Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Games) for Wednesday, June 6, 2018 (Season 34, Episode 193):
Names used in other languages for this chess piece include malka, rainha & rouva
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Sharron Jenkins, an online E.S.L. teacher from Missouri City, Texas |
Michelle Rosen, a Ph.D. candidate from Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Joe Castro, a comptroller from Pasadena, California (1-day total: $9,384) |
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Correct response: What is the queen?
More information about Final Jeopardy:
“Malka” is Hebrew, “Rainha” is Portuguese, and “Rouva” is Finnish. Many European languages use some form of “Dame”/”Dama”/”Dam” to represent the queen.
Chess-poster.com has a list of the chess pieces in 43 different languages. One thing I find interesting: in Russian, “Queen” is Ferz’; I find that surprising because so many female proper names in Russian end in the letter A (which happened to be my path into getting this clue correct playing along at home.)
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Scores going into Final:
Michelle $13,600
Joe $9,200
Sharron $8,000
Tonight’s results:
Sharron $8,000 + $5,700 = $13,700
Joe $9,200 + $9,199 = $18,399
Michelle $13,600 + $4,801 = $18,401 (1-day total: $18,401)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Michelle $7,800
Sharron $1,600
Joe $800
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) WORLD HISTORY $1000 (7th pick)
Michelle 1800 +1000 (Sharron 600 Joe 200)
2) LITERARY OOPS! $1200 (3rd pick)
Joe 2000 +2000 (Michelle 7800 Sharron 1600)
3) THE SCIENCE OF MECHANICS $2000 (23rd pick)
Michelle 8600 +3000 (Joe 8800 Sharron 8000)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 190
Unplayed clues:
J! round: COMIC RELIEF $800 & $1000
DJ! Round: COMICS RELIEF $800, $1200 & $1600
Total $ Left On Board: $5,400
Game Stats:
Michelle $12,600 Coryat, 18 correct, 2 incorrect, 30.77% in first on buzzer
Joe $8,400 Coryat, 14 correct, 2 incorrect, 26.92% in first on buzzer
Sharron $8,000 Coryat, 12 correct, 3 incorrect, 26.92% in first on buzzer
Combined Coryat Score: $29,000
Lach Trash: $12,800 (on 11 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $6,800
Joe Castro, final stats:
34 correct, 7 incorrect
32.38% in first on buzzer (34/105)
1/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $0)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $11,500
Michelle Rosen, stats to date:
19 correct, 2 incorrect
30.77% in first on buzzer (16/52)
2/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $4,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $12,600
Michelle Rosen, to win:
2 games: 45.05%
3: 20.29%
4: 9.14%
5: 4.12%
6: 1.85%
Avg. streak: 1.820 games.
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Wouldn’t be surprised about another triple whiff. If somebody has an idea of Hebrew or Portuguese, maybe one. Rook will come up as at least one wrong answer because of the “R”s.
“Reine” is queen in French, so if you know that, you’ll likely get the clue. I’m thinking two will get this. Also I believe many languages put an “a” at the end of a feminine noun, another clue.
Much easier than the last couple of days…only 6 choices…I believe all 3 contestants should get this FJ
One of you three are right as the clue did not go 1/3.
Most high schools in America have foreign language classes still, the most popular probably being Spanish and French, so with reina(Spanish) and reine(French…thank you Mike), the writers definitely threw the contestants a bone today.
This was so easy … even my 10 year old daughter got it. She takes French in school so that helped.
What was the Answer to the “Who is Aquaman?” I missed it!!!
I recognized the Portuguese version of the Spanish word for queen. I’ve poked into Hebrew and Finnish during my many years of linguistics but not far enough to know the word for queen.
In the June 6 episode, a clue read 1780-1788(?) but Alex said 1980-1988. Did anyone notice that. I believe it was the World History Category.
Alex literally noticed it himself about ten seconds later and said so on the episode itself (when Michelle was about to bet on the first Daily Double).
(By the way: The clue said 1720-1788 and he said 1920-1988.)
I was kind of surprised they didn’t do a correction, and remove it from the show and broadcast. After all, the error may have caused the non-responding contestants to be led away from he correct answer.
Contestants are told that Alex can screw up sometimes and that if he screws up, they’ll usually re-tape during a commercial break, and that the clue on the screen is official, as it were.
Some more about the clue that was passed along to me to share: The Queen is referred to as Farzi in Hindi, Firz in Arabic, Vazeer in Persian, and Vezir in Azerbaijani, which are all equivalent to Minister, not Queen in those respective languages.
I don’t want the Finals to be “easy” . . .
I 100% disagree with this take.
The possibility of an “easy” Final keeps the strategy honest. If Final Jeopardy! never had the chance of being “easy”, then you’d see a lot more players betting more conservatively in Final (especially leaders) and the game would be worse off for it.
You’ve got a point, Andy . . .
I don’t want the Finals to be “easy” . . .