Final Jeopardy: American Women (5-14-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/14/2019) in the category “American Women” was:
In 2006 Arizona State University renamed its College of Law in honor of this history-making woman & longtime Arizona resident
The second semi-final game of the 2019 Teachers Tournament features: Benjamin Schwartz, an English teacher from Stamford, CT; Francois Barcomb, a physics teacher from New Paltz, NY; and Julia Rosinski Bailey, a chemistry teacher from Austin, TX.
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Round 1 Categories: It Happened in May – Idioms Around the House – Saturday Night Live Alumni – Game of Thorns – Time for Gym – Canadiana
Benjamin found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “It Happened in May” under the $600 clue, with two clues worth $1800 left after it. He had $3,200. Francois and Julia were tied at $4,400 but a reversal (see below) put Francois in the lead with $5,600. Benjamin made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
These criminals known for robbery & violence were shot dead on May 23, 1934. show
Benjamin finished in the lead with $6,400. Julia was second with $6,200 and Francois was last with $5,600.
Round 2 Categories: A Place on the Lake – Non-Political Presidents – Poets & Poetry – The More “C”ommon Word – Let’s Put on a Musical – Tick…Tick…Boom!
Francois found the first Daily Double in “More ‘C’ommon Word” under the $1,600 clue on the 11th pick. He was in the leaad with $10,400 now, $4,000 more than Benjamin in second place. He bet $3,000 and gave an incomplete response so he was WRONG.
Ectothermic. show
Francois found the last Daily Double in “Place on the Lake” under the $1,600 clue. There were 8 clues left after it. In second place with $8,600, he had $800 less than Julia’s lead. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
Abu Simbel is on the shore of this body of water that didn’t exist before 1970. show
Francois finished in the lead with $16,600. Julia was next with $9,400 and Benjamin was in third place with $8,000.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
ASU Law was officially renamed the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University in 2006. The law school celebrated the 10th anniversary of that occasion with this article containing O’Connor’s speech at the 2006 renaming ceremony. It began: ““I’m speechless. I’m also overwhelmed and greatly honored by having this law school named for me. There are about 190 law schools in the United States, almost four per state, two in the state of Arizona, and none of these many law schools until now named for a woman. That’s a big step for the law school to take and I am truly honored to have it bear my name.”
From 1996: NOTABLE WOMEN ($400) Though she spent much of her childhood in Arizona, this Supreme Court justice was born in El Paso, Texas
Benjamin thought it was Janet Reno. He lost his $7,995 bet and had $5.00 left.
Julia got it right. Her $9,397 bet brought her up to $18,797.
Francois got it, too. He bet $2,201 and won the game with $18,801. Francois will join Sara DelVillano in the finals on Thursday and Friday.
Reversal: IDIOMS AROUND THE HOUSE ($600) Temporarily staying in a series of other people’s homes with makeshift sleeping arrangements is doing this– hang ten! – Francois got dinged for “bed surfing.” Julia picked it up with “couch surfing,” then Francois got a thumbs up and $1,200.
A triple stumper from each round:
GAME OF THORNS ($1000) EBTG is short for this band formed by Ben Watt & Tracey Thorn in 1982
LET’S PUT ON A MUSICAL ($1600) “Kismet” is set in this world capital, so we’ll need people to play mosque worshippers
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Sculpture”
The book “From Marble to Flesh” is a biography of this statue that was created from 1501 to 1504. show
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“They managed to get both Whitman and Frost in today’s poetry category.” LOL.
lol, Cece, right? To their credit, they didn’t stick Poe in there, too. They had Stevie Smith’s “Not Waving but Drowning.” I love that poem! I also love her poem “The Galloping Cat” (actually I love that more)
Haha, no love for Poe today, good. I’m not familiar with Stevie Smith and don’t remember any J clue about her in the past. I took a look on J!Archive and she has had about 1/2 dozen clues. However, it appears the J writers only know the line “I was much further out than you thought and not waving but drowning” —most clues are about this line.
I really liked “The galloping Cat”, thanks for the link.
So glad you liked it, Cece. It’s terrific.
Maybe it’s more like they only expect the players to know Not Waving. But I think they could put in The Galloping Cat and some other poets’ stuff, anyhow. They could put them in the low money clues now and then if they think that. Then the players wouldn’t lose that much dough or would show they know more than the cluewriters think.
That’s what I would do. Then after those clues were shown in about 5 games, I’d move them up to the higher values and if they didn’t get them, I’d be like “oh they must have missed all those other times we showed those poems” lol
I totally get your idea, but the problem with that is, the way the J board works is top row clues are supposed to be easier, so if they start introducing more “less known” poets/poems, they would put them on the lower rows (more difficult). The players would then lose more dough.
So, they stick with Whitman/Frost/Poe/… ad nauseam. 🙂
Now I’m going to remember you said that every time I see a $2,000 clue like this — ANGRY WORDS: 3 minor female divinities of Greek myth were collectively known as this
Ha! The “board clue placers” (whatever you call them) are the ones who determine what’s “difficult”, lol. Besides, imo, many of the clues on the teachers’ tournament are ridiculously easy, so the example you gave is par for the course. 🙂
Super annoyed that Francois got credit for “bed surfing,” which is not a thing. And the amount he got for that was enough to win. Not fair.
@Ecfinn, I didn’t think he should get credit for that one either. But I figure the judges must have found some example where it was used in the same context as couch surfing. At least I hope that was the case and that they didn’t find an example of it being used in another context and thought it meant the same thing. lol
Oh dear, Julia would’ve got the credit, but Francois’ DD made all the hardwork and we have one more semi-finals left to determine the finalists. Speaking of which, I am shocked that San Marino qualified instead of either Portugal or Hungary in the first semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest. If Sweden and Romania qualify as well, it could be even worse than the TT, at least we have a woman finalist this year after a Triple Stumper.
Julia should have gotten credit for the firefly question. Fire flies and lightening bugs are the same!
I agree with you! They should have given her credit for “lightning bug.”
Why wasnt Julia given credit for her lightning bug answer. Look it up Jeopardy gods,lightning bugs and firefly’s are the same little soft bodied beetle.
@Sue, the reason is in my comment below — they were referring to a specific Robert Frost poem – the clue said
POETS & POETRY ($800) A poem about these title insects “in the Garden” says, “here come real stars to fill the upper skies”
The title is “Fireflies in the Garden”
Wtf? Lightning bugs ARE fireflies!!!!
VJ Thanks for clearing up my question. You are right. Thanks
You’re welcome, Carol.
Was disappointed when Julia gave an answer to a question in Doubly Jeopardy as lightning bug and was told no, but the correct answer was firefly. I thought they were the same thing, just depended where you lived and what they were called. Did some checking and the names were interchangeable. Any comments?
@Carol, the clue specified “these title insects” and the name of this Robert Frost poem is not Lightning Bugs in the Garden so, in this case, it’s not interchangeable
Thank you!
Well I am glad two people got Sandra day O’Connor. But still though Janet Reno? She is in Florida and not Arizona. Not sure why Ben thought of her. Francois made a comeback today. By the way VJ what were your thoughts on this game?
OMG to them putting Francois and Benjamin in the same game. But Julia was doing really well and it looked like both the guys were feeling the pressure until Francois pulled out in front in Round 2.
They managed to get both Whitman and Frost in today’s poetry category
@JJ, Thanks to you, I got that clue in SNL Alumni on who plays Barry Berkman!
LINK: 9 more clues from the game
LOL VJ – Good for Bill Hader appearing, yet again, as a J! clue response. (You know that you’ve achieved an escalated level of super-stardom when your name appears on J!, and he’s now done it 4 times!!!)
Yes, JJ, thanks to you, I got Bill Hader as well!
Ellie is happy that Francois defeated Benjamin for her.
Oh! Julia was so close!
By $4, as we know.