Final Jeopardy: Word Origins (7-2-19)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/2/2019) in the category “Word Origins” was:

Meaning cobbled together, it once referred to a temporary fix replacing a broken mast on a ship

New champ Josh Levit, a union organizer from Brighton, MA, won $8,199 yesterday. In his second game, he is up against: Allison Lyttle, a music librarian from Harrisonburg, VA; and Charlie Jorgenson, a librarian from Loveland, CO.

Round 1 Categories: People Sexiest Man Alive Movie Team-ups – A Gem of a Word – Salad – Corruption All Around – Bone Up on Your Anagrams – “B” Where of Dog

Allison found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Salad” under the $800 clue, with 11 clues left after it. She was in the lead with $4,000, $600 more than Charlie in second place. She bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.

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Josh finished in the lead with $6,600. Allison was second with $6,000 and Charlie was last with $4,800.

Round 2 Categories: The George W. Bush Presidential Library – Cities in the Country – Literature From a Different Perspective – “Sc”ilent C – Doctors & Lawyers

Josh landed on the first Daily Double in “Literature from a Different Perspective” under the $1,600 clue on the 4th pick. He was in the lead with $8,200 at this point, $2,200 more than Allison in second place. He took a guess with Hamlet but that was WRONG.

Unseen in the Shakespeare play, Rosaline gets her story told in the book titled this character’s “Ex” show

WHO IS ROMEO?

Charlie got the last Daily Double in “Doctors & Lawyers” under the $800 clue, with 11 clues left after it. In second place with $10,800, he had $1,600 less than Allison’s lead. He bet $3,000, and he was RIGHT.

Nearly 50 years after he was admitted to the Ohio bar, he defended John T. Scope. show

WHO IS CLARENCE DARROW?

Charlie finished in the lead with $17,800. Allison was next with $16,000 and Josh was in third place with $12,400.

Tight finish between Charlie and Allison, with Charlie getting the lead on the last $2K clue about that desk Queen Victoria gave Rutherford Hayes. (There was an extra FJ clue about it on the recap of recent “Queen Victoria” game)

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS JURY-RIGGING or JERRY-RIGGING?

In this video (starting at about 0.35), Simon Whistler will give you a lot of information regarding the speculative origins of these two terms, which originally had two distinct meanings and stem from “jury mast” and “jerry built.” I also found separate entries for jury-rigged and jerry-building in “The Century Dictionary and Cylopedia” (1906) on Google Books. Over time, it seems, jerry-built morphed into jerry-rigged and became synonymous with jury-rigged to many folks. During Final Jeopardy!, Alex Trebek indicated that either term would have been accepted for this clue.

A clue from 1998: FILE UNDER “J” ($500) To put together in a makeshift fashion is to jury-rig or to “build” this way

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Josh came up with “stopgap.” He lost his $3,601 bet and finished with $8,799.

Allison thought it was “splicing.” That cost her $12,000, leaving her with $4,000.

Charlie got it right with “jury-rigged.” He bet $15,000 and won the game with $32,800. Charles Jorgenson is the new Jeopardy! champ.

2 triple stumpers from the last round:

DOCTORS & LAWYERS ($1600) The late 2010s have given this CNN analyst & Harvard Law grad the chance to explain many interesting legal issues

& SUCH ($2000) New York Harbor had Ellis Island; San Francisco Bay had this island as its immigration station

2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Classic Children’s Literature”

A 2016 biography of a children’s author is titled “In the Great Green Room”, a line from this classic book show

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