Final Jeopardy: Historic Scientists (3-4-25)
The Final Jeopardy question (3/4/2025) in the category “Historic Scientists” was:
A pair of discoveries by him in 1787 are named for stage characters, a new practice in his field.
In the 2nd semifinal of the 2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament, the players are: Raymond Goslow, a library tech consultant from Marietta, GA; Juveria Zaheer, a psychiatrist from Whitby, Ontario; and Ray Lalonde, a scenic artist from Toronto, Ontario.
Round 1 Categories: World History – Old Man (or Woman) River – Sizing Up Sizes – Apps & Websites – The Hero’s Journey – Starts With a Body Part
Raymond found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Old Man (or Woman) River” under the $800 clue on the 9th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $3,200, $1,600 more than Juveria in second place. Raymond made it a true Daily Double and guessed the Edward River. That was WRONG.
Quinobequin to the natives, it was called the Massachusetts by explorers, then renamed in 1614 for a then-prince show
Raymond and Juveria finished in a tie for the lead with $5,200. Ray was second with $1,400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Poetica Botanica – In the Pink – Sculpture – On Tour – 5-Letter Antonyms -Doom Scrollin’
Raymond found the first Daily Double in “On Tour” under the $1,200 clue on the 13th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $12,800, $400 more than Juveria in second place. Raymond bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.
This 16-year-old’s diary entry for Oct. 18, 2006: “Oh my god I am on the Rascal Flatts tour… I’m opening up for the last nine dates” show
Juveria found the last Daily Double in “5-Letter Antonyms” under the $2,000 clue on the 20th pick of the round. She was in second place with $16,800, $3,000 less than Raymond’s lead. Juveria bet $4,000 and guessed Muses. That was WRONG.
Harmless: Relating to a trio of destiny-based goddesses? show
Raymond finished in the lead with $21,000. Juveria was second with $14,400 and Ray was last with $4,200. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS WILLIAM HERSCHEL?
German-British astronomer William Herschel (1738-1822) discovered Uranus in 1781. In 1787, he discovered that Uranus had 2 moons. His son, John Herschel (1792-1872), who also became prominent in astrology, named those 2 moons Titania and Oberon in 1852, after the king and queen of fairies in William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. By that time, 2 more Uranus moons had been discovered and John Herschel named them Ariel and Umbriel, 2 characters in Alexander Pope’s “A Rape of the Lock” (1712). Ariel is also a Shakesperean character (“The Tempest”).
The naming of moons is a complicated affair you can read about on Wikipedia. The whys and wherefores of naming the moons of Uranus after literary characters isn’t clear. It has been presumed, however, that Herschel chose to forego mythological names for the moon because “Uranus, as god of the sky and air, would be attended by spirits of the air.” It surely wasn’t just because he liked fairies. He got mythological with the moons of other planets.
Ray got it right. He bet it all and doubled his score to $8,400.
Juveria got it right, too. She bet nothing so her score remained $14,400.
Raymond didn’t know so he wrote down IDK. He lost his $7,801 bet and finished with $13,199. That made Juveria the third semifinalist. At least for the rest of the week, we’ll be seeing Juveria, Roger Craig and Matt Amodio in the finals.
A triple stumper from each round:
THE HERO’S JOURNEY ($600) …took this cop & family man for a spin(off), from “The Walking Dead” to “The Ones Who Live”
POETICA BOTANICA ($400) Asked if these title seasonal objects were for sale, Robert Frost doubted he’d “sell them off their feet to go in cars”
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “NAMES IN THE BOOKSTORE”
This man made lists, perhaps to cope with depression; a set of lists he published in 1852 made his name synonymous with a type of book show
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