Final Jeopardy: American Landmarks (1-10-19)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (1/10/2019) in the category “American Landmarks” was:

Eyewitness Jose Marti wrote, “Luckless Irishmen, Poles, Italians…run toward the wharves” to see its dedication

2x champ Jessica Holloway, an art education student from The Woodlands, TX, has now won $54,401. In Game 3, she faces these two opponents: Dave Kaplan, a retired mixed martial artist from Westford, MA; and Anneke Garcia, an instructional design consultant from Salt Lake City, UT.

Round 1 Categories: 10 Lines About 5 Women – Technology – On the Radio – Nonfiction – “Ru” Ready? – of Corsica

Jessica found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “On the Radio” under the $800 clue on the 4th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $400, $200 more than Anneke in second place. She bet the $1,000 allowance and she was RIGHT.

Radio’s first quiz show is claimed by the public radio station with these call letters that contain the Big Apple’s initials. show

WHAT IS WNYC?

Jessica finished in the lead with $9,600. Anneke was next with $3,600 and Dave was last with $2,400.

Round 2 Categories: Places of Legend – Theater – Words About Words – Menagerie – 2018 Pop Culture – School Within a School

Dave found the first Daily Double in “School within a School” under the $2,000 clue on the second pick. He was in second place with $4,400 now, $5,200 less than Jessica’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double and guessed Penn State. That was WRONG.

Heinz College (a 2-name school) show

WHAT IS CARNEGIE-MELLON?

3 clues later, Anneke found the last Daily Double in “Words about Words” under the $1,600 clue. In second place with $5,600, she had $4,000 less than Jessica’s lead. She bet $4,000 and she was RIGHT.

The name of a 1775 play character gave us this word for an error like “There is no anecdote for the poison” show

WHAT IS A MALAPROPISM?

Anneke finished in the lead with $19,200. Jessica was next with $12,800. At negative $800, Dave was out of the game.

BOTH contestants left in Final Jeopardy! got it right.

WHAT IS THE STATUE OF LIBERTY?

When the Statute of Liberty was dedicated on October 28, 1886, Cuban patriot, freedom fighter and poet José Martí was living in exile in New York City. The next day, he wrote an essay that was published in La Nación in Buenos Aires on New Year’s Day 1887. Here is the full part that today’s clue was taken from:

“And all these luckless Irishmen, Poles, Italians, Bohemians, Germans, redeemed from oppression or misery, hail the monument to Liberty because they feel that through it they themselves are uplifted and restored. Behold how they run toward the wharves from which the statue can be seen, elated as shipwrecked people who descry a hopeful sail.” (José Martí Reader, Google Books)

From 2003: 1880s LIT $1600: This Cuban poet & martyr lived in New York most of the decade & wrote essays on Emerson & Whitman

Jessica bet it all and finished with $25,600.

Anneke bet $6,401 and won the game with $25,601. Anneke Garcia is the new Jeopardy! champ.

A triple stumper from each round:

ON THE RADIO ($600) SiriusXM’s Radio Classics channel airs such favorites as “Hopalong Cassidy” & “Fibber McGee &” her

THEATER ($2000) In 2018 Laurie Metcalf won a Tony for her performance in this playwright’s “Three Tall Women”

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Religious Terms”

Unlike newer bibles the King James version usually translates pneuma hagion as this, which can lead to unnerving images. show

WHAT IS HOLY GHOST?

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