Final Jeopardy: 20th Century America (9-24-24)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (9/24/2024) in the category “20th Century America” was:
In a state of shock, on Nov. 27, 1978, she announced that “Both Mayor Moscone & Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot & killed”
New champ David Erb, a puzzle designer from Seattle, WA, won $17,655 yesterday. In Game 2, his challengers are: Rachael Crawley, a video writer from Toronto, Ontario; and Carter Scott, a outdoor guide & educator from Suwanee, GA.
Round 1 Categories: History – I’m Looking for a Man in Finance – 3-Letter Words with 2 Syllables – Herbs & Spices – Brit Lit Sits – Bespectacled Animated Characters
Carter found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Brit Lit Sits” under the $1,000 on the 19th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $3,800, $200 more than David in second place. Carter bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
Winston Smith found “while he sat hopelessly musing he had also been writing… ‘down with him’” in all caps, 5 times show
David finished in the lead with $5,800. Carter was second with $5,400 and Rachael was last with $2,800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: A Season in Helsinki – This & That – Ancient Science – Giving It Your “All” – People in Poems – Walt, Wit Man
David found the first Daily Double in “Giving It Your ‘All’” under the $1,200 clue on the 11th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $16,200, $10,600 more than Rachael in second place. David bet $10,000 and he was RIGHT.
A government’s often one-time tax on a company’s excessive profits show
Carter found the last Daily Double in “People in Poems” under the $2,000 on the 18th pick of the round. He was in second place with $8,200, $19,200 less than David’s lead. Carter bet $6,000 but drew a blank so he was WRONG.
Moved by an exhibit about his life & work, Linda Bierds wrote, “he was halfway between the war’s last enigmas & the cyanide apple” show
David finished in the lead with a runaway $30,600. Rachael was second with $10,800 and Carter was last with $3,800. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS DIANNE FEINSTEIN?
When Senator Dianne Feinstein passed away on 9/29/2023, there was a flurry of articles recalling the one moment in her life that both “motivated and haunted” her. On 11/27/1978, while serving as President of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors, Feinstein discovered board member Harvey Milk’s dead body after former board member Dan White shot and killed him and Mayor George Moscone. In this video, Dianne Feinstein recalls having the unhappy duty of publicly announcing the assassinations.
Dan White was convicted of manslaughter. He served 5 years of a 7 year sentence and committed suicide 2 years after his release from prison.
Carter came up with Ferraro. That cost him $800 and left him with $3,000.
Rachael got it right. She bet $2,500 and finished with $13,300.
David also got it right. He bet $8,888 and won the game with $39,488. David’s 2-day total is $57,143.
2 triple stumpers from HERBS & SPICES: (Please don’t put the answers in the comments)
($800) Other names for this herb include black sugar & sweet root
($1000) Similar to marjoram, it’s native to the hills of the Mediterranean & has a name that goes back to Latin for wild marjoram
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “WORLD AIRPORTS”
Africa’s 2 busiest passenger airports are in these 2 countries; it’s an 8-hour flight between them show
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I got FJ (also not a Californian). 2/3 on DD, because I knew it was Turing, as an idea, but couldn’t think of his name (it was “you know, that guy!”)
The resemblance of David to Clint Eastwood is really rather remarkable, at least to my eye!
Surprised no one knew the speaker on the 1933 broadcast.
FJ was a cinch because we’d moved to the Bay Area a few months earlier.
A very momentous time, as the Jonestown massacre also took place that month (many of the victims were from the SF area), and my wife had her first of three miscarriages and the only one that almost killed her. Plus my parents were visiting from NY at the time and we had a 1-year-old. In later months, we learned of Dan White’s “Twinkie defense” for the murders.
It was another great game, and it was clearly a runaway for David. As for me, I was stumped on FJ, but then again, I wasn’t a Californian either.