Final Jeopardy: Americana (10-25-17)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/25/2017) in the category “Americana” was:
The tiny town of Cayce, Kentucky was the home & supplied the nickname of a man famous in this job.
2x champ Nan Bauer has now won $21,800. In Game 3, she takes on these two players: Mary Grace Buckley, from St. Louis, MO; and Edgar Castillo, from Brooklyn, NY.
Round 1 Categories: In the Nov. 14-20, 1998 TV Guide – Fairy Tales – Jelly Belly Flavors – Musical Geography – Proverbially Speaking – Names With the Same First & Last Letter
Edgar found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Fairy Tales” under the $600 clue on the 14th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $3,400, $2,200 more than Nan in second place. He bet $2,000 and took a guess with phoenix. That was WRONG.
An ailing Chinese emperor tells this bird, you have “banished death from my heart, with your sweet song” show
Edgar finished in the lead with $5,800. Nan was second with $5,000 and Mary Grace was last with $800.
Round 2 Categories: Canadian National Parks – Radio – Protestantism – Historians’ Terms – On “Pin”s – Needles
Nan found the first Daily Double in “Protestantism” under the $1,600 clue on the 12th pick. She was in second place with $6,200 when she found it, but after a $4,000 reversal in her favor (see below), she was in the lead with $10,200, $3,600 more than Edgar, now in second place. She bet $3,200 and was on the right track with the post. However, the place was WRONG.
In 1960 Geoffrey Fisher, the 99th man in this post, became the first modern one to visit the Vatican. show
Mary Grace found the last Daily Double in “Canadian National Parks” under the $800 clue, with just 3 clues left after it. In second place with $8,400, she had $2,600 less than Nan’s lead. She bet $1,000 and thought it was a raccoon. That was WRONG.
In La Mauricie National Park you can observe this beloved rodent, also the mascot of Parks Canada. show
Nan finished in the lead with $11,000. Mary Grace was next with $7,400 and Edgar was in third place with $3,400.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
“Casey Jones was a locomotive engineer who became a folk hero after his death in a train crash in 1900 was commemorated in a number of songs. According to legend, Jones died with one hand on the train’s whistle and the other hand on its brake.” (History.com)
In addition to the folks songs and the Grateful Dead’s 1970 offering, Alan Hale starred as the engineer in a late 1950s TV series, several years before becoming the Skipper on Gilligan’s Island. That show’s theme song was used for a Good & Plenty commercial, starring Choo Choo Charlie.
Edgar thought it was a lumberjack. He lost his $3,397 bet and finished with $3.00.
Mary Grace didn’t have a response after crossing out the start of moonshiner. She lost $2,400, leaving her $5,000.
Nan got it right. She bet $3,801 so she won the match with $14,801. Her 3-day total is $36,601.
Reversal ON “PIN”S ($2000) A type of ode is named for this Greek poet. – Nan said Pindarus and Mary Grace said Pindaraeus. They wanted “Pindar.” Nan’s response was accepted and she was awarded $4K. Mary Grace got her $2K back.
2 triple stumpers from the last round:
NEEDLES ($1600) Though beautiful, the Norway type of this evergreen isn’t the best Christmas tree because of poor needle retention
PROTESTANTISM ($2000) John Knox led the establishment of this branch of Protestantism that uses a system of elders to govern
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Popular Psychology Terms”
Anna Freud wrote, “The infantile ego resorts to” this behavior “in order not to become aware of some painful impression.” show
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Casey Jones was not from Cayce KY. He was born in MO. and lived in TN. There was a weird mystic prophet from Cayce, KY. I don’ t know who researched that final question but in my opinion it was poorly thought out. When I heard Casey Jones I looked up Cayce, KY because I knew Jones wasn’t from there.
@LisbethAnn, the clue doesn’t say he was “born” in Cayce, KY. It says he was “from” there. I tried to find something on this issue on Google Books, going back to the early 19th century. All they have are snippet views, but there was a Time Magazine snippet from 1934, stating that the reason he was called Casey was because he came from Cayce, KY. Whether it is a fiction that he got his nickname from this town or not, the info goes back a long long way and was also in old encyclopedias.
P.S. The mystic’s name was Edgar Cayce, Funny coincidence that there was a contestant with the same first name today. According to J-Archive, that’s the first Edgar since 2011
question: why did nan get $4000 when her “pins” answer was later deemed correct? the clue was $2000. thanks !!
@quest, because they took $2000 away from her when her answer was called wrong. So they had to give it back to her and then give her another $2000 for accepting her response.
oh. is that how it works? you get an extra $2000 (or double the original?) if your answer is incorrectly deemed wrong? (or am i missing something).
thank you of responding! was going crazy looking for gameplay rules… have been watching since i’m a kid and never realized this.
oh. wow sorry. i just got it. wow. how stupid of me. sorry!! thank you for your response… i get it now. so embarrassed
@quest, you’re welcome. Don’t feel bad about it. No harm in asking — lots of folks have been confused by the way that goes down esp when, like today, the second person only gets back the amount of the clue
Does the category, In the Nov. 14-20, 1998 TV Guide, ever make more sense, at all?
Congrats to Mary Grace for finishing 2nd after being in the red at the beginning of the 1st round. Gutsy contestant. Classic example of never giving up. Bravo.
47/59 here
Mary Grace needed to win $200 or less to guarantee a win on a triple stumper
At least Nan added a dollar to the minimum wager, so as to cover a double up by 2nd place, instead of the maximum wager, like she did yesterday.
Casey Jones was born in Missouri and lived in Jackson, TN, at time of accident in which he died. One can visit the museum dedicated to him today in Jackson. I doubt his nickname came from Cayce, Kentucky.
Oh I am glad to see another person who figured that question and answer was bogus.
Well score another one for the writer, isn’t this book a children’s novel or so similar to the little engine that could, VJ? I m surprised that Edgar and Mary did not know this one. Furthermore, Edgar never heard of ancient Chinese fairytales after he hit that daily double. How does a contestant not know the mascot for Canada?
Yeah, I was thinking that it was too bad the DD was under that clue for Edgar, but it was early in the game. Otherwise he did fine in that category and got his bet right back on Rumpelstiltskin.
Yay for Nan for knowing Gulliver’s first name. I got a funny look when I said it.
LINK: 9 more clues from the match including that Names category