Final Jeopardy: Landmarks of Science (10-18-22)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/18/2022) in the category “Landmarks of Science” was:

Clones of an original one of these grow outside the math faculty at Cambridge University & in the President’s Garden at M.I.T.

In the second semifinal match of the 2022 Second Chance Tournament, the contestants are: Erica Weiner-Amachi, an elementary teacher from Philadelphia, PA, Tracy Pitzel, an accountant from Ellensburg, WA, and Molly Karol, a CPA from Austin, TX. The links in the contestants’ names go to their original games.

Round 1 Categories: 5-Letter Places – Celebrities – Americana – ____ & ____ – Astronomy – “Left”, “Right” or “Center”

Erica found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Americana” under the $800 clue on the 8th pick of the round. Erica was in second place with $1,000, $1,400 less than Molly’s lead. She bet $800 and she was RIGHT.

This 1943 song helped give an iconic female factory worker her name show

WHAT IS “ROSIE THE RIVETER”?

Tracy finished in the lead with $5,400. Molly was in second place with $4,600. Erica was last with $2,800. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: National Geographic Treasures of Egypt – Broadway – Presidential Speeches – French Literature – Measuring Up – Phrases of Hello & Goodbye

Molly found the first Daily Double in “Presidential Speeches” under the $1,600 clue on the 9th pick of the round. She was in third place with $3,400 now, $3,600 less than Tracy’s lead. Molly bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.

”We have now lived almost 50 years under The Constitution framed by the sages & patriots of the Revolution” show

WHO IS ANDREW JACKSON?

Molly got the last Daily Double in “French Literature” under the $1,200 on the 18th pick of the round. In last place with $4,800, she had $5,600 less than Erica’s lead. Molly bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.

A line from this play says, “He carries a nose!– ah, good my Lords, what a nose is his!” show

WHAT IS CYRANO DE BERGERAC?

Erica finished in the lead with $12,800. Molly was in second place with $11,400 and Tracy was last with $6,600. All clues were shown.

NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS AN APPLE TREE?

Sir Isaac Newton’s apple tree, purported to have inspired the laws of gravity, is more than world famous– its clones have been planted all around the world. According to Atlas Obscura, “A genetically identical tree is growing at Newton’s alma mater, Trinity College, Cambridge. Several more grow at Parkes Observatory in Australia, and another at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Descendants and clones of the Woolsthorpe Manor tree dot college campuses and research centers on every continent, except Antarctica.” Some of the tree display a plaque, attesting that it was grown from an apple from the original tree.

In August 2021, Snopes confirmed that the original four centuries old tree is still alive and thriving.

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Tracy thought it might be a pea plant. She bet and lost her whole $6,600.

Molly went with roses. That only cost her $1,801. She finished with $9,599.

Erica came up with an oak tree. She lost her $11,000 bet, landing in second place with $1,800. That meant that a very surprised Molly Karol won the game. She will join Jessica Stephens in the finals.

2 triple stumpers from each FRENCH LITERATURE

($800) These French-named epic poems, like the one named for Roland, are composed of irregular stanzas called laisses

($1600) His last novel, “Quatre-vingt-treize”, is set during 1793 amidst the French Revolution

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: The ONE remaining contestant got this FJ in “Literary Pronouns”

Thanks to a horror film, this novel returned to the bestseller lists in 2017, some 30 years after reaching No. 1 show

WHAT IS “IT”?

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