Final Jeopardy: Historic Events (7-19-17)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/19/2017) in the category “Historic Events” was:

In June 1986 a bakers union expressed regret for a disaster in this European city 320 years before.

2x champ Deborah Elliott won $56,600. In her third match, her opponents are: Keith Fudge, from Washington, D.C.; and Nancy Bauer, from Oak Park, IL.

Round 1 Categories: In the News: 2017 – They’re With the Band – Familial Phrases – Around the World – Down to a “Science” – It’s National Hot Dog Month

Deborah found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Around the World” under the $1,000 clue, with 2 whole categories still to go after it. She was in the lead with $5,000, $200 more than Nancy in second place. She bet $1,000 but blanked on one of them so she was WRONG.

Kings reign over these 2 countries in Asia that both begin with “B” & end with “N” show

WHAT ARE BAHRAIN & BHUTAN?
Deborah got Bahrain

Nancy finished in the lead with $6,400. Deborah was second with $5,400 and Keith was last with $400.

Round 2 Categories: Picture the Scientist – Lassie – Literary Threesomes – We Used to Make That Car – Native Americans – Tell Me “Y”

Deborah found the first Daily Double in “Literary Threesomes” under the $1600 clue on the 4th pick. She was in second place with $6,600 now, $1,000 less than Nancy’s lead. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.

In “A Christmas Carol”, this is the third & scariest ghost to visit Scrooge on Christmas Eve. show

WHAT IS THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS FUTURE?
or the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come

Nancy found the last Daily Double in “Native Americans” under the $800 clue, with 7 clues left after it (3 of them worth $2K). In the lead with $14,800, she had $4,200 more than Deborah in second place. She bet $2,000 and took a guess with the Georgians. That was WRONG.

To mark a 1683 treaty, this tribe with a state-ly name gave William Penn a wampum belt of 18 strings of beads. show

WHO ARE THE DELAWARE?

Deborah finished in the lead with $13,800. Nancy was next with $10,800 and Keith was in third place with $8,400.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS LONDON?

In 1986, the Worshipful Company of Bakers formally acknowledged that the 1666 Great Fire of London, that raged through 436 acres of the city for 3 days, “was started by Thomas Faryner, the king’s baker, who failed to douse his oven before turning in on Saturday night, Sept. 1, 1666,” and apologized for the disaster on behalf of the royal baker in Pudding Lane. According to the a 2/10/2016 article in Country Life, the bakers may have been apologizing at the wrong location: “The fateful oven was… in the southern lane of Monument Street about 60ft east of Pudding Lane.” Historian Dorian Gerhold has been credited with discovering the document that led to this conclusion.

Keith had no response. He lost his $2,399 bet and finished with $6,001.

Nancy thought it was Paris. That cost her $7,801 and left her with $2,999.

Deborah got it right. She bet $6,000 and won the match with $19,800. Her 3-day total is $76,400.

2 triple stumpers from the last round:

LITERARY THREESOMES ($2000) In his Pulitzer prize-winning play, “Three Tall Women”, the women are not known by names but by the letters A, B & C

WE USED TO MAKE THAT CAR ($1600) Thanks for the Thing from this company (Alex said he used to own one)

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Military History”

This country smaller than England was a colonial rival with which England fought 4 wars, the last from 1780 to 1784. show

WHAT IS THE NETHERLANDS?

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