Final Jeopardy: Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speeches (10-15-24)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/15/2024) in the category “Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speeches” was:
He talked of a “new attorney general” 4 times, the end of a “long dark night for America” & “A gentle, Quaker mother”
2x champ Eamonn Campbell, a lawyer orig. from Manchester, VT, scored big yesterday, propelling his winnings up to $43,200. In Game 3, his challengers are: Rishabh Wuppalapati, a Univ. of Pennsylvania undergrad from Vernon Hills, IL; and Zoe Grobman, a therapist from Philadelphia, PA.
Round 1 Categories: It Stands to Treason – Second Letter “M” – Building, America – In the Mood for Food – NFL Connections – Literature
Eamonn found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “It Stands to Treason” under the $600 on the 10th pick of the round. Zoe was in the lead with $2,400, $1,200 less than Eamonn’s lead. Zoe made it a true Daily Double and tried Khrushchev. That was WRONG.
This future world leader was on trial for treason from 1956 to 1961; he’d be acquitted but was soon jailed anyway show
Eamonn finished in the lead with $6,600. Rishabh was second with $3,400 and Zoe was last with $2,600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Dubliners: They Write, They Perform – Math Problems – “EZ” on the Map – Agricultural History – Hard 9-Letter Words – Talking Heads
Rishabh found the first Daily Double in “‘EZ’ on the Map” under the $1,200 clue on the 6th pick of the round. He was in second place with $5,000, $4,000 less than Eamonn’s lead. Rishabh made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
The southern portion of this inlet between Baja and mainland Mexico can reach a depth of 10,000 feet show
Zoe found the last Daily Double in “Agricultural History” under the $2,000 clue on the 16th pick of the round. Zoe was in last place with $3,400, $7,800 less than Rishabh’s lead. Zoe bet $3,300 and she was RIGHT.
This 13-letter process wasn’t just for wild animals; it changed plants as well to suit human needs show
Rishabh finished in the lead with $15,600. Zoe was second with $11,100 and Eamonn was last with $9,800. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS RICHARD NIXON?
There have actually been 2 U.S. Presidents who were Quakers: Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon. Hoover was nominated by his party twice but did not mention his religious affiliation in his acceptance speeches. Nixon mentioned his parents to exemplify his humble beginnings.
Richard Nixon gave his acceptance speech on August 8, 1968, ironic because after winning the 1968 and 1972 elections, he would resign the presidency in disgrace on August 9, 1974. Nixon announced that painful decision on national television on August 8, 1974. 1968 was not a good year. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated in the first half of the year. At least to some who listened to Nixon’s 1968 speech, the stress on attorney general only served to remind them of RFK. Many felt the former attorney general and then Senator would be the next president.
Eamonn went with John Quincy Adams, a Unitarian. He bet and lost his whole $9,800.
Zoe got it right. She bet $8,501 and finished with $19,601.
Rishabh got it right. He bet $6,601 and won the game with $22,201. Rishabh Wuppalapati is the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round. (Please don’t put the answers in the comments)
IT STANDS TO TREASON ($1000) Pedrarias, governor of Darién in what’s now Panama, had this explorer beheaded in 1519 for treason
DUBLINERS: THEY WRITE, THEY PERFORM ($1200) This author of the play “Saint Joan” wrote an essay on socialism for the 1926 Encyclopedia Britannica
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “LANDMARKS OF SCIENCE”
Clones of an original one of these grow outside the math faculty at Cambridge University & in the President’s Garden at M.I.T. show
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