Final Jeopardy: Business Namesakes (12-13-19)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (12/13/2019) in the category “Business Namesakes” was:

It’s the last name of the man who said, “Our whole concept was based on speed, lower prices & volume…My god, the carhops were slow”

7x champ Jennifer Quail, a wine-tasting consultant from Dowagiac, MI, has now won $198,400. She’ll go over the $200K mark in Game 8, unless one of these ladies wins: Jeanne Fuller, a trauma surgery administrator from Irvine, CA; and Lisa Murray, a grant writer from Ann Arbor, MI.

Round 1 Categories: Around the Mediterranean – You’re a Bunch of Cards – 3-Letter Words – House & Home – Movie Exchanges – Nellie Bly

Jennifer found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Nellie Bly” under the $600 clue, with 2 clues left after it. She was in the lead with $8,000, $6,800 more than Jeanne in second place. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.

While famously going around the world in 72 days, Bly met this author who told her how her route differed from Phileas Fogg’s. show

WHO IS JULES VERNE?

Jennifer finished in the lead with $11,800. Jeanne was second with $1,200 and Lisa was last with $1,000.

Round 2 Categories: By Pope-ular Demand – Literary TV Adaptations – Place Name Etymology – Word War Z – Facts – Matter

Lisa found the first Daily Double in “Place Name Etymology” under the $1,200 clue on the 9th pick. She was in second place with $2,200 at this point, $10,800 less than Jennifer’s lead. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.

For Indo-Iranian for “place”, these 4-letters at the end of a place name mean “land of” show

WHAT IS STAN?

Jennifer found the last Daily Double in “Pope-ular Demand” under the $2,000 clue. In the lead with $18,200, she had $13,400 more than Jeanne in second place. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.

On Jan. 25, 1959 John XXIII called for this, the 21st ecumenical council of the church, but it sounds more like the 1st sequel show

WHAT IS VATICAN II?

Jennifer finished with a runaway $27,400. Jeanne was next with $9,200 and Lisa was in third place with $3,600.

ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS McDONALD?

In the 1940s, brothers Dick and Mac McDonald decided to streamline their restaurant business, McDonald’s Barbeque, by simplifying their menu, lowering their prices and allowing customers to serve themselves. They shortened the name to just McDonald’s and became even more successful than they already were. You can see Dick McDonald’s entire quote on KCET.org’s article, “The Real McDonald’s: The San Bernardino Origins of a Fast Food Empire”. It also goes into how and when Ray Kroc entered the picture.

“The Real Founder” is a 49-minute 2018 documentary with Dick McDonald that is free to Amazon Prime subscribers. Nick Offerman portrayed Dick McDonald in the 2016 film “The Founder”. You can watch that for free on IMDB TV, by registering on their site (also free).

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Lisa bet $3,500. That brought her up to $7,100.

Jeanne bet $1,998 and finished with $11,198.

Jennifer bet $3,000 and won today’s game with $30,400. Her 8-day total is $228,800.

3 triple stumpers from LITERARY TV ADAPTATIONS:

($1200) Played by Timothy Olyphant on “Justified”, Raylan Givens appeared earlier in the short story “Fire in the Hole” by this author

($1600) Season 5 of this detective show was largely based on Michael Connelly’s “Two Kinds of Truth”

($2000) Based on a Caroline Kepnes novel, this Lifetime/Netflix series about stalking is one creepy pronoun

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Movie Settings”

The setting for this 1994 Oscar-winning animated film was inspired by Kenya’s Hell’s Gate National Park. show

WHAT IS “THE LION KING”?

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