Final Jeopardy: Famous Buildings (9-14-20)
Here are 3 more triple stumpers from the 9/14/2020 Jeopardy! game:
DISCOVERY ($60))In this year James Marshall discovered gold from the American River in California; the next year the rush was on
APPROACH THE BENCH ($400) Soviet coach Viktor Tikhonov’s benching of goalie Vladislav Tretiak helped Team USA get miraculous at the 1980 Olympics in this village
SENTENCING ($800) This is the subject at hand; this type of “sentence” tells the main idea of a paragraph
The players got all the clues in ROLE WITH THE CHANGES:
($400) Lecy Goranson was Becky Conner No. 1 on this ’90s sitcom; Sarah Chalke was second Becky
($800) Don Cheadle suited up for duty as Rhodey when Terrence Howard existed this film series
($1200) Dick York’s role of Darrin magically transformed into Dick Sargent’s role of Darrin on this sitcom
($1600) Changes for Season 3 of “The Crown” included Vanessa Kirby out & her in as Princess Margaret
($2000) In “Roots” LeVar Burton played the younger version of this character; John Amos played the adult
ANSWERS: show
Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — OPENING STATEMENTS:
($200) This girl “lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry…”
($400) “Moby-Dick” begins with this 3-word sentence
($600) She started a novel, “Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich…”
($800) “Happy families are all alike”, begins his “Anna Karenina”
($1000) This Poe story begins, “True!–nervous–very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am”
ANSWERS: 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”