Final Jeopardy: Technology (6-3-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/3/2022) in the category “Technology” was:
Upon the first use of this in 1844, the Baltimore Sun declared that time & space had been annihilated
15x champ Ryan Long, a rideshare driver from Philadelphia, PA, is up to $279,400 now, just $20,600 from $300K. Will Ryan hit that mark in Game 16? These competitors are looking to prevent that: Lucia Yang, a medical and doctoral student orig. from San Diego, CA; and Wyatt Yankus, a policy analyst from Washington, DC.
Round 1 Categories: In the World Capital – Renaissance Art & Artists – Phil & the Blank – Don’t Get Confused – Apples – Oranges
Wyatt found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “In the World Capital” under the $400 clue on the 7th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $1,200, $200 more than Ryan in second place. Wyatt bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
In 1791 Mozart conducted the first performance of “The Magic Flute” in this city show
Ryan finished in the lead with $4,600. Wyatt was second with $4,200. Lucia was last with $600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: This Will Go Down in History – A Bit of Lit – “M” Paths – Calling for a Measurement – Super-Duper Supers – Words with Fiends
Ryan found the first Daily Double in “‘M’ Paths” under the $1,200 clue on the fourth pick of the round. He was in the lead with $5,800, $1,200 more than Wyatt in second place. Ryan bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
This almost 200-mile trail named for a famous line runs through Pennsylvania, Maryland & Delaware show
Wyatt got the last Daily Double in “This Will Go Down in History” under the $2,000 clue with 6 clues left after it. He was in second place with $9,800, $5,000 less than Ryan’s lead. Wyatt bet $3,000 and tried Halley’s Comet right after time ran out. That was WRONG anyway.
In 1979 the S.F. Examiner awarded $10,000 to the first person who produced a piece of this, which had just fallen from the sky show
Ryan finished in the lead with a runaway $19,200. Wyatt was second with $8,800 and Lucia was last with $4,200. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS THE TELEGRAPH?
The above video from the Library of Congress highlights the original May 24, 1844 “What hath God wrought!” telegraph, noting that the line comes from Chapter 23, Verse 23 of the Book of Numbers (KJV). History.com takes a deeper look into this first step in communications technology, including the roles of Leonard Gale and Alfred Vail, who collaborated with Samuel Morse in the USA.
According to Legends of America, without fanfare, Western Union sent its last telegram on January 27, 2006.
Lucia thought it was the steamboat. She didn’t bet anything so she stayed at $4,200.
Wyatt got it right. He bet $4,800 and finished with $13,600.
Ryan got it right, too. He bet $800 and won the game with $20,000. His 16-day total is $299,400.
A triple stumper from each round:
RENAISSANCE ART & ARTISTS ($1000) One of the most famous works of this Venetian master is simply known as “La Bella”, “The Beautiful Woman”
A BIT OF LIT ($800) Korzeniowski was the original last name of this “Lord Jim” author
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Presidential Libraries & Museums”
Of the 15 U.S. presidential libraries or museums, 3 are in this state, more than any other show
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I know Jeopardy likes a winner, but you think they’d pick somebody other than Mr. Excitement to give it to. And I say “give” in the true sense of, well, the movie “Quiz Show.” Of course, there’s no proof anybody is given any answers ahead of time, but there’s enough proof at least for me that they’re given easier questions. When Mattea was on her run, I was constantly stumped by questions she blithely answered with a wave of her floppy wrist. Now I routinely answer nearly every question, including those all the contestants miss. I’m not saying I’m that smart, but I will say that the questions are that dumb.
Last Thursday, we too were preëmpted in Montana, I think the whole state was affected. Anyway, I always check in to Fikklefame for VJs Recaps, and almost always learn something.
Friday’s FJ on Technology I thought was fairly easy, knowing something about Samuel F. B. Morse. And his father Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826), who was a Congregational minister out of Yale. He is known as the “Father of American Geography” starting with “Geography Made Easy”(1784)and “American Geography”(1789), with many revisions and editions.
But I can’t blame some contestants for missing some clues, because the Clue Crew work hard to make the clues as obscure as possible but still reasonably gettable by the quick and the acute; and would be easily solvable if the clue was stated in normal colloquial English. Mr. Ryan Long is doing just fine. His conservative wagering minimizes ultimate disaster. Maybe a born economist. He’s one of the good guys alright.
Yeah, I guessed that Ryan would wager $1500.
I got about 1/3 of the TS.
I guess Ryan was trying to even up his total just for this game and didn’t realize his total winnings would be $300K if he tacked $600 more on that bet.
VJ, The game tonight was quite interesting. Ryan is now 50% correct & 50% incorrect on fj clues. That’s progress from our discussion yesterday.
True, Jacob, that was good on the one hand.
On the other, it was back to a boatload of triple stumpers!
In the Don’t Get Confused category, I have never messed up those two words thanks to a teacher who taught us to associate the “A” with “stand” and “E” with “letter”. She had other ones, too, like stalaCtite (ceiling) and stalaGmite (ground).
I hope Ryan gets win 17 on Monday and ties with Jason Zuffranieri
Jason Zuffranieri won 19 games.