Final Jeopardy: Religious Words (8-24-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (8/24/2020) in the category “Religious Words” was:

This word for a concept in Eastern religions comes from Latin roots for “made in flesh” & “again”

Today’s show is a rerun of the first semi-final of the 2020 College Championship that originally aired on 4/13/2020. The players are: Tyler Combs, Kayla Kalhor and Beni Keown.

Click here for the original recap of this game.

Here are the triple stumpers from the first semi-final game of the 2014 College Championship, if you want to compare games.

COLLEGE TOWNS ($800) A shortened version of the name of trapper Etienne Provost is on a college town in this Western state

THE OLD TESTAMENT ($600) This son of Jacob goes to prison when a woman falsely accuses him; you can see what really happened (image)

($1000) Esther 4:3 reports that “there was great mourning among the Jews… and many lay in sackcloth and” these

NON-NAUGHTY WORDS ($400) Oh, this! Rising 770 feet on the Feather River, Oroville is the highest one in the United States

OLYMPIC GOLD ($800) Men’s figure skating, 2010

($1000) Men’s 100-meter dash, 1984, 1988; men’s long jump, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996

“U.S.”, EH ($400) The 2012 film in this franchise has Dolph Lundgren, Jean-Claude Van Damme & an army of genetically enhanced warriors

THOMAS, WRITE? ($400) The success of “Far From the Madding Crowd” enabled him to give up architecture for writing

($800) Climb up “The Magic Mountain”, a novel by this German

WEATHER VERBS ($1200) To sing lead for a rock band

TALK NERDY TO ME ($2000) “Your world. Your imagination” is a tagline for this build-it-yourself online game

KIWI FAUNA ($1600) The yellow-eyed penguin doesn’t form these breeding groups like other penguins but builds solo nests

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY ($800) Honored with a monument, the 500 black soldiers at Valley Forge included the U.S. military’s first African-American unit of free men, the regiment known as the First of this Ocean State

($1600) In 1976 Clarence Norris, the last member of these “Boys”, was pardoned in Alabama for a 1931 rape conviction