Final Jeopardy: Cemeteries and Memorials (1-14-22)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (1/14/2022) in the category “Cemeteries and Memorials” was:

60,000 are at rest in a National Memorial Cemetery opened in 1949 in the crater of an extinct volcano in this state

32x champ Amy Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, CA won $1,101,600 during her streak. In Game 33, she takes on these two players: Luis Soto, a financial analyst from San Gabriel, CA; and Rachel Ostrow, a full-time parent from Arlington, MA.

Round 1 Categories: Fear – What Did You Lose? – Miss, Mr. or Mrs. Song – Words & Phrases – Holland – Oats

Amy found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Words & Phrases” under the $600 clue with 7 clues left after it. She was in the lead with $5,400, $3,000 more than Rachel in second place. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.

Something that is exactly what you would expect is this 4-word golfing phrase; it’s actually 72 at Augusta National show

Amy finished in the lead with $9,000. Rachel was second with $3,000 and Luis was last with $600. No clues went uncovered.

Round 2 Categories: World History – Character Test – International Orgs. – Centenarians – Bobbing for Actors – From “C” to “Y”

Amy found the first Daily Double in “World History” under the $1,200 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. In the lead with $10,200 now, she had $7,200 more than Rachel in second place. Amy bet $4,000 and she was RIGHT..

Led by King Gustavus Adolphus, Sweden entered this decades-long European conflict, a major turning point in that war. show

Amy got the last Daily Double in “International Orgs.” under the $1,200 clue on the 14th pick of the round. In the lead with $19,400, she had $16,400 more than Rachel in second place. Amy bet $6,000 and she was RIGHT.

IRENA, where they talk a lot of wind: “International” this type of “Energy Agency”. show

Amy finished in the lead with a runaway $30,200. Rachel was second with $3,800 and Luis was last with $3,800. No clues went uncovered.

NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS HAWAII?

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration maintains the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific and over 150 other national cemeteries. All the information you might want to know is on their website, including the formation of the volcanic crater known as the “Punchbowl.” “Puowaina” (its Hawaiian name) is believed to have been first used as an altar for human sacrifices to pagan gods. Its later uses included firing off two cannons to announce important occasions or visitors. In the 1930s, the Hawaiian National Guard used the crater as a rifle range.

In the 1940s, after Congress authorized a $50,000 appropriation to establish a national cemetery in Honolulu, the Hawaiian governor offered the Punchbowl. For many reasons, the project did not get underway in earnest until after World War II. Construction began in February 1948 and the first interment was made on January 4, 1949.



Luis thought it was Wyoming. He lost his $2,000 bet and finished with $1,000.

Rachel went to Oregon with it. That cost her $2,201. She finished with $1,599.

Amy came up with California. She lost a whopping $20,000 but still won the game with the $10,200 she had left. Her 33-day total is $1,111,800.

Final Jeopardy (1/14/2022) Amy Schneider, Luis Soto, Rachel Ostrow

A triple stumper from each round:

HOLLAND ($1000) Willem-Alexander, the son of this woman who reigned for more than 30 years, is the current monarch

BOBBING FOR ACTORS ($1200) This actor was back haunting dreams as Freddy Krueger in a 2018 episode of “The Goldbergs” called “Mister Knifey-Hands”

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Constitutions of the World”

This country’s 1979 constitution forbids amendments altering its official ideology or religion show

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28 Responses

  1. mike pincher says:

    You people don’t fully appreciate the vast overall scope and breadth of knowledge Jeopardy tests if you have any chance to keep on going. Eventually, all of us will get clues that we know and that the very best players don’t, yet overall, we’d have no realistic shot of beating those very best players except in extraordinary circumstances where all of the categories are in our wheelhouse, and that is rare indeed. It gets a little comical when I read how incredulous some people think the champs missing clues they know is. I say it’s par for the course.

    I have frequently run across clues that I knew that Jennings, Holzhauer, Amodio and now Schneider didn’t know that I was surprised at. Yet there is no way I could compete with them under anything approaching normal circumstances.

    • VJ says:

      Mike, I don’t think you fully appreciate that you are making the leap for “us people” that because, at one time or another, we got a clue that a superchamp didn’t get, we automatically think we’re smarter than that superchamp or we can beat that superchamp.

      Yet, at the same time, you don’t make that leap for yourself. However, you admit that you are surprised (pleasantly, I assume) when you get a clue one of them didn’t get but you don’t think you can beat them.

      I wonder if you can appreciate that commenting gets to be quite a drag when people have to qualify their comments with a disclaimer (i.e., I don’t mean I’m smarter than Amy, Matt, James or Ken) because other people read things into their comment that never even crossed their minds!

  2. Jason says:

    And, I’m still taken aback that no one could name who played Alexander Pierce! (At least, not on time)

  3. Jason says:

    So, there’s two flavors here: “brutally difficult” and “absurdly easy”. Since I lived in Hawai’i, I thought it was easy. The most cogent point, though, was made by Howard, in that, no one made the connection with volcanoes and Hawai’i. And, I might posit that “guillotine” from Victor Hugo is MUCH more obscure than “Punchbowl”.

    In any case, I’ll just tell you – parking at Punchbowl on Memorial Day is, essentially, impossible!

    • VJ says:

      My daughter made the volcanoes / Hawaii connection instantly and was very proud of herself esp when the players were all stumped

    • LrdSlvrhnd says:

      Yeah, I was like, “Volcano, Hawai’i, obvious” and then staring at their answers. Because Wyoming is famous for its extinct volcanos lol

      Mind, I don’t know if I could’ve made that connection on stage, under the bright lights, with all the pressure…

  4. Richard Corliss says:

    Come on, Amy! Go, go, go!!!

  5. Val Moonstone says:

    Yup.

  6. Val Moonstone says:

    This final Jeopardy question was DEEPLY flawed, which is why Amy didn’t get it. Hawaii was not a state until 1959.

    • Caroletta says:

      Don’t overthink it. The question asked for the location of the cemetery now, not when it was opened. I got it. Easy.

      • Val Moonstone says:

        The question said it was “opened in 1949… in this state.” Hawaii was NOT a state in 1949. The correct phrasing should have been “in what later became this state” but of course that would have been too obvious.

        • Jacob Ska says:

          Val, Rachel brought up that issue over on Reddit. Said she, Amy, & Luis talked to Ken and the judges after the show. They felt that since Hawaii was not a state in 1949 it couldn’t be the response. She didn’t elaborate further other than to post”C’est la vie.”

  7. jk says:

    I was really surprised no one got this one. Seemed obvious, to me. Maybe that was it. They thought it was too obvious, and out thought themselves. Anyway, I imagine the Punchbowl would be a nice place to be lei-ed to rest. Sorry. I can’t help myself.

  8. bonnie says:

    since both of my grandparents are buried at the punchbowl i thought it was too easy to be a final jeopardy question…

  9. Jacob Ska says:

    Congratulations Amy on your 33rd game win on Jeopardy.

  10. Rick says:

    Wow, that was one tough finale. I went with Washington in FJ, but it was unfortunately incorrect.

  11. VJ says:

    well, that was quite remarkable. When Amy was losing all those FJ’s and big bets in the first 3 days of the week, I was thinking that if she was Irish, she would think she was jinxing herself by making big bets. 🤣 The Irish are a superstitious lot. 🤣 Then I found out yesterday that she is half Irish, and she got FJ with a low $4K bet. Now lo and behold, she is out $20K today!

    • Howard says:

      Her daily average of around $40K has sunk quite a bit in the last couple of weeks.
      I toured the Punchbowl in 2015, so that was a cinch. You’d have thought at least one of them would have associated volcanoes with Hawaii.

  12. Ismael Gomez says:

    We end the week with another triple stumper as today’s FJ was not nice to anybody. As always, nobody knows about geography.

  13. William Weyser says:

    Next week better be better, and it better give me something to work with.

    • mike pincher says:

      What is that supposed to mean? Amy has been phenomenal and this streak of FJs missed is inevitable in a long streak like she has had. I’d like to see her catch Amodio and become second on the all-time list of consecutive regular season games won.

      If you’re that dissatisfied go on the game yourself.

      • VJ says:

        There ya go again. You’re reading things into William’s comment that he didn’t mean at all.

        You could have just stopped at your opening question and waited for a response.

  14. Kevin Cheng says:

    What a tough FJ! week but Amy is now in third place for most consecutives games won.

    • Ismael Gomez says:

      That is why we got our first losing FJ week of the year.

    • Lou says:

      How is this a tough final jeopardy? I mean anyone who is a fan of the hawaii Five O should know this one. I guess none of the contestants saw that show. I’ve been to hawaii with my family and visited Pearl Harbor one time in 2005 and visited wakiki. But I am happy that Amy won again. Next week should have Amy making a comeback I hope if she can get to Matt’s 38 game total

      • Alfred Robert Hogan says:

        Yes I too thought the FJ really easy and despite not being too fond of cops (as a pacifist) in general I too regularly watched the original 1968-1980 CBS-TV HAWAII FIVE-0. I am really surprised it proved a Triple Stumper!