Final Jeopardy: Comedy & Sports (7-30-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/30/2021) in the category “Comedy & Sports” was:
These are the 2 of a reporter’s 5 W’s that are not on the baseball team in Abbott & Costello’s “Who’s on First?”
7x champ Matt Amodio, a PhD student from New Haven, CT took a giant leap with his $74,000 win yesterday and has now won $268,800. In Game 8, he takes on these two players: Rachel McMullen, a Dean’s assistant from Denton, TX; and Andrew Kleinschmidt, a PhD student from La Jolla, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Celebrations of the Month – Olde Music – Books & Authors – Fowl Balls – Legal – “Tender”
Andrew found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Legal” under the $600 clue, with 11 clues left after it. He was in third place with $1,800, $4,200 less than Matt’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double, and guessed “brief”. That was WRONG.
Let’s get inventive & file one of these, the 3 types are utility, plant & design. show
Matt finished in the lead with $9,000. Rachel was second with $2,000 and Andrew was last with $800. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: American History – The CDC Says – 3 Consecutive Vowels – What’s in the Envelope? – Poetry in Motion Pictures – Countries that Start with “S”
Matt found the first Daily Double in “What’s in the Envelope?” under the $1,600 clue on the 8th pick. He was in first place with $16,200 now, $12,800 more than Andrew in second place. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
They’re seed packets from this Pennsylvania-based company whose name is the same as an exercise move: Time to get planting! show
Matt got the last Daily Double in “3 Consecutive Vowels” under the $1,200 clue, with 9 clues left after it. In the lead with $29,000, he had $22,400 more than Andrew in second place. He bet $4,000 and thought it was Ezekiel. That was WRONG.
He’s the Old Testament prophet most quoted in the New Testament. show
Matt finished in the lead with a runaway $27,400. Andrew was next with $9,000 and Rachel was in third place with $1,800. No clues went uncovered.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
https://youtu.be/2ve20PVNZ18
WHAT ARE “WHEN” & “WHERE”?
A reporter’s 5 W’s are Who, What, When Where, and Why. Only 3 of them are on the baseball team in Abbott and Costello’s classic “Who’s on First” skit. Who’s on first, What is on second and Why is playing center field. Baseball Reference.com has a complete list of the baseball team. They also have a history of the skit over there, noting that it was copyrighted by Abbott and Costello in 1944.
Also noteworthy: “A gold record of ‘Who’s on First?’ was added to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY in 1956 and a video of the piece plays continuously on screens in the Hall…” Jeopardy had a clue on that in a Halls of Fame category back in 1997.
Rachel came up with Where and Why. She lost her $1,700 bet and finished with $100.00.
Andrew thought they were looking for Who and What. That cost him $5,000 and left him with $4,000.
Matt also went with Where and Why. He lost his $5,000 bet but won the game with the remaining $22,400. His 8-day total is $291,200.
A triple stumper from each round:
FOWL BALLS ($1000) Long after Dominique Wilkins, this NBA team flew through a rough 2004-05 season, going 13-69
COUNTRIES THAT START WITH “S” ($1600) Your plane just touched down at Bandaranaike International Airport– welcome to this country!
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Historic Ships”
215 passengers were rescued when it sank in July 1918, about 500 fewer than it had rescued 6 years earlier show
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Regarding the category “FOWL BALLS”, I take issue with so many of the answers being about birds that are not fowls,–i.e. raptors such as falcons and eagles. Fowl birds are chickens, peafowl, guinea hens, and the like. Please confirm!
Thanks!
Sorry, Darleen, I am just recapping the game and I don’t have any affiliation with the show or any input into the categories or clues. (If I did, you wouldn’t see another Robert Frost clue for 10 years).
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That was a tough triple stumper. As for me, I couldn’t even hazard a guess.
You can make $300K on Monday, Matt!
This was super easy FJ despite it being the dreaded sports category (not the dreaded opera) category. As it was journalism-related it was an almost instant solve. I am really astounded it was not a TV JEOPARDY! triple-solve. Abbott & Costello’s “Who’s On First” is one of the most iconic famous brilliant comedy routines ever!
Alfred, I can’t imagine that Abbott and Costello routines are anywhere near as popular with the current generation of J! contestants as they were back in the old days, or that anyone planning on going on the show would watch any of their routines as part of their preparation.
That being said, back in 1999, when my daughter was 6, I put on the Abbott and Costello monster movies. That’s some funny stuff… you should have heard the belly laughs coming out of that child!
VJ, we heard Who’s On First during school sometime at the beginning of the year. We even did a play for it and our teachers substituted for some of the students. It was very fun and my brother and I practiced very well like very wonderful and responsible students! I think it was during the week where I didn’t really get to go to the writing group, but yeah! It was very fun!
Very cool, Darius!
Felt good to get a FJ that even the great Matt couldn’t answer. Pays to be old sometimes.
I have a photo on my computer of an Asian baseball player named Hu (on the back of his uniform) leading off first base.
Matt will face his 3rd guest host next week, which I Imagine no one else has ever done.
Go Matt go!
If he gets to 18 wins (10 more) he closes out Season 37 as an undefeated champion.
Yeah, DC! Even if he wins 19 games that will still happen!
We end the week with a triple stumper as today’s FJ was tough.
Well no triple solve this week but we finish the week with a clean sweep by Matt and a few dismissals. Congrats to matt on winning 8 games. Even if he missed only two final jeopardy categories i think he might get to 400k as long as he doesn’t falter next week.
Prediction: Matt loses after 13 victories.
My prediction: Matt loses after 19 victories to tie with David Madden and Jason Zuffranieri,
Great game by Matt today.
Once again we ended the week with a triple stumper but congrats to Matt on his 8th win. We are only 2 weeks away until the season finale.
There have been too many weeks this season where we almost make it through this week without a Triple Stumper, and the Friday Triple Stumper comes along and ruins everything. Still, congrats to Matt on winning 8 games & almost making it to $300,000.
That’s right. The curse of Friday could happen again.
And it could still be a triple stumper too.
Why in the world does a “triple stumper” ruin everything??? That’s part of the game.
@Brian, it really doesn’t ruin everything but it seems that if there are two triple stumpers in FJ on the same day of the week for 2 weeks in a row, suddenly that day is “cursed”.
Actually, in July, out of 5 Fridays, 2 FJ’s had one right answer and 3 were triple stumpers.
That was a curse! I don’t like it when there are weeks like that. Nor weeks that everyday is a triple stumper in FJ! 00000, for you, there is nothing to blame.
I have no desire to argue the point, Darius. I just don’t agree with that opinion. In my opinion, perfect games are hard to come by and some of the expectations around here need a serious adjustment.
Mine too VJ. You’re not the only one.