Final Jeopardy: U.S. Landmarks (4-28-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/28/2023) in the category “U.S. Landmarks” was:
In April 1975, to symbolize the start of America’s bicentennial, President Ford lit a third lantern at this landmark
New champ Eric Anderson, an operations director from Brooklyn, NY, won $7,600 yesterday. In Game 2, his competitors are: Katherine Cohen, a grad student & museum worker from New York, NY; and Kevin Belle, a trail planner from Silver Spring, MD.
Hosting Switch: Today is Ken Jennings’ last day of hosting regular games this season. Mayim Bialik takes over on Monday.
Round 1 Categories: Inside Job – It’s a Cookbook! – Sports GOATs – We Discontinued the Car – “Hold” Up – Kuwait for Me!
Eric found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Sports GOATs” under the $600 clue on the third pick of the round. He was in the red for $800. No one else had any money. Eric bet the $1,000 allowance and he was RIGHT.
He was born March 30, 1970, in a Virginia stable show
Kevin finished in the lead with $6,800. Eric was second with $2,800. Katherine was last with $2,400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: The 3-Digit Years – Animated Entertainment – A Real Body Busy – Literary Lions – “G” as in Global – It’s German For…
Kevin found the first Daily Double in “Literary Lions” under the $800 clue on the 12th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $11,600, $2,800 more than Katherine in second place. Kevin bet $1,000 and said he didn’t know so he was WRONG.
”Whenever there is danger, my heart begins to beat fast”, says this character in a 1900 book show
Katherine got the last Daily Double in “A Real Busy Body” under the $1,200 clue with 3 clues left after it. She was in second place with $8,000 now, $6,200 less than Kevin’s lead. Katherine bet $4,000 and she was RIGHT.
Most of your digestion doesn’t take place in the stomach but rather in this organ that includes the ileum show
Kevin finished in the lead with $14,200. Katherine was second with $8,400 and Eric was last with $1,200. All clues were shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS THE OLD NORTH CHURCH?
On April 18, 1975, President Gerald Ford became the fifth U.S. President to pay a visit to Boston’s Old North Church. The occasion was the bicentennial of the eve of the American Revolution. From theoldnorthchurch.com: “President Gerald R. Ford … immortalized Old North’s role in the American Revolution by saying, ‘The Declaration of Independence has won the minds, it has won the hearts of this world beyond the dreams of any revolutionary who has ever lived. The two lanterns of Old North Church have fired a torch of freedom that has been carried to the ends of the world.’ To mark the occasion, he gifted the Old North with a symbolic Third Lantern, which we still keep lit inside the church to this day!”
The “two lanterns of Old North Church” are, of course, the “one if by land, two if by sea” signals immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere” when Revere alerted many that the British were coming. Read “The Real Story of Paul Revere’s Ride” on the Paul Revere House website.
Eric was going for the Washington Monument. He lost $1,199 and finished with one buck.
Katherine thought it might be Independence Hall. That cost her $6,000 and left her with $2,400.
Kevin came up with Plymouth Rock. He only lost $2,601 and won the game with $11,599. Kevin Belle is the new Jeopardy! champ, the 5th one this week!
A triple stumper from each round:
IT’S A COOKBOOK! ($400) “Over 300 recipes for plant-based eating all through the year” are found in the bestselling “Forks Over” these
ANIMATED ENTERTAINMENT ($2000) Lincoln has 10 sisters on this Nick series whose titles indicates that things might be chaotic at home
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Movie Title Characters”
In this 2012 film set just before the Civil War, a German dentist declares that the title character’s surname is Freeman show
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At age 15 Paul Revere was a bellringer at the Old North Church. At age 40, he told the church sexton to light 2 lanterns.
The challengers dominated the 2nd round and left the champ in their dust.
Very disappointing that no one could think of “One if by land, 2 if by sea.”
An overabundance of stumpers. They answered a LOT of clues I didn’t know, but I got them on the “forks over” cookbook; Sholom Aleichim’s dairyman; Yankee slugger; GOAT boxer (I got his autograph when I was a kid); Jim Thorpe’s king; “Sunset Blvd” actor (come on, it was in the “Hold” category); filtering organ; Isak Dinesen book; Shaw’s play.
I got FJ, due to the third light. I didn’t even waste brain power on the Bicentennial.
Katherine was a quizzical one. She spoke just a little too quickly, and that caught her with “das Boot”. I knew she knew her German, though, with her correct “Jawohl, mein Herr”; this is more correct than Ken saying they just needed “Jawohl”. Her last daily double, though – didn’t wager enough, then had to risk it on the wrong answer. (Also, VJ, you have an extra “m” on hypophysis.) Also, the last body question, about which there might be more than one, for what she did know, I was surprised she didn’t get that. Then, the kind of blathering, for lack of a better word, about that poetry clue – she was hey own enemy there. Kevin was tactical in just letting them make their own mistakes, while he was on cruise control. I don’t know if that puts her in the running for the Second Chance Tournament.
Thanks, Jason. We were doing very well with the stumpers on this board, and I jokingly said we’d nail the Body category too if Jason was here.
I felt bad for Katherine. She was doing so well. I didn’t think Ken gave her enough of a chance to correct her “Boot” mistake. Then she got unnerved when she realized she made the same mistake on the poetry clue (not identifying the author). Anyway, she was wrong about Didion on that one.
Independence Hall wasn’t a bad guess for FJ, but Plymouth Rock? Anyways, we went for the Liberty Bell.
No Jeopardy here tonight, instead they are airing the NFL draft, seriously, there are surely enough sports channels to carry this very boring event.
I’ll admit I’ve never heard of the Old North Church, I guessed the Liberty Bell but that didn’t make much sense.
And we got our third triple stumper as today’s final wasn’t nice to anybody.
Shocking. I thought this would be a triple get, not a triple stumper.
I am so sad. FJ was a triple stumper? Between (5th/6th grade) History, movies like National Treasure and simple rousing stories and poems, I really thought one of these obviously bright folks would remember Paul Revere or the lanterns or something……. I really do get that even “supposedly” simple facts are not in everyone’s wheelhouse and we all can have that “blank moment”, I am very disappointed that this question could not be answered by any contestant.
My usual shoutout to VJ – your splendid work continues – to my everlasting joy.
Thanks, Sam. I also was disappointed that no one got this. I can only think that they all focused on the bicentennial, rather than the lanterns. Poetry, esp. 19th century, is my thing and I’ve even done a post on Longfellow’s stuff.
Also, there were an awful lot of stumpers in this game — more than any other game this week, I think. I was surprised at the Shaw play — that led to movies (Victor Mature!), children’s book and cartoons. Even more so, the Dinesen book? That’s a Jeopardy! favorite.
Well VJ, the focus was assuredly on the bicentennial in many people’s mind so naturally one would be searching for a national landmark that would commemorate that event. Personally, I wouldn’t have necessarily described the ‘Old North Church’ as being a national landmark (although I would grant you that it was quite a historical site to be sure). Perhaps this was what threw many people off. By the way, I’m not sure that anyone had dismissed the three lanterns in formulating their responses. I mean, we sure didn’t.
It’s also a curious fact that no one even knows what happened to those three lanterns as they all turned up missing.
Where did you see that, Rick?
The article on the Old North Church’s website says Ford’s lantern is still there, and Concord Museum claims it has one of the original lanterns.
From Wikipedia: “The current status of the lanterns is not entirely clear; one is said to be in the hands of a private collector, another was broken during a tour, and yet another is on display at the Concord Museum”.
From reading this, it sure seemed to me that those lanterns’ whereabouts were less than certain, and much less being found anywhere on the church grounds.
Thanks for the link, Rick. I have to say it sounds confusing to me. What third one? It can’t be referring to the Gerald Ford lantern as the article also states that the Bicentennial lantern “hangs in a window of the church today.”
In any case, I find it hard to believe that anyone really knew which lanterns were the original ones used. Heck, for a long time, folks couldn’t even agree on which “North Church” Paul Revere meant.
For the third time this week, we had another triple stumper. Hopefully next week will be better. Kevin Belle will return on Monday when Mayim Bialik returns to host for the rest of the season.
The last week of April was even worst than the first week, only 2 out of 15 correct responses.