Final Jeopardy: City History (3-31-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/31/2023) in the category “City History” was:
Over 700 years after its traditional 1252 founding date, this port city became associated with a psychological response
New champ Sharon Stone, a manager from Round Rock, TX, won $17,000 yesterday. In Game 2, the competitors are : Brittany Shaw, a senior insurance rater from Joliet, IL; and Jen Petro-Roy, a writer from Chelmsford, MA.
Round 1 Categories: Health & Medicine – That, or a Golf Thing – Vermont – Songs from ’60s Musicals – Hey, Big Spender – Sweet Charity
Sharon found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Songs from ‘60s Musicals” under the $1600 clue on the 2nd pick of the round. She was the only one on the board with $400. Sharon bet the $1,000 allowance and she was RIGHT.
With a 10-word title, “Comedy Tonight” & “The House of Marcus Lycus” show
Sharon finished in the lead with $6,200. Jen was second with $5,200. Brittany was last with negative $400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Oh, The Literary Places You Don’t Want to Go! – Politics Talk – Last Lines of Movies – To the Tower! – Ancient VIPs – Consecutive Letter Word Pairs
Brittany found the first Daily Double in “Ancient VIPs” under the $1,600 clue on the 15th pick. She was in last place with $2,400, $5,400 less than Sharon’s lead. Brittany bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
The Hanging Gardens was one of many building projects credited to this king of Babylon who also appears in the Book of Daniel show
Sharon got the last Daily Double in “Politics Talk” under the $2,000 with 12 clues left after it. In the lead with $9,400, she had $3,800 more than Jen in second place. Sharon bet $2,500 and her guess was RIGHT, much to her relief.
Sen. Robert Byrd said the survival of our constitutional system is based on “the delicate mechanism of” this pair show
Sharon finished in the lead with a runaway at $15,500. Brittany was second with $6,800 and Jen was last with $6,400. One $200 clue was not shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS STOCKHOLM SYNDROME?
Stockholm, Sweden actually has many ports as the city is spread across 14 islands where Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. The year the city was founded is disputed to this day.
History.com has the full story of the 1973 Stockholm bank robbery when Jan-Erik Olsson and Clark Olofsson held four bank employees hostage for 6 days. During that time, the hostages came to trust and care about their captors to the point where they feared the police. “Within months of the siege, psychiatrists dubbed the strange phenomenon ‘Stockholm Syndrome,’ which became part of the popular lexicon in 1974 when it was used as a defense for the kidnapped newspaper heiress Patty Hearst, who assisted her radical Symbionese Liberation Army captors in a series of bank robberies.”
Stockholm Syndrome is the most well-known on this list of psychological disorders named after cities
Jen went with Somalia. She lost $500 and finished with $5,900.
Brittany came up with Pavlova. That cost her $6,001 and left her with $299.
Sharon got it right. She bet $1,100 and won the game with $16,600. Sharon’s 2-day total is $33,600.
A triple stumper from each round:
VERMONT ($600) At 2:47 a.m. on August 3, 1923, this man was sworn in as president in the Vermont farmhouse seen here
LAST LINES OF MOVIES ($2000) This “Dirty Harry” sequel whose title mentions Harry’s gun: “A man’s got to know his limitations”
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “19th Century Americans”
In 1869 he moved to Yosemite Valley and was the first to say the area was formed by glacial erosion, a theory generally accepted today. show
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Hmmmm…….Given the clue, I was thinking about some port city during the 1950s era, but came up with nothing. Actually, I wasn’t aware that Patty Hearst’s attorneys specifically used the ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ as Patty’s primary defense. No, as far as I recall, Patty Hearst’s attorneys claimed that she was simply “brainwashed”. At any rate, her father (Randolph Hearst) was a wealthy publisher, and I sure didn’t have any doubt at the time that he was going to help Patty beat the rap. As the saying goes:: “Money talks”, and it sure did in Patty’s case as she only served two years for armed robbery before President Carter pardoned her..
In a fun coincidence, today’s Jeopardy daily calendar’s clue was about Jurassic Park, then a different clue about JP popped up in this episode.
Brittany was all over the place and spent a long time in the red, but recovered nicely enough to make it a competitive game. The scores were decent after DJ, but they left a lot on the table.
Sharon’s a good player, but someone will take her down soon. I thought Jen might do it.
The “group at the DNC” was not a triple stumper; Jen said “delegates” (which I thought they’d accept as a noun) and Sharon said “delegation.”
A rare night when I got all 3 DDs and FJ. The final would have been tough to guess if you didn’t know the old port.
WAY too many unanswered clues and wrong answers tonight. Someone should have known the 1923 president from Vermont. Others that were not impossible were the Dirty Harry sequel; the golfer’s beach; the rhyming region of China; and the white stone. The “Metal Health” band was a toughie, but I know them from my classic rock station’s playlist.
And the rhyme with October! How many could there be?
Thanks for the heads up on the DNC clue, Howard.
The $400 clue “To The, Tower” should’ve been read.
So we didn’t get a payday of over 20,000 last week and this week but Sharon is certainly a good player. Her sister is going to be so proud of her for making it to two wins.