Jeopardy! GOATs Match No. 4 (Tuesday 1-14-2020)
Jeopardy! GOATs Match No. 4 (Tuesday 1-14-2020)
The Greatest of All Time Tournament continues: Brad Rutter, Ken Jennings and James Holzhauer are competing in the fourth 2-part match. Alex opened the show with this observation: “If this were a sporting event, I would feel very comfortable in saying ‘we are about to go into sudden-death overtime’ because if Ken Jennings manages to win this match today, then at the end of the hour, he’ll be going home $1,000,000 richer…”
GOATs at the Starting Gate: Brad 0 Ken 2 James 1.
The Final Jeopardy question in GAME 1 in the category “It’s All Greece to Me” was:
This area of Greece, home to Pan, is synonymous with a rural paradise; it’s a setting for Virgil’s shepherd poems the “Eclogues”
Round 1 Categories: Modern Family – The Bachelor – The Good Doctor – Blank-“ish” – Stump Down – Knight Line
Ken found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “The Good Doctor” under the 1,000 clue on the 10th pick of the round. He was in the lead with 3,800 now, 1,600 more than James in second place. He bet it all and he was RIGHT.
A vizier to Djoser, this Egyptian was one of the few mortals to be completely deified & was worshipped as the god of medicine show
Ken finished in the lead with 12,800. James was second with 4,400 and Brad was last with 2,400.
Round 2 Categories: The World According to Kareem – British Stuff – Albums – History – Jeoportmanteau – The Arts
Brad found the first Daily Double in “British Stuff” under the 1,600 clue on the 7th pick. He was in third place with 4,800 now, 9,200 less than Ken’s lead. He bet it all and thought it was Faraday. That was WRONG.
One of Britain’s greatest mind was this 19th century physicist & author of “A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism” show
4 clues later, Ken found the last Daily Double in “The Arts” under the 1,600 clue. In the lead with 15,200, he had 2,000 more than James in second place. “I’ve got James on my back. I’ve got to go all in,” Ken said. He did it and he was RIGHT.
In this 1951 play, Serafina’s dead husband sports the title ink on his chest. show
Ken finished in the lead with 32,800. James was next with 22,800 and Brad was in third place with 2,000.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right: show
Brad came up with Bucolia. He bet and lost it all.
James got it right. He bet 11,381, bringing him up to 34,181.
Ken got it, too. He bet the whole 32,800 and finished with 65,600.
“Can he be beaten? You’re gonna find out in the next half hour,” Alex said.
And we will, when those scores are added to the totals in the next game to determine the winner of today’s match. They brought the trophy out on stage before the beginning Game 2, just in case Ken can’t be beaten.
The Final Jeopardy question in GAME 2 in the category “Shakespeare’s Tragedies” was:
He has 272 speeches, the most of any non-title character in a Shakespeare tragedy
Round 1 Categories: Broadway – Nonsense Words – Literary Terms & Devices – The Greatest Canadians of All Time – Math to Roman Numerals to Initials to Names – Welcome Back Boys!
Ken found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Math to Roman Numerals etc” under the 800 clue on the 9th pick of the round. He was in the lead with 1,000 points, 200 more than James in second place. He bet it all and hilariously said “Charles Lindbergh.” Of course, that was WRONG (but he had the initials right).
(1,000/2) – 350 to this rock singer who was also a 1997 Golden Globe nominee show
James finished in the lead with 8,200. Ken was second with 5,600 and Brad was last with 1,000.
Round 2 Categories: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Vice Presidents – Surprise Me, Trebek – Disputed Territories – Purple Reign – Phrases & Expressions
Ken found the first Daily Double in “Vice Presidents” under the 2,000 clue on the 5th pick. He was in second place with 8,800 now, 1,000 less than James in the lead. He bet 5,000 and he was RIGHT.
In 1900, 3 years after leaving the vice presidency, he welcomed a grandson given the same name, later a candidate for president. show
James found the last Daily Double in “Surprise Me, Trebek” under the 1,600 clue, with 11 clues to go after it. In the lead with 20,200, he had 400 more than Ken in second place. He bet it all and he was RIGHT.
This big landlocked African country was surprised to be added to the USA’s 2017 travel ban, but was removed from the list in 2018. show
James finished in the lead with 44,000. Ken was next with 23,000 and Brad was in third place with 1,400.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right: show
Brad wrote down “You’re the best, Alex,” and said “It’s true and I should get credit for it.” He didn’t bet anything though, so he finished up both games with 1,400 points.
Ken got it right. He bet nothing as well. He had 23,000 + 65,600 for a total of 88,600.
James went with Horatio. He bet it all and that left him with the 34,181 from the first game.
GOATs at the Finish Line: Brad 0 Ken 3 James 1.
So there we have it, folks. Ken Jennings is officially The Greatest of All Time, having handily defeated Brad and James in just 4 matches! In addition to that lofty title, he won $1,000,000 and the trophy for this tournament. James and Brad will receive $250,000 each.
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There was a question about “Hal Island” as a disputed territory between Canada and Denmark. Does anyone remember which Jeopardy episode this was?
Nick, if you look through the rest of the comments on here, you’ll find that I typed that particular clue out in one of my.comments
It’s Hans Island.
Can anyone please explain the DD from “Math to Roman Numerals etc”? Courtney Love’s initials are CL, which in Roman numerals is 150, but the clue mentions the number 350. So how does CL relate to 350? I do not understand.
The clue is (1,000/2) – 350. This is 500 – 350 which equals 150, which is CL in Roman numerals.
Thank you so much, Albert. I thought 1000/2 was a reference to the amount wagered and game no.2 of the match, didn’t think it had anything to do with the actual question. Thanks again for explaining.
In my opinion, the 3 agreed to split the 1.5 million equally thus each guaranteed 500.000 instead of just 250.000. There is no way James did not know Iago.
People can be prosecuted in federal court for rigging a game show so I highly doubt that occurred.
If I were a GOAT player I would have insisted on a $1.5 million first prize and $750,000 for the losers. I’m sure the show would have agreed to that as Trebek wanted this big tournament to be his swan song. Prime Time and only getting $250,000 for showing up? Those bozos who hardly knew anything and had lifelines, call a friend, etc… got $250,000 from Regis Philbin 20 years ago.
I noticed that ART & SHAKESPEARE were not strong suits for James when watching his regular game play months ago. Now his lack of Shakespeare knowledge came back to bite James in the hiney. For James, all is not well that doesn’t end well.
It was a grand tournament, with funny moments and poignant moments and Ken dominating the game play. I must admit I wish it had lasted at least one more game.
Timely coincidence on this Game 2 clue: DISPUTED TERRITORIES ($400) The ownership of Hans Island, located between Ellesmere Island and Greenland is disputed; Canada stakes its claim by raising its flag there and leaving bottles of rye, while this other country puts up its flag and leaves bottles of aquavit
I just read the answer to that earlier today on the wikipedia article I linked to in the World Geography recap
Does anybody know the logistics of the tournament? How many hour shows were taped in one day, one or two?
Albert, here’s a link to a USA Today article that says:
When were these games taped? “In early December. Two games (matches?) were taped each day.
I interpreted that to mean that it took 2 days to tape the whole shebang.
Yes, they taped one one-hour show in the morning, and one in the afternoon.
This was by far one of the best matches I’ve ever seen by all three players. Ken totally dominated the entire game thanks to the strategy he learned from james. Furthermore james seems to be pretty gracious despite playing valiantly. Congrats Ken on your big million dollar win. I really hope to see another million dollar masters tournament in the near future.
I believe that was only James’ 2nd ever missed Final Jeopardy clue, excepting a couple non-serious responses when the game was locked up (including one on the crazily difficult Oscar clue last week, which he may well have not solved).
This kind of tournament is a once in a century opportunity, and was perfectly executed by the producers and clue writers, in my opinion. I think that if you had James and Ken play 100 games against each other, neither would win 60, with the luck of the draw being so important at this level of play.