Final Jeopardy: The Wild West (1-27-21)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (1/27/2021) in the category “The Wild West” was:

These 2 legends both known for buckskin clothes & long, flowing hair met violent ends 38 days apart, in Montana & South Dakota

6x champ Brian Chang, an attorney from Chicago, IL, has won $147,304. In Game 7, he takes on these two players: Alex Cohn, a psychiatry resident physician from Los Angeles, CA; and Erica Holencik, provider data specialist, Portland, OR.

Round 1 Categories: State Capitals – Occupations – Blue’s Clues – Word Origins – The Gramm”E”s – Books by Presidents

Brian found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Books by Presidents” under the $800 clue on the 13th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $3,400, $2,200 more than Erica in second place. He made it a true Daily Double and thought it was James Garfield. That was WRONG.

His “Personal Memoirs”, completed before his death in 1885 & “dedicated to the American soldier and sailor” show

WHO IS ULYSSES S. GRANT?

Erica finished in the lead with $4,200. Brian was second with $1,800 and Erica was last with $1,400. No clues went uncovered.

Round 2 Categories: Literary Vacations – Funny Business – Science & Nature – Words with “Fer” Ends – Could You? – Corsican

Alex found the first Daily Double in “Literary Vacations” under the $1,200 clue on the 6th pick. He was in second place with $3,800 now, $2,400 less than Erica’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.

The beginning of “A Room with a View” concerns a view of this Italian River. show

WHAT IS THE ARNO?

Alex got the last Daily Double in “Corsican” under the $1,600 clue, with 8 clues worth $4,800 left after it. In the lead with $13,600, he had $200 more than Brian in second place. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.

A corrupt justice system imposed by Genoese invaders long encouraged Corsicans to engage in the private blood feuds called this. show

WHAT ARE VENDETTA?

Brian finished in the lead with $16,600. Alex was next with $15,600 and Erica was in third place with $7,000. No clues went uncovered.

NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO ARE GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER & WILD BILL HICKOK?

1876 June 25, Montana: General Custer perished at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Custer, who was well known for his long blond ringlets, liked to wear buckskin coats when he was in the West and owned several. After his death, his widow donated one of her husband’s buckskin coats to the Smithsonian. They say it is the one Custer wore when he was Lieutenant Colonel with the 7th U. S. Cavalry in the Dakotas.

1876 August 2, South Dakota: Wild Bill Hickok was murdered by Jack McCall at Nuttal & Mann’s Saloon in Deadwood, where he was playing poker and holding the cards that came to be known as “the dead man’s hand”: a pair of black aces and a pair of black eights. Like Custer, Wild Bill wore his hair long, although he is said to have been a redhead. As a folk hero of the Old West, Wild Bill is far more associated with buckskin clothing than General Custer was.

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Erica wrote down “Wild Bill and Sitting Bull” (Sitting Bull died in 1890). She lost her $6,950 bet and finished with $50.

Alex wrote down General Custard (probably not acceptable) and Sitting Bull. That cost him $15,000 and left him with $600.

Brian had “Hickock & Crockett.” (Crockett died 40 years earlier at the Alamo.) Brian didn’t bet a buffalo nickel. He added $16,600 to his winnings for a 7-day total of $163,904.

A triple stumper from each round:

BOOKS BY PRESIDENTS ($400) “A Time to Heal”

CORSICAN ($2000) Pasquale Paoli fought the Genoese & French, but during a 1794-96 British occupation, he offered the island to this king

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “20th Century Literature”

The writing of this novel, the author’s first with no Canadian setting, appropriately began in 1984 show

WHAT IS “THE HANDMAID’S TALE”

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