Final Jeopardy: Famous Americans (10-27-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/27/2023) in the category “Famous Americans” was:
On March 23, 1779 he became the first U.S. diplomat to serve overseas by presenting his credentials to a foreign government
The Champions Wild Card quarter-finals continue today with these three champs: Erick Loh, a pastor from Northridge, CA; Cory Burns Barger, a orchestra musician from Riverside, CA; and Brian Adams, a retired public educator from Big Bear Lake, CA.
Round 1 Categories: The Last Supper – Quotable Cinema – The Maori – Anatomy – Fabrics – The “Long” & “Short” of It
Cory found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Anatomy” under the $1,000 clue on the 10th pick of the round. She was in last place with $400, $2,800 less than Brian’s lead. Cory bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.
Familiar to pitchers, the group of muscles called this includes the subscapularis muscle show
Erick finished in the lead with $6,200. Brian was in second place with $5,400. Cory was last with $1,400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Leonardo Da Vinci, Busy Guy – Broadway Musicals by Characters – “A”uthors – Microscopy – Street Smarts – Bad English
Cory found the first Daily Double in “Street Smarts” under the $1,200 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. She was in second place with $5,000, $400 less than Brian’s lead. Cory made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
This capital’s Gran Via was once named Avenida de José Antonio, after the founder of the Fascist party show
3 clues later, Cory landed on the last Daily Double in “Leonardo da Vinci, Busy Guy” under the $1,600 clue. She was in the lead with $10,000 now, $5,800 more than Erick in second place. Cory bet $6,000 and tried golden ratio. That was WRONG.
Using Vitruvius’ formulae, Leo showed how the proportions of this relate to the most perfect geometric figures show
Erick finished in the lead with $12,200. Cory was second with $9,600 and Brian was last with $5,400. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN?
Benjamin Franklin was actually appointed the first U.S. minister plenipotentiary (the title that later became ambassador) to France on 9/14/1778, and was accredited by the French Government on 3/23/1779. Franklin had been in France for a couple of years before then on a mission of diplomacy, but without a title until France recognized the United States as an independent country. Franklin worked with Arthur Lee and John Adams before winning the appointment as sole minister. Click here for more details on Ben Franklin’s wild popularity with the French and his contentious relationships with his colleagues.
Also see: “A diplomat’s rank determines many ceremonial details, such as the order of precedence at official processions, table seatings at state dinners, the person to whom diplomatic credentials should be presented….”
Brian got it right. He bet it all and finished with $10,800.
Cory went with Tom Jefferson. She lost $3,000 and finished with $6,600 .
Erick thought it was John Adams. He lost $7,100, dropping him down to $5,199. That gave the victory and the semi-final spot to Brian Adams.
A triple stumper from each round:
THE MAORI ($1000) In this 2002 movie starring Keisha Castle-Hughes, a 12-year-old girl wants to be chief of her Maori tribe; granddad says no
LEONARDO DA VINCI, BUSY GUY ($1200) Late in life, a bitter Leonardo made apocalyptic drawings called this series, another word for flood
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “1970s Top 40 Hits”
Seeing a poster for a production of “Cyrano de Bergerac” in a seedy Paris hotel & ladies of the evening nearby inspired this hit show
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As usual, got about half the TS correct. Got all DD and FJ. Franklin was my first choice. Thought for a moment about Jefferson, but, I thought he was later, so, stuck with Ben.
That steel and rose question, I raise an objection. I watch a lot of Forged in Fire, where they make that steel. There, they use the Syrian city name, not the shortened one presented. My (very brief) research indicates it’s the city, and not what they said.
Congrats to Brian for his win. He strikes me as a middle level, may or may not win it all.
Yeah, I researched it. That steel was wrong. That ain’t it!
My first choice in FJ was Benjamin Franklin, and then I switched it to John Adams. Darn!
Franklin seemed SO obvious that partway through I switched to Jefferson.
These were good players and past champions, yet no one knew the synonym for flood? How many could there be? Or the reproductive cells of a mold? Or what part of a sentence the verb must agree with? Or the genre of “The Lottery” and “The Gold Bug”? Wow.
DDs were tough. The last two got me.