Final Jeopardy: European Scientists (5-28-24)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/28/2024) in the category “European Scientists” was:
On the 2022 bicentennial of his birth, the body of this man was exhumed & DNA used to determine his genetic afflictions
4x champ Amar Kakirde, a grad student from Lake Hiawatha, NJ, has now won $55,899. In Game 5, his challengers are: Abby Mann, a digital scholarship librarian from Normal, IL; and Steve Miller, a retired medical transcriptionist from Eugene, OR.
Round 1 Categories: European History – Defining Law – Doing a Number on You – Sounds Like a Boy Band – Do Bug Us – Think “Small”
Amar found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Doing a Number on You” under the $800 clue on the 17th pick of the round. He was in second place with $3,600, $200 less than Abby’s lead. Amar bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
In the presidential election of 1956, Eisenhower carried 41 States & Stevenson, this many show
Amar finished in the lead with $8,600. Abby was second with $3,000 and Steve was last with $1,400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Canadian Cities – Nonfiction Books by Subtitle – Weapon Names – What Do You Measure? – Movies With Little Dialogue – Spill the “T”
Steve found the first Daily Double in “Weapon Names” under the $1,200 clue on the first pick of the round. He was in last place with $1,400, $7,200 less than Amar’s lead. Steve bet the $2,000 allowance and he was RIGHT.
In 1939, Artem Mikoyan & Mikhail Gurevich headed a design bureau that has turned out generations of these fighter planes show
Steve found the last Daily Double in “Non-Fiction Books by Subtitle” under the $1,200 clue on the 11th pick of the round. He was in second place with $8,200, $1,200 less than Amar’s lead. Steve bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.
“A True Story of Men Against the Sea” (the North Atlantic’s Grand Banks) show
Steve finished in the lead with $15,400. Amar was second with $14,200 and Abby was last with $8,200. All clues were shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS GREGOR MENDEL?
In this YouTube video, the narrator picked up on the punny connection between Gregor Mendel’s experiments with peas and “rest in peace”. Whether you think that’s a little “corny” or not, he explains how researchers dug up Mendel’s earthly remains 200 years after his birth to test his DNA. They found genetic markers for diabetes, kidney disease, heart problems plus a gene associated with epilepsy and neurological problems.
Mendel was born on 7/20/1822. He became an Augustinian friar. Although he never married nor had any kids of his own, he laid the groundwork for hereditary traits and became known as the “Father of Genetics”. Mendel did have 2 sisters and was reportedly quite close with one nephew.
Abby was going for Charles Darwin. She lost $3,000 and finished with $5,200.
Amar thought it was Tesla. He lost $14,199, leaving him with $1.00.
Steve didn’t quite complete Herschel. He lost $13,001 and finished with $2,399. That made Abby Mann the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
DOING A NUMBER ON YOU ($1000) “Paradise Lost” & the “Aeneid” are divided into this many “books”
MOVIES WITH LITTLE DIALOGUE ($400) In this 2018 film, John Krasinski & his family are forced to use sign language to avoid being heard by blind creatures that hunt by sound
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “THE MIDDLE AGES”
It was the surname of the 2 Scottish brothers who claimed monarchies of 2 different countries in the 13-teens show
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Seems to me Amar botched his wager and a 5th win. Steve was pretty locked into betting $13001. Amar of course had to hope Steve missed FJ. He could have wagered $2201, which would have locked out Abby if both he and she got FJ right and she was all in. They both missed it, and as it played out he’d have won handily with $11,199. Costly decision.
Surprised no one knew the Krasinski film. The legal definition term was easy. I know only one K-Pop band, and that was the stumper answer. The walled city in Canada was fairly obvious. Well, maybe only because we visited it during the 1976 Olympics.
@Howard, or maybe you remember history lessons about the walled city and Benedict Arnold in 1775
I did not, but thank you for enlightening me.
I was beginning to like Steve especially after the story about his parents and their bad cooking. He gave me the impression that he was the type of person who calls it like he sees it. 🤣 I like people like that. They’re fun to be around and listen to. Too bad he lost imo. He seemed fairly knowledgeable too.
The researchers also found out that Mendel had an extraordinarily large brain.
Check out the big brain on Greg 🙂
He was no pea brain 🤣🤣🤣
I haven’t checked how much Gregor’s brain weighed, but, George Gordon, Lord Byron, had a brain that weighed 82.2 ounces – that’s more than 5 pounds!
Nikola Tesla? Well, not a chance as he was born some 30 years later. Actually, I went with Charles Darwin which wasn’t too bad of a guess in my opinion. Anyways, it was a fun game nevertheless.
And we got another triple stumper as today’s Final is also tough. One more triple stumper and we will have losing week in the Final.
I zoned on FJ. I first said “Beethoven”, and it took several seconds for me to say “Oh, scientist!” I then said Lister, and was wrong anyhow! Maybe Abby has some more life in her.
I got a little more than half the TS.