[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the December 18 episode of Jeopardy!]
The contestants of recreation two of the finals of Champions Wildcard might have gotten one of many Each day Double questions mistaken within the December 18 episode of Jeopardy! however followers really feel like they need to have been tougher at this level in a match.
Gary Hollis, a chemistry professor from Roanoke, Virginia (with 6,000 in recreation 1), Tyler Vandenberg, a Marine officer at the moment serving in Stuttgart, Germany (main with 17,600), and Yungsheng Wang, a deputy public defender initially from Lafayette, Louisiana (with 8,000) confronted off for the second of the two-game whole ultimate. And as Ken Jennings (now the sole host of the syndicated sequence) famous, “We now have seen on multiple event that having the lead on the finish of Recreation 1 doesn’t essentially point out who will come out forward ultimately.” Such was the case right here, with Yungsheng, the one one to get the Closing Jeopardy reply, strolling away because the victor with 33,800 whole factors, winnings of $100,000, and an invite to the Event of Champions.
However earlier than that got here the Each day Doubles. In Postal Abbreviation Combos for $800, the clue learn: “Hawaii + North Dakota = this ‘backward’ phrase.” Gary obtained it mistaken (hand as an alternative of hind) and misplaced 2,600. Then, beneath $1200 in U.S. Firsts, the clue learn: “The primary lady mayor of a significant U.S. metropolis was Bertha Landes in Seattle; quickly after got here Dorothy Lee on this metropolis 172 miles south.” Yungsheng, who stated earlier than his wager, “a shopper as soon as advised me scared cash don’t make no cash,” was appropriate (Portland) and added $7,000. (“Your shopper was appropriate,” Jennings agreed after.) And the third, beneath $2,000 in “Nicely, They Sound the Identical…” was “Any channel to stroll down, or Guernsey within the English Channel.” Yungsheng (with aisle/aisle) was appropriate and added $10,000.
One viewer wrote on the Jeopardy! subreddit that the primary and second “have been each means too simple to be tournament-level DDs,” and that individual wasn’t the one one. One other fan discovered all three to be simple, however one viewer figured that since Gary “fell into the entice on ‘hind,’ was it actually that simple? And, is it very easy to know that Seattle is nonetheless many miles from Portland?”
In reply, followers famous that the second Each day Double would have been tougher if the reply hadn’t been Portland. “I had no concept the place Dorothy Lee was mayor, however ‘a metropolis a couple of hours south of Seattle’ leads instantly to Portland,” one wrote.
As for “hind,” one fan assumed, “Gary had a brain-fart, however I’m guessing 90%+ of American Jeopardy watchers obtained it appropriate. Placing two state abbreviations collectively simply isn’t that arduous, and state abbreviations are frequent data.”
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