Final Jeopardy: Chain Store Names in the News (4-29-15)
The Final Jeopardy question (4/29/2015), in the category “Chain Store Names in the News” was:
The 1917 first use of what became its name said this 2 word small room “called up the tube that the steamer… was torpedoed”.
4x champ Greg Seroka had a runaway game yesterday and brought his winnings up to $108,200. Today he takes on these two players: Sarah Negugogor, from Kirkland, WA; and Brian Fodera, from Sherman Oaks, CA.
Round 1: Sarah found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “The Next Chemical Element Alphabetically” under the $1,000 clue, the last one on the board. She was in third place with $2,600, $5,000 less than Greg’s lead which had just been reduced by $2,000*. She bet $2,000 and thought it was sodium. That was WRONG.
After silicon. show
*In the category”500″ ($1,000 clue): The S&P of the S&P 500 Index stands for this: Half of it sounds like something a businessman tries to avoid. Greg said Standards & Poor’s instead of Standard & Poor’s.
Greg finished in the lead with $7,600. Brian was second with $4,000 and Sarah was last with $600.
Round 2: Greg found the first Daily Double in “Elementary” under the $1,600 clue. He was in the lead with $16,800, $9,200 more than Brian in second place. He bet $8,000 and he was RIGHT.
In a story, Holmes surprises Watson by revealing the existence of this brother & says “He even has better power of observation than I”; when he turns up on “Elementary”, sparks fly with Joan Watson. show
Brian got the last Daily Double in “Capes” under the $1,600 clue. In second place with $12,000, he had $16,400 less than Greg and it was pretty much his last good chance to get more than half of Greg’s score. He had this clue all to himself and there was only one $2K clue left on the board. He bet $4,000 and thought it was the Cape of Good Hope. That was WRONG.
The boundary line between the South Atlantic & the South Pacific is the meridian of this Cape. show
Greg finished with $28,400, his second runaway. Brian was next with $8,000 and Sarah was in third place with $5,000.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS RADIOSHACK?
RadioShack’s bankruptcy filing in February 2015 has been the topic of many articles this year. Forbes says that while its competitors have been long gone, it managed to stay in business “mostly by selling cords, esoteric technological parts, battery packs and adapters.”
As for the sentence in the clue, it is about the sinking of the steamboat Kioto on July 11, 1917. There are a couple of images of magazines online that have the article containing the sentence “and the radio shack called up the tube that the steamer Kioto was torpedoed 20 miles southwest by west of Fastnet Light,” but you need a subscription to get a larger view.
Sarah started writing down boiler room, but only got as far as “boile”. She bet and lost it all.
Brian came up with Hobby Lobby. That cost him $3,000 and he finished with $5,000.
Greg didn’t write anything down. He lost his $3,400 bet so he won his 5th match with $25,000. His 5 day total is $133,200.
During the chat, Greg’s jacket was the topic of conversation. It previously got a lot of “Dr. Evil” attention on Twitter. Greg explained that a tailor in Salzburg accosted him on the street and practically ordered him to buy it.
2 years ago:: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Island Countries”
No longer “western”, this 1-word nation has moved to the west side of the Intl. Date Line to join Asia & Australia. show
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I haven’t seen anyone else mention this, but challenger Brian Fodera was the 2nd contestant to miss on the $100 Question on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” back in 2000, after Robby Roseman had famously given his “llama” answer in an earlier WWTBAM limited-run series. I think that he appeared on Rosie O’Donnell’s talk show (I didn’t see that.) , and Rosie gave him a car as a sympathetic gesture.
This is true. (I am he.) Robby and I appeared on Rosie’s show and were asked ten trivia questions. For answering them correctly, we each were given new cars. Rosie then invited me back to do a dating game because she claimed that a whole slew of women had written in asking about me. (The power of television is great; I have no other explanation for this bizarre turn of events.) On the dating game, I won a trip to Antigua. A year later, I returned to “Millionaire” for a special edition for all contestants who had gotten to the hot seat but won no money. (By that time, there were 13 or 14 such people, although still only two super-geniuses who had missed the $100 question.) The second time, I won $16,000.
This comment thread reads really nicely, for the first time. 🙂
This was the Large & In Charge Category. LOL!
$400 – After her husband Albert’s death in 1861, she put on weight & ballooned up to a 46-inch waist.
$800 – This Australian state didn’t add an “H” to the last word in its name when the obese Sir George Reid was premier.
$1200 – At over 6’5″ Filip Vujanovic is large & in charge of this Balkan nation whose name means “black mountain”
$1600 – Tupou IV, King of this “friendly” South Pacific island nation from 1965 to 2006, tipped the scales at 440 pounds.
$2000 – William Wallace should’ve known better than to pick a fight with Edward I, nicknamed this for his height & stature.
The players got 3 of them.
Horrible wording, indeed. I couldn’t even understand the sentence the way it was written.
At first reading, it’s almost like random words strung together. My only talent is the ability to read well, and I had to read it three times, and then yelled, “WTF?!”
You could see Greg having a WTF reaction, too.
I don’t think there’s a good way to express it. I tried, and I started off like this:
“A two word phrase for ‘a small room’, which later became this chain store’s name, was first used in 1917 when —-”
and gave up. It needs more than one sentence.
Tom, your wording is a major improvement but I still never would have gotten it. Awful clue, I thought. I’m glad that I’m not the only one who thought so.
Not fair of Alex to make it sound like a foregone conclusion that Greg would win, especially at the beginning of the show when talking to Greg’s opponents. Very poor taste Alex.
With respect to the CotD I ignored all of the verbage in the clue and went with the Category title and came up with RadioShack because it has been the only chain store in the news of late due to its bankruptcy filing. Jimmy Fallon joked about it in his monologue last night. What a coincidence!
Horribly worded clue imo. I thought perhaps the contestants would have focused on the category title phrase. But now that I think about it there is no way of knowing when the show was taped.
Great going Greg! Just pull up a chair and make yourself at home. LOL
“Chain store names in the news?” RadioShack imho.
I think that may be due to a bias on your part: Hobby Lobby was more in the news, I believe. It was the first response I cued up by only looking at the category. I don’t believe I got the answer within the 22 seconds for I, like Mr. Clark and others here, lost time with a Jeeves-like wince at the wording.
In all fairness, I will admit to bias more toward Supreme Court decisions than business.
Clearly, they were both in the news to a large extent.
Well, all he said was that Greg was a heavyweight, right? What made me laugh was him saying they have had a lot of big winners this season. Uh, not really. :):) The TOC line-up was looking mighty sparse until recent weeks.
Worst final jeopardy question ever