Final Jeopardy: 19th Century Americans (5-3-21)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/3/2021) in the category “19th Century Americans” was:

His book “An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859” shows he heeded his own famous advice

2x champ Emily Sands, a Vice President Of Operations from Chanhassen, MN, won $53,401 last week. In Game 3, she is up against: Eliza Eatonstern, a middle school history teacher from Aurora, CO; and Cesar Del Peral, an attorney orig. from Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.

Round 1 Categories: History – Comedy Central – The Food Network – “E”! – Vice – Channels

Emily found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “‘E’!” under the $1,000 clue with 7 clues left after it. She was in second place with $2,000, $1,000 less than Eliza’s lead. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.

One in this job studies the origin and history of words show

WHAT IS AN ETYMOLOGIST?

Emily finished in the lead with $5,400. Eliza was second with $3,800 and Cesar was last with $1,600. No clues went uncovered.

Round 2 Categories: Alliterative Authors – Ye Olde Science – The Arts – African-American Women – A Word from the Greek for… – Prom Music

Emily found the first Daily Double in “The Arts” under the $1,200 clue on the 5th pick. She was in the lead with $6,600 now, $4,400 more than Eliza in second place. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.

This American is legendary for the black and white landscapes he captured with his camera show

WHO IS ANSEL ADAMS?

Cesar got the last Daily Double in “Ye Olde Science” under the $800 clue on the 7th pick. In third place with $1,600, he had $11,600 less than Emily’s lead. He bet $2,000 and thought it was the brain. That was WRONG.

Phrenology was based on the idea that a person’s character could be determined by feeling the shape of this body part show

WHAT IS THE SKULL?

Emily finished in the lead with a runaway $17,200. Eliza was next with $7,400 and Cesar was in third place with $4,000. No clues went uncovered.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS HORACE GREELEY?

Hoosier State Chronicles has an article about the uncertain origin of the famous phrase referred to in today’s FJ! clue: “Who wrote the famous slogan ‘Go west, young man, and grow up with the country’? It’s one of the great catch phrases of Manifest Destiny, an exhortation that echoes deep in the soul of Americans long after the closing of the frontier. But when you try to pin down where it came from, it’s suddenly like holding a fistful of water … especially since nobody has ever found the exact phrase in the writings of either of the men who might have authored it.” The article says that, most likely, the exact phrase was never written down but simply became a shorter version of advice that Iowa Congressman Josiah B. Grinnell claimed to have gotten from Horace Greeley’s own mouth: “Go West; this is not the place for a young man.”

From 2013: “NORTH”, “SOUTH”, “EAST”, “WEST” ($1600) Horace Greeley is generally credited with this 4-word phrase, but some say John Soule used it earlier

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Cesar came up with Frost, who was born in 1874. He lost his $3,401 bet and finished with $599.

Eliza thought of Mark Twain, who did “Go West” in 1861. She bet and lost it all.

Emily got it right. She bet $2,399 and won the game with $19,599. Her 3-day total is $73,000.

3 triple stumpers from ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS:

($800) Tom Wolfe wrote of the adventures of this author & the Merry Pranksters in “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”

($1200) He wrote the book “The Third Man” as “raw material” for the screenplay; it was published after the film came out

($2000) James Jones is best remembered for this novel set in Hawaii just before the attack on Pearl Harbor

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Organizations”

The oldest of these business booster groups, formed in Marseille in 1599, uses “de” instead of “of” in the name show

WHAT IS THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?

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