Final Jeopardy: Brand Names (3-30-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/30/2023) in the category “Brand Names” was:
The success of this brand has its roots with a hydrotherapy pump its cofounder created for his son, who had arthritis
2x champ Lisa Sriken, a lawyer from New York, NY, won $26,800 so far this week. In Game 3, her opponents are: Jacob Lang, an e-commerce specialist from Cleveland, OH; and Sharon Stone, a manager from Round Rock, TX.
Round 1 Categories: Spousal Support – 5 Consonants in a Row – State Motto Translations – Celebrity Memoirs – A Salt – A Deadly Weapon
Lisa found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Spousal Support” under the $1,000 clue on the 17th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $3,800, $1,600 more than Sharon in second place. Lisa bet it all and blurted out Adam and Eve when the book title didn’t register. Of course, that was WRONG.
Though Ring Lardner called this duo the prince & princess of their generation, their lives weren’t exactly “This Side of Paradise” show
Sharon finished in the lead with $4,800. Jacob was second with $4,000. Lisa was last with $200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: The Historic 1950s – World Place Names – The Greatest Snowman – A Religious Service – “EI”, Oh! – Quoth the Title
Sharon found the first Daily Double in “‘EI’, Oh!” under the $800 clue on the 6th pick. She was in the lead with $6,400, $3,600 more than Jacob in second place. Sharon bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
A famous one on a kids’ TV show debuted in 1968 & included a scale model trolley show
Sharon got the last Daily Double in “World Place Names” under the $1,600 on the 12th pick of the round. In the lead with $10,000, she had $7,200 more than Jacob in second place. Sharon bet $4,000 and she was RIGHT.
Legend says this sea is named for Theseus’ father who flung himself into the waters when he thought his son was dead show
Sharon finished in the lead with a runaway $18,000. Jacob was second with $7,600. At negative $1,000, Lisa was automatically in third place and out of the game. 2 clues worth $2,400 were not shown.
NEITHER contestant left in Final Jeopardy! got it right.
WHAT IS JACUZZI?
The Jacuzzi family’s talent for inventing manifested itself soon after migrating to the USA from Italy in the aviation field, but they later turned to other endeavors. In 1948, 2-year old Ken Jacuzzi was stricken with rheumatoid arthritis after bouts with strep throat and rheumatic fever. In the above video, Ken will tell you how his father was inspired to invent a hydropump that could be used at home and how he benefited from his father’s invention. One thing led to another and the Jacuzzi family branched out into therapeutic products, from pumps that turn your bathtub into a whirlpool to luxurious hot tubs for the whole family to relax in.
Jacuzzi.com lists the health benefits of hot tubs and hydrotherapy here.
Jacob thought it might be Water Pik. He lost $7,000 and finished with $600.
Sharon went with Aleve. That only cost her $1,000 and she won the game with the remaining $17,000. Sharon Stone is the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
THE GREATEST SNOWMAN ($2000) Timothy Hutton & Sean Penn took on the CIA–& lost, big time–as the nicknamed title characters in this 1985 movie
QUOTH THE TITLE ($1600) The title of this “haunting” Noel Coward comedy comes from Shelley’s “To a Skylark”
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Literary Inspirations”
The now-debunked theories of Luigi Galvani influenced the science in this 1818 novel. show
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Lisa alternated between appearing composed and being abrupt and looking flippant. I didn’t know which way to go with her.
I got FJ easily, which I say, because, what else could it be?
Goodbye Cruel World! “The Grapes of Wrath” by Hemingway? Ouch. “Adam and Eve” from “This Side of Paradise”? I thought that title was a dead giveaway, but you had to know who wrote it.
Other than the Hutton-Penn film and the Coward play, the stumpers and FJ puzzled me. Should have known the Aldous Huxley clue, because way back in HS a literate friend told me the Doors had taken their name from the quote attributed to Huxley’s source. (I saw the Doors perform in1967 as the opening act for Simon and Garfunkel. The preppy crowd did not like them.)
Was that before they were on Ed Sullivan; Howard? Even the gals who didn’t like long hair on guys were swooning over Jim post-Ed!
The show I saw was Aug. 12, 1967. My son bought me a repro poster a couple years ago. Sullivan show was 5 weeks later.
Lisa was annoying to watch with all her strange facial expressions. Glad to see her go.
A lot of people loved Lisa and found her reactions and chat stories quite entertaining.
Another tough final as we got a double stumper.
Oh, well. Better luck for the returning champion next time. For Thursdays in March, 2 good things happened. 1. Justin Bolsen won the High School Reunion Tournament, and 2. Stephen Webb won his 8th and last game.
Poor Lisa, she was up and down all game and unfortunately ended the game in the red. I felt bad for Lisa and you can tell that Lisa was sad that Ken was telling her she’s not going to be playing FJ! But she is leaving us with 2 wins and she’ll always be a Jeopardy champion for the rest of her life. In today’s interviews Sharon has a sister named Kathy who was on the show 5-6 years ago and came in third. But Sharon won the game and made her sister proud.