Final Jeopardy: Acronyms (6-5-23)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/5/2023) in the category “Acronyms” was:

It was originally a code word used by telegraph operators; Barack Obama used it in his Twitter handle

2X champ Jared Watson, a quality control specialist from Greenville, TX, won $38,601 last week. In Game 3, he is up against: Harrison Seidel, a marketing coordinator from Burbank, CA and Annabelle Winter, a graduate student from New York, NY.

Round 1 Categories: Classic Children’s Books – The Philippines – Task: Force – It’s Also A Boat – The Championship Team – “G”eography

Jared found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Classic Children’s Books” under the $600 clue on the first pick of the round. Nobody was on the board yet. Jared bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.

A line in this book says, “Take my apples, boy, and sell them in the city. Then you will have money and you will be happy” show

WHAT IS “THE GIVING TREE”?

Jared finished in the lead with $5,000. Harrison was second with $2,000 and Annabelle was last with $1,600. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: City Happenings – First & Last Name’s The Same – Mythology – Movie Continents – The Science Of Poetry – 4, 4

Jared found the first Daily Double in “Mythology” under the $1,200 clue on the 9th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $9,800, $6,200 more than Harrison in second place. Jared bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.

As the fish-hook of this demigod was used to help form Hawaii’s islands, the least folks could do was name one after him show

WHO IS MAUI?

Jared got the last Daily Double in “The Science of Poetry” under the $1,600 clue with 5 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $19,200 now, $9,200 more than Harrison in second place. Jared bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.

In a 1920s limerick, “There was a young lady named Bright / whose speed was far” these 3 words; she gets back home before she left show

WHAT IS “FASTER THAN LIGHT”?

Jared finished in the lead with a runaway $19,600. Harrison was second with $8,800 and Annabelle was last with $2,400. All clues were shown.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS POTUS?

A 2015 article on VOX delves into the history of acronyms and telegraphy: “The telegraph is probably where the first POTUS appeared, since it often used shorthand to save its human operators time and effort. The acronym “POT” (for “president of the”) appeared in the 1879 edition of The Phillips Telegraphic Code for the Rapid Transmission by Telegraph, written by influential telegrapher Walter P. Phillips, who later worked for the Associated Press…. As the telegraph continued to be used, including for newswire services like the Associated Press, Phillips’s guide established a few customary acronyms. As a result, even in the 1940s, records labeled FDR’s international telegraphs as having been sent by POTUS.

In 2015, @POTUS was established as the offiical Twitter handle for the POTUS and Barack Obama was the first to use it.

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Annabelle got it right. She bet $2,395 and finished with $4,795.

Harrison got it, too. He bet $3,900 and finished with $12,700.

Jared came up with “STOP”. He only lost $1,999 and won the game with the $17,601 he had left. Jared’s 3-day total is $56,202.

A triple stumper from each round:

CLASSIC CHILDREN’S BOOKS ($1000) In this picture book by Janell Cannon, a fruit bat ends up in a bird’s nest & is adopted by the mama bird

MOVIE CONTINENTS ($1600) Australia: Toni Collette longs to be a bride

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “The Business of Television”

The day it debuted in 1980, this network with an Italian name aired a Carnegie Hall celebration of Aaron Copland’s 80th birthday show

WHAT IS BRAVO?

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