100. Suzie was next with $6,600 and Laura was in third place with $6,200.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Arkansas' Deaf Leopards – Thanks for coming out to the show! #DefLeppard pic.twitter.com/0LzZZvXAqI
— Def Leppard (@DefLeppard) May 12, 2016
WHAT IS A LEOPARD?
The Arkansas School for the Deaf has been using a leopard as its sports team mascot since at least 1941, according to an Education Week article reporting on the 2016 meeting between the Deaf Leopards and famed British rockers, Def Leppard. Even though there was never an intentional connection there, “the similarity in the names has been a running joke for years.”
Click here for the Our History page page on the Arkansas School for the Deaf’s website, and here on the Recording Industry Assoc. of America’s site for Def Leppard’s gold & platinum milestones.
Laura thought it was an eagle. She didn’t bet anything so she remained at $6,200.
Suzie got it right. Her $400 bet brought her up to $7,000 even.
Matt got it, too. He added $850 to win the match with $14,950. Matt Lisiecki is the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
STROLLING DOWN THE AVENUE ($800) As you approach VT. & CT. Avenues on the Monopoly board, you pass through this other light blue avenue
U.N. MILESTONES ($1600) October 25, 1971: The People’s Republic of China is admitted, & this leader’s representatives are expelled
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Pop Music Milestones”
In 1972 this anthemic song became the first Billboard chart-topper by an Australian-born artist. show
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Interesting, we had this category previously when Choyon Manjrekar was here and Dan Feitel defeated him with a right response, VJ. I guess Laura was a good sport knowing she wasn’t.going to win but I love the bets made today. Def Leppard is a great band but do you still have any songs from that band VJ?
I never had any songs from Def Leppard, Lou. That was my son’s thing — he had CDs, T-shirts and all that from all those bands. As I recall it, Metallica was his favorite. If I hear them, I recognize a lot of those songs from that time. I remember my son put a Faith No More 45 in my record collection — Let’s Lynch the Landlord.
Well, whaddya know? Alex was very brief in opening the show, not mentioning the tiebreaker nor the low payout of the last match and voila! both rounds got finished.
LINK: 11 more clues from this match