Final Jeopardy: Historic Places (3-12-21)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/12/2021) in the category “Historic Places” was:

8 Pres. have visited this battle site with an Algonquian name about 50 miles from Washington; for McKinley, it was a return visit

New champ Dave Pai, a field application scientist orig. from Mechanicsburg, PA, won $28,300 yesterday. In Game 2, he is up against: Michalle Gould, a librarian orig. from Austin, TX; and Keith Bednarczuk, a letter carrier from Columbus, OH.

Round 1 Categories: 6-Letter Countries – Of Pop Culture Mice & Men – Business Abbrev. – That’s My Secret – Captain – I’m Always Angry

Keith found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Captain” under the $400 clue on the 9th pick of the round. He was in second place with $1,000, $1,200 less than Dave’s lead. He bet $682 and he was RIGHT.

Captain Joseph Hazelwood was in charge on March 24, 1989 when this oil tanker hit Bligh Reef, off Alaska’s coast. show

WHAT IS THE EXXON VALDEZ?

Keith finished in the lead with $6,482. Michalle was second with $3,600 and Dave was last with $2,000. One $1,000 clue went uncovered.

Round 2 Categories: Alliterative Lit – Laboratories – Grant Wood’s Americana – Overcoming Obstacles – In My Record Collection – Before & After

Michalle found the first Daily Double in “Grant Wood’s Americana” under the $1,600 clue on the 17th pick. She was in second place with $9,600 now, $3,282 less than Keith’s lead. She bet $2,000 and guessed Truman right after time was up. That was WRONG anyway.

Wood painted West Branch, Iowa in a work titled “The Birthplace of” this president show

WHO IS HERBERT HOOVER?

Michalle got the last Daily Double in “Overcoming Obstacles” under the $1,200 clue, with 5 clues left after it. In second place with $13,200, she had $882 less than Keith’s lead. She bet $2,000 again and this time, she was RIGHT.

Diagnosed with ALS in the ’60s & given a few years to live, he lived another 50+ to become one of the greatest scientific minds of all time. show

WHO IS STEPHEN HAWKING?

Michalle finished in the lead with $16,800. Keith was next with $16,082 and Dave was in third place with $4,400. No clues went uncovered.

NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS ANTIETAM?

The Battle of Antietam, notorious as the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, took place on 9/17/1862 near Sharpsburg, Maryland, 50+ miles northwest of Washington, DC. President McKinley’s visit was a return visit because he was a Union Sergeant at the Battle. There is a monument to him near Burnside’s Bridge. The other 6 Presidents are: Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Grant (2x), both Roosevelts (FDR 2x), JFK and Jimmy Carter.

Katie Couric said only three Civil War sites (Antietam, Chickamauga and Chattanooga) have Native American names. However, you can find a bunch more on American Battlefields Trust. There’s Eutaw Springs, Kennesaw Mountain, Okolona and Olustee. Appomatox and Rappahannock are believed to be derived from Algonquian languages. Some people believe that Manassas comes from Algonquian and has no real connection to Manasseh in the Bible.

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Dave didn’t have a complete response. Katie said it looked like he was going for Appomattox (VA), which is more than 150 miles from D.C. He bet nothing so he lost nothing and remained at $4,400.

Keith went with Monmouth, a New Jersey battlefield site in the Revolutionary War. That cost him $16,080 and left him with $2.00.

Michalle came up with Gettsyburg (PA), also more than 150 miles from DC. She lost her $16,700 bet and finished with $100. So Dave Pai won the game by keeping the most money. He is a 2-day Jeopardy champ with total winnings of $32,700.

A triple stumper from each round:

CAPTAIN ($800) It’s yo ho ho & a bottle of rum for this Welsh buccaneer who ransacked Portobelo on the Isthmus of Panama in 1668

OVERCOMING OBSTACLES ($2000) Born without a right hand, he pitched with his left, playing 10 seasons for 4 different MLB teams

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “20th Century History”

Constructed in the 1930s, it extended from La Ferté to the Rhine River, though it also had sections along the Italian frontier show

WHAT IS THE MAGINOT LINE?

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