Final Jeopardy: Phrases in American History (11-2-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/2/2022) in the category “Phrases in American History” was:
Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill that gave reparations to formerly enslaved people, hence this phrase for an unfulfilled promise
In the third quarterfinal match of the 2022 Tournament of Champions, the contestants are: Brian Chang, an attorney from Chicago, IL, Tyler Rhode, a director at a start-up from New York, NY; and Margaret Shelton, a homemaker from Pittsburgh, PA.
Round 1 Categories: Historic Names – Team of the MLB Hall of Famers – You Left Me – 5, 5 – Baroque – The Law
Brian found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Baroque” under the $800 clue on the 13th pick of the round. Brian had just gotten himself out of the red and was at $0. He had $3,400 less than Tyler and Margaret who were tied. Brian bet $1,000 and thought it was Salome. That was WRONG.
Like Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi painted this biblical woman “beheading Holofernes” show
Tyler and Margaret finished in a tie for the lead with $5,400. Brian was last with negative $1,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: National Geographic 100 Cities, 5,000 Ideas – Health & Medicine – Simon Says – Child Actors – Novel Nurses – Anagrams of Each Other
Brian found the first Daily Double in “Anagrams to Each Other” under the $2,000 clue on the first pick of the round. At negative $1,000, he had $6,400 less than Tyler and Margaret’s lead. Brian bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
A quantity that has both magnitude & direction, & describing secret operations show
Tyler got the last Daily Double in “National Geographic” under the $800 clue with 6 clues left after it. In second place with $12,600 now, he had $4,000 less than Margaret’s lead. Tyler bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.
You get a good look at this city from a gondola as it climbs the former Ericsson Globe, now renamed Avicii Arena show
Tyler and Margaret finished in a tie for the lead with $17,400. Brian was last with $4,200. All clues were shown.
What a great game! Margaret and Tyler were neck and neck throughout most of the game. Margaret then matched Tyler’s pre-FJ! score with the last Double Jeopardy! clue on the board: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ($400) Dating from before the city was built up, just a short drive outside this Kenyan capitol is a national park bearing its name.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS “40 ACRES AND A MULE”?
“Broken promises: The truth behind ‘40 acres and a mule’” is an article on The Buffalo News that is better than most accounts in that it quotes specific parts of Union Gen. William T. Sherman’s Special Field Order No. 15, issued on Jan. 16, 1865. The order specified that 400,000 acres of land on “a strip of coastline stretching from Charleston, S.C., to the St. Johns River in Florida, including Georgia’s Sea Islands and the mainland 30 miles in from the coast,” as Barton Myers reports – would be redistributed in 40-acre lots to newly freed slaves. The mules came into the picture later on when the Army lent some mules to the freedmen to help them get established. President Lincoln approved the order but after his April 1865 assassination, his VP Andrew Johnson became President. Johnson rescinded Special Field Order No. 15 in the fall of 1865 and returned the land to the original Confederate owners.
Brian didn’t have a response and he didn’t bet anything either. His score remained $4,200.
Tyler got it right. He bet every Lincoln penny he had and doubled his score to $34,800.
Margaret got it, too. She bet $7,000 for a $24,400 finish. Tyler Rhode won the match and he advances to the Semifinals. Brian and Margaret are going home with $5,000.
A triple stumper from each round:
THE LAW ($1000) In 2008 feeding the pigeons at St. Mark’s Square in this city became a no-no that could cost you 700 euro
CHILD ACTORS ($1600) Maybe Olivia Edward, child of psychic medium John Edward, foresaw playing Pamela Adlon’s youngest daughter on this series
2 years ago: BOTH contestants left in Final Jeopardy! got this FJ in “Awards and Honorees”
He used his 1983 Pritzker prize money on a scholarship fund for Chinese students to study their profession in the United States show
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What were the mlb hof choices
They were in this category: TEAM OF THE MLB HALL OF FAMERS
($200) Roberto Clemente, Willie Stargell
($400) Ozzie Smith, Lou Brock
($600) Phil Niekro, Chipper Jones
($800) Jeff Bagwell, Craig Biggio
($1000) Ron Santo, Frank Chance
So, I’m 2/2 on predictions, but, I don’t recall enough of Courtney or John to forecast tonight’s game.
I echo the others (as usual, with this erudite bunch) that Margaret didn’t wager optimally. It’s win or go home, period.
I didn’t look precisely myself, but, the health and medicine category in the Double Jeopardy! round, I believe was a bit less than precise. One was the “ovarian tube” clue, as “Fallopian” is very out of date. Eponyms are really out (however, one remains still – Hansen’s Disease – possibly known to the general public as “leprosy”). Another was “arrhythmia”; more exactly, their definition was right on for “dysrhythmia”, of which “arrhythmia” is a subset. Finally, the outpocketings in the colon is diverticulosis. Only with infection is it “diverticulitis”. Just somewhat sloppy. I wonder if they would have given them to me, or, multiple corrections.
And, VJ, your write-up on FJ comes from my local paper!
That’s cool about the paper, Jason 😁
Not sure what Margaret was thinking with that wager. It’s a single-elimination tournament, right? No wild cards for high-scoring runners-up in this iteration of the ToC.
All 3 DDs and FJ crushed me. I never thought of “40 acres and a mule” as a general term for an unfulfilled promise.
I couldn’t name you more than 10% of current MLB players, but it pained me when no one knew
Santo/Chance and Smith/Brock. A few Hall of Famers in that group!
Utterly shocked that no one knew where St Mark’s Place is. Or the pig sound/peers anagrams.
Margaret is just delightful. Sorry to see her go down.
I was hoping to see a tiebreaker, too, between Margaret and Tyler but still happy to see them getting the final correct.
And then there were 15.
What an exciting game today! I was disappointed not to have this game settled with a tiebreaker.