Thanks for coming once again over to The Jeopardy! Fan to look at another recap! Also, best of retroactive luck to our friend Jordan Honan on tomorrow’s episode of Sports Jeopardy! over on Crackle!
Today’s contestants:
Camille Hooper, an accountant from Port Saint Lucie, FL |
Ashley Wilson, an organization development consultant from Alexandria, VA |
Patricia Franco, a library assistant from Arlington, MA |
Scores going into Final Jeopardy:
Camille $10,800
Ashley $9,400
Patricia $2,600
Final Jeopardy! category: FAMOUS LAST NAMES
Final Jeopardy! clue: The first woman space shuttle pilot shares this surname with a man on the 1st manned lunar landing 26 years earlier
[spoiler title=’Click/Tap Here for Correct Response’]Who is Collins?[/spoiler]
Patricia 2600 + 0 = 2600
Ashley 9400 – 9400 = 0 (Aldrin)
Camille 10800 – 8001 = 2799 (Armstrong)
After the promotional consideration though, Alex came back! He said, “Our bad, folks. Today’s Final Jeopardy should have referred to the entire Apollo 11 mission rather than to just the lunar landing part of it. We feel that Ashley might have been disadvantaged and so we have invited her to return to play again later this week.” She’ll be back Thursday!
(Interestingly enough – we would have had two disadvantaged players had Patricia actually bet properly. That’s why you learn betting strategy, folks!)
Finally, I actually got the intended answer to this Final. I stumbled upon this fact yesterday!
(contestant photo credit: jeopardy.com)
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More and more the writers of the show are not paying attention to the possibility of there being more than one answer to their
“questions”. They are also wording many “questions” very poorly.
But, in the “causing a contestant to lose” category the worst was about a year ago when the person who should have won was called wrong by Alex because he misunderstood her accent!!
There wasn’t more than one correct answer, though. The only correct answer is Collins.
You’re wrong. There were zero correct answers.
This was a very easy final question. There’s no reason to invite anyone back. It’s unfair to everyone who has ever missed a Final Jeopardy question, quite frankly. The female space shuttle pilot was not Aldrin or Armstrong. She was Collins. For the judges to say someone was misled is to suggest that someone was told it couldn’t have been Collins. That was not said. The argument that the phrasing of the question as “manned lunar landing” is confusing is nonsense. One of the three players on the show got it right and I guarantee thousands of people at home got it as well. I hate this decision.
Just because you didn’t think so doesn’t mean other reasonable people could have interpreted the clue that way. And that’s, frankly, silly for a Final Jeopardy.
This is hardly the first time the writers/judges have erred.
I recall once where the clue referred to the largest member of the violin family. The correct answer should have been the violoncello, more commonly known simply as the ‘cello.
Jeopardy writers had said double bass – clearly incorrect since the double, or upright, bass is NOT a member of the violin family, contrary to popular belief.