Final Jeopardy: Phrase Origins (10-3-19)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/3/2019) in the category “Phrase Origins” was:

The OED’s first citation for this phrase referring to a region of the U.S. is from a Durant, Oklahoma newspaper in 1936

2x champ Kevin Boettcher, a university administrator from Binghamton, NY, has now won $49,401. In Game 3, he takes on these two players: Raghuvansh Ramaswamy, a quality engineer from Cambridge, MA; and Kate Allison, a public defender from Spokane, WA.

Round 1 Categories: Song Royalty & Nobility – Footwear – Hundred “P”ercent – Shift the Stress – Go West – Young Man

Kate found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Shift the Stress” under the $400 clue on the 6th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $1,400, $200 more than Kevin in second place. She bet $600 and she was RIGHT.

To express disapproval & something you can see & touch show

WHAT ARE OBject AND obJECT?

Kate finished in the lead with $3,400. Kevin was second with $1,600 and Raghuvansh was last with $600. Before DJ! began, Kate was docked $2,000 on a Go West clue (see below). So she was in second place with $1,400 going into the next round.

Round 2 Categories: The World in 1819 – Baseball Managers – Lovin’ the Spin I’m in – Fun Facts – Authors: Born & Died – 2 Letters, Second is K

Raghuvansh found the first Daily Double in “1819” under the $800 clue on the 10th pick. He was in the lead with $4,600 now, $2,600 more than Kevin in second place. He bet $2,000 and took at shot at it with Edward II. That was WRONG.

Shelley’s poem “England in 1819” calls him “An old, mad, blind, despised and dying king” show

WHO IS GEORGE III?

4 clues later, Kevin found the last Daily Double in “Authors: Born & Died” under the $2,000 clue. In second place with $4,400, he had $200 less than Raghuvansh’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double but drew a total blank so he was WRONG.

The “Winds of War” carried this author from his birth in the Bronx to his death in Palm Springs, California in 2019 at age 103. show

WHO IS HERMAN WOUK?

Kevin finished in the lead with $5,600. Raghuvansh was next with $5,000 and Kate was in third place with $4,600.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS THE DUST BOWL?

Baca County History has a lot of info about the dust bowl. Credit for coining the term, they say, usually is given to A.P. Editor Edward Stanley when editing an article by A.P. reporter Robert E. Geiger who witnessed the “Black Sunday” blizzards of April 14, 1935. They have a clipping purporting to show a 2 Feb 1934 use of the term in a Caribou County Sun article. However, when I looked it up, a 2 Feb 1939 Caribou County Sun edition came up. So it looks like the credit still goes to Mr. Stanley. Still, the maps and images on the Baca County site are interesting.

From 1998, a different term related to the region: “O” ($200) Reporter Ben Reddick is credited with coining this “state”ly term for Dust Bowl refugees

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Kate got it right. She bet it all and finished with $9,200.

Raghuvansh thought it was the Midwest. That got him a “boo hiss” from Alex and cost him everything but a dollar.

Kevin also got it right. He bet $4,401 and won the game with $10,001. His 3-day total is $59,402.

Reversal: GO WEST ($1000) …from Nunavut into this adjacent territory – Kate said Northwest Territory, instead of Northwest Territories. Alex didn’t catch it but the judges did.

A triple stumper from each round:

FOOTWEAR ($1000) Last name of Tony, the Italian-American cobbler who began making army boots before moving on to western boots

AUTHORS: BORN & DIED ($1200) “Go Tell It on the Mountain” that he was born in New York in 1024 & said adieu in France in 1987

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Actors & Their Movie Roles”

He played Shakespearean title characters 4 times, receiving Best Actor Oscar nominations each time. show

WHO IS LAURENCE OLIVIER?

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