Final Jeopardy: Places in the News (10-22-18)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/22/2018) in the category “Places in the News” was:
In a hint of the future, in 1973 Marjorie Post gave it to the U.S. Govt. As a warm-weather presidential retreat, but it was returned
New champ Erik Agard, a puzzlemaker from Gaithersburg, MD, won $25,201 last Fri, while defeating 5x champ Alan Dunn. In his second game, he is up against: Mike Jenkins, an environmental consultant from Ewing, NJ; and Joanna Rom, a docent from Washington, D.C.
During the chat, Alex Trebek told Erik how vexed he was by a crossword puzzle in the L.A. Times that Erik co-created with Tracy Bennett. As a result, Alex thought that throwing a cream pie in Erik’s face would make him feel better. Thankfully, he did not do it.
Round 1 Categories: Are You Ready for Some Monday Night Football? – Down____ – a European Holiday – No Longer Around – Pieces of 8 – Herstory
Joanna found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “European Holiday” under the $400 clue on the 19th pick of the round. She was in second place with $2,400, $4,800 less than Erik’s lead. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
This country’s National Day is November 19, Saint-Rainier Day. show
Erik finished in the lead with $8,400. Joanna was second with $6,400 and Mike was last with $1,200.
Round 2 Categories: Classical Rappers – Supreme Court Cases – Thre”E”-letter Words – Something to Read – Various Cowboys – Venom
Erik found the first Daily Double in “Supreme Court Cases” under the $1,600 clue on the 11th pick. He was in the lead with $15,600 at this point, $8,400 more than Joanna in second place. He bet $3,500 and had no response so he was WRONG.
The plaintiff in this landmark 1803 case was a would-be circuit judge; the defendant was the Secretary of State. show
Erik found the last Daily Double in “Venom” under the $1,600 clue on the 17th pick. In the lead with $13,700, he had $6,100 more than Joanna in second place. He bet $500 and he was RIGHT.
Heloderma suspectum is this “horrific” venomous reptile of the U.S. Southwest. show
Erik finished in the lead with a runaway $15,800. Joanna was next with $3,600 and Mike was in third place with $1,200.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Smithsonian Magazine has an article about how “The woman who built Mar-a-Lago in the 1920s and presided over it for almost half a century, Marjorie Merriweather Post, had gone to great lengths to turn the mansion into an official wintertime presidential retreat.” It tells you why it didn’t work out and notes the irony of the property eventually becoming the winter retreat of President Donald Trump, its current owner.
An old clue on Marjorie Post: HIGH SOCIETY ($400) The Palm Beach estate Mar-a-Lago was the home of this cereal heiress. — They also asked for her middle name once. They’ve never had a clue on her actress daughter, Dina Merrill.
Mike crossed out something starting with M but had nothing else so he lost his $1,100 bet. He finished with $100.
Joanna got it right. She bet $66, bringing her up to $3,600.
Erik wrote down “what is you doing baby?” After deciphering that, Alex said, “Well, I’m responding incorrectly.” Erik lost $1,000, winning the game with $14,800. His 2-day total is $40,001.
2 triple stumpers from Double Jeopardy!
SOMETHING TO READ ($2000) After a returning Civil War General is murdered by his wife, their children take revenge in this O’Neill trilogy of plays
VARIOUS COWBOYS ($1600) In 1989 Matt Dillon starred as this “Cowboy”, searching for prescription medications
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Animals”
In Greek myth she was a half-serpent & mother of the sphinx; in zoology it’s a weird mammal that lays eggs. show
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Mike hasn’t rung in throughout in the Double Jeopardy! round.
How old is Erik
27.
VJ, do you think Erik’s answer of “Brown v. Board” should have been accepted? I don’t think it was a complete response.
Yes. It was a complete response because I have heard the case referred to in the past as ‘Brown v. Board’.
I was surprised at that myself but then Trebek gave the answer to the triple stumper in that category as “Citizens United” and not “Citizens United vs. FEC” and I said “okay, whatever”
I think just the words “Citizens United” would have been accepted because whenever the case is talked about on the news only the words “Citizens United” are ever used. I never hear any of the political talking heads say “Citizens United v. FEC”, ever.
I actually came up with the correct response for this questions and the only thing I could remember was simply “Citizens United”. Nobody ever mentions “v. FEC”
I believe “Education” was mentioned in the clue
@Thomas, it wasn’t — ($800) Thurgood Marshall argued this 1954 landmark Supreme Court case on school segregation
This was a weak group tonight. How did the guy in the middle even pass the Jeopardy test?
@Albert Dodgers and Red Sox are EVEN weaker than them.
Jeeeeez….
Maybe because he is young and cool and not as old as Alan??
Congrats to Erik. Just when you think players can’t do any worse, they do. A total of 18.500 AFTER FJ speaks for itself, as do the 20.600 before FJ. 15.800 being a runaway by 9.400!! I’m wondering if Erik will win 5 games, then be replaced by another 5 game winner etc until they get rid of all the 3 game winners for the ToC? In that case even Alex Schmidt and Kyle Becker (4 each) might have to worry. We’ll see.
And Marbury v is pretty much the most important SCOTUS decision, establishing that the government can’t to anything illegal and/or violate the law. It established that the constitution WAS law.
I’m curious to see later on why the scores were so low.
Well, we are off to a World Series week with a runaway game, ended with a very funny Final Jeopardy! response on this.
Great googlamoogla! We just had Steve Miller’s birthday balloon up on Spoiler Talk on October 5th
That’s what the beast said in “Maggie and the ferocious beast”.
A good start by Erik, though Joanna and Mike both couldn’t catch up to him since she was the only person that got final right. I thought Erik knew about Marbury vs Madison supreme court case, VJ. I believe you might have heard of Miranda vs Arizona, plessy vs Ferguson and so forth right? At this rate, Erik might surpass buzzy Cohen but we will see how he does for this week. And I thought Mike was going to put Mar A Lago and if he was right he still wouldn’t win the game.
What the heck makes you think that, Lou? I think if this one was between Erik and Alex Schmidt, Erik would have lost!! Same for Buzzy. There were a lot of triple stumpers today.
LINK: 11 more clues from the match
Well, we’re off too a flying start, aren’t we?
@Richard Corliss Yeah, a flying start to a WORST FINAL WEEK OF BASEBALL.
@John Christian, let me direct to you to the sports posts if you want to talk about the World Series
@John Christian Ambion No, a flying start to a worst episode of Jeopardy! except the pie in the face.