Final Jeopardy: Famous Phrases (7-13-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question in the category “Famous Phrases” was:

In the title of a groundbreaking 1890 exposé of poverty in New York City slums, these 3 words follow “How the”

Today’s players: Emma Boettcher from Chicago, IL, Dhruv Gaur from Gainesville, GA, and Kyle Jones from Aurora, CO

This is a rerun from 11/11/2019. The full recap is over here

Here are two categories from the first semi-final of the 2017 Tournament of Champions (with Andrew Pau, Austin Rogers, Lilly Chin):

QUEEN-SIZED ($200) Queen Maria II of this country was born in Brazil in 1819

($400) The second Spanish queen of the name, she had a troubled reign, ending in her overthrow in 1868

($600) As queen of Egypt in the 1300s B.C., she played a prominent role in the cult of the sun god Aton

($800 DD Bet $2600): The 18th century War of this “Succession” helped keep Maria Theresa as ruler but cost her Silesia

($1000) Queen of the Iceni tribe, she led a British revolt vs. the Romans that saw her defeated in 60 A.D.

’90s TV ($400) An estimated 50 million people watched his final “Tonight Show” appearance on May 22, 1992

($800) One meme about this actor who was “Walker, Texas Ranger”: “Death once had a near-” him “experience”

($1200) This sitcom aired the office politics & interpersonal relationships at Station WNYX

($1600) The romance of Dr. Joel Fleischman & local pilot Maggie O’Connell was sometimes hot but often chilly on this show

($2000) Originally from Northern Ireland, this actress played Monica on “Touched by an Angel”