Final Jeopardy: British Places (6-5-24)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/5/2024) in the category “British Places” was:
This city owes much of its early history to a temple dedicated to Sulis Minerva & a “sacred spring” found there
5x champ Adriana Harmeyer, an archivist from West Lafayette, IN, has now won $116,200. In Game 6, she takes on these two players: Kyle Sorlie Titlow, a geographer from Washington, DC; and Allee Mead, a writer from Grand Forks, ND.
Round 1 Categories: Feeling the Buzz – Signs of the Zodiac – “Gate”Keeping – North American Geography – Pop Music – The Real Red Tails
Allee found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Signs of the Zodiac” under the $1,000 clue on the 20th pick of the round. She was in second place with $1,200, $3,800 less than Adriana’s lead. Allee made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
The symbol of this sign is sometimes identified as Ishtar or Persephone show
Adriana finished in the lead with $5,800. Allee was second with $5,400 and Kyle was last with $1,600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: U.S. Rep. & Prez – Public Transportation – Alliterative Television Shows – Science Quiz – 21st Century Books – City Slang
Adriana found the first Daily Double in “U.S. Rep. & Prez” under the $1,200 clue with 7 clues left after it. She was in the lead with $17,800, $8,400 more than Allee in second place. Adriana bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
Rep. Franklin Pierce was such a devoted supporter of Andrew Jackson, he got this nickname alluding to his age (29) show
Two clues later, Adriana found the last Daily Double in “Science Quiz” under the $1,600 clue. She was in the lead with $21,800, $12,400 more than Allee in second place. Adriana bet $2,000 and drew a blank so she was WRONG.
D2O, or heavy water, combines oxygen with this isotope that is twice as heavy as hydrogen show
Adriana finished in the lead with a runaway $19,400. Allee was second with $9,400 and Kyle was last with $2,400. All clues were shown.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS BATH?
Bath is a well-known tourist attraction in England’s Somerset county. It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987 based upon its cultural attributes: “The Roman remains, especially the Temple of Sulis Minerva and the baths complex … are amongst the most famous and important Roman remains north of the Alps, and marked the beginning of Bath’s history as a spa town.” Sulis Minerva is a combination of the Celtic goddess Sulis and the Roman goddess Minerva. She was believed to have healing powers as well as the power to curse folks who did you wrong. Coins and curse tablets were regular offerings to Sulis Minerva.
The above video has a lot more information and, at about the 9.42 point, they show a wooden scale mockup of the complex.
Kyle bet $2,399 and finished with $4,799.
Allee didn’t bet anything, standing pat on $9,400.
Adriana bet $500 and won the game with $19,900. Her 6-day total is $136,100.
A triple stumper from each round:
NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY ($800) The Post-Intelligencer Globe is still an icon of this U.S. city, though the same-named paper is now online only
ALLITERATIVE TELEVISION SHOWS ($1200) Can’t get enough of charming but evil surgeons? Watch this true crime show on Peacock
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “THE EARLY 19th CENTURY”
Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve signaled “engage the enemy” around noon & surrendered at 1:45 PM during this battle show
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1/3 on DD, but got FJ.
What I still don’t “get” is people staying silent, when they need a relatively small amount to keep the leader from a runaway. This is where I usually say, “you won’t get a second chance”, but, have to now append that to “being silent won’t get you an invite to Second Chance!”
In my mind, there’s almost a musical cadence to city newspaper names. So, I got that P-I one.
I was actually surprised that Adriana didn’t get that third DD – they even gave the “D”!
Didn’t know Final, but Bath is what I came up with. Obviously easier than it looked. Almost but not quite made up for blanking on all 3 DDs.
Oh Allee, Allee, oxygen-free, you stood there like a statue for the final few clues when all you needed was to answer one (in her defense, it’s tough to look at the overhead scoreboard in the heat of battle). That last $400 stumper, the VA president, was a near-gimme. Kyle missed the CTA clue and went downhill from there. And he had two categories in his wheelhouse.
A game of ebbs and flows. Adriana strangely stood still in the 2nd half of the first round, then came on like gangbusters afterward. One of my majors was newspaper journalism, so the P-I was easy. The conscription act was all too familiar to those of us of draft age in the 60s. Korean bus answer was very obvious. What else would you look for upon boarding a bus? Change on the floor?
Howard, It appears our discussion last week turned into an entire category tonight. Tuskegee Airmen got an entire category tonight while the Buffalo Soldiers only warranted one clue last week which was a triple stumper. Tonight, Adiana seemed to like the Tuskegee Airmen category since she kept going back to it but only responded to one of the clues. Each contestant got one clue correct in that category. The two “triple stumpers” had me wondering why Adriana kept going back to that category. I guess she had a reason.
I thought about you as soon as I saw that category on J6, Jacob. 🤣
So when are we going to have a male winner going to the next TOC?
It’s hard to believe that neither Adriana nor Allee knew the guy who was President from 1809 to 1817. It didn’t occur to them that the time period included the War of 1812.
Allee would have broken Adriana’s runaway if she buzzed in so you’d think they both would have had a stake in getting that clue, after Kyle mistakenly named Monroe.
It must have been a brain hiccup. We all know one MUST know US Presidents to compete at Jeopardy. Congrats to Adriana on her sixth win and TOC invitation. I rather like “streakers” as it lets us learn a bit more about the contestants.
Also, appreciated the Post Intelligencer Globe question – naturally.
Well VJ, I wholeheartedly agree. I would have to readily admit that I was sort of dumbfounded that neither of them knew which U.S. president presided during that period. Then again, they could point fingers at me for flubbing the Fj.
We finally have our first 6 day champion of the season. Congrats to Adriana. She’s now in first place all by herself in the TOC Tracker.