Final Jeopardy: Famous Buildings (9-14-20)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (9/14/2020) in the category “Famous Buildings” was:
This Rome building with a name from the Greek was described by Michelangelo as coming from “angelic and not human design”
Hallelujah! The long wait is over and we are watching the first episode of Season 37 of Jeopardy! We are kicking off the season with 3 new contestants: Cory Barger, an orchestra musician from Riverside, CA; Jeff Rich, an astronomer from Glendale, CA; and Franki Butler, a TV writer from Los Angeles, CA.
Due to current travel restrictions, Jeopardy! is currently scheduling local contestants and that means 4x champ Zach Newkirk from Virginia will be returning at a future date. Alex said “in a few weeks.”
Round 1 Categories: Opening Statements – Discovery – Approach the Bench – Cross Examination – Side Bar – Sentencing
Cory found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Cross Examination” under the $600 clue, with 10 clues left after it. She was in second place with $2,000, $1,400 less than Jeff’s lead. She bet $1,500 and she was RIGHT.
Also known as St. Andrew’s Cross, the crux decussata can represent the Roman numeral of this number show
Jeff finished in the lead with $4,800. Cory was second with $3,900 and Franki was last with $2,400. Two $200 clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: President & Accounted for – 1 Word, 2 Meanings – Italian Opera – Role With the Changes – This American City – Good “P.R.”
Jeff found the first Daily Double in “1 Word, 2 Meanings” under the $1,600 clue on the 5th pick. He was in the lead with $7,200 now, $2,900 more than Cory in second place. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
It’s a large waterfall or an eye abnormality. show
Jeff landed on the last Daily Double in “This American City” under the $2,000 clue on the 17th pick. In the lead with $17,600, he had $11,300 more than Cory in second place. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
Part of what locals call the metroplex, this Texas city was founded as an army post in 1849. show
Jeff finished in the lead with $21,600. Cory was next with $12,300 and Franki was in third place with $11,600.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS THE PANTHEON?
The Pantheon was originally built as a temple dedicated to the gods. To name it, the Romans borrowed from their neighbors: the Greek root “pan”, meaning “all” which appears in many words (including one we are all dealing with now!); and the Greek root “theo” meaning “god”.
In “A Journey into Michelangelo’s Rome”, Angela Nickerson says that Michelangelo was so inspired by the Pantheon, it was one of the sources he drew on when designing St. Peter’s dome: “Michelangelo…attributed its power to disegno angelico e non umano (angelic and not human design). Also, see 10 Jaw Dropping Facts about the Pantheon in Rome, which includes other famous structures it inspired.
Franki wrote down “St. Peter’s Basilica”. It looked like she drew a squiggly line through the whole thing. She lost her $11,550 bet and finished with $50.
Cory got it right. She added $11,500 to her score and finished with $23,800.
Jeff wrote down “the Forum.” He lost $8,400 and landed in second place with $13,200. That made Cory Barger the Jeopardy! champ.
2 triple stumpers from CROSS EXAMINATION:
($400) T-shaped cross also call St. Anthony’s Cross bears the name of this Greek letter
($800) A cross with a ring super-imposed is also called this alliterative cross
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “The Southern Hemisphere”
To set a record for longest solo journey by kayak, 2,010 miles, Helen Skelton traveled through this nation for a month show
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I really like the Season 37 banner, VJ—very cool!
Thanks, Cece! 😁 I liked the green touches when they came up so I left it that way
It’s great to see you again after so many months VJ. And congrats to Cory on her win. Although the forum I believe wasn’t a bad guess, the wager from Franki was costly and I thought she should have stayed at the amount she retained. If only Jeff went for the.other response he would have won, don’t you agree?
Hi Lou,, I’m sure he knows the timid DD bets are what really did him in. He could have had a runaway!
No channeling Jeopardy James. I guess.
Jeff was the best of 3 very competent players. Even with the meager DD bets (he obviously didn’t want to give up too much of his lead), he had a runaway going until late in the game, when he gave two bonehead responses (“Full House” and “Handel”). He lost a little, the opponents cashed in, then they nailed the last couple questions and prevented the lock game. FJ was gettable but not a gimme.
Howard, from where I’m sitting Jeff absolutely needed bigger DD bets to keep his lead. The way it went down involved the last 4 clues in DJ.
1. Jeff buzzed in on that $400 Becky clue with $23,600. He went down to $23,200 and Franki went up to $11,600 so he lost his lock right there.
2. Cory got the $1200 Opera clue, bringing her up to $8700.
3. Jeff lost $1600 on the Orlando Furioso clue, dropping him down to $21,600. Cory went up $10,300 with the right answer.
4. Cory got the last $2K clue and she had $12,300.
If he didn’t ring in on those two clues, the final scores would have been $23,600, $12,300 and $11,600.
As for FJ, I thought it was a piece of cake, probably because I was reading about the painter Raphael recently when he was the answer in my “Who Am I” game. So I guess the Pantheon, where he is buried, was in an accessible part of my brain to latch on to when I saw “Greek”