Final Jeopardy: 1930s America (8-5-21)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 8/5/2021 Jeopardy! game:
ETYMOLOGY ($800) This word is an abbreviation of “stammlager”, meaning main camp
LET’S TAKE IT OUTSIDE ($1000) This mountaineering apparel company began in 1966 in San Francisco’s North Beach
EXTINCT ANIMALS ($1200) With feathers once favored in women’s hats, the Carolina variety of this bird was widespread in the eastern U.S. until around 1920 (image)
NAME THE MOVIE KING ($800) First Knight
Sneak Peek clues — COOKING VERBS
($200) Similar to mince, it means to chop food into small cubes
($400) Culinary words for adding a last bit of color or flavor (mmm…parsley) include finish & this -ish verb
($600) To pane a food is to coat it in these
($800) To soak meat for several hours in a mix of oil, acid & flavorings– in the fridge, never at room temp
($1000) To cook or stew gently just below the boiling point
ANSWERS: show
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Wow! Matt is just stunning! He’s almost to $400,000. Can he make it? We’ll find out tomorrow,
P.S. I’m glad he got back his $4,000 after losing it on the 2nd Daily Double in the game.
Tomorrow Matt goes for his 13th.
Friday the 13th? (I hope I’m not jinxing him)
I worked on three-hour documentary by Dr. Andrew D. Kaplan (shown on some US public TV stations) called “In Search Of Walt Whitman.” I was historical consultant, film advisor, and script editor on the docu about the 19th century newspaper journalist and noted poet (1819-1892). But I am sure I would have known What is New York? multi decades before that. Now if it had been in a dreaded sports category I probably would have been beyond clueless (though I did get the What are When and Where? from the Who’s On First? baseball comedy routine by chance).
Go Matt go!
Ashley kept it close for a while. I was thinking we might have another librarian (like Emma B) taking down a long-running champion. Matt didn’t have his ‘A game’ today, but it was more than enough.
@DC, I mentioned the librarian possibility to Nikki this morning but she predicted Matt would win the game based upon the Roscoe factor.
Roscoe the cat starting watching Jeopardy for the first time when Matt came on. The only day he didn’t watch it was yesterday so she thought Matt was going to lose, but he did lose that big FJ bet so Roscoe got the blame for that. lol
Ha. Ha. That’s a good story. A little like rock, paper, scissors. Just need a 3rd thing. So far we have cat scratches librarian or something.
I remember when Nikki was filling in she had one cat that posed perfectly during her video tribute to you and she remarked that she had at least one other cat that would never have cooperated so patiently.
Hope you’re feeling better btw.
Thanks DC, yeah, Boris was the cat posing in the video.
That second daily double was a bit of a challenge. Even I thought of Massachusetts as well since Whitman had a bridge named after him in Pennsylvania. That’s how it goes. I guess Matt just seems to like to take on the bottom row clues instead of the top row. Congrats to him on game 12!
Hoover dam was also my response. but Was ashley thinking of the washington Monument? If so she must have not read the clue and just made a bad guess.
I think JP brought up something I’ve also noticed in this year’s Jeopardy clues. As I see it, the $2,000 clues are frequently easier than the $1600 (or sometimes even $1200) clues. I believe this trend started this season or possibly late last season. Is it just me or have others thought this? Congrats to Matt. His scope of knowledge is huge.
I think it would be hard to say for sure. Every game, there would be 12 opportunities for thinking “the bottom row clue was easier than a clue or two above it”. People’s knowledge can be very oddly distributed (if you have a favorite actor, or favorite author, or favorite genre of literature), so there’s bound to be bottom row clues that a person knows, while not know the clues above it, so it wouldn’t be surprising for that to maybe happen a couple times a game, even if they clues did get objectively harder going down, as could be measured by audience polls for example.
I think today’s fj responses were cases of quickly write down whatever comes to mind. Clearly “Washington” was a misread of the clue and “Mount Rushmore” was throw whatever sticks & hope it’s correct. Fortunately Matt realized in time that Mr. Rushmore had died by the time 1935 rolled around and was in no position to be invited to anything let alone be disliked. Quick thinking on Matt’s part and it paid off. Congratulations Matt. What a champion!
Mt. Rushmore was my knee-jerk response, but “Hoover Dam” came pretty quickly after a few seconds of pondering.
JP, funny. The same thing happened to me this morning. I went the Mount Rushmore route too before landing at the Hoover Dam.
I went with Rushmore and didn’t give it a 2nd thought. But I just looked it up, and Charles Rushmore died in 1931.
Now, Matt Amodio is tied with Austin Rogers & Seth Wilson for most games won on “Jeopardy!”, with 12 wins, but in terms of money, Matt is closer to Austin than to Seth, despite having past Seth’s total winnings $265,002 in Matt’s 7th game.
That second daily double was difficult for a third row clue, I thought. I would have guessed Massachusetts as well, not having any idea where Whitman was from, other than probably the Northeastern United States.
But that’s the way it goes. I thought the $2,000 clue was far easier.
Yeah, when Matt hesitated on that one, I just knew he was going to say Massachusetts. Most of the famous 19th century poets come from that state. lol
Interesting lol
On a poetry sidenote, Edgar Allan Poe lived in the Old Fordham section of the Bronx, New York for a year or so when his wife, Virginia, was terminally ill. It’s where she died.
Did you know the Youth Poet Laureate triple stumper?
Nope, JP, I’ve read some news about her and also knew she read one of her poems at Biden’s inauguration but I couldn’t recall her name.
Poets and poetry of the 19th century is what I always had the greatest Interest in. My knowledge of other centuries is shallow by comparison.
Yes, Poe Cottage, and the park that’s built around it is Poe Park. It’s quite the Bronx landmark and I didn’t live too far from there when I was growing up. My mom took me inside when I was little and it gave me the creeps, I still remember the big bronze raven statue but just have a vague memory of the rest of it.
Wow! What a great game today by the players! I was hoping James would win but I didn’t mind if Matt took over though!