If only she would have bet it all on her super easy Daily Double..ugh...

(the gist of the clue was "taking something with this means to be skeptical...origin is a Roman recipe for an antidote to poison")

The guy deserved to win though, he showed big balls on his Daily Double and on Final Jeopardy, especially with wild card berths in play. He probably accurately assessed his high probability of getting these questions right.

I can't believe he was the only one that got Final Jeopardy right. That is something that probably almost no adult contestant would miss. The parents were probably screaming inside their heads.

(Final Jeopardy was something like "a piece of specialized equipment called 'Phoenix' was important in a major event in this country", category was events of 2010.)

hmmm...maybe the final jeopardy clue is harder than i thought, it could just have seemed really easy since the word phoenix seemed to be coming up a lot, even with people who weren't following closely, and i wasn't even paying that much attention

but that experience could be more localized to me and my social group than i thought

i was chalking it up to teens generally not giving a damn about current events...i sure didn't, especially if they were in a foreign country. i still don't care THAT much, but when you're older, that is what older people are talking about, so you just absorb it

agree she might have overbet on fj, i do not have a real good feel for what kind of scores go through though