Final Jeopardy: 7-21-14 to 7-25-14
Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of July 21, 2014, with links to the full recaps. This was the first week of the 2014 Teen Tournament — the quarter-finals.
Mon, July 21 – Correct answers: 1 (out of 2)
This term comes from a 1529 event in which a group of Lutherans formally disagreed with a decision by a Catholic council show
Tue, July 22: Correct answers: 1
Built for a World’s Fair in 1889, its visitors that year included the Prince of Wales & Buffalo Bill; it still gets 7M a year show
Wed, July 23 – Correct answers: 2
Fittingly, this character is named for a plant also known as arrowhead that belongs to the genus Sagittaria show
Thurs, July 24 – Correct answers: 2
This word for a person without certain abilities has made it from the realm of fantasy to the OED show
Fri, July 25 – Correct answers: 3
A slang term for Harvard’s freshman register gave this website its name. show
This week, there were no triple stumpers in FJ but only one triple solve. At least in the last three matches, the cluewriters were aiming to bridge the generation gap.
Here are the winners of the quarter-finals. They will compete for a top prize of $75,000 next week. Second place gets $25,000 and third gets $15,000:
Alan Koolik – $31,001
Sydney Molek -$24,001
Cooper Lair – $20,500
Selena Groh – $20,000
William Golden – $16,200
Wild Cards:
Joe Taglic – $21,998
Sam Lerner – $20,000
Jeff Xie — $19,000
Kat Deabill — $14,400
All of the contestants who didn’t make the cut went home with $5,000.
Wow! What a week this was for the teens. 1/3 fj Monday and Tuesday. 2/3 fj Wednesday and Thursday. 3/3 fj Friday. This group makes up an exciting time for the semi-finals and the final next week.
Who can forget Leonard Cooper last year? He didn’t know the final correct response but had such a commanding lead that he wrote “…but I just won $75,000.”
After finishing with only $3K the day before, Leonard got lucky in the second final match (link). He risked everything he had to catch up to the others and lucked out with an easy DD.
Yep. We remember that gutsy move. DDs can make a difference IF the responses are correct. As you stated lucky for him. This coming week should be equally exciting.
That’s right — it was gutsy. If I’m remembering correctly, the first time Roger Craig did it in the BotD, it was just to show off, but the second time, he really needed to do it. It just didn’t work out in his favor.
Speaking of the BotD, now I’m wondering if they are going to rerun that here over the break because my TV schedule says the two weeks after the Teens will be the Teachers.