Final Jeopardy: Historic Americans (1-12-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (1/12/2022) in the category “Historic Americans” was:
In 1838 he took a new last name, of a family in Walter Scott’s “The Lady of the Lake”; for distinction he added a 2nd “S” to the end
30x champ Amy Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, CA won $1,057,800 so far. In Game 31, she is up against: Emma Shirato Almon, a government effectiveness associate manager from Sunnyside, NY; and Ally Bove, a physical therapist from Pittsburgh, PA.
Round 1 Categories: How Provincial – Chinese Calendar Animals – 3 Short Words – Let Me in!! – Iron Man – War Machine
Ally found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “3 Short Words” under the $800 clue on the 9th pick. She was in the lead with $1,600, $400 more than Amy in second place. She bet $1,000 and said “rock the boat.” That was WRONG.
Bremerton, Washington claims to be where an excited Democrat first yelled to Pres. Truman the phrase do this, Harry. show
Amy finished in the lead with $7,000. Ally was second with $3,200 and Emma was last with negative $200. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: Royal Women – Authors’ Nonfiction – Science – One Letter Different – Classic Sitcoms – Reptilian Words & Phrases
Amy found the first Daily Double in “One Letter Different” under the $1,200 clue on the 10th pick of the round. Amy was in the lead with $12,200 now, $7,800 more than Ally in second place. Amy bet $4,000 and couldn’t come up with a response so she was WRONG.
A tiny European republic & a Hall of Fame Dolphin quarterback. show
Just 2 clues later, Ally got the last Daily Double in “Science” under the $1,200 clue. In second place with $6,000, she had $2,200 less than Amy’s lead. Ally bet $5,000 and said triumvirates. That was WRONG.
First appearing in the Cambrian period, these are the 3-lobed fossils of what were marine animals. show
Amy finished in the lead with a runaway $23,000. Ally was second with $3,000 and Emma was last with $200. No clues went uncovered.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS FREDERICK DOUGLASS?
When we’re talking about Frederick Douglass, 1838 is significant as the year he escaped from slavery. In Chapter 11 of “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave”, he wrote: “… on the third day of September, 1838, I left my chains….” Arriving in New York, Frederick Bailey became Frederick Johnson when he married, Anna Murray, a free black woman from Baltimore, on September 15th. The Johnsons then set out for New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Frederick Douglass further recounted how in New Bedford, he was assisted by abolitionists, Nathan Johnson and his wife. Feeling that there were too many in New Bedford using the surname “Johnson”, Douglass “gave Mr. Johnson the privilege” of setting him up with a more unique last name: “Mr. Johnson had just been reading the ‘Lady of the Lake,’ and at once suggested that my name be ‘Douglass.'” (Ellen Douglas is the feudal heroine of the Walter Scott poem.) This took place at the Johnsons’ breakfast table on September 18, 1838. Find out more about Frederick Douglass’ life in New Bedford.
Emma got it right. She bet $20 and finished with $220.
Ally didn’t have a response. She lost $2,000 and finished with $1,000.
Amy didn’t have a response either. She lost $12,000 and finished with $11,000. Her 31-day total is $1,068,800.
2 triple stumpers from the last round:
AUTHORS’ NONFICTION ($1600) Before writing 1905’s “The House of Mirth”, she collaborated on “The Decoration of Houses”, a book of interior designs
CLASSIC SITCOMS ($1200) Redd Foxx played a cantankerous junk dealer & patriarch on this Norman Lear comedy
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “European History”
It took the French army until 1995 to declare him innocent, 101 years after he was convicted of treason show
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I thought the contestant said ‘Rock the Vote’ instead of ‘Rock the Boat’, but I may have misheard lol
Surprised at the double-stumper in FJ. I have written about “Fred Doug”‘s house in SE DC though I have never been there and in 2020 finally read his harrowing book-length account of being enslaved. Some of the Jeopardy round and Double Jeopardy round clues were frankly much harder than this was–to me at least.
Same for me. I thought this was a high school level question.
Oh, and, I totally got a laugh when Amy said “dragon” for krait! If you don’t know, a “krayt dragon” is from the Star Wars universe!
That was one tough finale, and I was certainly stumped. Actually, I was only surprised that no one came up with the Redd Foxx show earlier in the game which was a very popular sitcom.
Regarding the “extra s” part of the clue, I could find no corroboration that Frederick Douglass “added it for distinction” unless it means he was consciously trying to elevate his social status. A 2018 book “Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846” by Alasdair Pettinger states: “We don’t know for sure why the surname of Walter Scott’s James Douglas [Ellen’s father] acquired an extra ‘s’,” noting a biographer’s suggestion that it was the way prominent black families in the North spelled the surname.
It is also noted that the 1840 Federal Census shows that the surname “Douglass was 3x more common in the USA than ‘Douglas'”. That makes sense to me as a way to distinguish first and last names.
Disappointed episode as all 3 DDs were missed resulted our first skunking in over a month.
I got $12K in Triple Stumper clues, including the first round DD. Amy had $23K going into FJ and got FJ! wrong. Interesting.
I hope someone gets today’s players to watch an episode or two of that Redd Foxx sitcom. When my NJ granddaughter (age 20) was down here last year, I shared 3 classic sitcoms with her, just so she would know about them: the Redd Foxx sitcom, I Dream of Jeannie & The Beverly Hillbillies. She said Redd Foxx was the funniest, hands down!
Those sitcoms were my childhood favorites vj. I dream of Jeannie and bewitched plus red Foxx not to mention beverly hillbillies. Difficult board for double jeopardy so it’s no surprise Amy missed this final. But still is she getting a bit tired? We got our first daily double skunking for the new year. I hope Amy can make a comeback tomorrow
If William Weyser was here, he would say darn those daily doubles.
Louis that was the vibe I was picking up – getting tired. I believe it was Arthur Chu who said that it was tiring.
I shall admit, I was, at first, stumped, but, the FJ did come to mind. However, I would have been VERY close.