Final Jeopardy: U.S. Landmarks (2-27-17)

The Final Jeopardy question (2/27/2017) in the category “U.S. Landmarks” was:

In 1942 a MD. area was named for the Tibetan paradise in “Lost Horizon” but in 1953 was renamed this, for a young boy.

3x champ Kirstin Cutts returns today to play her 4th game. So far she has won $41,202. Today she is up against these two players: Amy Sumner, from Denver, CO; and Sam Oglesby, from Wilmington, MA.

Round 1 Categories: Pizza – Gimme a Slice – Cemeteries – Lead Singers for the Band – In Absentia – The National Museum of African American History & Culture

Amy found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “The National Museum” under the $1,000 clue, with only one clue still to go. She was in the lead with $6,600, $2,000 more than Sam in second place. She bet $2,000 and thought it was Mahalia Jackson. That was WRONG.

On Easter in 1939 after she was denied permission to sing at Constitution Hall, this contralto put on her Sunday best clothes and sang “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee” to a crowd of over 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial.

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WHO IS MARIAN ANDERSON?

Sam finished in the lead with $5,000. Amy was second with $4,600 and Kirstin was last with $2,400.

Round 2 Categories: The 2016 Nobel Prizes – TV & Movie Jennys – “O”Pourri – Geology – Poetry & Bridges – 4, 4

Kirstin found the first Daily Double in “Poetry & Bridges” under the $800 clue on the second pick. She was in third place with $2,800 now, $2,200 behind Sam’s lead. She bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.

A poem about it by its chief engineer says, “To north, the Redwood Empire’s gates / to south, a happy playground waits” show

WHAT IS THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE?

Amy found the last Daily Double in “2016 Nobel Prizes” under the $1,600 clue on the 14th pick. In the lead with $8,600, she had $1,200 more than Sam in second place. She bet $1,600 and she was RIGHT.

2 guys won for work in the theory of these, not just big-money deals for athletes but everyday economic arrangements. show

WHAT ARE CONTRACTS?

Amy finished in the lead with $11,800. Kirsten was next with $10,800 and Sam was in third place with $8,200.

NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS CAMP DAVID?

Originally a camp for federal government employees and their families, Hi-Catoctin was chosen as a retreat for FDR during his presidency. It was remodeled and renamed “U.S.S. Shangri-La” by FDR. During Eisenhower’s presidency, he renamed it after his grandson, David. “‘Shangri-La,'” Ike wrote to a friend in 1953, “was just a little fancy for a Kansas farm boy.”

David Eisenhower grew up to marry Julie Nixon, youngest daughter of Richard Nixon. The pair wed on 12/22/1968, after Nixon was elected President but before he took office. More Weddings of Presidents’ Daughters.

Sam got a far as the word Chesapeake. That cost him his $3,601 bet. He finished with $4,599.

Kirstin did not have a response. She only bet 1,999 so she had $8,201 left.

Amy wrote down Chesapeake Bay. She lost $8,601, leaving her with $3,199. So Kirstin won the match and remains the Jeopardy! champ. Her 4-day total is $49,403.

A triple stumper from each round:

CEMETERIES ($1000) This Jerusalem mount is the final resting place of Menachem Begin

“O”POURRI ($2000) In an 1869 short story, Bret Harte wrote about these exiles “of Poker Flat”

2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Literary First Lines”

He wrote the 1971 opener “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.” show

WHO IS HUNTER S. THOMPSON?

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