Final Jeopardy: The National Park Service (5-16-22)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/16/2022) in the category “The National Park Service” was:

The U.S.A.’s smallest National Park is a 91-acre site on the Mississippi River, home to this 630-foot landmark

New champ Ryan Long, a rideshare driver from Philadelphia, PA, won $18,800 on Friday. In Game 2, he is up against: Nick Dee, a photographer from Los Angeles, CA; and Divya Badri, a software developer from Coral Valley, IL.

Round 1 Categories: Face the Music – A Horse with a Name – How Inventive – That’s Our Island – It’s Getting Windy – TFW

Ryan found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “TFW” under the $1,000 clue on the 13th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $2,600, $1,000 more than Divya in second place. Ryan bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.

You’re realistic or emotionally stable, like a circuit safely connected to the Earth show

WHAT IS GROUNDED?

Ryan finished in the lead with $8,600 and Nick was second with $4,000. Divya was last with $400. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: Swedish History – That Book Plagues Me – Skeleton Crew – Close to the Vest – Let’s Gamble – I’ve Got a Big Bank Role

Ryan found the first Daily Double in “Swedish History” under the $1,600 clue on the 9th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $11,000, $3,000 more than Nick in second place. Ryan bet $2,000, and said “knight them”. That was WRONG.

The Warrior King, Charles XII, did this in 1708 with 44,000 troops; as wisdom would suggest, it didn’t work. show

WHAT IS INVADE RUSSIA?

Nick got the last Daily Double in “Skeleton Crew” under the $1,600 clue with 10 clues left after it. In second place with $10,800, Nick had $3,000 less than Ryan’s lead. With $3,000 on the line, Nick took a shot at it with pelvic bone but that was WRONG.

This bone fits into the acetabulum the cup-shaped cavity of the hip show

WHAT IS THE FEMUR?

Ryan finished in the lead with $16,200. Nick was right behind him with $14,600 and Divya was last with $4,000. All clues were shown.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS THE GATEWAY ARCH (or ST. LOUIS ARCH)?

The idea for The Gateway Arch began in 1935. St. Louis was thought to be the ideal place to erect a memorial to Thomas Jefferson, as it was there that Lewis & Clark set out to explore western land acquired by the Louisiana Purchase. 12 years later in 1947, Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen designed a 630-foot arch that won the competition for the monument. Saarinen died in 1961, 2 years before construction began on the Gateway Arch. The project was completed in 1965 and opened to the public on 6/10/1967. St. Louis was known as the Gateway to the West so it is doubly symbolic that the monument was named the Gateway Arch and that it was built where St. Louis first sprung up.

18 Fascinating Things about the Gateway Arch

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Divya didn’t have a response. That cost Divya $700. She finished with $3,300.

Nick got it right. A $6,599 bet brought Nick up to $21,199.

Ryan got it right, too. He bet $8,000 and won the game with $24,200. Ryan’s 2-day total is $43,000.

2 triple stumpers from the last round:

THAT BOOK PLAGUES ME ($400) An epidemic strikes Algeria in “The Plague” by this author

I’VE GOT A BIG BANK ROLE ($1600) In “Too Big to Fail”, he played Fed chair Ben Bernanke; on “Billions”, he’s a U.S. attorney going after Wall Street corruption

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “U.S. Political History”

These 2 now-defunct parties each gave the U.S. 4 presidents in the 19th century show

WHAT IS WHIG & DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICAN?

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