Final Jeopardy: First Lady Facts (3-12-18)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/12/2018) in the category “First Lady Facts” was:

In 1982, when Bess Truman died, she had been enrolled in this government program for about 17 years, longer than anyone else.

New champ Mark Ashton, won $29,100 last Friday. In his second game, he is up against these two players: Zach Dark, from Hoover, AL; and Ashley O’Mara, from Baldwinsville, NY.

Round 1 Categories: The 7 Ancient Wonders – This Is Not a Drill (or Is It?) – Reversible Compound Words – “M”Tertainment – Beauty Trends – Quoth the Amendment

Ashley found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Quoth the Amendment” under the $600 clue on the 7th pick of the round. She was in second place with $600, $400 less than Zach’s lead. She went with a true Daily Double, rather than the $1,000 allowance and thought it was the Sixth. That was WRONG.

“No person shall… be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb.” show

WHAT IS THE FIFTH AMENDMENT?

Zach finished in the lead with $4,600. Mark was second with $2,000 and Ashley was last with $1,600.

Round 2 Categories: Strange Bedfellows – Literary L.a. – Movie Words – The Lake Show – Education – “Show” & “Tell”

Zach found the first Daily Double in “Education” under the $1,200 clue on the 18th pick. He was in the lead with $13,000 at this point, $6,600 more than Mark in second place. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.

There was a 21st c. boom in boot camps for this activity, a less scary version of computer programming. show

WHAT IS CODING?

Ashley found the last Daily Double in “The Lake Show” under the $1,200 clue, with 2 clues worth $3,600 left after it. In third place with $3,600, she had $18,800 less than Zach’s lead. She bet $3,000 and said Lake George. That was WRONG.

Take a look and we’ll “Clooney” you into this lake, 25 miles north of Milan. show

WHAT IS LAKE COMO?
Note: Lake George really is north of Milan, New York — but over 100 miles

Zach finished in the lead with a runaway $24,000. Mark was next with $6,000 and Ashley was in third place with $600.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS MEDICARE?

The Medicare Bill was signed into law on 7/30/1965 by LBJ, in the presence of Harry Truman, their wives and VP Hubert Humphrey, among others, at the Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Mo. Johnson said: “I am so proud that this has come to pass in the Johnson administration. But it was really Harry Truman of Missouri who planted the seeds of compassion and duty which have today flowered into care for the sick, and serenity for the fearful.” LBJ returned to Independence on 1/20/1966 for a different ceremony. At that time, he witnessed Truman signing his Medicare application, told him “we haven’t forgotten who is the real Daddy of Medicare” and presented the Trumans with the first two Medicare cards. More on the LBJ Presidential Library website.

A $100 clue in “1966” from 9/25/1997: In January this former president & his wife Bess were presented with the first 2 Medicare cards. (They also like you to know that Bess Truman was born Elizabeth Wallace and that, so far, she lived longer than any other First Lady.)

Ashley came up with Social Security. She didn’t bet anything so she remained at $600.

Mark got it right. With another zero bet, he stayed at $6,000.

Zach got it right, too. His $5,000 bet brought his winnings today up to $29,000. He is the new Jeopardy! champ.

A triple stumper from each round:

BEAUTY TRENDS ($400) This vacuum brand reversed the flow with its “supersonic” hair dryer

LITERARY L.A. ($1200) In this author’s “The Long Goodbye”, Philip Marlowe is living on Yucca Ave. & drinking at Victor’s

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “The Nobel Physics Prize”

A 2013 Laureate, this British man wrote a 1954 thesis on “Problems in the Theory of Molecular Vibrations” show

WHO IS PETER HIGGS?

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