Final Jeopardy: African Surnames (4-26-22)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 4/26/2022 Jeopardy! game. Please don’t put the answers to these clues in the comments so people who missed the game can have a chance to answer them. It is okay to refer to them by category and clue value or by part of the clue.
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE ($800) Columbia University began handing out these awards in 1917
($1000) Filbert is another name for this nut
I LEARNED IT IN THE COMIC BOOKS ($200) One of his origin stories states he was raised by a lighthouse keeper before regaining his royal birthright
($600) Peter Parker has worked as a photographer for this newspaper created long before Spider-Man was
LET’S TALK SCIENCE ($600) This hereditary bleeding disorder, aka Christmas disease, is caused by a deficiency of clotting factors
($800) These are proteins, such as hydrolase, that catalyze biochemical reactions
MINI-“ME” ($1000) This subatomic particle is made of a quark & an antiquark
TV SHOWS BY SETTING ($1200) St. Bonaventure Hospital, where Dr. Shaun Murphy works
ONE BIG FAMILY ($2000) Stradivarius learned violin-mak!ng from Nicolo of this great Italian family whose instruments are also highly prized today
____, ____ & ____ ($2000) In a Eugene Field poem, these “fishermen three” were told, “Now cast your nets wherever you wish, never afeard are we”
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Sneak Peek clues — COLONEL KNOWLEDGE
($400) A colonel in the Continental Army, Henry Rutgers later would have a school in this state named in his honor
($800) Martin Mull played him in the movie based on the game Clue
($1200) On Dec. 16, 1980 this fast food chain founder passed away in Kentucky
($1600) In 1946 U.S. Army Colonel Charles Kades drafted article 9 of this country’s constitution, which renounces war
($2000) This lieutenant colonel was knee-deep in the Iran-Contra Affair as part of the National Security Council staff
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I never heard of Giannis and am amazed that someone knew the answer. I’m not surprised that Mattea didn’t know the answer.
@Jason, Mattea bets like I imagine I would — cautiously, out of habit and superstition. idk if those motivations are true for her, but they were for me when I played slots in Atlantic City years ago. Everyone said you gotta play 3 coins at a time, and I was just going broke doing that.
One day I was walking around watching the old ladies play (I wasn’t one yet). “How the hell do they last all day,” I’m thinking. I noticed they were playing one quarter at a time. I went and started playing one coin at a time in a 50 cents machine and I hit the jackpot. Of course, one observer said: “Too bad you didn’t put in all the coins.” But I was convinced the one coin method was why I won. I realized I was not meant to be a high roller. I accepted my status as a penny ante gambler and my luck changed for the better.
That’s fair enough, but, you weren’t limited at how long you could play, nor were you competing against someone. She doesn’t strike me as a “super champion” – again, I ask, what is the purpose of going on Jeopardy? To win money, which, if not the main reason, is certainly a plurality. Dinky DD bets should not be celebrated. “High rollers” seem to be who succeed most often on J! I recall from the distant past someone writing about J!, and said “producers like big wins, and big losses”, and Kryptonite to them was a boring game. I still think she will get skunked in the TOC, and will be eminently forgettable.
I reminded my wife today, though, of what Alexandre Daigle said when he was drafted first overall in the NHL draft: “Nobody remembers #2”. Who was drafted #2? Paul Kariya, with Chris Pronger #4. Daigle is remembered as being the biggest draft bust in the NHL, and a contender for for biggest draft bust in all pro sports. So, when he is remembered, it’s not for what he did, but, what he didn’t do.
You certainly could be correct as to superstition.
yeah, Jason, whether we call it a superstition or a dyed-in-the-wool belief, I’m sure that if I get greedy, the fates will clobber me. That’s how Mattea losing that $4K bet today struck me. Yes, she picked up $8K yesterday but the fates were probably busy clobbering someone else. 🤣 (I’ve had a few big wins myself)
I certainly agree with you that she won’t win the ToC mainly because of her chicken-s bets, but she won’t be forgotten, at least as long as she’s the No. 1 Canadian winner and she may hold that record a long time.
Go, Mattea!!!! WHOO!!!!!!
I was sad that no one knew the “fishermen three” poem. I linked to Disney’s musical version of it on YouTube with Donovan doing the singing. (I’m not sure the contestants know who Donovan is)
I’m shocked at the slight by Jeopardy of the achievements of the Antetokounmpo brothers during the fj segment. “Kostas” was the 1st of the brothers to win an NBA championship title in 2020 with the LA Lakers. Then, and only then, did “Giannis” & “Thanasis” win NBA championship titles with the Milwaukee Bucks in 2021. They are the first 3 brothers in the NBA league, to my knowledge, to win NBA championships. Mark can clarify if I am incorrect.
Why mention “the family” in the fj clue but yet only mention Giannis at the end of the show? Ken made a quick shift from plural, the family, to the singular focusing only on one brother. True Giannis won MVP but he and Thanasis play on the same NBA team even today–the Milwaukee Bucks. Don’t write a clue if you can’t be fair to the family you referenced in it. Otherwise, leave out the word family.
Correct. The Antetokounmpo brothers are the first trio of brothers to win NBA championships. Kostas won with the L.A. Lakers in the 2019-20 season (although he played in only five regular season games and none in the post season), and Thanasis and Giannis won as teammates with the Milwaukee Bucks last year. Thanasis and Giannis both are playing with the Bucks this season, while Kostas now plays professionally in France.
The only other set of brothers that I’m aware of that have both won NBA championships are Pau Gasol (Lakers in 2009-9 and 2009-10) and his brother Marc (Toronto Raptors 2018-19).
Mark, Thanks a million. As a sportswriter I knew you would definitely know.
This clue made me watch last weekend’s basketball game when giannis stunned a lot of people with his moves in basketball. Once again mattea ran two categories and made this a runaway since Andrew Paul’s previous run. Mattea is close to Julia Collins 20 game record.
Mattea once again underwhelms. What that means is, no excitement, and no challenge. Hey runaway games are not exciting, in the least, so, for me, there’s no “payoff”. It’s like she’s “allergic” to money. I liked the quirky way Reya responded, and hoped she could keep it up. Of the TS listed above, I knew every one save the first two and the last two. However, as I am not an NBA fan, I haven’t learned the family name of Giannis, and didn’t even know about his brothers. So, I had no response.
Nicky looked like he took the strategy of ringing in first, then, trying to recall the correct response. As shown, that was not the strongest plan.
Despite what I said above, I’m not stopping watching!