Final Jeopardy: Animal Characters (9-18-18)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (9/18/2018) in the category “Animal Characters” was:
Items bought by this predator: iron bird seed, an iron carrot, earthquake pills & dehydrated boulders
4x champ Kyle Jones, a music teacher from Aurora, CO, broke the leader curse yesterday and has now won $83,601. He’ll try to keep it rolling today when he takes on these two players: Emily Brown, a pastor from Hastings-on-Hudson, NY; and Raymond Quianzon, a tax attorney from Washington, D.C.
Round 1 Categories: First Ladies – One-Syllable Cities – Qrossword Qlues “Q” – PSA Mascots – What’s That on Your Shelf? – Filmmakers From Mexico
Emily found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “One-Syllable Cities” under the $800 clue on the 4th pick of the round. She was in a tie for the lead with Kyle. They both had $600 and Raymond had not buzzed in yet. She bet the $1,000 allowance and she was RIGHT.
Hanseong & Gyeongseong are former names of this world capital. show
Kyle finished in the lead with $6,200. Emily was second with $4,800 and Raymond was last with $3,400.
Round 2 Categories: Not Your Everyday Words – I Got Your Book – Neon – The Letters of the Law – Tomb Raider – ’90s Songs for Olympic Skaters
Kyle found the first Daily Double in “Letters of the Law” under the $800 clue on the second pick. He had $6,600 after answering the first clue. Everyone else had the same as above. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
1973 pro-animal legislation. show
Emily found the last Daily Double in “Tomb Raider” under the $1,200 clue on the 18th pick. In second place with $11,200, she had $1,400 less than Kyle’s lead. She bet $4,000 and took a shot on this awful clue with the tomb of Alexander the Great. That was WRONG.
16th century knights tried to plunder this tomb in Halicarnassus, but it had already been looted. show
Kyle finished in the lead with $15,800. Emily was next with $12,000 and Raymond was in third place with $4,200.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
(the spelling Wiley Coyote was accepted)
Everyone knows that Wile E. Coyote’s go-to source for all the items named in the clue (and many more) is the Acme company, in his never-ending pursuit of the Roadrunner and, on occasion, Bugs Bunny. Wile E Coyote is probably Acme’s best customer, despite continual injuries sustained when he fails to read or follow directions like getting out of the way when rehydrating boulders. Check out the Illustrated Catalog of Acme Products to see all the products Wile E. Coyote bought and which cartoon he used them in.
Here are 2 old “Before & After” clues that mentioned Wile E.
$800) Path used by Dorothy to reach Oz & Wile E. Coyote’s nemesis
($200) Kerouac classic that’s Wile E. Coyote’s nemesis
Raymond bet $399. He finished with $4,599.
Emily bet $3,599 bet, bringing her up to $15,599.
Kyle bet $8,201 and won the match with $24,001. His 5-day total is $107,602.
A triple stumper from each round:
I GOT YOUR BOOK ($800) Completes the title of David Lagercrantz’ book that continued Stieg Larsson’s series, “The Girl in…”
THE LETTERS OF THE LAW ($2000) 1919 killjoy law enforcing prohibition: VA
2 years ago: Only ONE out of two players left in FJ got this clue in “Pop Culture Characters”
In 2015 this character was made an honorary citizen of Japan after over 60 years of residence there. show
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@JJ Congratulations for your right prediction. I was at least somewhat right in saying Kyle will get it, but I did not figure all 3. Looks that cartoons leave more of an impression than what teachers are trying to get into your brain in terms of math, English, geography,history,literature etc…………..
Congrats to Kyle and the other players as well of course.
Now, what’s with the CotD??? 20 posts but only FOUR people posted and only THREE predictions??? Where is everybody??? Consider yourselves yellow carded.
It’s pretty simple, John. Some people like to make public predictions, some prefer to make private predictions and some don’t want to predict at all.
Coincidence: I just watched Beat Shazam and they had 2 of the songs that were in today’s 90’s songs — one by EMF and the other by the Goo Goo Dolls
Yep, that terrible DD clue in TOMB RAIDER cost her the game, eventually making Kyle a 5-time champion with over $100,000. Has anyone watched the Looney Tunes and the Merrie Melodies cartoons?
That’s all I can say, and in the words of Mel Blanc, “Th-th-th-tha-tha-tha-that’s all, folks!”
it sucks that terrible DD Clue is what cost Emily the game.
So what exactly is the difference between a tomb and a mausoleum ?????? Style, size, importance of who is in there????
Congratulations to the contestants on getting final jeopardy right once again. Now VJ, you have kids that watched wile E Coyote and road runner cartoons when they were little right? Also there was another cartoon called Loonatics Unleashed with the road runner and the coyote called Tech E Coyote, do you remember it? Although Raymond didn’t have much luck today, but still a triple solve is better then getting it wrong. We now have the first streaker in Kyle Jones for season 35.
Yes, Lou, I watched Looney Tunes when I was little, too. On Saturdays, they would often show one at the movies before the featured film started.
idk if I am missing something, but isn’t it unusual for a clue to have a word in it that is part of the answer, unless maybe in Stupid Answers? For such a clue to be a Daily Double (Emily’s, in this case) just does not sit well with me. I think she should be invited back.
LINK: 10 more clues from the match
Yeah I noticed that too, just like with Vincent and his previous game with a clue that cost him the game. Emily should be invited back and have another shot at the game. I mean a daily double on the stupid answers category is a joke. It should have been under a different category. I didn’t like how it was worded.
hopefully they do bring her back.