Final Jeopardy: Science Fiction (3-9-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/9/2021) in the category “Science Fiction” was:
In a 1952 sci-fi story, a time traveler returning to the present finds a dead one of these insects on his shoe
2x champ Laura Portwood-Stacer, an author & editor orig. from Livonia, MI, has now won $42,601. In Game 3, her opponents are: Lindsey Shi, an attorney orig. from Germantown, MD; and Zach Shrier, a financial advisor from Los Angeles, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Picture the Musical Act – Sports & Games in Shakespeare – Ferris & Observation Wheels – Snakes & Ladders – Cartels – Ends in “B”
Zach found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Sports & Games in Shakespeare” under the $1,000 clue on the 11th pick of the round. He was in third place with $1,200, $800 less than Lindsey’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
Referred to in “Love’s Labour’s Lost”, novum quinque is a dice game where the goal is to roll these 2 numbers. show
Zach finished in the lead with $8,200. Laura was second with $4,400 and Lindsey was last with $3,800. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: European Cities – 16-Letter Words – Constellation Derivations – ____ of ____ – You Lose! – Good Day, Sir!
Lindsey found the first Daily Double in “16-Letter Words” under the $1,200 clue, with 10 clues left after it. He was in second place with $7,800 now, $6,000 less than Zach’s lead. He bet $3,800 and thought it might be a conservationist. That was WRONG.
In a 1923 poem Robert Frost described himself as this, now meaning one who advocates for the protection of the natural world. show
6 clues later, Lindsey got the last Daily Double in “You Lose!” under the $800 clue. In third place with $6,000 now, he had $7,800 less than Zach’s lead. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
In 2014 he came in second in his North Carolina congressional race; earlier, he came in second on “American Idol” show
Zach finished in the lead with $13,800. Lindsey was next with $11,400 and Laura was in third place with $7,600. No clues went uncovered.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
The main character in “A Sound of Thunder” is Eckles, a rich hunter who pays 10 grand to go back in time and hunt Tyrannosaurus Rex. The insect Eckles finds on his shoe when he returns is a butterfly that got on there because Eckles broke the rule of staying on the path in the past. This caused undesirable changes in the future. Eckles begs his guide, Travis, to take him back so that he can undo his mistake by staying on the path. Travis can’t because it’s not possible to return to a place they already visited.
Also see, All the Tropes wiki: “First written by Ray Bradbury as a short story for Colliers magazine in 1952, A Sound of Thunder has become the most re-published science fiction story of all time. Its influence can be seen all over the fictional world, particularly due to its introduction of the Time Travel plot in which ‘small changes in the past snowball into the future’.”
Laura took an ugly bug guess with cockroach. She lost her $6,201 bet and finished with $1,399.
Lindsey got it right. He bet $10,000 to his score and that brought hm up to $21,400.
Zach got it right, too. He added $9,001 to his score and won the game with $22,801. Zach Shrier is the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
SPORTS & GAMES IN SHAKESPEARE ($400) This king’s fool berates him as a child, saying he’s been playing “Bo-Peep”, meaning peek-a-boo
____ OF ____ ($1600) It’s thought that monks on the isle of Iona produced this illuminated manuscript of the 4 gospels
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Art”
This famous work of art was damaged in 1652 when a door was cut into a wall, removing Jesus’ feet show
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wouldn’t yesterday’s and today’s FJs be considered the same category?
well, i predicted a triple stumper and surprised that two people got it.
i was rooting for Lindsay, good player and seems like a nice person. pity he chose “conservationist” (15 letters) over environmentalist (16). there was no time to count.
Only a combined Coryat of $34,200 today. Thanks for posting VJ. Jeopardy is not on tonight where I am apparently.
I wonder if this short story was the inspiration for Bizarro World in the Superman comics
Yeah I was thinking of the same thing as well with the butterfly thing. I used to read this in high school and it kind of creeps me out VJ. Laura played well but these last few weeks of two time champs need to get up to three or four day champs. We need an end to this leader curse and soon. Perhaps Zach can do it. He and Lindsey were evenly matched and Laura couldn’t keep up.
If this Zach can break the curse, he could possibly join Zach Newkirk in the next Tournament of Champions, but the producers would have to place them in separate games, because if they’re not careful enough, or if they make it to the Finals, 1 of the 2 Zachs would have to go by Zachary, in order to avoid confusion, which can work out for the winner. In 1996, 2 Michaels: Dupee & Daunt made it to the Finals in that year’s Tournament of Champions, and Michael Dupee was kind enough to change his name to Mike Dupee, in order to avoid confusion, and it worked out very well for him, because Mike won the tournament.