Final Jeopardy: Famous Do’s & Don’ts (11-25-21)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/25/2021) in the category “Famous Do’s and Don’ts” was:

In 1964 Berkeley alum Jack Weinberg, age 24, told a San Francisco Chronicle reporter this now-famous “don’t”

6x champ Amy Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, CA has now won $207,800. In Game 7, the challengers are: Nancy Edelman, a high school English teacher from Teaneck, NJ; and Ged Trias, an architect from Rockford, IL.

Round 1 Categories: A Matter of Trust – Oscar’s Best Director – In the Room – The Women – “Come” & “Go” – Talking of Michelangelo

Ged found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Oscar’s Best Director” under the $1,000 clue on the 14th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $3,600, $600 more than Amy in second place. He bet $1,000 and went with Boyle. That was WRONG.

2012: There are more letters in “Life of Pi” than in his name. show

WHO IS ANG LEE?

Amy finished in the lead with $9,200 and Ged was second with $5,200. At negative $600, Nancy was last.

Round 2 Categories: Pilgrims’ Progress – This Song Is About You – The State That… – World History – Authors of Today – 4-Letter Before & After

Amy found the first Daily Double in “World History” under the $1,200 clue on the second pick. She was in the lead with $10,000 now, $4,600 more than Ged in second place. She bet $4,000 and she was RIGHT.

In 1893 he went to South Africa to do some legal work; he stayed for 21 years to work for Indian rights. show

WHO IS GANDHI?

Amy got the last Daily Double in “The State That…” under the $1,200 clue, with a dozen clues left after it. In the lead with $20,000, she had $12,600 more than Ged in second place. Amy bet $4,000 again and she was RIGHT again.

Has a postal abbreviation consisting of 2 vowels. show

WHAT IS IOWA?

Amy finished in the lead with a runaway $34,000. Ged was next with $7,000 and Nancy was in third place with $1,400. No clues went uncovered.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS “DON’T TRUST ANYONE OVER 30”?

Various people have been credited with coining the phrase “Don’t trust anyone over 30,” but Jack Weinberg described how it really all came about when he was responding to an annoying newspaper reporter about the Free Speech Movement: “I told him we had a saying in the movement that we don’t trust anybody over 30. It was a way of telling the guy to back off, that nobody was pulling our strings.” Weinberg is now 81. (Draw your own conclusions!)

While the version in the clue is the most widely known, like most expressions, it spawned numerous variants. The 1976 film “Logan’s Run” became associated with the phrase when no one over the age of 30 was allowed to live. (In the 1967 novel the film is based on, the age when you had to go was 21).

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Nancy got it right. She bet $1,399 and finished with $2,799.

Ged got as far as Don’t, omitting the apostrophe. He lost his $2,800 bet and finished with $4,200.

Amy got it, too. She bet $16,000 and won the game with $50,000. Amy’s 7-day total is $257,800.

2 triple stumpers from AUTHORS OF TODAY:

($1600) This New Yorker regular & bestselling author of “Talking to Strangers” co-hosts the “Revisionist History” podcast

($2000) He covers people who create change with fresh thinking: about baseball in “Moneyball”; about medicine in 2021’s “The Premonition”

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “American History”

One a Civil War hero & one a U.S. Senator, brothers with this last name were both considered for the 1884 Republican pres. nomination show

WHAT IS SHERMAN?

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