Final Jeopardy: Historic European Families (2-21-22)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (2/21/2022) in the category “Historic European Families” was:

This family has been traced to the Mugello Valley around the year 1200 & the name suggests the trade of physician

New champ Carter Lockwood, an attorney from Columbia, SC won $17,401 last Friday. In Game 2, he takes on these two players: Lynde Smith, a server from Louisville, CO; and Henry Rozycki, a physician and professor from Richmond, VA.

Round 1 Categories: Artists on the Move – The Korean War – Trees – Las Vegas Hotel Names – TV Double Takes – Ends with “Out”!

Henry found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Trees” under the $800 clue with one clue left after it. Henry was in the lead with $4,200, $400 more than Carter in second place. Henry bet $1,200 and he was RIGHT.

This giant tree bears the name of a Cherokee leader who created a writing system show

WHAT IS SEQUOIA?

Henry finished in the lead with $6,400. Carter was second with $3,800 and Lynde was last with $3,200. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: Around the World in 50 Seconds – Bad People in Books – Space: Kind of Huge – Thy Fearful Symmetry – Back Me Up – Scrambled Hats

Henry found the first Daily Double in “Space: Kind of Huge” under the $2,000 clue with 11 clues left after it. He was in second place with $9,200, $600 less than Carter’s lead. Henry bet $2,200 and he was RIGHT.

Launched in 1989, the Galileo craft took the long way ‘round to this planet in a 6-year, 2.4-billion-mile circuitous route show

WHAT IS JUPITER?

Lynde got the last Daily Double in “Bad People in Books” under the $1,600 clue with 8 clues left after it. She was in third place with $5,200 now, $6,200 less than Henry’s lead. Lynde bet it all and guessed “Candide”. That was WRONG.

Smallpox is but one of the retributions suffered by the villainous Madame de Merteuil in this 1782 French novel show

WHAT IS “DANGEROUS LIAISONS”?

Henry finished in the lead with $12,600. Carter was second with $9,800 and Lynde was last with $6,000. All clues were shown.

ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO ARE THE MEDICI?

The House of Medici was an Italian family that ruled the city-state of Florence, and later Tuscany for the better part of the 15th century through the early part of the 18th century. According to the website Florence Inferno, it all began when members of the Medici family moved from the Mugello valley to Florence around 1200, although the family’s history over the next two centuries is unverifiable. The Medici are believed to have greatly embellished their early history; however, it is believed that the founder of the family was a doctor.

The Medici’s rise to power began in earnest in the 15th century when they established a bank and soon “wet their beaks” in other businesses. Their support of the papacy did much to increase their prestige and power. Four members of the family became popes. Their support of the arts had a huge impact on the Italian Renaissance. The Medici were also known for their efforts to keep Florence free from foreign domination. Two Medici women married kings of France and ruled as Queens Regent when their minor sons inherited the French crown.

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Lynde bet $4,000. That brought her up to $10,000.

Carter bet $2,801. He finished with $12,601.

Henry bet $7,501. He won the game with $20,101. Henry Rozycki is the new Jeopardy! champ.

A triple stumper from each round:

TV DOUBLE TAKES ($1000) Little Joe Ingalls

BACK ME UP ($1200) She was a backup singer for Brenda K. Starr when she was discovered in the late ’80s– 19 No. 1 hits later…

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “From Screen to Stage”

This 2007 movie came to Broadway with an all-female creative team including book & direction and with songs by pop star Sara Bareilles show

WHAT IS “WAITRESS”?

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