Final Jeopardy: Ancient Animals (7-26-24)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/26/2024) in the category “Ancient Animals” was:

The first fossils of these creatures with an elongated 4th digit were described in 1784 by naturalist Cosimo Collini

2x champ Davey Morrison, an actor & screenwriter orig. from Provo, UT, brought his winnings up to $29,012 yesterday. In Game 3, he competes against: Steve Babish, a marketing content strategist from San Jose, CA; and Rachel Bradley, an ESL instructor from Greenbelt, MD.

Round 1 Categories: A Date in History – Idioms & Expressions – A Word From Your Doctor – Also a Fishing Term – A Thing for Feats – We Crack Ourselves Up

Davey found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “A Date in History” under the $600 on the 3rd pick of the round. He was in the lead with $800. Everyone else was in the red. Davey bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.

In the summer of 1989 this not-yet-famous couple went on a movie day in Chicago & saw a Spike Lee film show

WHO ARE THE OBAMAS?

Davey finished in the lead with $4,000. Rachel was second with $3,800 and Steve was last with $2,400. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: Canals – “I” + 4 – Too Much of Something – Tick Tock – Face Books – Insta-Graham

Steve found the first Daily Double in “Tick Tock” under the $1,600 clue on the 6th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $5,600, $1,800 more than Rachel in second place. Steve bet $1,500 and he was RIGHT.

A victim of sexist obscurity, this kind of timepiece stands between 5 and 6’ tall, like one appraised on “Antiques Roadshow” in 2012 show

WHAT IS A GRANDMOTHER CLOCK?

Steve found the last Daily Double in “Too Much of Something” under the $2,000 clue on the 18th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $10,300, $2,900 more than Rachel in second place. Steve bet $2,000 but drew a blank so he was WRONG.

To us this Greek word means excessive pride; to Aristotle, it meant shaming others for one’s own pleasure (perhaps out of pride) show

WHAT IS HUBRIS?

Rachel finished in the lead with $11,800. Steve was second with $11,500 and Davey was last with $6,400. All clues were shown.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT ARE PTERODACTYLS?

According to the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s blog, Cosimo Collini, Italian historian, was supervising the Naturalienkabinett (Natural History Cabinet) at Mannheim in Germany. Collini studied and drew a sketch of the first-known pterosaur specimen that was sent to Mannheim sometime between 1767 and 1784. Collini thought it was most likely a marine creature.

In 1800, the specimen came to the attention of French paleontologist Georges Cuvier who believed the long fourth finger was used to support a wing membrane. Cuvier identified the specimen as an extinct flying reptile and named it “Ptero-Dactyle” (Greek: “wing finger”). That was later latinized to Pterodactylus by German naturalist Lorenz Oken.

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Davey came up with giant sloths. He lost $5,401 and finished with $999.

Steve went with saber-toothed tigers. That cost him a mere $1,400 and left him with $10,100.

Rachel got it right. She bet $11,797 and won the game with $23,597. Rachel is the new Jeopardy! champ. We will see her again when Season 41 begins on Monday the 9th of September.

A triple stumper from each round. (Please don’t put the answers in the comments)

A WORD FROM YOUR DOCTOR ($1000) I need to examine your ear–hold on while I grab this doohickey with a handle & a light that lets me look inside

CANALS ($1600) When the Elbe Lateral Canal opened in 1977, it allowed ships traveling to this port to avoid passing through East Germany

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “INAUGURAL BALLS”

At the 1993 Tennessee Inaugural Ball, Paul Simon performed this song, his most recent Top 40 hit show

WHAT IS “YOU CAN CALL ME AL”?

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