Final Jeopardy: Law Enforcement History (1-25-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (1/25/2019) in the category “Law Enforcement History” was:
This U.S. group was formed to protect settlers in an area that had recently gained independence from Spain
New champ Aaron Lichtig, a growth marketer from Silver Spring, MD, won $14,401 yesterday. In Game 2, he is up against: Christopher Records, a nonprofit consultant from Los Angeles, CA; and Steven Oppenheim, a supply chain analyst from Shaker Heights, OH, who is going by his nickname Steve-O.
Round 1 Categories: “S”Ports – Brit Speak – The Hodgest of Podge – Pest Control – Poetry in Motion – Lying in States
Aaron found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Lying in States” under the $600 clue on the 10th pick of the round. He was in a second place tie with Christopher. They both had $600 less than Steve-O’s lead. He bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
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Aaron finished in the lead with $6,400. Steve-O was second with $5,000 and Christopher was last with $3,800.
Round 2 Categories: Reference Goes Digital – Pop Culture Portmanteaus – Russian Bodies of Water – A Bowl of “Sup” – Eye Exam – Better 1, Better 2?
Steve-O found the first Daily Double in “Pop Culture Portmanteaus” under the $1,200 clue on the 10th pick. He was in the lead with $10,200 now, $2,000 more than Christopher in second place. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
George Clinton was the mastermind behind the groups called Parliament & this hybrid word. show
6 clues later, Aaron found the last Daily Double in “Eye Exam” under the $800 clue. In second place with $7,600, he had $9,600 less than Steve-O’s lead. He bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.
In the most common form of color blindness, a person has trouble distinguishing between these 2 colors. show
Steve-O finished in the lead with $22,800. Aaron was next with $16,600 and Christopher was in third place with $6,600.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
According to the Texas Dept. of Public Safety, “By 1823, probably more than 600 to 700 people were in Texas, hardy colonists from the various portions of the United States at that time, who settled not far from the Gulf of Mexico. There was no regular army to protect them, so [Stephen] Austin called the citizens together and organized a group to provide the needed protection. Austin first referred to this group as the Rangers in 1823… thus giving rise to the service known as the Texas Rangers.”
From 2005: LET’S MESS WITH TEXAS ($400) Since 1935 this agency that originated in the 1820s has operated as a branch of the Texas Dept. of Public Safety
Christopher thought it was the U.S. Marshals. He bet and lost it all.
Aaron was going for the Buffalo Soldiers. He lost $3,300 and $13,300 left.
Steve-O nailed it. He bet a respectable $10,401 and won the game with $33,201. He is the new Jeopardy! champ we’ll be seeing at the first podium on Monday.
A triple stumper from each round:
PEST CONTROL ($800) Terminix says vacuuming is a good start in controlling these icky insects like the German & brown-banded types
REFERENCE GOES DIGITAL ($2000) This multivolume encyclopedia debuted in 1917, began “Childcraft” in 1934 & first went online in 1998
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “African Cities”
The coat of arms of this South African city shows 2 cornucopias, pouring out flowers & water. show
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Mary Ann Borer is back on the top 15 list.
I can’t believe there are all these what’s a supply chain analyst comments. You’ll get an answer much faster if you try looking it up on google.
Steve said he also has a hopi name. Also what is a supply chain analyst
Is he a buyer, maybe ?
Supply Chain Analyst? That sounds like a made up job.
You pretty often hear job titles or descriptions where you go ????????????????????
I guess you can (re-)phrase pretty much any job into something fancy or you want people to guess what you are doing, for whatever reason. The more words you have in a description the stranger it gets. I like one word jobs like “attorney”,”physician” etc, or maybe 2 words such as “pediatric nurse” etc. But whatever tickles their fancy.
Steve is now # 6 on in the top payouts! Nice going!!
Today’s (1/25) Final Jeopardy question was wrong. Texas gained its independence from MEXICO, not Spain.
In addition to the pikachu question he also didn’t answer the Super Bowl question in question form.
I absolutely agree. Why wasn’t it caught.?
I heard Steve-O say “what’s the Super Bowl?” On the Pikachu one, all I heard was “kachu” so I just assumed it was the result of an edit
It appeared that Steve didn’t give the picachu clue in question form
@JCA, @kp
Just what I said. Would it have made any difference?I don’t think so.Steve was in the lead and had Aaron covered, even had Aaron be right and wagered everything, Steve would have won by a buck. Aaron’s bet was a bit unconventional anyway, he did not even try to cover Steve (had he stayed put). So we’ll see next week how Steve will fare.
I do not think it matters if he would have won anyway. It should be corrected tomorrow.
Also I heard him say “Earls” not Yurals.
I heard that, too, and thought it was my bad hearing!
Steve-O got it right, and will come back with a hefty $30,000+ win. The clue here has some key phrases, “had recently gained independence from Spain”. Although Texas declared independence from Mexico, it was Mexico who gained independence from Spain, so to clarify, Texas WAS part of Spain.
Texas won their independence from Mexico not spain
@Carl Malish You’re right, Texas won their independence from Mexico, but Mexico declared independence from Spain. So, technically, Texas WAS part of Spain.
Independence from Mexico was in 1836. Texas had been controlled by Spain prior to Mexico. Mexico allowed Anglo settlers into areas formerly under Spanish control and Rangers pre-date Texas Revolution since they were formed to protect these Anglo settlers.
If you read the clue carefully, it’s not misleading. When Mexico won its independence from Spain, not only was Texas part of Mexico, California and New Mexico were too.
There was another clue today that I thought was misleading about Muppet being a combination of marionette and puppet, because Jim Henson retracted that statement. Upon rereading the clue, I saw that it doesn’t say whether his statement was true or not, just that he said it. That’s true.
@Richard, maybe he will tell Alex on Monday. I was rooting for Steve-O in this game and he was so happy when he won. Hope he sticks around a while.
@John, I have never heard the State Troopers referred to as Rangers.
LINK: 10 more clues from this game
If Steve’s nickname is Steve-O, how did he get that name?
My guess would be because his last name is Oppenheim and maybe there was more than 1 “Steve” in his class? So they called him” Steve-O” and his classmate Steve-M if his last name was “Miller” e.g.. Like if you had another one or 2 “Richard” classmates, they might call you Richard-C. Makes sense?
Well this has been a week with leader curses. We close off this month with three back to back four time winners and two dismissed players. Congrats to Steve on his win though I hope he does break the curse next week. The Texas rangers, doesn’t that remind you of the tv show Walker Texas Ranger, John and VJ? I’m sure you might have seen a couple of the episodes on USA network. By the way the US marshals are people that extradite Criminals who committed crimes out of state and will send them back to their hometown court to face judges.
Congratulations to Steve-0. I knew “Texas Rangers” as a child in Europe when I was reading Wild West stories. They always showed up and “Texas Rangers” is kind of a dictum…. I think pretty much everybody in the world, no matter where, has heard of /about the “Texas Rangers” at some point.
@VJ, Aren’t the highway troopers/cops in Texas called “Rangers”??
Have a great weekend everybody.