Final Jeopardy: The 20th Century (7-14-22)
Here are some more triple stumpers from then 7/14/2022 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.
EARTH ($800) Larger trees are starting to encroach north on this ecosystem defined by its lack of them
UNITS OF MEASURE ($400) The GGE, this substance gallon equivalent, compares the energy content of alternative fuels
TERRIBLE SUPERVILLAIN NAMES ($600) This insurance duo–the big cost you owe before your insurer kicks in & the money given to your doc as you get services–are just the worst
THAT’S COLD! ($800) If your office is really “as cold as” this space for dry aging, it’s well under 40 degrees
($1000) The food seen here (image) is prepared “crudo”, Spanish & Italian for this word
RIVER NAMES ($2000) A king of Alba Longa, near present-day Castel Gandolfo, drowned in this river, which was then named for him
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID ($400) As Germany’s “Chancellor of change”, you ended military conscription & introduced a minimum wage
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Sneak Peek clues — 4 OF THE SAME LETTER
($400) A small figurine like an Academy Award
($800) At the recent Tokyo Olympics, Alix Klineman & April Ross netted gold in this sport
($1200) An expert in the formal rules & procedures of running an assembly, like the British legislature
($1600) This adjective means having no previous example known
($2000) If you support another person’s alibi, you provide this 4-“O” word from the Latin for “to strengthen”
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If you look at the Britannica entry for the Founding Fathers, you see that there are only two Adams in the group. The second president and Sam. I believe that would be their rationale for not requiring the first name (kind of like Ken Jennings’ first game and the Jones thing in Final Jeopardy!).
And, yup, that Foundingest Father from the $200 clue is right there in Britannica.
FJ should have been a triple solve, it was as easy as the first 2 DDs were. (I took a stab at the 3rd DD and guessed right.) Also, knew the mockumentary and the ecosystem, that’s it.
Agree with Jason that “Adams” was not a sufficient response. Same as answering “Johnson” or “Roosevelt” for a president.
Someone out there probably knows the average number of WINS (not appearances) Jeopardy champions get before losing, but that would be skewed by the inclusion of all the mega-winners like Ken, James, Amy et al. But I’m guessing the median would be between 2 and 3 wins. The overwhelming number of 1- and 2-day champs would more than balance out the number of super-champs.
I can predict that the US version of The Sun, online, will, tomorrow, again pillory Mayim, this time for not asking for clarification/”more specific” in the “Founding Fathers” category, for (Sam) Adams.
As to Anjali and a big DD wager, I would guess not, seeing as to what was her wager on the DD in the J! round ($400, what she had, vs $1000, what she could have). Just my guess.
When Mayim ruled Anjali’s response “Sind” incorrect, I knew it would be overturned. But my question is, the next clue was the DD and since not much else remained on the board, it can be safely assumed she would’ve picked that. The incorrect ruling seems unfair in retrospect. Some might say that well, she got FJ wrong, so it doesn’t matter. Maybe so, but maybe she would’ve doubled up on the DD and gotten the remaining clues also on the euphoria of a big DD win and gone on to get a runaway before FJ. Who knows what might have been!
I think Anjali was deprived of her chance to win because the clue wasn’t better researched (Sind is the actual name of the river, Indus is just its Anglicized version) and the host wasn’t better prepared to rule on the different variations of the correct response.
I agree. And it’s also possible she strategically chose a longshot answer in Final Jeopardy thinking it was her best chance to win whereas if leading she would have picked the most likely answer.
Wow, another no brainer for FJ. Yes, it could only have been Vladimir Lenin.