Final Jeopardy: Food & Drink (4-7-14)
The Final Jeopardy question (4/7/2014), in the category “Food & Drink” was:
The corporate website for this product says it leaves its container at .028 miles per hour.
2-day champ Amy Nienaber returns today. She won $30,000 in her second game on March 28th, making her total winnings $51,000 so far. Today she is up against two new players: Jonathan Kuehnle, from Springfield, OH; and Michelle Leppert, from Danvers, MA.
Round 1: Michelle found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Authors’ Plots” under the $1,000 clue before the first break. She was in the lead with $800, $200 ahead of Amy in second place. She bet $1,000 and guessed Washington Irving. That was WRONG.
The monument for his grave in Elmira, New York is 2 fathoms tall. show
Amy finished in the lead with $6,000. Michelle was second with $2,600 and Jonathan was last with $1,400.
Round 2: Michelle found the first Daily Double in “Quotable Quotes” under the $2,000 clue. She was in the lead with $8,600, $1,000 more than Amy in second place. She bet $3,000 and guessed 1946. That was WRONG.
Year in which a U.S. President remarked “This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the creation.” show
Jonathan found the last Daily Double in “On the Beautiful Blue Danube” under the $1,600 clue. He was in second place with $10,200, $1,400 less than Amy’s lead. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
It’s the only country through whose territory the Danube flows that used to be part of the USSR. show
Amy finished in the lead with $12,800. Michelle was next with $12,400 and Jonathan was in third place with $12,200. How’s that for a close game?
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
On Heinz corporate website, it has a trivia page for its ketchup. One of the questions listed is “At what speed does ketchup exit the iconic glass bottle?” and the answer is “Ketchup exits the iconic glass bottle at .028 miles per hour. If the viscosity of the ketchup is greater than this speed, the ketchup is rejected for sale.” That information is reiterated in the FAQS on the website dedicated just to Heinz Ketchup.
According to John Lee on his website, WebTrends, “this seemingly trivial piece of data has helped an iconic brand like Heinz literally change its industry – in ways that directly affect customer experience, loyalty and, ultimately, revenue.”
Jonathan got it right and bet $12,000. He finished with $24,200.
Michelle also had it. She bet $12,300 and finished with $24,700.
Amy wrote down “Reddi Whip”. She lost $12,200 so she finished with $600.
Interesting Notes on Authors’ Plot: Samuel Clemens took the pen name Mark Twain from a Mississippi River term: the second mark on the line that measured depth signified two fathoms, or twelve feet -— safe depth for the steamboat.
None of the contestants buzzed in on this clue: “After his death in Samoa, this Scotsman’s body was taken to a plot atop Mount Vaea.” Samoa even has postage stamps honoring the Scotsman in question.
2 years ago:: ALL of the players got this FJ in “World Leaders”.
Names of the pair seen here, who’ve been spending a lot of time together. show
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the DDs were really easy for me. naval history- “by the mark, one, two (twain)…..” i measuring the depth,history in the first( nixon out of all people….) and european geography (my vienna IS by the danube)…
the fj came to me about 3 seconds after time had run out…..
well, that’s all it takes, misread the clue or just not know it. I don’t think Michelle’s a weak player — she lost $$ on 2 DDs today and still managed to hold her own.
Amy was supersmart then suddenly got dumb on the FJ today. She might have read the clue as “.028 miles per second,” as I did at first, because oddly enough I read something about whipped cream two days ago so that’s where my mind was.
Then I thought, “Wait a minute,” that’s per HOUR, which is very, very, very slow, so it has to be ketchup (or catsup, as we used to have it.)
So her little brain failure there brought her reign to an end.
Another worthless thought of mine:
Isn’t it funny how when they’re down to the last category, so many contestants will say “800 —— in Quotes (or whatever)”, as if it could be anything else. They seem to think they’ll be disqualified if they don’t name the category. Michelle seemed very intent to do this.
I fearlessly predict that Michelle won’t be around long. It’s just a hunch I have.