Final Jeopardy: Physicists (9-2-24)
TODAY’S JEOPARDY! RERUN: SF2 of the 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament that originally aired on 4/3/2024
The Final Jeopardy question (4/3/2024) in the category “Physicists” was:
This man with a force named after him published an 1835 scientific treatise on the physics of billiard balls
Today’s Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalists are: Larissa Kelly, an editor from Richmond, CA; Andrew He, a stay-at-home dad from Concord, CA; and Sam Kavanaugh, an educator from Minneapolis, MN.
Round 1 Categories: Stars & Constellations – As Heard on Tv – Baby Talk – Historic Refusals – Sprinkle, Sprinkle – Ends in a Body Part
Larissa found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Stars & Constellations” under the $800 clue on the 8th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $3,600, $1,000 more than Andrew in second place. Larissa bet it all and didn’t know. That counts as WRONG.
If you’re really smart, you should know that this constellation was named for South Africa’s Table Mountain show
Andrew finished in the lead with $5,600. Larissa was in second place with $4,000. Sam was last with $800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Bodies of Water – Before They Were Congresswomen – Math Talk – Film Composers – Classical Literature – Starts with 3 Consecutive Letters
Andrew found the first Daily Double in “Classical Lit” under the $1,200 clue on the 11th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $9,600, $1,200 more than Larissa in second place. Andrew put it all on the line and he was RIGHT.
In this Sophocles play, Orestes enlists the aid of his sister, the title character to kill his mother & her lover show
Andrew found the last Daily Double in “Before They Were Congresswomen” under the $1,600 clue on the 16th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $21,200, $12,800 more than Larissa in second place. Andrew bet $6,000 and he was RIGHT.
In the 1990s this future senator from Illinois was the only woman in her helicopter training class show
Andrew finished in the lead with a runaway $32,000. Larissa was in second place with $13,200. Sam was last with $9,200. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS CORIOLIS?
In 1835, Gaspard-Gustave De Coriolis published “Théorie Mathématique des Effets du Jeu de Billiard”, (English translation: Mathematical Theory of Spin, Friction, and Collision in the Game of Billiards). There’s a Coriolis Force vs. Centrifugal Force illustration online, only it involves a golf ball rather than a billiard ball.
According to the History part of Wikipedia’s article on the Coriolis Force, the term evolved from a different paper Coriolis published in 1835 “on the energy yield of machines with rotating parts, such as waterwheels.” In the early 20th century, the effect was referred to as the “acceleration of Coriolis.” By 1920, it became known as the ‘Coriolis force.”
Sam gave Andrew a shoutout and he stood pat on $9,200.
Larissa congratulated Andrew as well. She lost $1,000 and finished with $12,200.
Andrew got it right. He stood pat on his runaway $32,000. So Andrew He is our second finalist. Larissa and Sam each went home with $10 grand. One more semifinal to go!
2 triple stumpers from FILM COMPOSERS:
($1600) He wrote scores for 8 Hitchcock films in 9 years, his most memorable being the screeching strings in the shower scene in “Psycho”
($2000) This British composer won 5 Oscars but not one for the 11 James Bond films he scored
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Americans in Paris”
In 2021 she became the sixth woman & the first black woman to be inducted into the Pantheon in Paris show
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