Final Jeopardy: College Life (7-12-21)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/12/2021) in the category “College Life” was:

This dish associated with Harvard goes back to the start of the school; the wife of the first headmaster made an awful version

2x champ Jen Jazwinski, an early literacy librarian from Algonquin, IL won $59,201 last week. In Game 3, she takes on these two players: Jaclyn Schuenzel, a stay-at-home mom from Redmond, WA; and Tim Moon, an attorney orig. from Syracuse, NY.

Round 1 Categories: An Illustrated Life – Land of Nicknames – Pharmaceuticals – Cold Words – “S” Is for Summer – Gamer’s Delight

Tim found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Land of Nicknames” under the $800 clue, with 5 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $5,400, $2,000 more than Jen in second place. He bet $1,600 and he was RIGHT.

The “Land of Genghis Khan” show

WHAT IS MONGOLIA?

Tim finished in the lead with $8,800. Jen was second with $4,800 and Jaclyn was last with $1,600. No clues went uncovered.

Round 2 Categories: The Secretary of State, in Brief – French Literature – Buddhism – Logomania – Old TV Theme Songs – “Z” in the Middle

Tim found the first Daily Double in “Buddhism” under the $1,600 clue on the 20th pick. He was in the lead with $16,400 now, $6,800 more than Jen in second. He bet $2,600 and he was RIGHT.

The plant called the sacred or Indian this is a symbol of the true nature of beings and of Buddha’s throne show

WHAT IS THE LOTUS?

Tim got the last Daily Double in “The Secretary of State, In Brief” under the $1,600 clue, with 5 clues left after it. In the lead with $20,200, he had $10,600 more than Jen in second. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.

He was born in Furth, Germany show

WHO IS HENRY KISSINGER?

Tim finished in the lead with $22,200. Jen was next with $13,600 and Jaclyn was in third place with $6,000. No clues went uncovered.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS HASTY PUDDING?

Nathaniel Eaton was Harvard University’s first headmaster. A strict Puritan with a penchant for beating students and faculty alike, he also had a terrible cook for a wife. When school began in 1639, Easton gave his assistant such an awful beating that he faced charges in court. From the New England Historical Society: “And then the airing of students’ complaints began. It came to light that he routinely whipped his students with 20 to 30 lashes. But the Puritan magistrates, all familiar with the rod, didn’t have much concern about Nathaniel Eaton’s sadistic beatings. They did, however, find Mrs. Eaton’s cooking inexcusable. The students accused her of serving hasty pudding laced with goat dung, which she denied. But she did admit she made bread with sour meal. She also served spoiled fish and never, ever served beef, an Englishman’s birthright. Even worse, she would go for an entire week without serving the students beer….”

That might make you think no one at Harvard would ever want to see hasty pudding ever again but when we fast forward more than a century: Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Club, the oldest collegiate social club in America, was founded on 9/1/1795. It was named for hasty pudding as the members established a tradition of eating a pot of the stuff at each meeting. Later that year, Hasty Pudding Theatricals (aka “The Pudding”) was formed and is the oldest theatrical organization in the USA

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Jaclyn came up with figgy pudding. She bet and lost it all.

Jen got it right. She bet it all and doubled her total to $27,200.

Tim was also right. He bet $6,000 and won the game with $28,200. That made Tim Moon the new Jeopardy! champion.

A triple stumper from each round:

AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE ($400) “Twilight Man” is a graphic novel biography about this writer & “The Birth of Television”

FRENCH LITERATURE ($1200) Frederic Chopin’s lover wrote romantic feminist works like “Lelia” using this pseudonym

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “North American Cities”

In 2017 this city celebrated its 375th birthday & the 50th anniv. of an event that made it an international tourist destination show

WHAT IS MONTREAL?

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