Final Jeopardy: College Team Sports (6-1-16)
The Final Jeopardy question (6/1/2016) in the category “College Team Sports” was:
The USA’s first intercollegiate athletic event was in 1852 in this, which as a sport goes back to at least the Middle Ages.
New champ Tim Mercure won $20,401 yesterday. In his second game he is up against these two players: Liz Miles, from New Haven, CT; and Kelly Bayles, from Tulsa, OK.
Round 1 Categories: Name’s the Same – “UCK”Y Stuff – Ivy League – The Movie Actor’s Role – Presidents From Ohio – Geography In Rhyme
Kelly found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Presidents from Ohio” under the $400 clue with 4 more clues and less than a minute to go. She was in third place with $2,400, $3,800 less than Tim’s lead. She bet $500 and she was RIGHT.
His earlier career included stints as U.S. Solicitor General & Judge of the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court. show
Tim and Liz finished in a tie for first place with $6,000 each. Kelly was next with $1,900.
Round 2 Categories: World Of Poetry – Leftovers – The 2015 IG Nobel Prizes – Eponyms – Tele-Novelas – “CL”assical Music
Kelly found the first Daily Double in “‘CL’assical Music” under the $800 clue on the 2nd pick of the round. She had $2,300 now. Tim and Liz still had $6,000 each. She bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.
The original title of this Debussy piece is translated as ‘Pierrot vexed by the moon’ show
Tim found the last Daily Double in “Eponyms” under the $1,200 clue with 2 categories + 2 clues left after it. He was in second place with $8,400 now, $5,300 less than Kelly’s lead. He bet $5,000 and came up with Touareg. That was WRONG.
An inventor. A Jetta propulsion system. show
Kelly finished in the lead with a runaway $16,900. Liz was next with $7,600 and Tim was in third place with $4,200.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
AthleticScholarships.net has a History of Rowing: “The first reference to rowing as a sport, and not simply as a means of transportation, comes from a fifteenth century BC Egyptian funerary carving. The writer Virgil mentioned rowing as part of the funeral games for Aeneas. During the Middle Ages, Italian Carnevale often featured regatta races that pitted the nation’s best rowers against one another.”
Here’s how the sport got established in American colleges: “One of the oldest college teams in existence is the Oxford men’s rowing team, which began competing in 1815. This close relationship with colleges carried over to America where prestigious universities such as Harvard, Yale, and the U.S. service academies immediately took to the spot, giving rowing a permanent foothold in America. When Yale challenged Harvard to the first intercollegiate boat race in 1852, the sport rocketed to prevalence and, for several decades, outpaced football in terms of popularity.”
Tim wrote down “javelin”. He lost his $2,601 bet and finished with $1,599.
Liz thought it was fencing. She lost $3,000 and had $4,600.
Kelly also had the javelin. She didn’t bet anything so she won the match with her $16,900 runaway and she is the new Jeopardy! champ.
Two triple stumpers:
GEOGRAPHY IN RHYME ($800) Uttaradit & Surin were places to go / in Hua Hin, what a fabulous show / I was out on tour with my band / in the country of …
“CL”ASSICAL MUSIC ($1600) This pianist became an American hero when he won the International Tchaikovsky competition in 1958
2 years ago:TWO of the players got this FJ in “The Beatles”
Of the Beatles’ 20 U.S. No. 1 Hits, this song has the shortest title. show
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That second round was something indeed. What I found funny was when Alex read Tim’s fj response “javelin” and said “Team sports. I throw, you catch. I don’t think so.” Then when he went to shake Kelly’s hand as champion he motioned as if throwing a javelin.
That second round was something else now, wasn’t it? Kelly polished off 13 clues all by herself before Tim or Liz could even buzz in!
The rest of the triple stumpers plus the category that Kelly ran are over here now
Great come back from 3rd place for Kelly in the 2nd round.
Yeah, something else…I wonder what. Things got very weird for Tim after that wrong DD response. And what did Kelly say during story time? I only heard from the other room Japanese men… sex…not true…
That was Liz with the Japanese men, Cece. LOL! Someone put that clip on Twitter.
Don’t you love it when people say stuff on TV then ask if they’re allowed to say it? I mean, does it matter? You already did…
Oh, that was Liz. I just had a listen; that was…hmm…peculiar. Well, Alex seemed to have put her on the spot, like he got very curious when she mentioned Japanese men. Odd chat. :):)
I liked Tim’s voice. His shooting himself on the foot, not so much. 🙂
Glad to see a fj on intercollegiate rowing. I think the upcoming 2016 Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) National Championship at Princeton June 3-5 promotion put this clue on the table for the writers on Jeopardy. At least I hope so. It is too often overlooked imo. Next year the National Championship will be held at Lake Natoma, California.