Fun Fact: The difference between Lee Wilkins & Alison Betts’ totals is the same as the difference between Thad McCollum & Gordon Graham’s totals. $26,400.

Nice job Allison, that was a close call there!

Great to have a final Jeopardy where anyone can be a winner. Even the contestant who was a distant third.

James Cook.....James Kirk....Endeavor....Enterprise

I truly don't mean this to be disrespectful, although there's probably no way it won't sound that way at least a little - if someone like Lee can not only make the show but win a game, there's hope for us all. The other two's wagers were enough that if they'd have been wrong, she'd have backed into another one!

I knew this one right off the bat. Nephew of a shuttle technician I knew it was Cook Discovery and Endeavour my two favorite shuttles. I miss the Shuttles it was a sad day when they retired.

The date gives it away, as it is a well-known fact that this particular captain was killed on Valentine's Day in 1779 in the Hawaiian Islands. Besides, this captain's name (as well as the year 1779) has come up on the show multiple times in recent years. No need to know anything about space shuttles.

I knew the correct response, but totally whiffed which shuttles which were named in their honor.

Cook comes up as the final Jeopardy question a disproportionate amount of times. Seriously.

ugh, i totally blew it because i couldn't decide between cook and nelson. i thought cook was alive a bit later, in the early 19th century, but i also knew there was no space shuttle named "victory" in honor of nelson's ship.

The alligator smoocher gets the W!

Fun fact: The last time Captain Cook came up on Final Jeopardy was in game 2 of the second week of Champions Wildcard, which aired on the third anniversary of Alex Trebek’s passing. The question was: Perhaps inspiring a line 2 centuries later, in 1774 he wrote that he was headed "farther than any other man has been before me". Before that, Captain Cook came up on the Final Jeopardy round on Hannah Wilson’s 8th game. The question was: Describing these, Captain Cook wrote, "The manner in which" they're done "must certainly cause intollerable pain". The last time the year Captain Cook died came up was on the tiebreaker game between Brian Chang and Jack Weller in January 2021. The question was: Statues honoring this man who was killed in 1779 can be found in Waimea, Kauai & in Whitby, England. Meanwhile, I immediately knew the answer on today’s game was Captain Cook because I missed it last time, wrote “Captain Cook 1774” on a sheet of paper, and watched a documentary about Captain Cook. Simply put, Captain Cook comes up a lot on Final Jeopardy!

I had Magellan but then noticed the date. Magellan was far earlier than the late Eighteenth Century. Cook made sense with that time period because I remembered from Dava Sobel's Longitude and the miniseries based on the book that Cook used John Harrison's chronometer.

Well, I knew which shuttles they were talking about, but wasn't sure of the explorer. Cook was one of two I thought of!!

Does anyone know where I can watch full episodes now that YT/Sony has pulled the plug here?

Well, space _is_ the final frontier.

I got this Final Jeopardy! clue right.

Jesus, does Jeopardy ever overuse Cook

Contestants now are all chummy.

The date was the giveaway here - I got it

This was a pretty easy question.

What a cutie, hoping for a long reign…

Congratulations allison on winning $28,600 on jeopardy

Too easy.

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Okay, that game was way better than yesterday. No doubt. Also, I seriously can't stand Mayim being included in the outro all the time.

Cook that correct, Alison is a jeopardy champion with $28,600. Congratulations 🎉