Final Jeopardy: American History (10-1-21)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/1/2021) in the category “American History” was:

The April 26, 1906 edition of The Call, a newspaper in this city, reported on the heroic death of Hoseman James O’Neil

32x champ Matt Amodio, a PhD student from New Haven, CT has won $1,212,401 so far. In Game 33, he takes on these two players: Thomas Dai, a PhD student from Cambridge, MA; and Samantha Wells, a graduate student from Urbana, IL. He will also set a new second place record for number of consecutive games won if he wins today.

Round 1 Categories: 1871–150 Years Ago – Some Fun & Games – Spin Cycle – Gerunds – For Your Reference – Waiter, There’s a Bug in My Movie

Matt landed on the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “1871″ under the $1,000 clue on the very first pick. Nobody had a dollar to their name. He bet the $1,000 allowance and he was RIGHT.

This performance space that seats more than 5,000 was opened by Queen Victoria. show

WHAT IS ROYAL ALBERT HALL?

Matt finished in the lead with $10,000. Thomas was second with $2,600 and Samantha was last with $2,000. No clues went uncovered.

Round 2 Categories: Cities of Ireland – Science – The Bands They Fronted – Name Calling – That’s a Big Book – Alliteration

Matt found the first Daily Double in “That’s a Big Book” under the $800 clue on the 11th pick. He was in first place with $23,600, $19,400 more than Thomas in second place. He bet $6,000 and he was RIGHT.

”Of man’s first disobedience, and the fruit” is the first of this poem’s more than 10,000 lines. show

WHAT IS “PARADISE LOST”?

4 clues later, Matt landed on the last Daily Double in “Name Calling” under the $1,600 clue. Now leading with $30,800, he had $26,600 more than Thomas in second place. Matt bet $5,000 and came up with Riley. That was WRONG.

Around 1860 this man blazed a trail from Kansas & established a trading post in Oklahoma Territory. show

WHO IS JESSE CHISHOLM?

Matt finished in the lead with a runaway $35,400. Samantha was next with $5,200 and Thomas was in third place with $2,200. No clues went uncovered.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS SAN FRANCISCO?

The Call was a San Francisco newspaper that existed under various names from 1856 until 1965. At the time of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the newspaper’s name was The San Francisco Call. The article referred to in the clue was published in Volume 99 of the paper, Number 147, 26 April 1906 and was titled “Brave Firemen Die Martyrs”. It mentions three deaths but only names two: Chief Sullivan and Hoseman James O’Neil of Engine 4. Guardians of the City’s website lists all the 1906 articles published by The Call. You can also see the article in digitized form on this site: California Digital Newspaper Collection

Way Before Then: In 1864, Mark Twain was hired as The Call’s only full-time reporter for four and a half months.

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Thomas thought it was Pittsburgh. That cost him $2,199 and left him with $1.00.

Samantha went with Boston. She lost her $500 bet and landed in second place with $4,700.

Matt got it right. He bet a big $20,000 and won the game with $55,400. Mayim said: “You are our Jeopardy! champion with a 33-day total of $1,267,801 and you now have the second most consecutive wins in Jeopardy! history. Congratulations!”

A triple stumper from each round:

FOR YOUR REFERENCE ($600) The first book with this repetitive title was published in London in 1849; today it’s followed by “in Dentistry”, among many others

THE BANDS THEY FRONTED ($2000) As a teen, Ricky Martin

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Epitaphs”

From his own 1898 poem, the epitaph of this Irish-born man ends, “his mourners will be outcast men, & outcasts always mourn” show

WHO IS OSCAR WILDE?

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