Final Jeopardy: British History (10-25-19)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/25/2019) in the category “British History” was:

In 2018 Parliament Square got its first statue of a woman, Millicent Fawcett, a founding member of the London Society for Women’s this

New champ Jamie Tyrrell, a test prep instructor from Rochester, NY, won $9,999 yesterday. In Game 2, she is up against these two players: Kris Prue, a customer service rep from Toronto, Ontario; and Erin Golsen, a substitute teacher from Fairfax, VA.

Round 1 Categories: Smokey Bear: 75th Year Preventing Wildfires – Foreign Words & Phrases – Let’s Talk About Flight Club – Dam That River! – ’90s Newsmakers – The Eastern Conference

Jamie found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Flight Club” under the $800 clue on the 17th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $3,600, twice as much as Erin in second place. She bet $1,600 and she was RIGHT.

The U.S. Army’s Sikorsky UH-60 is called this: 2 of them were at the center of a notorious incident in Mogadishu in 1993. show

WHAT ARE BLACK HAWKS?

Jamie finished in the lead with $6,600. Kris was second with $5,000 and Erin was last with $2,400.

Round 2 Categories: Kidd Stuff – Ancient Rome Fiction – Once Upon a Time… – From B to A – Animal Community – The Western Conference

Erin found the first Daily Double in “Ancient Rome Fiction” under the $800 clue on the 12th pick. She was in third place with $3,600 at this point, $9,000 less than Kris’s lead. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.

“The Gladiator” & “Rebellion” are the subtitles of Ben Kane’s books about this man who led a slave army against Rome. show

WHO IS SPARTACUS?

Kris found the last Daily Double in “Animal Community” under the $1,600 clue, with 11 clues left after it. In the lead with $17,400, he had $7,200 more than Jamie in second place. He bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.

Konrad Lorenz found that newly hatched ducklings followed him due to this “I” process, as if he were their parent. show

WHAT IS IMPRINTING?

Kris finished with a runaway with $27,600. Jamie was next with $8,600 and Erin was in third place with $8,000.

ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS SUFFRAGE (Sufferage also accepted)?

Caroline Criado Perez, feminist campaigner and journalist, was the driving force behind a campaign to erect a statue of a suffragist in Parliament Square. To that end, an open letter was addressed to London Mayor Sadiq Khan in May 2016. Khan readily agreed to the statue request, without committing to its location. The following year, Criado Perez backed iconic English suffragist Millicent Fawcett as the subject of the statue, stating “Nothing less than Parliament Square will do” for its location. The statue was ceremoniously unveiled in Parliament Square on April 24, 2018. It is not only the first statue of a woman in Parliament Square, it is also the first one there that was created by a woman — artist Gillian Wearing.

The name of the London Society for Women’s Suffrage was changed to the Fawcett Society in 1953.

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Erin bet $7,990 and had the correct spelling. She finished with $15,990.

Jamie’s response of “sufferage” was accepted and she gained $8,000, to finish with $16,600. Alex joked that she “made it sound like getting voting rights would make you sore.”

Kris also got it with “sufferage.”Alex joked that it was obviously the Canadian spelling. Kris bet $10,000, won the game with $37,600 and became the new Jeopardy! champ.

A triple stumper from each round:

FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES ($600) Oy, you’re so clumsy–in fact, you’re this Yiddish word for a clumsy person, from a word meaning “wooden beam”

KIDD STUFF ($1200) In 2014, this Hall of Fame point guard was traded from the Nets to the Bucks as a head coach

2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “The Western Hemisphere”

The Mopan River flows about 20 miles from the capital of this country. show

WHAT IS BELIZE?

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