Final Jeopardy: Constitutional Monarchies (7-9-14)
The Final Jeopardy question (7/14/2014), in the category “Constitutional Monarchies” was:
The constitution of this country allows the monarch to abdicate, which has happened in 1948, 1980 and 2013.
New champ Campbell Warner won $22,000 in yesterday’s game and became the sole champ, even though his closest competitor could have bet to be co-champ. Today he takes on these two players: Nick Lasik, from Portland, OR; and Sara Tess Neumann, from Quincy, MA.
Round 1: Campbell found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Measuring Devices” under the $1,000 clue. He was in the lead with $4,400, $800 ahead of Nick in second place. He bet $1,000 and guessed transparency. That was WRONG.
An ebullioscope is used to determine this in liquids. show
Campbell finished in the lead with $6,200. Nick was second with $5,200 and Sara Tess was last with $1,400.
Round 2: Campbell found the first Daily Double in “‘Y’: Me” under the $1,600 clue. He was in the lead with $10,200, $1,800 more than Nick in second place. He bet $2,200 and he was RIGHT.
I was a humble 19th century Japanese organ maker yet today my name is on guitars, MP3 players & motorcycles. show
Nick found the last Daily Double in “Synonyms” under the $1,600 clue. In second place with $9,600, he had half of Campbell’s lead and there were only 3 clues left after this. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
“Apex” is from the Latin; this 4-letter synonym is from the Greek for “point.” show
Campbell finished in the lead with $19,200. Nick was next with $11,600 and Sara was in third place with $2,600.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS THE NETHERLANDS?
“Unlike in the UK, where Queen Elizabeth has religious titles and will hold her role until she is no longer able, the Dutch monarch is more or less a government job – only hereditary. As head of state, the Dutch king or queen falls under the influence of the prime minister and there is nothing to stop them abdicating as Beatrix [2013], her mother Queen Juliana [1980], and her mother Queen Wilhelmina [1948] did before. ” (UK Telegraph: Dutch Abdication).
The Dutch Royal House website has a bunch of information about abdication and investiture, as well as details on the current members of the Royal House of Orange and Dutch palaces.
Sara thought it was Monaco. She lost $2,500 and finished with $100.
Nick came up with Japan. He bet and lost it all.
Campbell decided on Bahrain. He only bet $4,000 so he won the match with the $15,200 he had left. His 2-day total is $37,200.
All of the monarchies in the answers changed hands through death, not abdication.
By the way, anyone who looked at our 21st Century Monarchy Changes post, may have remembered that there were only 3 monarchies that changed hands through abdication in 2013 — Belgium, The Netherlands and Qatar.
We’ll have some of the Nursery Rhyme Cat clues that were triple stumpers in the comments. Maybe you will agree that one of them is actually a poem and not a nursery rhyme.
2 years ago:: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Inaugural Addresses”
He said, “It is 72 years since the first inauguration of a president under our national Constitution”. show
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The clue “An ebullioscope is used to determine this in liquids. WHAT IS THE BOILING POINT?” is inaccurate. It is only used by winemakers to determine “the amount of alcohol in wine”. It is determined by boiling point but it would not be used for anything other than alcohol determination.
Campbell was on J Board. Wish he would grace us with his presence here.
I want Carolyn Collins.
Tough to remember that it’s only a game.
SIDENOTE for Bill: saw Upstream Color last night. Crazy. Still thinking. Same guy as Primer. You must see!!
Duly noted.
the second day in a row that campbell played for a tie (yesterday he had really no other choice). we shall see if he does it again tomorrow, provided he finishes first after dj.
He could play for a tie from second.
yeah, if A (campbell) lets B tie, B might return the favor when the positions are reversed…
commented on that below as well. j’s piggy bank might get a tiny bloodletting if we have the same 2 players tie for a week or more. i don’t think that ever happened. i wonder if vj knows , what the highest number is on consecutive ties?
I don’t know — on a quick search, last co-champs I found was on January 30 this year AChu and Carolyn Collins (I almost typed Julia) — and it says in that post that the last one before that was on July 3, 2013 (Ben Ingram and Hunter Sandison)
thanks, boy, you are really fast vj! i myself can’t actually remember two or even more consecutive ties of the SAME 2 players.
I would seriously doubt that there were two ties in a row. Of course, I would doubt that a pitcher would throw two consecutive no-hitters, but one did. Anyone know? Sport Team might know (probably on the Burn’s piece).
Carolyn Collins was hot. So, AChu must have thought that she was a weaker player, or there would be some explaining to do at home.
@eric s
vander meer, cincinnati reds.
june 11 and june 15, 1938.
Very nice. If you didn’t have to look it up.
For the record, Sport Team nailed it too.
I have to wonder about Nick’s second DD bet. It seems, with only three clues left (unless he absolutely owned the remaining category/clues), that he would’ve been crippled if he had missed. I would rather go life/death than be crippled. Thus, he should have gone Roger Craig on it.
Further, there was no change in their scoring after that DD. Definitely a Roger Craig moment.
unfortunately it would not have mattered, since he got fj wrong. had he been correct:
co-champion. as i said earlier, campbell seems to play for ties (no choice yesterday) and let the second place have a piece of the pie. if he finishes again on top tomorrow, we shall see if campbell goes for a tie (or “allows” one) again.
Of course it would have mattered! They would have been tied going into FJ. Anything may have happened then.
i was talking about “did not matter” because nick got fj wrong. but you are right of course. if they go into fj tied, neither one
would bet a penny and be practically co-champs before fj is even played.
speaking of pie, that’s what I was yelling at the screen for one of those nursery rhyme cats. 🙂
but here is the REAL challenge: WHAT TYPE OF PIE WOULD IT HAVE BEEN????
apple pie, cherry pie….???? :-):-)
the nursery rhyme doesn’t tell that
Meow, meow, meow.
Then you shall have no pie.
No question about it, I agree, but going that big flies in the face of most people’s natural instinct. Alas, in this case if I had been the one in Nick’s shoes I’d have been stumped on “acme”. Just call me “Wile E.”
😀
That Final was no instaget for the contestants or myself. I still had vj’s recent link in mind and guessed Belgium rather than Holland.
Double “Wile E.”
😉
Weird. Please see comment above.
the years were the REAL and ONLY giveaway. spain also allows the king to abdicate, just happened not too long ago. edward VIII of the u.k. abdicated 1936, so he could marry wally simpson. i am pretty sure most monarchies in europe (denmark,sweden,norway etc) have provisions for the monarch to abdicate.you can’t force somebody to stay king/queen if s/he does absolutely not want to be the reigning monarch anymore. if charles survives his mother, he could also renounce the throne in favor of prince william. charles would be de jure king though, from the moment elizabeth abdicates or dies until charles himself “abdicates”. he might be king for a few hours, days,weeks before he abdicates and at that moment william would become king at the very instant charles abdicates or renounces the title. but as long as elizabeth is on the throne it’s all a moot point. personally i just can’t see charles as king. he is a product of the 20th century,not to mention that the vast majority of the british would rather see william as king, if given a choice (which they don’t have}
@john, here is a fact we recently came across that we can add to our monarchy trivia:
Abdullah I of Jordan was assassinated on July 20, 1951 — the same day that the last Crown Prince of Prussia and the German Empire, Wilhelm, died of heart attack. They were both 69 years old — born in the same year 1882 (Abdullah in Feb. and Wilhelm in May)
Almost all the clues in the Nursery Rhyme Cats category were triple stumpers. The first one was about Edward Lear’s Owl and Pussycat, which as far as I know, is considered a poem, and the same is true about the $2000 clue – that is a Eugene Field poem called “The Duel” (audio – as a song)
($800) “Little Robin” this “sat upon a tree, up went pussycat and down went he”
($1200) for losing their mittens, the 3 little kittens “began to cry” & were denied this dessert by their mother.
($1600) With a crooked one of these coins, the crooked man “bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse”
($2,000) “The gingham dog and” this feline “side by side on the table sat.” (Nick incorrectly said the Cheshire Cat).
Campbell was looking for his second tie in a row: nice guy or lack of respect? Maybe someone clairvoyant told him that he wouldn’t tie.
Tough day for the Orange.
Probably a nice guy. They all meet in the green room and become somewhat friendly, I suppose. Everyone else will get their shot later, too (although it might be the next day/week).
what do you mean with “lack of respect”?
i’d like to think of him as a nice guy, and yesterday he really had no choice. going for a tie yesterday and staying put was the ONLY way to guarantee the win for him, alone or as co-champ, except that maire did not take advantage of an obvious opportunity. let’s see what happens tomorrow ,should he finish in the lead again and it’s not a runaway. if campbell stays around for a while and finishes first, j might have to shell out twice as much money..?
If I’m playing and I think that another player is a weaker player, I may give them the chance to play again (e.g. tie) because I would think that my chances of beating them were better than random. Thus, my beliefs would show a lack of respect for their playing skills. I believe AChu used this tactic.
gotcha. so shoot for a weaker opponent, AND you know him already. but s/he knows you as well. would be fun though to have the same co-champs for a week, day after day, A letting B tie and B returns the favor when in the lead after dj and A is second….
one time is too early to tell, since he had no choice yesterday. but if he finishes in the lead again tomorrow and plays for a tie again, then it might be a combination of “nice guy” and “know your enemy”..???
The devil you know beats the devil you don’t know. I’m sure in his case, he’s a nice guy, but I think AChu did it for the other reason.
@John, Maire has probably been walking around since she watched the match yesterday mumbling “Just think I coulda been a contender.” 🙂
I wonder if she stuck around to watch the next game. My guess would be: no.
Nick was a strong player though, eric. At the very end, the clues that were left were the $2K in the category his DD was in and he got that one. Then the last 2 clues in nursery rhyme cats were left. No one answered the $1600 one and Nick would have had $13,600 if he left that last clue alone.
Sounds like Nick felt like he had to play catch-up. So, he could’ve tied for the lead, then taken it outright going into a weak (for both guys) category. Sounds, to me, like he might have gone into FJ with the lead.
if he had capitalized on his DD, I guess, but you could say the same thing about Campbell — he bet low and got an easy DD too.
That seemed weak to me as well: not usually the sign of a weeklong champion.
yes, boo hoo. My hopes for Campbell may be dashed.
Hey, I think that today was the first time we had two guys v. 1 lady playing for 2 days in a long time, (the BOTD finals was 3 guys 2 days in a row of course)
VJ, I agree that Nick was a strong player. I saw some concern on Campbell’s face whenever Nick pulled ahead at points in the game. Campbell did not have the expression of confidence he demonstrated yesterday on the show. Since Sara was the weakest link she was not his concern. The final scores do not reflect the true pace of the battle between Nick and Campbell.
well, somebody has to win. tough being in the semis and lose by PKs.but at least it’s not going to be a german-netherlands final. i am not particulary fond of either team because of their brutality (holland) and arrogance (germany).
may sound strange, since i am from europe,but i hope argentina wins it all. today was especially sweet for them, it’s their national holiday/independence day.(1816, united provinces of south america, which later split into several countries, like argentina,peru,bolivia, uruguay….)
It sure was a tough day for Netherlands. I watched the entire game. It lasted over 2 hours and I was cheering for the Orangemen. Tough to watch them go down the way they did. Then none of the Jeopardy contestants named their country as the correct response. What does a man (uh…country) have to do to get respect?
They have nothing to be ashamed of. The finals last time and now the semis: very nice.
kind of jinxed though. they were 3 times in the world cup finals: 1974 v germany 1:2 in munich, the very next in 1978 1:3 v argentina in buenos aires and 2010 0:1 in johannesburg, in extra time as well v spain, iniesta scoring 4 minutes before the end of extra time. so twice they lost against the host country, 2 extra time finals. if that’s not jinxed, i don’t know. in 1978 rensenbrink had his shot hit the crossbar in injury time, seconds before the end of regulation, after just having equalized argentina’s 1:0 lead 8 minutes before the end of regulation.
the current trainer is very good.van Gaal will be manager of manchester united starting in a few weeks. united did not qualify for any europe tournament and had a dismal season. but sir alex ferguson left very big shoes to fill.they finished 7th in the table and did not reach either the league cup final or fa cup final.
so we will see how good that trainer really is.ferguson was manager with m.u. from 1986 to incl. 2013 and has won everything there was to win.should be an exiting season in england.