Final Jeopardy: 11-17-14 to 11-21-14
Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of November 17, 2014, with links to the full recaps. The first 3 matches this week were the 2014 Tournament of Champions semi-finals and the last two were the Finals.
Mon, Nov 17 – Correct answers: 1
This capital city, which at 12,330 miles is farthest from Madrid, is named for a soldier who spent time in Madrid. show
Tue, Nov 18: Correct answers: 1
Its first chapter recalls “the little scallop-shell of pastry, so richly sensual under its severe, religious folds”. show
Wed, Nov 19 – Correct answers: 1
Set in the Great Depression, this 2006 novel has an epigraph from “Horton Hatches the Egg”. show
At this point, these players went home with $10,000: Jared Hall, Terry O’Shea, Mark Japinga, Rebecca Rider, Joshua Brakhage and Sandie Baker.
Ben Ingram, Arthur Chu and Julia Collins played the next two matches for the big bucks: a Grand Prize of $250K, 2nd place: $100K, 3rd place: $50K.
Thurs, Nov 20 – Correct answers: 1
In this year, there were no Pres’s or VPs running, but 3 of the 4 men on the 2 major party ballots would become President. show
Fri, Nov 21 – Correct answers: 0
Of the 5 cities mentioned in Shakespeare’s play titles, it’s the only one not found in Europe. show
It wasn’t exactly the players’ shining week for correct Final Jeopardy answers but it sure paid well!
Here is Jeopardy’s video recap of the finals with comments from the players:
Vj, fantastic finals recap. Thanks for your hard work during the TOC. You kept us updated and informed. Would have never known about Ben’s 12/12 record on fj clues without you. A big thanks.
Thanks, Jacob 🙂 I was truly surprised that the collective prediction went the total opposite way in Friday’s FJ. In the first post game chat for the finals, Ben mentioned that he had read that 1920 election bit of trivia in a book and remembered it. He said something like just read everything you can. On twitter, Arthur Chu said he had memorized a bunch of sports trivia for nothing since they didn’t even get a sports category. Just think, 3 big champs like that and none of them thought to look over the list of Shakespeare play titles a couple of times. Amazing!
That is amazing since Shakespeare is a favorite category on Jeopardy.