Final Jeopardy: Notable Women (10-25-21)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/25/2021) in the category “Notable Women” was:

Of the 3 pioneering women in their field to be dubbed the “Trimates”, this one got her Ph.D from Cambridge in 1966

10x champ Jonathan Fisher, an actor orig. from Coral Gables, FL has now won $230,100. In Game 11, he takes on these two players: Stephen Son, a business operations professional from Los Angeles, CA; and Hilary Bouxsein, a visiting assistant professor from Northfield, MN.

Round 1 Categories: The Landlocked Nation – Having a Ball – Double Initial Guys – Carnival Talk – “D” Nature of Things – Famous Last Words

Stephen got the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Landlocked Nation” under the $800 clue on the 3rd pick. Stephen had the lead with $800. Hilary was still at zero and Jonathan, at negative $600, was pulling up the rear. Stephen bet the $1,000 allowance and thought it was Austria. That was WRONG.

After WWI this Central European country broke away from a dual monarchy, but lost about 2/3 of its land. show

WHAT IS HUNGARY?

Jonathan finished in the lead with $5,400. Stephen was second with $4,200 and Hilary was last with $2,200. No clues went uncovered.

Round 2 Categories: Men of La Mancha – Written in the Dust – Television History – Flagging Interest – What Happened When – Change-One-Letter Pairs

Jonathan landed on the first Daily Double in “What Happened When” under the $1,600 clue with 13 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $17,800, $12,000 more than Hilary in second place. He bet $4,200 and came up with Jupiter. That was WRONG.

While surveying the night sky in 1781, William Herschel made this big discovery. show

WHAT IS URANUS?

Jonathan found the last Daily Double in “Written in the Dust” under the $800 clue with 6 clues to go after it. Jonathan was leading with $16,800 now, $8,800 more than Hilary in second place. He bet $2,000 and took a shot at it with “Gone with the Wind”. That was WRONG.

Chapter 1 of this 1939 novel has quite a lot to say about dust, like “in the morning” it “hung like fog”. show

WHAT IS “THE GRAPES OF WRATH”?

Jonathan finished in the lead with $16,000. Hilary was in second with $7,800. Stephen was last with $5,000. No clues went uncovered.

ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS JANE GOODALL?

Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Birutė Galdikas were the Trimates (aka “Leakey’s Angels). Their desire and passion to study primate behavior in their natural environment was fostered and supported by noted paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey.

Jane Goodall’s specialty was the study of chimpanzees. From her bio on janegoodall.org: “In 1961, she entered Cambridge University as a Ph.D. candidate, one of very few people to be admitted without a college degree. She earned her Ph.D. in ethology in 1966.”

Dian Fossey studied at Cambridge later than 1966. Jeopardy! had a clue about it back on 2/19/2021: DR. YES (M.D., NO) — $400 — In the 1970s, Dian Fossey’s zoology dissertation at Cambridge examined “the behavior of the mountain” this creature.

Birutė Galdikas met Louis Leakey in the 1970s while pursuing her graduate studies at UCLA. That led to studying orangutans in their natural habitat in Borneo. Galdikas went on to earn her doctorate in anthropology from UCLA in 1978.

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Stephen bet $2,801. That brought him up to $7,801.

Hilary bet $2,201. She finished with $10,001.

Jonathan didn’t bet anything. He won the game with the $16,000 he already had. Jonathan’s 11-day total is $246,100.

A triple stumper from each round:

WRITTEN IN THE DUST ($1600) This title man is described as a “limping lump o’ brick-dust” in a Rudyard Kipling poem

($200) A line from Eliot’s “The Waste Land” gave this British novelist the title “A Handful of Dust”

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “U.S. Cities”

Named for the ore once mined there, this city at an altitude of 10,152 feet is home to the National Mining Hall of Fame & Museum show

WHAT IS LEADVILLE (COLORADO)?

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