Final Jeopardy: Fictional Characters (4-1-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/1/2019) in the category “Fictional Characters” was:
In a 1947 collection he solved 12 mysteries, including “The Cretan Bull” & “The Girdle of Hyppolita”
3x champ Steven Grade, a sports industry consultant, won $64,200 last week. In Game 4, he is up against: Alex Jacob, the 2015 ToC winner; and Buzzy Cohen, the 2017 ToC winner.
APRIL FOOLS!! Steven’s opponents today are really: Roberta Chapman, a tour guide from Alexandria, VA; and Reid Setzer, a public policy director from D.C.
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Round 1 Categories: An April to Remember – TV Funny Business – The World of Money – Crossword Clues “Y” – Around the Body – In Prison
Steven found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “The World of Money” under the $600 clue, with 6 clues left after it. He was in third place with $1,400, $3,400 less than Reid’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
In an effort to diversify its portfolio, Canada sold most of this, becoming the only G7 member with less than 100 tons. show
Steven finished in the lead with $6,000. Reid was next with $4,800 and Roberta was last with $1,800.
Round 2 Categories: They Turned My Book Into a Movie – Clothing – Duel Personalities – Morocco – Miscellany – Multilingual Overlaps
Reid found the first Daily Double in “Morocco” under the $1,200 clue on the 19th pick. He was in the lead with $15,200 at this point, $2,400 more than Steven in second place. He bet $2,600 and he was RIGHT.
1963’s “Sand War” against this eastern neighbor changed little geographically but did lead to lingering tension. show
Reid found the last Daily Double in “Clothing” under the $2,000 clue. There were only two clues worth $3,600 left after it. In the lead with $25,400, he had $9,800 more than Steven in second place. He bet $4,000, and took a guess with birth. That was WRONG.
Among the Ndebele of South Africa, a jocolo is an apron worn starting with this occasion. show
Reid finished in the lead with $23,000. Steven was next with $17,600 and Roberta was in third place with $3,000.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
From GoodReads: “First published in book form in 1947, The Labours of Hercules comprises an even dozen mysteries starring Christie’s most popular sleuth, the ever-dignified Hercule Poirot.” After deciding to retire, Poirot “makes up his mind to take on 12 great cases– each somehow reflecting the labors accomplished by Hercules– as a farewell to crime solving.” “The Labours of Hercules” was also the title of the penultimate episode, right before “Curtain”, in the British TV series “Agatha Christie’s Poirot”, starring David Suchet as the finicky Belgian detective.
From 2002: A CHRISTIE MYSTERY $800: To coincide with his death in “Curtain”, the New York Times printed an obituary of this Belgian detective in 1975. (The FJ! clue on 6/5/2018 also concerned his death.)
Roberta drew a blank. She lost her $2,995 bet and was left with $5.00.
Steven got it right. He bet $6,500, bringing him up to $24,100.
Reid went with Sherlock Holmes. That cost him $12,201. He dropped down to $10,799 and Steven Grade won the game. Steven’s 4-day total is $88,300.
A triple stumper from each round:
TV FUNNY BUSINESS ($400) Amy Schumer & Gabriel Iglesias are alumni of this NBC competition show
CROSSWORD CLUES “Y” ($1000) Brute in “Gulliver’s Travels” (5)
2 years ago: BOTH players left in FJ! got this clue in “Countries of the World”
In 1947 these 2 nations became the first new members of the British Commonwealth since the original group in 1931. show
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Why does a contestant fail with a pronunciation that is so close to absolute accuracy that it heard it as accurate, yet misspellings in Final Jeopardy are allowed?
No one knows.
the judges know
I hope Steven wins tomorrow, but I doubt it, just a little bit.
Tomorrow, is going to be ”Win Or Go Home” day for Steven Grade. If he wins, he will FINALLY break the 4-game curse, become a 5-time champion, and he’ll automatically be invited for the Tournament Of Champions. If he loses, he’s out for good.
I wish Reid would have gotten that daily double right but he played a good game despite not being able to defeat Steven. Sherlock Holmes wasn’t a bad guess but still congratulations to Steven on today’s win. Roberta couldn’t get things going today.
I felt pretty bad for Reid on that last DD. I think it would have helped if the clue said an “apron worn by women.” So congrats to Steven but a big shoutout to Reid — he was a great player.
LINK: I only saw the 2 stumpers that are in the recap but I put up 10 more clues from the game.
That includes the Multilingual Overlaps. Kudos to the players for getting them all. My eyes were like doughnuts watching that category– glazed.
I did not like that clue as a Daily Double either. Obviously they were not expecting the contestants to know about the wedding ceremonies of an obscure African tribe, so that was one of the writers’ “pure riddle” clues.
They do have many “riddle” clues on the show, which I think is fine, because they can be fun and they shake things up a bit. But I don’t think they should be Daily Double questions, as I hate to see a contestant penalized because of a big wager on a clue that didn’t even test their knowledge, but rather purely tested their ability to decipher the writers’ hints in the clue.
VJ, I just saw the Multilingual Overlaps category and really enjoyed it. I liked it better than “before and after’ categories. I hate BAA categories! 🙂
Cool, Cece, I didn’t even try to get the clues in the Overlaps category and I don’t usually try on Before and After either, though sometimes I get a chuckle out of what they come up with
I was able to get a couple of them, almost tripping on my tongue, lol. I. too, can’t help getting a chuckle out of some BAA clues..
Well, what do you know? This was a very smart by Steven, hoping that Reid would be wrong and bet the conservative 12.201. One curse gone, one more to go! CONGRATULATIONS, Steven!
He’s the next great champion and it’s not too soon to start to make comparisons with Ken Jennings.