Final Jeopardy: Constellations (6-14-18)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/14/2018) in the category “Constellations” was:

This zodiac constellation includes 2 lines (or strings) that terminate in a star called Alrescha, the knot

New champ Diana Hsu, a legal records assistant from Massachusetts, won $24,001 yesterday. In her second game, her challengers are: Adam Manning, a senior sales manager from Colorado; and Katherine Pisarro-Grant, a verbal identity consultant from New York.

Round 1 Categories: What’s That on Your Head? – Playing Politics – Same Vowel, Front & Back – Combat Rock – People of the World – It’s About Time

Diana found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “People of the World” under the $600 clue on the 15th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $4,000, $1,200 more than Katherine in second place. She bet that $1,200 and she was RIGHT.

Afrikaners were once called by this name meaning “farmer” show

WHAT IS BOER?

Diana finished in the lead with $7,200. Adam was second with $5,000 and Katherine was last with $3,200.

Round 2 Categories: Man Caves – 17th Century Lit – Complete the Rhyming Phrase – Colors – Broadway Names – Polar Exploration

Diana found the first Daily Double in “Colors” under the $1,600 clue on the 9th pick. She was in the lead with $10,400 now, $4,200 more than Adam in second place. She bet the amount of her lead again and she was RIGHT.

This color obtained from a plant dye is also known as blue-violet. show

WHAT IS INDIGO?

Diana found the last Daily Double in “Polar Exploration” under the $1,600 clue, with 8 clues left after it. In the lead with $18,600, she had $10,800 more than Adam in second place. She bet $7,000 and she was RIGHT.

The first nuclear sub to visit the North Pole was this one that shared a name with a fictional submersible. show

WHAT IS THE NAUTILUS?

Diana finished in the lead with a runaway $29,600. Katherine was next with $10,800 and Adam was in third place with $8,600.

NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS PISCES?

AstronomyTrek.com says that the constellation Pisces “is most commonly associated with Aphrodite (Venus) and her son Eros (Cupid), who transformed themselves into fish in order to escape the terrifying giant Typhon…. and the story goes that before turning themselves into fish, they tied each other to a piece of rope at each end so they would not lose one another in the turbulence of the water.” In the list of stars in Pisces, it says that Alrescha is the 3rd brightest and its name derives from the Arabic for “the well rope.”

Sporcle Challenge: Name the Constellations slideshow

Adam wrote down Libra. He lost everything but a dollar.

Katherine thought it was Sagittarius. She lost her $6,401 bet, finishing with $4,399.

Diana also had Libra. That cost her $9,000 so she won the match with the remaining $20,600. Her 2-day total is $44.601.

A triple stumper from each round:

COMBAT ROCK: ($800) Pere Ubu: “30 Seconds Over ____”

BROADWAY NAMES: ($1600) In 2017 this rock icon became a Broadway name when he starred in a series of autobiographical acoustic shows

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Book Titles”

A Pulitzer winner in 1947 & Best Picture Oscar winner in 1949, its title is also a line from Lewis Carroll. show

WHAT IS “ALL THE KING’S MEN”?

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