Final Jeopardy: The Calendar (7-21-20)
Here are 2 more triple stumpers from the 7/21/2020 Jeopardy! game:
STATE CAPITALS ($500) The name shows its founder, Roger Williams, believed God led him there
OPERA ($1000) 1976 was also the bicentennial of this famed Milan opera house
First category run (THE ’40’s by champ, Greg):
($100) Though faster than a speeding bullet, he was ruled 4-F
($200) By war’s end, they had banked over 13 million units of blood for plasma
($300) Not his singing, but a lack of lunch caused fan to swoon at his Paramount Theater concert
($400) Destination of MacArthur’s “I shall return”
($500) Wartime pseudonym of Mrs. I. Toguri D’Aquino
ANSWERS: show
Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — FOREIGN PHRASES:
($200) In Germany, said before a toast & after a sneeze
($400) American equivalent to English “the bonnet on a lorry”
($600) From French, it literally means “a pen name”
($800) The vidi, in “Veni, vidi, vici”
ANSWERS: show
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I missed Monday’s rerun, but I’ve seen the first episode from 1985 season 2, and it was similar.
Alex yapped WAY too much back then, which explains why tonight neither board was completed.
I thought that tonight’s questions were nearly all softballs, including the Final, and was shocked at how many were missed. And more shocked that the leader with $9500 didn’t wager $501 in Final.
At the end of the 2nd round, Alex called “Final Jeopardy” “Double Jeopardy” during his explanation, and it was not edited/corrected.
Well it is confusing indeed. The argument on time goes on. As far as I’m concerned, a century ends with **99 and a decade with **09. Take that, Trebek!
Mr Trebeck has nothing to do with the answers & questions of Jeopardy. The correct answer is January, 1901. Looking at the beginning of the calendar years started with 1 AD. It takes 100 years to make a Century. Therefore, the correct answer is January 1, 1901.
Exactly. There was no year Zero AD, so year 1 was the first year of the 2nd century, and year 100 was the last
Decades are different; they begin with the year ending in zero and end in the one with 9 at the end.
The sixth millennium ended with 1999, so the seventh began with 2000. To me and as far as I’m concerned, a century ends with *99, the new begins with *00, decade ends with *9, begins with *0. The birth of Christ began in 0 (or, by Doc Brown’s calendar, 0000), the next year was A.D. 1. Which planet is Trebek coming from, anyway?
So the categories for the J6 clues this week match the categories of the old shows on their corresponding days.
I wonder if they had the extra clues created at that time, as they do today, and just pulled them from their archive, or if the writers made new clues specifically for J6.
I tried searching for the text of the J6 clues in j-archive (to see if maybe they reused existing clues that appeared on the actual show), and did not find any matches, to remove another possibility.
We might be able to tell if they are old or new questions if an anachronism is introduced, like a J6 clue in a category “Country Music” referencing a song that came out after the air date of the show airing that day, which would indicate the question was written a short while ago for the J6 clues.
First time with a triple Stumper and all three ended up at zero. Trebek wins the final round awnd the clue wasn’t nice to everyone here today. Better luck next time fellas!
This was the first FJ triple stumper as the clue was wasn’t nice to anybody and they went bust.
Gee, there were a lot of firsts in just those two games —
First runaway
First time everyone got FJ!
First time no one got FJ!
First time a player ran a category
First and second time all DD’s weren’t uncovered
First time Trebek wins FJ!
First time a player bounced around the board.