Final Jeopardy: Awards & Honorees (10-28-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/28/2020) in the category “Awards & Honorees” was:

He used his 1983 Pritzker prize money on a scholarship fund for Chinese students to study their profession in the United States

3x champ, Brian Adams, an educator from Big Bear Lake, CA, has now won $44,901. In Game 4, he is up against: Scott Shrum, a digital marketing exec from Westlake Village, CA; and Jennifer Spinos, a 3rd grade teacher from Las Vegas, NV.

Round 1 Categories: Books of 2020 – Do Your Job! – Around the USA – Hodgepodge – In the Weeds – From S to T

Brian found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Around the USA” under the $800 clue on the second pick of the round. He was the only one with money ($400). He bet the $1,000 allowance and said Charleston, even though he knew it was WRONG.

Major cities that share this name lie on the Kennebec River in Maine & on the Savannah River in Georgia. show

WHAT IS AUGUSTA?

Scott finished in the lead with $6,000. Brian was second with $3,200 and Jen was last, at negative $400. The last 3 clues in “Book of 2020” stayed on the board.

Round 2 Categories: Ancient Contemporaries – Bands of the 21st Century – What’S Your “I.P.” Address? – Literature on the Map – Everyday German in English – New York Times Headlines

Scott found the first Daily Double in “Bands of the 21st Century” under the $1,600 clue on the 17th pick. He was in a tie for the lead with Brian. They both had $8,000. He bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.

Jack White has had some conflict with Dan Auerbach of this band whose name oddly mirrors the White Stripes’ show

WHO ARE THE BLACK KEYS?

The last Daily Double was in the “Ancient Contemporaries” category. Alas! We didn’t get to see it when The $400, $1600 and $2000 clues went uncovered.

Scott finished in the lead with $17,800. Brian was next with $12,000. At negative $400, Jen was out of the game.

BOTH contestants left in Final Jeopardy! got it right.

WHO IS I.M. PEI?

The Pritzker Prize is often called “The Nobel Prize in Architecture.” (I learned it on Jeopardy!) I.M. Pei won this coveted award in 1983. In 2016, he also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asia Game Changer Awards “For changing the world, one building at a time.” From his award page: “More than three decades ago, in 1983, Pei was recognized with the Pritzker Prize…. At the pinnacle of his profession, he decided to give back. Pei used the $100,000 in prize money to establish a scholarship fund for Chinese students to study in the United States — provided that they returned to China to practice their profession. Today those students — and the thousands of architects whom Pei has taught and mentored over his long life — stand as another towering legacy, beyond the buildings themselves.”

Also, check out The 12 Most Significant Projects of I.M. Pei on World Architecture.

Brian got it right. He bet $8,000 and that brought him up to an even $20,000.

Scott bet $6,300 and won the game with $24,100. Scott Shrum is the new Jeopardy! champ

2 triple stumpers from ANCIENT CONTEMPORARIES:

($800) The poet Lucan didn’t sing the praises of this infamous emperor, who forced him to commit suicide in 65 A.D.

($1200) This biographer was born in 46 A.D. during the reign of Claudius but didn’t include him in “Parallel Lives”

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “African Cities”

Also a judicial capital, this aptly named city is known for an annual Rose Festival that began in 1976 show

WHAT IS BLOEMFONTEIN?

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