Final Jeopardy: Constellations (7-21-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/21/2022) in the category “Constellations” was:
The brightest star of this constellation is Deneb Algedi, or “kid’s tail”
2x champ Matt Mierswa, an attorney from Rivers Edge, NJ, has won $55,845 since Tuesday. In Game 3, his opponents are: Emmie Trammell, an operations specialist from Jacksonville, FL; and Stan Scoggins, a senior vice president of marketing assets from Los Angeles, CA.
Round 1 Categories: The Met: A Verse – Sports Venues – Odd Numbers – Build a Bear Workshop – The Old West – What’s Your “Angle”?
Matt found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Sports Venues” under the $800 clue with 8 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $7,800, $5,000 more than Emmie in second place. Matt bet $2,200, and said one of the Botanical Gardens. That was WRONG.
In 1879 the first of several NYC venues to bear this name featured birds, flowers & fountains, so the name made more sense show
Matt finished in the lead with $7,800. Emmie was second with $3,000 and Stan was last with $1,800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Asian Geography – Compound Words – Bottoms Up! – Name that Hitmaker – Health & Medicine – Closing Statements
Stan found the first Daily Double in “Closing Statements” under the $800 clue on the 14th pick. He was in last place with $1,400, $12,400 less than Matt’s lead. Stan bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
”The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig…but already it was impossible to say which was which” show
Matt got the last Daily Double in “Asian Geography” under the $2,000 clue with 7 clues left after it. In the lead with $17,000, he had $5,200 more than Emmie in second place. Matt bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
The Laccadive Sea separates the Maldives & this other island country from the Asian mainland show
Matt finished in the lead with $23,400. Emmie was next with $15,800 and Stan was in third place with $5,600. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Capricorn also accepted
According to the information presented on Constellation-Guide.com, the Greek astronomer Claudius Ptolemy was the first to catalogue Capricornus. In Greek mythology, the constellation is associated with the goat-like god Pan and with the goat Amalthea. Capricornus has 5 stars with names approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). In alphabetical order, they are Algedi, Alshat, Dabih, Deneb Algedi, and Nashira. Deneb Algedi is the only star brighter than magnitude 3.00.
Besides Capricornus, the other 11 members of the Zodiac family of constellations are Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpius, Sagittarius, Aquarius and Pisces.
Stan thought it was the Little Dipper. He bet and lost his whole $5,600.
Emmie wrote down Capricorn. Leaving off the “us” was acceptable to the judges so her $5,400 bet brought her up to $21,200.
Matt came up with Gemini. He lost $8,201 and finished with $15,199. That made Emmie Trammell the new Jeopardy! champ.
2 triple stumpers from NAME THAT HITMAKER:
($400) “In My Feelings” & “Nice For What”
($1200) “Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored” & “Positions”
3 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Old Testament Books”
By Hebrew word count, the longest book bears this name that led to a word for a long complaint or rant show
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Unfair, UNFAIR, UNFAIR! Knowing that one person is a diehard fan of a category, how hard it is for the J! personnel to change FJ to a different, and neutral, category? Not hard at all! This reeks of unfairness and laziness.
Seems completely fair to me. People have loads of different experiences; the three contestants don’t come from a factory with the same levels of knowledge in all fields. We see this all the time where one contestant is outclassed by the others, or one blows away the competition.
If someone’s a lawyer, they don’t adjust the categories to shy away from anything dealing with the law, Latin, or the Supreme Court. If someone’s from Canada, they don’t change FJ around so the question isn’t based around a province.
It would have been more unfair if they had adjusted to a different category because of her amateur experience with constellations (she’s not an astronomer, after all, just a space fan like so, so, so many people). The games are set beforehand, picked randomly as a set. Chance worked in her favor today; that’s why they play the game.
Very well stated. When I was on the show nearly 35 years ago, I had a nice lead halfway through DJ. Then we hit the Furniture and Classical Music categories. The champ was a 50-something woman who was a classical music DJ. I answered a couple, but she nailed all the big $$ ones and ended up with just over double my score. There were 3-4 clues left in Shakespearean Last Lines, but the bell sounded.
One more right answer and I’d have avoided the runaway. It didn’t matter that I got FJ and she was clueless but bet $0. (The other player was in the hole and bolted from the studio.)
A rather rough FJ today. Actually, I didn’t know quite what to make out of “kid’s tail”, and I sure wasn’t alone.
A kid is a baby goat, so I thought it was pretty easy to pick Capricorn, the goat.
With 3 chat stories to choose from for Emmie, Ken picks her constellations story. You could see that as a warning to the other contestants.
Personally, I would have bet nothing on this, chat story or not. 🤣