Final Jeopardy: Popular Phrases (10-5-21)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/5/2021) in the category “Popular Phrases” was:

This phrase relating to nutrition & health was popularized by fruit scientist J.T. Stinson at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair

34x champ Matt Amodio, a PhD student from New Haven, CT won $1,350,801 so far. In Game 35, his challengers are: Angie Vroom Givant, a writer from La Crescenta, CA; and Anthony Christopher-Smith, a social worker from Newark, NJ.

Round 1 Categories: Arithmetalk – In Search of Alien Life – It’s a Process – That’s a Different Preposition – Their ’90s Hit Album – “H” Is for History

Anthony selected the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “It’s a Process” under the $600 clue on the 5th pick. He was in second place with $1,800, just $200 behind Matt in first place. He bet $1,400 and he was RIGHT.

Darwin wrote that he called a process this “or survival of the fittest.” show

WHAT IS NATURAL SELECTION?

Matt finished in the lead with $12,600. Anthony was second with $5,200 and Angie was last with $600. No clues went uncovered.

Round 2 Categories: Here Comes the Sonnet – The Americ-Anns – Cult Movies – I before E after C – That’s Grand! – Canyons

Angie picked the first Daily Double in “That’s Grand ” under the $1,600 clue on the 5th pick. She was in last place with $2,200, $15,200 less than Matt in first place. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.

The head of state of this small nation is Grand Duke Henri. show

WHAT IS LUXEMBOURG?

10 clues later, Matt landed on the last Daily Double in “Here Comes the Sonnet” under the $800 clue. In the lead with $24,600, he had $15,000 more than Anthony in second place. Matt bet $10,000 and he was RIGHT.

“…with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life” are a few of the ways this woman loves thee. show

WHO IS ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING?

Matt finished in the lead with a runaway $39,000. Anthony was next with $11,200 and Angie was in third place with $2,400. No clues went uncovered.

ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY?

Professor John Turner Stinson was the director of horticulture for the St. Louis World’s Fair. He popularized the “daily apple” expression when he staged an “Apple Day” at the fair in 1904. Although the phrase was an adaptation of a much earlier Welsh proverb (Eat an apple on going to bed and you’ll keep the doctor from earning his bread), Stinson was still remembered for it in his obituary when he died at age 92 in June 1958, a ripe old age whether he was eating an apple a day or not. Apples are not mentioned on his Find-A-Grave page but they do have a picture of him over there.

In 2015, some doctors conducted a study of 8,399 participants to determine whether an apple a day really keeps the doctor away or not. Their conclusion: “Evidence does not support that an apple a day keeps the doctor away; however, the small fraction of US adults who eat an apple a day do appear to use fewer prescription medications.”

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Angie bet it all and doubled her score to $4,800.

Anthony bet $6,000. He finished with $17,200.

Matt bet $11,000 and won the game with an even $50,000. His 35-day total is $1,400,801.

A triple stumper from each round:

HERE COMES THE SONNET ($400) Shakespeare’s Sonnet 153 notes the “love-kindling fire” of this Roman god & where he “got new fire–my mistress’ eyes”

THE AMERIC-ANNS ($1600) John Allen & Elisha Rumsey were both married to women named Ann when they founded this city amidst some groves in 1824

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Mountain Ranges”

A chain of volcanoes is named for this mountain range where the continental USA’s deadliest eruption took place show

WHAT ARE THE CASCADES?

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