Final Jeopardy: Authors (9-26-18)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (9/26/2018) in the category “Authors” was:
After this woman’s death, her daughter wrote, “As far as we in the family are concerned, the alphabet now ends at Y”
2x champ Nancy Schoppa, a retired high school teacher from St. Jo, TX, brought her winnings up to $35,000 yesterday. In her third game, her opponents are: Evelyn Rubin, a family physician from Toronto, Ontario; and Jordan Boyd-Graber Ying, an associate professor of Computer Science, from Riverdale Park, MD.
Round 1 Categories: The Great British Coin Hunt – Name the Novel – Anagrams – College Courses – Video Games – In Otter News
Evelyn found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Great British Coin” under the $1,000 clue on the 16th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $3,600, $800 more than Jordan in second place. She bet $1,000 and got “zone” in right after the buzzer. That was WRONG before, too.
Finishing up the collection is Zed for this type of place (IMAGE) where pedestrians can walk safely across the road. show
Evelyn finished in the lead with $2,600. Nancy was second with $2,200 and Jordan was last with $1,400.
Round 2 Categories: Getting Coordinated – Mr. & Mrs. Songs – Operation – Around the Mansion – “How”-“D” – Pardoner
Jordan found the first Daily Double in “Getting Coordinated” under the $1,200 clue on the 3rd pick. He was in a tie for the lead with Evelyn. They both had $2,600, $400 more than Nancy. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
These 2 state capitals (IMAGE), 1,450 miles apart, are both just shy of 45 degrees north latitude. show
Jordan found the last Daily Double in “Pardoner” under the $1,200 clue on the 8th pick. In the lead with $7,600, he had $5,000 more than both ladies, tied in second place at $2,600. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
Ronald Reagan pardoned this owner for illegal campaign contributions in 1989– the Gipper a Yankees fan? show
Evelyn finished in the lead with $17,800. Jordan was next with $9,800 and Nancy was in third place with $8,200. Before FJ began, Jordan’s score was bumped up to $13,800 on a reversal (see below).
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Sue Grafton was the author of the best-selling “alphabet series”, 25 mystery novels that began with 1982’s “A is for Alibi.” She published “Y is for Yesterday in August 2017, several months before she lost her 2-year battle with cancer on December 28, 2017. Her obituary in The Seattle Times contains her daughter’s statement.
The most recent clue on the “alphabet series” was in Josh Hill’s 7th game (5-24-2017): AUDIBLE RECENT FICTION ($200): This mystery author put out what would turn out to be the last in a series in 2017: ‘I handed him a business card and said, “Kinsey Millhone. I’m a local private investigator.’
Nancy bet $8,100 and finished with $16,300.
Jordan bet $13,000, bringing him up to $26,800.
Evelyn bet $9,801 bet. She won the game with $27,601 and she is the new Jeopardy! champ.
Reversal: OPERATION ($2000) Your surgeon could choose to take a look inside you with this type of fiberoptic instrument – Jordan’s “endoscope” was rejected in favor of Evelyn’s “laparoscope.” Jordan got $4,000 when the judges ruled found out that the laparoscope is a kind of endoscope.
A triple stumper from each round:
($1000) Make your future fighting Ghaul, leader of the Red Legion in the 2nd iteration of this bungee game
PARDONER ($2000) This politician refused to ask for a pardon in 1881; one was granted by Jimmy Carter nearly 100 years later
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Historic Homes”
Also known as the “House of His Majesty”, Fairfield House in England was the home of this African leader from 1936 to 1941. show
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This Final was way toooooo easy. Sue Grafton was an answer on two online tests in the past, one of the online tests being in March of 2018.
yup, I totally agree, Albert
Congratulations to the Canadian physician Dr. Evelyn Rubin I was rooting for! Glad that VIDEO GAMES category was left to last and contestants did so poorly. Hope we will not see that category again. As for categories they are selected in advance and on occasion a player is fortunate as happily took place today.
A guy in his early 20s who got on the show could have possibly run that entire Video Game category.
Totally unfair to have the “Operation” category with a physician as a contestant.
The 20th anniversary of Google ended with a Triple Solver on a very EASY PEASY category. I think it was the same response as Andrew Pau’s first game with a BIG payday. In this case, however, it was a very tight race between the challengers.
Thanks, missed jeopardy today because of Trump news conference.
Well I am glad everyone got the final jeopardy right. I really hope Evelyn will get a streak going and hopefully break the leader curse just like Kyle did. What is your favorite sue Grafton novels John? What was your take on this game, VJ?
@Lou, I was truly surprised at the presentation of that British coin category, “C” is for, “W” is for, etc. given that the books written by the FJ author were titled that way
@VJ The British coin category you are referring to can be found in this link
@VJ
I gues_s you meant to say that an endoscope is kind of a laparoscope???
I guess you could formulate it either way, here the L was asked for, the E was first selected and then they agreed that an L is a sort of L.
Basically an endoscope is more an OBSERVATION tool (stomach, colonoscopy etc. whereas as laparoscope is used not only to observe wbut to perform minor surgery while watching where and what you cut.This could go from removing a small tumor or polyp to just doing a biopsy when you need a tissue sample of the liver, for instance.Laparoscopy is almost 100% only used in the abdominal and pelvis area.
Btw, both have a “tube”, A CAMERA WITH LIGHT AND THE ABILITY TO REMOVE OR “SNARE” TISSUE OR TISSUE SAMPLE. The major difference is that with a laparoscopy an incision is made first through which the laparoscope is inserted while this is not the case with an endoscope. An E. is used through already accessible ways, while with a L. you have to make incisions first, since it is usually used for areas that offer no natural access (liver e.g.). Also, an E. is almost always used by a G.I., while a L. can be and IS used by almost any type of
surgeon. In some cases – when no massive invasion is needed A L. of sorts is also used in the thorax/thorax wall, then the procedure is called thoracoscopic “surgery” or thoracoscopy. DON’T ASK ME WHAT IT’S CALLED IF THEY EXAMINE A PATIENT’S BRAIN…:):):):)
@Lou
Was not to impressed with her writing, that’s why I read only 2. Don’t even remember exactly which one. A was one of them, that I remember.
Congratulations to VJ for another correct prediction and to Evelyn for winning the game.
And the ToC clock starts again from zero…Jeffrey got another reprieve.
Thanks, John. One of these days, a reversal is going to make a difference in the outcome. Today, however, a little less guessing and a bigger DD bet would have done it for Jordan.
@Otis, see that image in the recap? It shows the final scores.
LINK: 13 more clues from the match
Today score. President came on
That first Daily Double was complicated.