Final Jeopardy: Famous Names (6-12-24)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/12/2024) in the category “Famous Names” was:
Vying with Eiffel, this engineer wanted to create big; an admiring account said the Obelisk of Luxor is too short to be a spoke
10x super champ Adriana Harmeyer, an archivist from West Lafayette, IN,, has now won $225,700. In Game 11, she takes on these two players: Connor Townsend, an attorney from Chelsea, MI; and Enzo Cunanan, a student from Orlando, FL.
Round 1 Categories: The Photographs Of Mathew Brady – Nature – Regional Food – You’ll Need Some Protection – Name The Disney Princess – “D” Facto
Enzo found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Nature” under the $600 clue on the 6th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $1,800, $600 more than Adriana in second place. Enzo bet $1,200 and couldn’t come up with anything so he was WRONG.
You heard this 8-letter word a lot in relation to the April 8th, 2024 solar eclipse; Mazatlan, Mexico was in the path of it show
Adriana finished in the lead with $7,600. Enzo was second with $4,000 and Connor was last with $2,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Rivers Of Europe – Dreamy Shakespeare Quotes – Don’t Want To Fight – Gemstones – Numerically Named Musicians & Bands – Vowel Switcheroo
Enzo found the first Daily Double in “Dreamy Shakespeare Quotes” under the $1,200 clue on the 8th pick of the round. He was in last place with $6,800, $800 less than Adriana and Connor’s tied lead. Enzo bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.
The ghost of the Duke of Buckingham, one of this man’s many victims, tells him to “Dream on, of bloody deeds and death” show
Adriana found the last Daily Double in “Rivers of Europe” under the $1,600 clue, with 8 clues left after it. She was in the lead with $14,400, $3,600 more than Enzo in second place. Adriana bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.
This river of central Germany follows Frankfort in the city’s full name show
Adriana finished in the lead with $20,600. Enzo was second with $16,400 and Connor was last with $9,600. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS FERRIS?
The Eiffel Tower was the main attraction at the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris and quickly became the project to beat. Daniel H. Burnham, designer of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, wanted to be the first to do it. George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., a young engineer, proposed a “great wheel”, about 250-ft. tall with 36 cars to accommodate 2,000 passengers. The result was the first Ferris wheel, the main attraction at the 1893 Chicago fair.
What does it have to do with the Obelisk of Luxor? In the 1830s, one of the two Egyptian Luxor obelisks was moved to the Place de la Concorde in Paris. It stood 75 feet high. Perhaps comparing the obelisk to a spoke came about when a Ferris wheel (Roue de Paris) was installed at the Place de la Concorde for a number of years. The Parisian Ferris wheel is now located at the entrance to the Tuileries Gardens.
Connor thought it was Borglum. He lost $2,600 and finished with $7,000.
Enzo got it right. He bet $15,000 and finished with $31,400.
Adriana also got it right. She bet $12,400 and won the game with $33,000. Adriana’s 11-day total is $258,700.
2 triple stumper from the first round:
NATURE ($1000) The scientific order Rosales includes apples & the sweet & bitter types of this nut grown in Mediterranean climates
YOU’LL NEED SOME PROTECTION ($800) According to the National Fire Protection Assoc., new signs displaying this important word must have letters at least 6 inches high
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “AMERICAN HISTORY”
A participant in this 1773 event recalled, “Some of our numbers jumped into the hold …I never labored harder in my life” show
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Adriana wrote her FJ response quickly, so I knew it was all over at that point.
“Spoke” was a hint, but I was trying to think of a bridge designer.
The guys were formidable opponents. Connor had a quiet start but came on strong in the music category. Enzo’s glum, unsmiling demeanor immediately made me recall Matt Jackson, also an excellent player. IDK how he missed that first DD; the eclipse probably occurred right before the taping. He’s a 2nc chancer for sure, if that’s a thing again. I could do without his “I’ll do” that prefaced every clue selection.
Those first two switcheroos were easy, but it takes a really quick mind sometimes to deduce that type of clue. Adriana did get the hang of it after that. I remember how incredibly fast Ken was one time in immediately figuring out combinations of Roman numerals.
@Howard, the video of Ken running the Roman Numerals category is on this weekly recap
The ghost of Julius Caesar and I thank you. I came up with a couple of them fairly quickly.
Your welcome, Howard.
The ghost of Julius Caesar will always remind me of Perry White: “Great Caesar’s ghost!”
This was a really good game to watch. Adriana is so calm in competing on Jeopardy. Another thing I like about her is that she doesn’t touch categories in which she does not feel comfortable. I may be wrong but she didn’t attempt to respond in the “numerically named musicians & bands” category. Watching her stand there and let her opponents have that category was priceless imo. Instead of guessing wildly, like some contestants, she just goes with what she knows which is the majority of the board. 🤣 I can’t believe I didn’t zero in the word “spoke” in the fj clue which screamed “wheel” which led to Ferris. Duh! Let’s just say I had an off day. 🤔
It’s a shame that Ferris died (age 37) just 3 years after the Chicago Expo and never got to see his creation duplicated all over the world.
VJ, That factoid I did remember. I simply had a brain fog on the fj clue. Just couldn’t come up with it in 30 seconds. So it goes. 😅
Yikes. 1/3 on DD, and got FJ wrong. I said “Bartholdi”, mostly because Nature this evening talked about La Tour Eiffel, and the Statue of Liberty, among other things. Oh well!
I got a little more than half of the TS.
I’m happy that Adriana won again. Enzo didn’t strike me as that charismatic.
Hmmm………I didn’t do all that well in the game, and I didn’t have a clue about the correct response for FJ. Perhaps if I was around during that era, it would have been a cinch.
Adriana, you rock!!!!
33,000 is Adriana’s highest payday of her run. She is now ranked #16 in the top 20 winnings. She also tied Arthur Chu and Jonathan Fisher with 11 wins.