Today’s contestants:
Laurie Corrin, a community volunteer from Kirkland, WA |
Tim Mercure, a graduate student in mathematics from Washington, DC |
Erin Delaney, an English professor from North Hills, CA (2-day total: $53,999) |
Scores going into Final Jeopardy:
Tim $13,500
Laurie $10,200
Erin $8,400
Final Jeopardy! category: WORLD FAUNA
Final Jeopardy! clue: Platypuses are to what this Pacific island what alligators are to Florida
[spoiler title=’Click/Tap Here for Correct Response’]What is Tasmania? (Incorrect responses, if any, as well as game stats, can be found in the comments section.)[/spoiler]
Erin 8400 – 8400 = 0
Laurie 10200 – 6601 = 3599
Tim 13500 + 6901 = 20401
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The platypus is found in terrain ranging from the high country of Tasmania and the Australian Alps to lowland areas close to the sea. Although it has on occasion been seen swimming in salt water, the platypus must feed in fresh water, where its electrical navigation system is operative. The platypus is present in all eastern Australian states in both eastward- and westward-flowing river systems, but it is absent from far northern Queensland and, unlike its relatives, the echidnas, does not appear to have colonized the island of New Guinea.
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The living platypus family (Ornithorhynchidae) includes the Paleogene and Neogene platypuses (genera Monotrematum and Obdurodon as well as Ornithorhychus). The discovery of M. sudamericanum in 62 million-year-old Patagonian sediments confirmed that platypuses were once distributed through the southern continents that were once linked geographically (Gondwanaland). Species of Monotrematum and Obdurodon, which retained functional teeth, were generally larger and more robust than the living platypus.
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Incorrect responses to Final Jeopardy:
Erin: New Zealand
Laurie: Papua New Guinea
Tim: 11,400 Coryat, 24 right, 6 wrong, 43.86% in first on buzzer
Laurie: 10,200 Coryat, 15 right, 3 wrong, 26.32% in first on buzzer
Erin: 8,400 Coryat, 13 right, 3 wrong, 24.56% in first on buzzer
Erin Delaney, through 3 games:
54 correct (including Final)
8 incorrect (including Final)
2/2 on Daily Doubles
2/3 on Final Jeopardy
In First On Buzzer: 29.41% (50/170)
Average Coryat: $12,533
Tim Mercure, to win:
2 games: 43.21%
3: 18.67%
4: 8.07%
5: 3.49%
6: 1.51%
Avg. streak: 1.761 games.
I don’t understand the analogy–what is the animal-state relationship the question was talking about?
Alligators are native to Florida.
Platypi are native to Tasmania.
Wow…now there’s an interesting fact that I will definitely keep in thought about this. Who knew that the Platypus is native to Tasmania?
The plural of platypus is platypuses, not platypi. Platypodes is also correct.
confused on Final Jeopardy! the phrase “pacific island” threw me. Tasmania is bordered on the west by the Indian Ocean and on the east by the Pacific. Therefore, NOT a Pacific Island. Furthermore, some say bordered on the south by the Southern Ocean. i.e. Which ocean is Cape Horn found? Neither ‘entirely’ in the Atlantic or the Pacific…both!
It borders the Pacific. I’d say it’s OK.
Though I was more confused the same way Tim was than how you were.
Australia is correct too because its an island like Tasmania and has platypus also. Part of it is pacific ocean and infian ocean too.
Australia is defined as a continent and not an island.