Final Jeopardy: Historic Businessmen (8-2-21)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 8/2/2021 Jeopardy! game:
FROM TV TO FILM ($800) In 2 film versions of a TV sitcom, Shelley Long played this character
HODGEPODGE ($200) Irony alert: owners of a Noah’s Ark replica in Kentucky sued insurers for not covering damage done by this 4-letter word
($1000) Looking like they’re sent from heaven, a translucent sea this can stay attached to a mate for four hours & still hunt prey together
AMERICAN RIVERS ($1200) This word comes before “Bow” in a Wyoming river & before “Lodge” in a Kansas River
($1600) Before emptying into the Gulf of Mexico, the Pearl River flows through this capital
Sneak Peek clues — THE STATE I REP IN THE SENATE:
($200) Cory Booker
($400) Marco Rubio
($600) Mitt Romney, but it’s not the state he governed
($800) Ben Sasse, of the western Midwest
($1000) Tim Kaine, who ran for vice president; remember that?
ANSWERS: show
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Matt is an interesting player. I have answered triple stumpers, including today’s Final, during Matt’s tenure, but Matt has given answers I have never heard of in my life such as “katydid”. Jeopardy is truly a great and humbling game.
Well, I know none of them have seen the Western series,“The Virginian”. It was set near the town named after the Wyoming river.
Regarding the final question, I thought that it might have been (Karl) Benz, but that was wrong also. In any case, this was another tough finale.
Whoops! He arrived in the United States in 1784, and not in 1884. Looks like I misread the answer!
Karl Benz is toooooo obscure.
Man, I can’t believe Matt lost $15,000! Still, he has won $310,400 in 9 games and passes Arthur Chu’s 11 game winnings of $297,200. Make it 10 tomorrow Matt!
Go Matt go!
9 down, 9 to go to run the table on the regular games for Season 37.
He executes a game strategy similar to James H. that moves horizontally rather than vertically, and beginning with high value clues.
I think this strategy is particularly effective because it doesn’t allow fellow contestants to become comfortable with a category (horizontal movement) and he jumps out to a quick lead with shock and awe (high value clues).
We start the week off with another triple stumper.
If anyone would like to catch David Faber talk about his experience as guest host on Jeopardy watch him on CNBC at 9 a.m. or record the show. You can also listen to the show on satellite radio which is what I normally have to do since I may be on the road during that time. He’s a true professional and knows business inside and out. Jeopardy hasn’t come on in my area yet. Not until 7 p.m. eastern time so I don’t know how he performed.
Shocked at the contestant from New York missing fj unless she moved there in adulthood and didn’t attend school in New York. I’m from New York and we learned about the Astor family from elementary school through high school. Maybe she’ll drop by FF and let us know. A big congratulations Matt.
I know that is just shocking. I mean think about it. That titanic hint should have lead her to JJ astor since I remember there was a daily double on it previously. I learned about the Astor family as well in elementary school. But still Bayer? That is a german phramaceutical company making aspercreme. There is Astor Place on the New york subway line. in the city. As a life long visitor to New york city and to Astoria, this was not that tough of a final.
A big congratulations to matt on getting 300K today! I think Matt could be our next super champ.
Lou, you are confused.
1) There’s nothing in the clue about the Titanic.
2) The Astor who died in the Titanic is not the same Astor as the one in today’s fj clue. Two different people.
3) Bayer, which is headquartered in Germany, has nothing to do with Asperecreme. Perhaps you were thinking about Bayer aspirin.
Yes, the Titanic sank in 1912. If the John Jacob Astor in the clue was on the Titanic, he would have been 149 years old. lol