Final Jeopardy: U.S. Museums (1-24-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (1/24/2022) in the category “U.S. Museums” was:
Named for a benefactor, it was established in 1893 to house artifacts from the nearby World’s Columbian Exposition
38x champ Amy Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, CA has now won $1,307,200. In Game 39, she takes on these two players: Erin O’Leary, an attorney from New York, NY; and Joanne Mercer, a nursing assistant from Toledo, OH.
Round 1 Categories: Writers Do Right – Roma Life & Culture – ’90s R&B & Hip-Hop – Government Agencies – Rattle & Hum – U2
Erin found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “U2” under the $800 clue on the 5th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $1,200, $600 more than Amy in second place. Erin made it a true Daily Double and came up with papyrus. That was WRONG.
Moses’ mom put him in an ark made of this plant show
Amy finished in the lead with $6,600. Joanne was second with $1,000 and Erin was last at negative $800. All clues were uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: The Crusades – Bodies of Water – Sci. Abbr. – Spice up Your Life – From TV to Film – The Year of Before & After
Amy found the first Daily Double in “The Year of Before & After“ under the $1,600 clue on the 9th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $11,800 now, $7,800 more than Joanne in second place. Amy bet $4,000 and she was RIGHT.
William Henry Harrison wins an election; a short nap ensues show
Amy got the last Daily Double in “Sci. Abbr.” under the $1,600 clue with 14 clues left after it. She was in the lead with $21,400, $17,600 more than Joanne in second place. Amy bet $5,000 and she was RIGHT.
They are in power across the pond & elsewhere: BTU show
Amy finished in the lead with a runaway $37,600. Joanne was second with $4,200 and Erin was last with $800. All clues were uncovered.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS THE FIELD MUSEUM?
An article from 1990 in the Chicago Tribune has some interesting tidbits on Marshall Field and his namesake museum. When the World`s Columbian Exposition was coming to an end in 1893, Chicago city fathers wanted to keep the Exposition’s artifacts in their city. They needed big bucks to do that. A local lumberman named Edward E. Ayer called upon wealthy businessman, Marshall Field, to make a sizable contribution. When Field was uninterested, Ayer made his case by pointing out “You can sell dry goods until hell freezes over, but immortality requires a museum with one`s name over the door.” Field contributed $1 million. Ayer later became the museum’s first president.
“Everything was moved into the old Palace of Fine Arts in Jackson Park, which was saved after the World`s Fair. The museum`s first home (since rebuilt and now housing the Museum of Science and Industry) was christened the Field Columbian Museum…. After a few years, the industrial and transportation exhibits were taken out. The Field was reserved for the world`s diverse natural mysteries- anthropology, biology, paleontology and geology, to be exact. By 1906 the museum was renamed the Field Museum of Natural History. It grew, and moved into its present building in 1921.”
Fun Facts about the World’s Columbian Exposition
Erin was going for the Bush Museum. She lost her $799 bet and finished with $1.00.
Joanne got it right. Her $2,000 bet brought her up to $6,200.
Amy went with the Grant Museum. She lost her $25,000 bet but won the game with the $12,600 she had left. Her 39-day total is $1,319,800. Last Friday, Amy matched Matt Amodio’s 38-day streak. Today she surpassed it and she is now No. 2 for consecutive games won. Only 35 more games to go to tie with Ken Jennings!
A triple stumper from each round:
SPICE UP YOUR LIFE ($400) Used especially in baked goods, the Dutch blue variety of these seeds are among the world’s best
WRITERS DO RIGHT ($1000) This author of vampire novels donated $1 from each sale of “The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner” to the Red Cross
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Cabinet Positions”
Of the 4 jobs in George Washington’s cabinet, the 2 that have been filled by women in the 230 years since show
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Laugh of the Day: In Writers Do Right, the $200 clue was: This British mystery maven described thallium poisoning so well in a book, a nurse recognized the symptoms in a child. I was trying to get the answer out quickest and it came out “Agatha Crispy.” 🤣🤣🤣 omg!!
We were cracking up. Now we’ll be saying her name that way for some time.
That’s hilarious, VJ. A propos of that, I always call the former governor of New Joisey, “Crisp Crispie”
ha ha ha, I love that, Rhonda!
Perhaps he is related to Agatha Crispy in some way lol?
Erin was right on the material used in the cradle raft of baby Moses. Both papyrus and bulrushes are correct.
U. 0f Arkansas, Division of Agriculture “Papyrus, or bullrush, (Cyperus papyrus) is a member of the nutsedge family.”
Concise Bible Dictionary: The little boat or cradle in which Moses was placed by his mother. It was made of bulrushes, or rather paper-reeds or papyrus which grew in the river Nile.
Unfortunately, that was a major error for Jeopardy. Amy is so good that it probably didn’t affect the ultimate winner of the game, but we will never know how the game would have gone if Erin was not set back so early in the game in dollars, confidence, and order of category selection. She should be invited back.
Jim, Erin’s answer was not accepted because papyrus only has one letter U. Bulrushes has 2, and the category was U2.
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That was one tough final. I had a postage stamp commemorating the Columbian Exposition as a kid, many decades ago. Somehow I associated that with Chicago tonight, and deduced the Field from that.
Can’t blame her for making those large FJ bets–she’s been playing with “house money” for weeks–but eventually someone will stay within half of her game score and take her down on one of those Finals she’s tripping up on more and more frequently. There’s a rumor going around online that her end is near, because she appeared on GMA this morning.
It occurs to me that Amy Schneider has lost more money with wrong guesses in final jeopardy than most champions ever won.
Congratulations to another all-time great. The TOC will be star-studded. It’s interesting (to me at least) the prevalence of STEM backgrounds among the top tier of the Jeopardy HOF.
Our first female champ winning over 30 games in jeopardy has got to be quite an accomplishment.
I think “woman” would be preferable to “female” in this case. This is not meant to be a disparaging remark. Amy appears to be very happy and I’m happy for her, in every way.
Game 39. Matt had 38.