Final Jeopardy: Famous British Names (3-31-17)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/31/2017) in the category “Famous British Names” was:
He used the coat of arms granted to his father in 1596; it depicts a long-shafted weapon, a visual pun on the family name.
New champ Eric Vernon won $26,800 yesterday. In his second game, his opponents are: Aaron Benor, from Rutherford, NJ; and Andrea Palmiter, from Woodinville, WA.
Trebek opened the show by announcing that today’s show marks Jeopardy!’s 7,500th episode. “In television history, that’s not a record,” he said, but very very impressive when you think that we’ve been on for 33 years.” He was also impressed with the average win in every game this week: a shade over $25K and instructed the players not to let him down today.
Round 1 Categories: The 50 States – Supporting Actress Oscar Winners – It Helps to Remember – Books & Authors – Breakfast Cereals – Special Double K
Andrea found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Helps to Remember” under the $400 clue, with 10 clues to go after it. She was in second place with $1,000, $1,800 less than Eric’s lead. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
“She makes Harry eat onions” is one way to remember these 5 geographic features. show
Eric finished in the lead with $3,800. Andrea was second with $3,600 and Aaron was last with $2,400.
Round 2 Categories: Unfortunate History – The Queen’s English – General Science – European Artists – Street Music – Skimming the Magazines
Aaron found the first Daily Double in “Street Music” under the $1,200 clue on the 9th pick. He was in third place with $4,000 at this point, $3,200 behind Andrea’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double and took a guess with Tucson. That was WRONG.
The statue here is a tribute to Glenn Frey in this Arizona city where he sang of standing on a corner. show
Aaron found the last Daily Double 7 clues later in “General Science” under the $1,600 clue. In third place with $1,600 now, he had $10,400 less than Andrea’s lead. He bet the $2,000 allowance and, this time, he was RIGHT.
Plasma sphere have differing effects on naturally colorless xenon and krypton, which are this class of gas. When they’re near the sphere, they become ionized and colorful. show
Andrea finished in the lead with $14,000. Eric was next with $11,800 and Aaron was in third place with $7,200.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS SHAKESPEARE?
On The Shakespeare Blog, Sylvia Morris relates the known facts on how William Shakespeare’s father, John, came to be granted a coat of arms in 1596, after abandoning his earlier attempt. In a follow-up post, she takes a a deeper look into the symbols on the coat of arms, including the gold spear (“an obvious reference to the family name”), and the motto: “Non sanz droict” or “Not without Right,” with an amusing anecdote about Ben Jonson regarding the motto.
Aaron thought it was Richard Longshanks. He didn’t bet anything so he remained at $7,200.
Eric got it right. He doubled up and finished with $23,600.
Andrea had Cromwell. She lost her $10,000 bet, leaving her with $4,000. So Eric remained champ. His 2-day total is $50,400. Trebek kvetched that he dropped the week’s average to $24,800 and jokingly admonished him to do better on Monday. Eric said he would try.
A triple stumper from each round:
BOOKS & AUTHORS ($1000) A little bird told me that this Kristin Hannah novel is the story of 2 French sisters living through World War II
EUROPEAN ARTISTS ($400) Although best known for his nonsense poems, such as “The Jumblies”, he was an accomplished landscape painter
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “European history”
A 3-letter 9th century tribe is in the names of 2 21st century countries: the world’s most vast, and this one. show
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48/59 here. This is not the actual 7500th episode, it’s the 7435th. THey renumbered 13 weeks of reruns during the 1984-85 season(the first two seasons had 195 episodes, seasons three-on have had 230 episodes), which is how they counted to 7500 instead of 7435. The actual 7500th episode will air on June 30th.
Not shocked but eric played a great game today. Still though the guesses of Longshanks and cromwell were not even close. I guess Eric’s opponents didn’t have much knowledge of most of the categories presented here, don;t you agree VJ? Also I found on wiki that there is king Edward Longshanks but who is richard Longshanks?
@Lou, I guess that Aaron just focused on the wrong part of the clue, the word “long,” and I think he just took a guess at Longshanks’ first name. I believe that nickname had to do with his long legs, not a weapon. Anyhow, Andrea was very knowledgeable and she finished in the lead, not Eric. (I thought Dalton would be upset, it being Friday and the leader missing FJ).
That’s Eric’s second win from second place, though the first time was due to the leader not betting enough.
LINK: 11 more clues from the match (including the Unfortunate History category, and a link to a very sad article about the president from N.H. and his wife)
We had 5 leader misses last week. I am speechless that we got a leader miss today when we were supposed to have a leader sweep week.
Dalton, it will happen eventually.
May have been a little bit of confabulation among three separate people.
Richard the Lionhearted appointed William Longchamps to a high court position, and Longchamps served as Chancellor while when Richard went on crusade. Prince John deposed Longchamps during Richard’s absence.
So, we may have had Edward Longshanks transmogrified into Richard via the connection to Longchamps. Just a theory, but sometimes my mind can make similar strange connections.
Yesterday, I had that Jumblies poem running through my mind because of the 20 years answer to the Odysseus and Penelope clue because the Jumblies went to sea in sieve and didn’t come back for 20 years or more.
I was not shocked by the results today because I could see the looks of confusion all around. Kudos to Eric for working it out!