Final Jeopardy: Actresses & Their Roles (5-9-23)
Here are some more clues from the 5/9/2023 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.
GRAB BAG ($800) These Asian dumplings are often served with exposed filling
PRESIDENT WHO SERVED ($1600) On Sept. 2, 1944 Robert Williams of the USS Finback sighted shot-down aviator George H.W. Bush through this, enabling his rescue
ISTHMUS BE THE PLACE ($400) Canal get a witness? The Isthmus of this is the only land bridge between the Asian & African continents
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Sneak Peek clues — 21st CENTURY QUOTES
($200) The line “move fast & break things” was called a core principle of his company by this freckled tech tycoon
($400) This late basketball superstar, father of 4 daughters said, I would have 5 more girls if I could. I’m a girl dad.”
($600) In 2009 this hedge fund manager who committed massive fraud said, “I wish they caught me six years ago, eight years ago”
($800) John Roberts, saving Obamacare: a fine for having no health insurance “may reasonably be characterized as” this
($1000) Of reforms under way because of his domestic spying revelations, in 2014 this tech guy said, I’m still working for the government”
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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The responses above regarding the correct betting are still incorrect. Knowing that Hannah has to bet $2,801 to protect her lead, Raquel should have bet all of her money $14,400. Why would she bet only $9,000, she has to get the correct answer to have any chance to win, so if you are going to win, win with the max. I am always amazed at how these smart contestants are soooo stupid at basic math and logical reasoning. This type of poor betting seems to cost someone winning about once every two weeks.
Raquel’s ideal minimum bet would have been $8,800 which would have given her a $23,200 final total as a result of her correct response. Hannah needed to ensure she ended up ahead of Raquel’s best possible final of $28,800, so her best option was $2,801 and, if she missed on the response, she would have totaled $23,199, missing Raquel’s optimal total by a dollar. In a “well-played game,” according to Bialek’s commentary, Raquel blew the chance to unseat Hannah’s champion status. So maybe it was not-so-well-played in the end.
Arithmetic needs to be a strong suit if you’re going to maximize your potential result in Final Jeopardy!
Absolutely stunned by what Raquel might have been thinking with that wager. She had to know that Hannah would have to bet at least $2801 and hope Hannah missed it. (Hannah did look stumped during the musical interlude.) Something close to $9K was the way to go, and instead Hannah backs into the ToC.
Not sure of the $$ amt, but Hannah’s bad answer on the Monroe state that Raquel lucked into may have ensured Hannah a runaway if she’d nailed it.
Very impressed with Raquel getting that Wilkie Collins DD (an author and title I’d never heard of). That Eisenhower DD was tricky. I’d have said smallpox, too. WW1 was a little too late for malaria, which was more common during Spanish-American War. But I thought that epidemic began sometime around the time WW1 ended in 1918.
Wilkie Collins is acknowledged as one of the forefathers of psychological horror. I happened to read “The Woman in White” 3 years ago, and saw the miniseries on PBS with Dougray Scott. Otherwise, I’d not have had a clue! In any case, despite all that, I said “Black Narcissus” for that!
As to Final, it’s incongruous that Hannah knows all that arcanum, yet misses this one. As stated, sometimes better to be lucky than good!
Yes, I went with smallpox too) in the Eisenhower DD.
Would Spanish Flu be an acceptable answer for the daily double about Eisenhower ?
I would have certainly given it to you.
Normally it would be it for Hannah but Raquel didn’t bet enough and she could bet at least 9,000. If she done that, she would have been the winner and we wouldn’t see Hannah again until the Tournament of Champions. But Hannah gets to live another day.