Final Jeopardy: Movie Title Characters (4-23-21)
Here are some more clues from the 4/23/2021 Jeopardy! game:
THE NETHERLANDS ($600) This city, famous for a certain product, attracts tourists to its market
MUSIC SCALES ($1000) There’s a half-step between every 2 notes in this “colorful” scale pioneered by Arnold Schoenberg
ELECTORAL COLLEGE ALUMNI ($400) James Hoffa was a 2008
elector for this state
3 O’s ($1600) Seen here are ciliates, a group of these single-celled organisms that feed on bacteria
SON ($1200) It’s no “Grand Illusion”: this film director was the son of Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste
MOON ($1600) In 1971 the 9th probe in this “nautical” program took the first up-close pictures of Mars’ moons Phobos & Deimos
STARS ($1200) Named for a Titan, Iapetus is a moon of this planet that’s named for the Roman god of agriculture
($2000) The outermost of Jupiter’s Galilean satellites, it’s named for a nymph changed into the form of a bear
SUPPORTING TV CHARACTERS
($200) He was cranky dispatcher Louie De Palma on “Taxi”
($400) Ice-T rapprehends bad folks as detective Fin Tutuola on this “Law & Order” variant
($600) In 2020, this actor was all over the Emmy cast, including accepting his own for the supporting role of David Ross
($800) Jamie Farr never did get that Section 8 he was seeking as this dress-wearing soldier on “M*A*S*H”
($1000) Harvey Guillen plays Guillermo, a familiar to a vampire living on Staten Island in this comedy
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I think he miscalculated and thought it was a lock-game for Kelly. There’s no other good explanation for that wager.
$21,200….How can you watch Jeopardy your entire life and not know what to bet??? He donated $21,199 to that champion….???
Not surprising how he bet. I did a study and concluded that at least 90% of players have no idea how to bet in final jeopardy. The only thing that most players know that if you are in first place that you bet enough to ensure you win if you get it right.
I’m still wondering how The Marine did not bet the whole thing! He’ll regret that the rest of his life…lol…hopefully he makes good humor out if it and it becomes a family story.
I learn soooooo much from this show. From yesterday, I thought the Horn of Africa was aka Cape Horn. I’ll never make that mistake again. I have been learning a lot recently. There have been many tough questions recently.
Dan must have forgotten that the idea of the game is to WIN IT!
All the bets – ridiculous. I’m outraged.
Why, Max? It didn’t cost you a penny and I’m sure Kelly isn’t outraged either.
Exactly!!!!!!!! That’s exactly what I was yelling at the TV for!
Just awful strategy, but what is the rule on ties? Would they have had a one question buzz-off?
Yes, Max, in a tie, they would have a tie-breaker question and whoever buzzed in first with the right response would win.
Of course, today, if Kelly felt he had to be that dollar, Dan just would have won.
There wouldn’t have been a tie because Kelly bet $1 and got it wrong.
Dan making that wager was astounding especially when there was nothing else he can do. Kelly made a wise bet.
I apologize for that mistake VJ, it won’t happen again. hopefully you can overlook this.
Wow, for Dan to make that wager in FJ is really astounding.
Dan used the strategy normally seen only when the game is a runaway. He bet just enough to clinch 2nd by $1 if both he and the woman in 3rd had been correct, and if she’d bet everything.
We’ll never know how it would have played out if Dan had a little more than half of Kelly’s total after two rounds. He blew that when he forgot the Triple O category and said “paramecium” instead of “protozoan.”
In addition to Dan’s wager, I also question Kelly wagering the $1. He could choose not to bet at all, and worst case scenario he gets into a tiebreaker question, which I can understand wanting to avoid, it’s a bit of a crapshoot. But if he’s going to wager anything, he has to assume that if he misses he loses if Dan gets it right (on the presumption that Dan wagers everything), but that if he (Kelly) gets it right, he wins. So with the goal being to win as much money as possible, why not at least wager SOMETHING meaningful (I don’t know, say 2-3K) in order to increase winnings. Point is, if Dan wagers correctly and gets it right, Kelly loses with a $1 bet or a $5K bet if he gets it wrong.