Final Jeopardy: Literary Animals (7-26-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/26/2022) in the category “Literary Animals” was:
This children’s book character, introduced in 1926 & a friend of the title creature, gets his name from the sound he might make
New champ Ed Coulson, an economics & real estate professor from Dana Point, CA, won $17,399 yesterday. In Game 2, his challengers are: Mark Stover, a physician from Flagstaff, AZ; and Alexa Jakob, a electrical engineer from Queens, NY.
Round 1 Categories: Across History – Fill in the Play Title – Official State Stuff – Going around in Circles – Sirius-ly Dedicated – Travel Idioms
Ed found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Across History” under the $600 clue on the 16th pick. He was in the lead with $3,000, $600 more than Mark in second place. Ed bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
From the 1600s to the 1780s, “guests” were sent to this structure, a state prison, via lettre de cachet, a direct order from the King show
Ed finished in the lead with $7,200. Mark was second with $5,000 and Alexa was last with $2,800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Mountains – Idol Talk – Scientific Laws & Theories – Middle Names – From Film to TV – What’s in Your Gullet?
On the first pick, Alexa found the first Daily Double in “Scientific Laws and Theories” under the $1,200 clue. She was in last place with $2,800, $3,400 less than Ed’s lead. Alexa made it a true Daily Double, and answered steady state. That was WRONG.
The third law of thermodynamics says entropy tends to reduce as the temperature approaches this 2-word state show
Ed got the last Daily Double in “Middle Names” under the $1,600 clue on the 13th pick. In the lead with $10,800, he had $600 more than Mark in second place. Ed bet $2,000, and had no response so he was WRONG.
Biblical middle name of the man said to be the richest person in the U.S. at his death in 1848 show
Ed finished in the lead with $16,000. Mark was next with $11,400 and Alexa was in third place with $4,800. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS EEYORE?
Everyone who is familiar with English author A.A. Milne’s 1926 “Winnie the Pooh” works knows that most of Pooh’s friends have self-describing names. There’s Piglet, Kanga and her offspring Roo, Owl, Rabbit and Tigger. And then there’s Eeyore who might otherwise be known as Donkey. Merriam-Webster’s article on the topic explains that Eeyore is “a phonetic spelling of the sound a donkey makes” in England and “it’s simply because of the transcription that most Americans wouldn’t read Eeyore” as a hee-haw from a donkey. Evidently in England, they drop the “r” in the “yore” part of the name and say \EE-aw\.
Alexa thought it was Hop the Bunny. She lost her $3,401 bet and finished with $1,399.
Mark got it right. He bet $1,799 and finished with $13,199.
Ed got it right, too. He bet $6,801 and won the game with $22,801. Ed Coulson’s 2-day total is $40,200.
A triple stumper from each round:
SIRIUS-LY DEDICATED ($1000) “What Would You Say” if I told you this man, seen here along with his band, had their own channel, or have I said “Too Much”?
FROM FILM TO TV ($800) There can only be one Adrian Paul as the immortal title hero Duncan MacLeod in the TV version of this epic film
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “The Calendar”
Calendar date with which the 20th century began show
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Alexa blew her chance at staying in the game by missing that pretty easy DD. She even expressed shame for not getting it.
Mark looked SO familiar, maybe like a character actor. He had an odd habit of lurching his right arm forward when he’d ring in on a clue.
I never read Winnie the Pooh, but figured from 1926 what book it was and what sidekick they were after.
Couldn’t name one song by the band in that Sirius photo, but the leader’s face was familiar enough to ID him. The Exorcist girl was a tough one, but I read the book and saw the movie long, long ago, and she was pretty memorable. Linda Blair’s claim to fame.
The guy from the 3rd DD (Biblical middle name) came to me right away, although TBH I thought he died later on the Titanic.
Ed’s a pretty cool customer and could be a 5-timer soon. I have to root for him as a fellow senior and because I lived in Dana Point twice in the 70s and 80s.
Also, Mark’s FJ wager seemed goofy, but then I realized he was locking out Alexa, right or wrong, and knew Ed pretty much had to wager $6801 and miss.
The Titanic guy was the great grandson.
Like November 3rd, 2016, the correct response on Final Jeopardy! was Eeyore, and like that day, at least 2 out of 3 players knew it was Eeyore.
Only 3 more games until the season finale.