Final Jeopardy: Men & Machines (4-24-20)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/24/2020) in the category “Men & Machines” was:
John Moore-Brabazon, the first pilot licensed by England, had learned about engines working for this man, first half of a famous pair
New champ Tim Latham, an accountant from Boston, MA, won $21,200 yesterday. In Game 2, he is up against: Shawn Dugas, a library associate from Metairie, LA; and Sarah Jett Rayburn, a writer and stay-at-home mom from Hutto, TX.
Round 1 Categories: Get Your Kicks – The Nifty ’50s – State Flag Subjects – Double Letter X2 – It’s the World Economy – “Stupid”
Shawn found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “The Nifty 50s” under the $600 clue on the 17th pick of the round. He was in third place with $2,000, $1,800 less than Tim’s lead. He bet all of it with a flourish and he was RIGHT.
Many workers united in 1955 when these 2 labor unions merged. show
Shawn finished in the lead with $5,600. Tim was second with $4,600 and Sarah was last with $2,800.
Round 2 Categories: Here’s Looking at Euclid – Spy Terms – 20th Century Authors – Land “Ho”! – Movie Villain Quotes – Overlapping Word Combos
Tim found the first Daily Double in “Spy Terms” under the $800 clue on the 16th pick. He was in second place with $8,200 now, $3,800 less than Sarah’s lead. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
Anythihng related to espionage can be said to be this 3-word term, a translation of “de cape et d’épée” show
Tim got the last Daily Double in “Here’s Looking at Euclid” under the $2,000 clue, with 3 clues left after it. In the lead with $20,400, he had $4,400 more than Sarah in second place. He bet $6,000 and said Copernicus, although he knew that was WRONG.
Euclid put in some time on the elliptical & this German admirer of Euclid found it to be the shape of orbits. show
Sarah finished in the lead with $16,000. Tim was next with $15,200 and Shawn was in third place with $8,000.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS CHARLES ROLLS?
In “An Irishman’s Diary”, Brendan Lynch give a great account of “the action-packed career of John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, who made British aviation history on October 30th, 1909 by flying the first circular mile in an English-built plane on the Isle of Sheppey.” He recounts how Moore-Brabazon and Charles Rolls were friends while attending Cambridge University. “Brabs”, as he was known to his friends, became very interested in cars through Rolls’ influence and learned a lot from working as an unpaid mechanic for Rolls. He got into motor racing but gave it up after seeing a man die during the 1908 French Grand Prix. Likewise, he curtailed flying after Charles Rolls died in an aviation accident on 7/12/1910 at the age of 32.
Aviation Humor has an image of Moore-Brabazon’s pilot license, as well as an account and image of his “first pig to fly” stunt.
Shawn wrote down “support your libraries.” Alex said that was a good idea. Shawn lost $7,998 and was left with two bucks.
Tim got it right. He bet it all, doubling his score to $30,400.
Sarah got it, too, after scribbling out “Aston”. She bet $15,000 and won the game with $31,000. Sarah Jett Rayburn is the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
“STUPID” ($1000) In “National Lampoon’s Animal House”, Dean Wormer tells Flounder, this 4-word state “is no way to go through life, son”
LAND “HO”! ($1000) Denmark & Germany long squabbled over the region known as Schleswig-this
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Legendary People”
Leodegrance, King of Cameliard, gave the newlyweds a piece of furniture on the marriage of this daughter show
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Darn, Tim almost had this second game won but that 6000 dollar bet was so risky and that cost him the game. We will see if Sarah has what it takes to close out april. According to Wikipedia, the tail section of Charles’s plane broke off during flight. Could it have been some sort of design failure that caused his plane to crash? A great game played so far but still no repeat champ.
Yes, too bad that Tim didn’t do that the other way around — $6000 on the $800 clue, which is usually an easy clue. (Plus, there were still 3 $1600 clues and 3 $2000 clues left at that point.) Then whatever he could afford to lose and still keep the lead on that last DD, when there were only 3 $400 clues left after it. Yikes! Tim was obviously a power player who zigged when he should have zagged in this game.
I was kind of cheering for Shawn at first. I got a kick out of his “Ferris Bueller” chat story and also the way he handled Alex and the French pronunciation of his name. Then it became pretty clear that it was going to be between Sarah and Tim. Congrats to Sarah on the win and for getting FJ. Awesome!
I too like Shawn’s tale about Broderick. Considering he’s from Louisiana, it made perfect sense for Alex to want to pronounce his name the French way.
Tim may have cost himself many thousands of future dollars by not retaining the lead on the last DD. He was ahead by about $4K with only 3 low-dollar clues left. You HAVE to have the lead going into Final whenever it’s within reach. $6K would not have given him a lock game, even if he’d been correct.
I thought of Rolls first, but decided that wasn’t a real name, so went with Daimler.