Final Jeopardy: Political Terms (6-13-12)
The Final Jeopardy question (6/13/2012) in the category “Political Terms” was:
19th C. reports on horse races used this 2-word term to mean horses that were in the field but didn’t finish high.
New champ Kathy Wright returned today. She won a whopping $38,398 yesterday, and she’s such a sharp player, we’re willing to predict Tournament of Champions already. But we’ll be wrong if she can’t beat these two new players: Colleen McCormick, from Odenton, MD and Steve Van Noord, from Bellflower, CA.
Colleen found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double very near the end of the round in “The Next State Capital Alphabetically.” The contestants weren’t doing so hot in this one, even though they were told that the answer would start with the same first letter as the clue. Colleen was actually the only one who got one right so far. She was in third place with $3,200, $2,000 behind Kathy, who was in the lead. She bet $800 and she couldn’t come up with it so she was WRONG.
After Montgomery.
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Shout out to our Vermont relatives. We know you got it and we did too.
Steve got the last clue and finished in the lead with $5,600. Kathy was second with $5,200 and Colleen was last with $2,400.
Colleen found the first Double Jeopardy Daily Double in “The Crusades.” She now had $4,400, $1,600 less than Kathy who was back in the lead. She bet $1,600 and she was RIGHT.
The 1098 discovery of the spear-like weapon that reputedly pierced Jesus’ side, the Holy This, inspired the Crusaders.
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Colleen found the last Daily Double in “Updating the Novel.” She now had the lead with $10,000, $800 more than Kathy and Steve who were tied. She bet $2,000, and she was RIGHT.
Mr. Toad’s “shiny new motor-car” isn’t new enough; Toad’s off to Lexus’ “December to Remember” sales event.
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Colleen finished in the lead with $15,600. Kathy wasn’t far behind with $14,800 and Steve was in third place with $8,000.
Only ONE contestant got Final Jeopardy! right.
If you want to bone up on your horse racing terminology, runhorse.com has a page of definitions that defines “also ran” as “A horse that doesn’t finish in the top trio.”
Although Alex didn’t connect it to the actual category, Political Terms, we will — They Also Ran: The Story of the Men Who Were Defeated for the Presidency
Steve wrote down “a dark horse,” also on the horse racing terminology list we linked to. It’s a term used to describe a little-known entity not expected to do well but does. That only cost him $400. He finished with $8,000.
Kathy got it right but didn’t bet big like yesterday. She added $6,000 to finish with $20,800.
Colleen wrote down “back runners,” not on the horse racing terminology list at all. To our utter amazement (because she was such a cautious better up till now), she bet $14,801. She wound up with $799.
Kathy will return as a 2-day champ tomorrow with a total so far of $59,198.
