Jeopardy! GOATs Match No. 2 (Wednesday 1-8-2020)
The Greatest of All Time Tournament continues with Brad Rutter, Ken Jennings and James Holzhauer competing in the second 2-part match. The first player to win 3 matches will be the Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time champ and one million dollars richer.
GOATs at the Starting Gate: Brad 0 Ken 1 James 0
The Final Jeopardy question in GAME 1 in the category “Influential Writing” was:
Its second line is “All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope & Czar, Metternich & Guizot…”
Round 1 Categories: The Crown – Charities – Literally Stupid Answers – Short Story Syllabus – College Football: After the Game – The “Gold”, “Berg”s
James found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Short Story Syllabus” under the 600 clue on the 4th pick of the round. He was in second place with 800 now, 1,000 less than Brad in the lead. He bet the 1,000 limit and he was RIGHT.
W.W. Jacobs came up with pretty much the opposite of a lucky rabbit’s foot with this story of a dad, a son & 3 wishes gone bad show
James finished in the lead with 9,600, Ken was second with 3,200 and Brad was last with 1,200.
Round 2 Categories: Classic Movie Quotes – Newspapers & Magazines – Art & Artists – Around the World – The Greatest of All Minds – Take an “IQ” Test
James found the first Daily Double in “Around the World” under the 2,000 clue on the 11th pick. He was in the lead with 13,600 now, 6,000 more than Ken in second place. He bet it all and he was RIGHT.
This second-largest port of France once had a longer name that included “de Grace” show
2 clues later, Ken found the last Daily Double in “Greatest of All Minds” under the 2,000 clue. In second place with 8,400, he had 18,800 less than James’ lead. He bet it all and he was RIGHT.
This German developed calculus independent of another wise guy. show
James finished in the lead with 32,400. Ken was next with 22,000 and Brad was in third place with 7,200.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right. show
Brad bet it all and finished with 14,400.
Ken bet 18,800, bringing him up to 40,000
James bet 11,914, as he has done so many times. He finished with 44,314.
Those scores will be added to the totals in the next game to determine the winner of today’s match.
The Final Jeopardy question in GAME 2 in the category “19th Century Leaders” was:
Tall, lanky Joel Barlow was an ambassador carrying messages between these 2 world leaders, both mocked for being short
Round 1 Categories: Mozart – The __ of __ – This Will Tie Your Room Together – They’re Back – Name the Decade – Goats
Brad found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Name the Decade” under the 1,000 clue on the 4th pick of the round. He was in second place with 800 now, half of what James had in the lead. He bet the 1,000 allowance and he was RIGHT.
The Tudor line begins its 5-monarch rule of England show
Ken finished in the lead with 6,800. James was second with 6,400 and Brad was last with 3,800.
Round 2 Categories: I Just Took a DNA Test – Pop Culture People – audible – “G”eography – 20-Letter Words – GOATS (Greatest of All Time
Brad found the first Daily Double in “DNA” under the 1,600 clue on the very first pick. The scores were the same as above. He bet all of his 3,800 points and thought it was 2. That was WRONG.
You can learn your ethnicity using DNA in your autosomes. Non-sex chromosomes; most people have this many sets of autosomes. show
2 clues later, James found the last Daily Double in “‘G’eography” under the 1,600 clue. In the lead with 8,400, he had 1,600 more than Ken in second place. He bet it all and he was RIGHT.
Rhino tracking at the Mokolodi Nature Reserve is something to try on a visit to this capital city. show
James finished in the lead with 22,800. Ken was next with 21,200 and Brad was last, at negative 3,600. He couldn’t even play Final Jeopardy!
Only ONE of the two left got Final Jeopardy! right: show
Ken thought it was Napoleon and James Monroe. He lost his 3,800 bet. That left him 17,400 to add to his 40,000 from Game 1. His final score was 57,400.
James got it right. He bet 15,300 to finish with 38,100. Adding in his 44,314 from Game 1 gave James 82,414 and made him today’s winner.
GOATs at the Finish Line: Brad 0 Ken 1 James 1
The tournament will continue on Thursday, January 9, 2020
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I’m so proud of myself, I got an answer that none of the contestants got! The classic movie line “good day sir” Willy Wonka. They must’ve been too busy learning decades and Shakespeare and stuff and not watching good movies! (Lol!! ) kidding
When Ken said “nitwit” would ‘lamebrain’, my guess, also have been accepted?
No one said nitwit. It was a triple stumper. And lamebrain was one of the words in the clue. And it doesn’t rhyme.
I was astounded by their performance on the “Decade” category.
The biggest question in my mind is, Will James ever miss another Final Jeopardy clue in his life?
At that point, I thought that Brad would bounce back. But alas, when he ended up in the red in Game 2, I was over here saying to my daughter, “What is going on with Brad!!! This is a joke, right? He’s gonna come back and win 3 games straight starting tomorrow, right?”
Is someone lacing his drinks? 🙂
I’m with JP about the Decade category, how in the world did they know those?
I can’t speak for the contestants, but I knew them mainly through literature.
The Columbus question was easy. All you had to do was remember the elementary school rhyme, “In fourteen ninety-two, | Columbus sailed the ocean blue.”
The Erie Canal question was one I knew from studying American history (most recently in Samuel Eliot Morison’s three-volume The Oxford History of the American People).
All the rest were due to literary associations. The Crucible by Arthur Miller is one of my favorite plays and the first stage direction in it is “A small upper bedroom in the home of Reverend Samuel Parris, Salem, Massachusetts, in the spring of the year 1692.”
My favorite book is The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio and its frame narrative has its brigata of seven women and three men leaving Florence to escape the Black Death. I know that it was published in 1353, therefore the Black Death was the decade before.
Finally, I know from Shakespeare’s plays about the Wars of the Roses that Richard III was defeated by Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, later Henry VII, at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485. Brad may also have known the date of the end of the Wars of the Roses generally, because they ended with the Tudor accession to the throne.
Brad couldn’t get any momentum going in the second game and those daily doubles must not have been working in his favor. And I am happy that James got a victory today. I really hope that brad could redeem himself in the next game and not go all in. My mom and I watched this and thought that brad could do a lot better.
It’s not the first time. Kevin Shen had no money in the end of the 2014 College Championship.