Final Jeopardy: Food & Drink in the Bible (9-23-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (9/23/2021) in the category “Food & Drink in the Bible” was:
In the King James version, these creatures are a plague in Exodus 10, but deemed okay to eat in Leviticus 11
26x champ Matt Amodio, a PhD student from New Haven, CT has now won $929,401, as he approaches the million dollar mark. In Game 27, he is up against: Caroline Minkus, an ophthalmologist from Minneapolis, MN; and Guhan Venkatesan, an undergrad student and EMT from New Providence, NJ.
Round 1 Categories: Literary Terms – Sports Venue Nicknames – World War II Navajo Code Talkers’ Dictionary – Money Idioms – Peak – My Interest
Guhan found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Sports Venues Nickname” under the $600 clue with just 5 clues left after it. He was in second place with $3,400, $2,400 less than Matt in first place. He bet $1,500 and he was RIGHT.
Home to an NHL team, the SAP Center in this California city is nicknamed “The Shark Tank.” show
Matt finished in the lead with $6,400. Guhan was second with $5,500 and Caroline was last with $2,000. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: Historic Women – Superlatives – Welcome to Comet-Con! – Revival – Role Players – “Def”initions
Caroline found the first Daily Double in “Superlatives” under the $800 clue on the 12th pick. She was in third place with $2,800, $7,200 less than Matt’s lead. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
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Matt got the last Daily Double in “Revival” under the $1,600 clue on the 15th pick. In first place with $10,400, he had just $900 more than Guhan in second place. Feeling the pressure, Matt bet it all and he was RIGHT.
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Matt finished in the lead with $26,800. Guhan was next with $11,500 and Caroline was in third place with $9,200. No clues went uncovered.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
The tale of the plague of locusts is told in Chapter 10 of Exodus, the 2nd book of the Old Testament. The locusts covered the earth and ate everything in sight but nobody was eating them. Leviticus is the third book of the Old Testament. Chapter 11 relates the strict dietary rules the Lord gave to Moses and Aaron as to what is clean and unclean “among all the beasts that are on the earth.” The locust is specifically okayed in Verse 22: “Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.” As Mayim mentioned, the New Testament refers to John the Baptist chowing down on locusts and wild honey. (Matthew 3:4 and Mark 1:6)
Life, Hope & Truth’s website has an infographic sorting out which birds, animals, fish and sea creatures are clean or unclean.
Caroline got it right. She bet $8,000 and finished with $17,200.
Guhan also got it right. He bet $11,493, which brought him up to $22,993.
Matt crossed out the correct answer and went with those pesky frogs. He lost his $1,000 bet but won the game all the same with the remaining $25,800. Matt Amodio’s 27-day total is $955,201. The torturous nail-biting journey on the way to the million dollar mark will continue tomorrow. Matt needs $44,799 to get there.
A triple stumper from each round:
SPORTS VENUE NICKNAMES ($1000) Nicknamed “The Loud House”, the Carrier Dome is the stadium of this university in New York State
ROLE PLAYERS ($2000) Sulu in recent “Star Trek” films & Kumar’s pal Harold Lee
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Toys and Games”
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I am not sure why Mayim Bialik thought John the Baptist eating locusts in Matthew in the New Testament had any relevance to the Final Jeopardy question that was centered on two books in the Old Testament, i.e., Exodus 10 where locusts are a plague and Leviticus 11 where they are okay to eat.
@Mike, I think she brought it up as an example in the Bible of the locust actually being eaten by a person.
Locusts are referenced in many other Bible books but they’re usually doing the eating. 😀
Yes, John the Baptist would have been a Jew abiding by the Torah, so it is definitely relevant. Remembering that verse from Matthew made me more sure ‘locust’ was the correct answer.
I’ve had to watch from afar (can’t stand this game not having a smart host. I will NOT watch her) so I’m glad Matt continues to win. Hopefully he’ll still be around in November when Ken comes back as host.
I thought about the locusts first, but then changed it to the frogs. Anyways, I would never consider locusts as part of my diet.
religion knowledge is not in my playbook but still I’ve read plenty of bible books so the locusts was the response I got. Mayim has done an awesome job as host today. I am no bible scholar but as soon as possible I might start up on bible trivia later on to see how much I can remember about the books of genesis, Matthew and so forth. Guhan almost had Matt beat today but it would have been great if he had doubled his win to eventually defeat our champ but he left just a few thousand dollars behind which cost him the game. Good opponents for Matt today. Vj what did you think?
I dunno, Lou. Matt looked like he was mighty tired to me today. I was quite surprised that he didn’t know the response to the $400 counterfeit money clue when he buzzed in. That was the 5th clue and the first time he got a clue!
Matt still managed to pull off a runaway. I generally don’t go over the game with the should have bet more or less stuff, you know. They bet what they bet and they’re stuck with what they get. 🤣🤣🤣
I agree, Matt did look tired, good thing he has a chance to rest for a few days.
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CORRECTION WTIH APOLOGIES: Andrew D. Kaplan’s book “The Hidden Light” came out in 2014, not 2012. I was ineptly conflating dates with the (much different subject!) Walter Cronkite bio book “Cronkite” by Douglas Brinkley, to which I also contributed.
I would have said Anthropomorphism, rather than Personification. My first thought was that that would have been accepted, but after a little more looking, it probably would not have been acceptable.
I again had zero idea on this FJ as my religion knowledge is minimal despite my Jewish colleague Dr. Andrew D. Kaplan PhD dedicating his 2012 book “The Hidden Light” on the opening chapters of Genesis to me. (I edited parts of the book and encouraged him.) Some of the research was done in the Yale University campus main library in New Haven CT–Dr. Kaplan earned his ugrad degree there as an Eli. He was pleased when I told him interim host Dr. Mayim Bialik slipped in a mention that Matt Amodio is a PhD student at Yale University, either cleverly or by accident. The VEGAN Jewish scientist Dr. Bialik continues doing an outstanding job hosting. 🙂