Final Jeopardy: Team Names (5-5-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/5/2023) in the category “Team Names” was:
An MLB team got this name in 1902 after some of its players defected to a new crosstown rival, leaving young replacements
2x champ Hannah Wilson, a data scientist from Chicago, IL, won $71,000 this week. In Game 3, the competitors are : Ashwin Phadnis, an attorney orig. from Hillsdale, NJ; and Brian Alzua, a biocompatability scientist from Minneapolis, MN.
Round 1 Categories: Take Me to Church – Quick Planets – Everything’s Coming up Rose – Slang En Espanol – It’s a TV Mystery – The Great American Baking Show with Ellie Kemper
Ashwin found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Take Me to Church” under the $600 clue on the 9th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $2,200, $1,000 more than Hannah in second place. Ashwin bet $1,000 and guessed Florence. That was WRONG.
In 2023 16th St. Baptist in this city marks 150 years of the congregation, a history marred by a 1963 bombing show
Hannah finished in the lead with $5,800. Ashwin was second with $2,800. Brian was last with $2,200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Northern Lands – Stock Symbols – A Musical Bouquet – “Oh”, Yes! – Dunce, Dunce – Revolution
Hannah found the first Daily Double in “‘Oh’, Yes!” under the $1,200 clue on the 5th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $4,600, $1,200 more than Brian in second place. Hannah bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
In physics it’s the intermolecular force that holds together a liquid or solid show
Hannah got the last Daily Double in “Revolution” under the $2,000 clue on the 12th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $11,200 now, $6,800 more than Brian in second place. Hannah bet $2,500 and said Fifth Estate. That was WRONG.
Ordinal name for the commoners who turned into a revolutionary national assembly in 1789 France show
Hannah finished in the lead with $13,900. Ashwin was second with $9,800. Brian was last with $7,400. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO ARE THE CHICAGO CUBS?
Wrigleyville Sports has a timeline with the history of the Chicago Cubs. The team joined the National League in 1876 when it was known as the White Stockings. In 1902, the team’s name was changed to the Colts, then to the Orphans. Due to a large number of young rookies, the Chicago Daily News nicknamed the team “the Cubs” and the team officially became the Chicago Cubs in 1907.
More Cubs History: Thanks goes to jk for telling us about the Franklin P. Adams poem on Spoiler Talk this morning. It was first published in 1910 as “That Double Play Again”, but is more popularly known as “Baseball’s Sad Lexicon” or “Tinker to Evans to Chance”.
Brian thought it was the Dodgers. He lost $7,398 and finished with $2.00.
Ashwin got it right. He bet $9,798 for a $19,598 finish.
Hannah also got it. She bet $5,701 and won the game with $19,601. Hannah’s impressive 3-day total is $90,601.
A triple stumper from each round:
IT’S A TV MYSTERY ($400) Season One of this series ended with the title teen sleuth solving the murder of her best friend Lilly Kane
REVOLUTION ($1600) After a speech by Khrushchev in 1956, this country revolted, but the Soviets intervened before year’s end
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Books & Authors”
In books by him, the Kingdom of Noland, ruled by an orphan named Bud, borders a country called Ix, where Queen Zixi reigns show
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I thought the same way as Howard (just not as in depth), and that’s how I got Cubs.
Like a broken record, I got about half the TS correct.
The little preview blurb shows Hannah on Monday not wearing spectacles, and having her hair down. That will be something to see!
Loved that FJ. At first I thought it had to be one of the NY teams, like the Dodgers, then remembered Chicago is the other city with two. So Cubs matched well with “young.” Figured Hannah would nail it, being a Chicagoan.
(Now that I think of it, Boston had two teams at one time. And so did Philadelphia.)
Tough stumpers except for the 1956 revolution and the Rose Nylund actress. (Did she ever reveal what was in kerflugenbugen?)