Final Jeopardy: Magazines (1-9-14)
The Final Jeopardy question (1/9/2014), in the category “Magazines” was:
This title, launched in early 1930, seemed at odds with the Great Depression in subject & $1 cover price.
New champ Dinu Nesan won $18,001 yesterday. Today his competition comes from these two players: Seth Tribble, from New York, NY; and Marika Kuspa, from South Bend, IN.
Seth found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Presidents & Vice Presidents” under the $600 clue. He was in the lead with $6,800, $4,400 ahead of Marika in second place. He bet $2,500 and he was RIGHT.
Bill Clinton said authorizing a special counsel for this 1994 investigation “was the worst mistake of my presidency.” show
Seth finished in the lead with $9,100. Marika was second with $2,800 and Dinu was last with $1,600.
Seth found the first Daily Double in “Completes the Broadway Title” under the $1,200 clue. He was in second place with $12,300, $900 less than Marika’s lead. He bet $3,600 and he was RIGHT.
American soldiers in Iraq: A Bengal Tiger at the _______ Zoo. show
Seth found the last Daily Double in “African Rivers” under the $2,000 clue. In the lead with $17,500, he had $4,300 more than Marika in second place. He bet $700 and thought it was the Blue River. That was WRONG.
The Vanderkloof Dam on this “colorful” river helped to create productive farmland in South Africa. show
Seth finished in the lead with $17,600. Marika was next with $13,200 and Dinu was in third place with $2,800.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
“The first issue of Fortune magazine hit the stands in February of 1930, four months after the dramatic crash of 1929. That kind of timing may seem the result of an ironic, if not an unfortunate, business decision, but the release date of America’s first real business journal was actually quite a savvy maneuver. It reflected the good intuition the magazine’s founder, Henry R. Luce, would continue to demonstrate in the coming decade. At a time when other dealmakers were cowering, Luce built Fortune magazine into one cornerstone of a media empire.” (American Studies at the Univ. of Va: 1930s: In Print: Fortune)
Dinu didn’t have any idea so he gave a shoutout to this nephew Xavier. He didn’t bet anything and remained at $2,800.
Marika thought it was “Money” (first issue: 1972). That cost her $7,599 and she finishing with $5,601.
Seth got it right. His bet $8,888 so he ended up with $26,488. And we have a new champ again.
Kudos to Seth on getting the FJ. The Great Depression narrowed it down to American mags and there was the money angle, but we honestly thought it could have said this one-word title. Guess it doesn’t matter even if it would have given Dinu a clue since he didn’t bet anything, and it probably would have produced the same results from Marika and Seth.
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I actually got Final Jeopardy! But I was more upset that no one knew “Who was Lucy” with the clue about Vitameatavegamin. How I feel old! Anyone have the actual wording on this clue?
“It got harder & harder for the main character to keep saying vitameatavegamin in a TV commercial on this show.”
I also was surprised none of them knew it but I know I should not have been. Jeopardy is just not keeping up with the current generation of contestants. This is not classic comedy to them, and most of the time they don’t know Golden Age of Hollywood movies and trivia either.
Sometimes Trebek seems mighty surprised too, so I guess the knee-jerk reaction of those over a certain age is “but everyone knows that.”