Final Jeopardy: Business & Innovation (12-31-19)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (12/31/2019) in the category “Business & Innovation” was:

Stuck with 260 tons of unused turkey in late 1953, this co. ordered aluminum trays & sold 10 million units of a new item in 1954

3x champ Karen Farrell, a political consultant from Woodbridge, VA, has now won $57,601. In Game 4 and the last game of the year, she takes on these two players: Susan Stoltzfus, a senior marketing manager from Seattle, WA; and Bill Coulter, a bartender from San Francisco, CA.

Round 1 Categories: Where Am I? – The Name of the Game – The Algonquian Word Table – College Endowments – It’s Charlie! – We Wuz Robbed!

Bill found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “College Endowments” under the $600 clue, with 10 clues left after it. He was in third place with $2,200, $1,200 less than Susan’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.

With more than $27 billion, this California school is the best-endowed non-Ivy League private university. show

WHAT IS STANFORD?

Bill finished in the lead with $6,400. Karen was second with $3,600 and Susan was last with $3,400.

Round 2 Categories: Battle & Hum – Pseudonymous Writers – World of Colors – A, E, I, O–no U – His-Tory – Don’t Drop the Ball

Karen landed on the first Daily Double in “Pseudonymous Writers” under the $2,000 clue on the 11th pick. She was in the lead with $8,800 now, $3,400 more than Susan in second place. She bet $2,000 and took a shot with Marquez. That was WRONG.

Gabriela Mistral (a pseudonym) encouraged this other Chilean Nobel Prize-winning poet (also a pseudonym). show

WHO IS PABLO NERUDA?

Bill found the last Daily Double in “His-Tory” under the $800 clue, with 3 clues left after it. In third place with $6,000, he had $12,000 less than Karen’s lead. He bet $5,900 but drew a blank so he was WRONG.

In 2002 as the first woman to chair the Conservative Party, she pushed the Tories away from being the “Nasty Party” show

WHO IS THERESA MAY?

Karen finished in the lead with a runaway $18,400. Susan was next with $7,000 and Bill was in third place with $100.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS SWANSON?

National Geographic has an article on how C.A. Swanson & Sons grossly overestimated the number of Thanksgiving turkeys customers would buy and turned that dilemma into a booming TV dinner industry. On the Library of Congress website, “Who Invented the TV Dinner” has the history of easy-to-reheat frozen dinners which actually were around, but not that popular, in the 1940s: “The concept really took hold in 1954 when Swanson’s frozen meals appeared. Swanson was a well-known brand that consumers recognized, and Swanson launched a massive advertising campaign for their product. They also coined the phrase TV Dinner, which helped to transform their frozen meals into a cultural icon.”

In “Little Shop of Horrors” (1986), at this part, Audrey and Seymour are eating TV dinners in Audrey’s “Somewhere That’s Green” fantasy

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Bill got it right after crossing out TV dinner. He didn’t bet anything so he stayed at $100.

Susan got it right, too. She bet $6,799, bringing her up to $13,799.

Karen came up with Butterball. She lost her $1,600 bet and won the game with the remaining $16,800. Her 4-day total is $74,401.

A triple stumper from each round:

THE NAME OF THE GAME ($800) Overlord or Desert Storm

PSEUDONYMOUS WRITERS ($1600) “Lethal White” is the fourth Cormoran Strike novel J.K. Rowling has written using this pseudonym

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Novelists”

A 2015 BBC list of the 25 greatest British novels included 12 by women, 3 of them by this woman who died in 1941. show

WHO IS VIRGINIA WOOLF?

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