Final Jeopardy: Odd Words (4-29-21)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/29/2021) in the category “Odd Words” was:

A homophone of a letter in the alphabet, this 5-letter word sounds the same if you remove its last 4 vowels

New champ Leah Caglio, a product manager orig. from Phoenix, AZ., won $17,595 yesterday. In Game 2, the challengers are: Colin Beazley, a private investment professional from West Palm Beach, FL; and Emily Sands, a Vice President Of Operations from Chanhassen, MN.

Round 1 Categories: To Your Health – Former Child Stars – Geographic Top 10s – Masterpiece / Theater – Annoying Word! – Dice Roll Names

Colin found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Geographic Top 10s” under the $400 clue on the 7th pick of the round. He was in second place with $1,000, $400 less than Leah in the lead. He bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.

It’s the world’s third-largest body of water by surface area. show

WHAT IS THE INDIAN OCEAN?

Emily finished in the lead with $8,000. Colin was second with $5,200 and Leah was last with $4,200. No clues went uncovered.

Round 2 Categories: Historic Governors – Character-Titled Novels – Languages – Pop Culture Priests – Order in the Court – What’s the Deal”io”?

Leah found the first Daily Double in “Pop Culture Priests” under the $1,600 clue on the 18th pick. She was in the lead with $13,000 now, $1,400 more than Colin in second. She bet $2,200 and she was RIGHT.

Ewan McGregor plays the Vatican’s Camerlengo in this 2009 film based on a Dan Brown book show

WHAT IS “ANGELS AND DEMONS”?

Emily got the last Daily Double in “Historic Governors” under the $1,600 clue, with 2 clues left after it. In third place with $9,600, she had $7,600 less than Leah’s lead. She bet $9,000 and she was RIGHT.

In 1921 Channing Cox succeeded this upwardly mobile governor of Massachusetts who went by the same 2 initials show

WHO IS CALVIN COOLIDGE?

Emily finished in the lead with $18,600. Leah and Colin were both next, tied at $17,200. No clues went uncovered.

ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS QUEUE?

For the purpose of today’s FJ!, all you needed to know was the word is pronounced “Q” (in English, anyway), and how to spell it. Definitions.net has just about every definition of the word from the obscure “tail-like twist of hair formerly worn at the back of the head by soldiers” to the much more common “waiting line”. You will also find pronunciation, sign language and various translations.

A clue from 2018: MIND YOUR “P”s & “Q”s ($1600) Term for the list of waiting jobs to come out of your LaserJet 600

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Colin bet $7,000 and finished with $24,200.

Leah bet $13,000 and finished with $30,200.

Emily bet $18,000 and won the game with $36,600. Emily Sands is the new Jeopardy! champion.

3 bottom row stumpers from the last round:

CHARACTER-TITLED NOVELS ($2000) This title Defoe heroine has 5 weddings but no funeral

POP CULTURE PRIESTS ($2000) Seen here (image), he played the hot priest who was the object of affection for TV’s “Fleabag”

WHAT’S THE DEAL”IO”? ($2000) From the Latin for “messenger”, it’s a papal ambassador to a foreign government

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “The Elements”

Oddly, mining of this rare earth element with a geographic name, atomic no. 63, is mostly in Asia & with some in S. America & Australia show

WHAT IS EUROPIUM?

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