Final Jeopardy: Artifacts (10-30-24)
The Final Jeopardy question (10/30/2024) in the category “Artifacts” was:
Roughly 180 of these were made & 50 remain; the man who created them was given a pension by the Archbishop of Mainz in 1465
New champ John Liu, a marketing analyst from Santa Monica, CA, won $7,801 yesterday. In Game 2, he takes on these two players: Joseph Carlstein, a grad student from Chapel Hill, NC; and Jacqui Kaplan, a H.S. English teacher from Sandy Hook, CT.
During the chat, John shared that he beat Ken Jennings in GSN’s Best Ever Trivia Show. He won 2 consecutive games on 7/31/2019 (beating Ken) and 8/1/2019 (beating Susannah). Fikkle Fame covered those games. The links are on this They Beat the Experts list. He was also on The Weakest Link on 10/13/2020, when he was voted off in Round 1.
Round 1 Categories: Historic Americans – She’s Got the Power – Utopia – Where to Go When… – 1980s Catchphrases – Speaking Reversibly
Joseph found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Historic Americans” under the $800 on the 4th pick of the round. He was the only one on the board with $2,000. Joseph made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
At his death in 1915 this school founder was laid to rest in a tomb built by students, on a hill overlooking the Tuskegee campus show
Joseph finished in the lead with $5,600. Jacqui was second with $2,800 and John was last with $1,800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: That’s a Really Big Ditch! – French Authors – “B” in Science – No, Not the Dog – Songs – Before & After
John found the first Daily Double in “That’s a Really Big Ditch” under the $2,000 clue on the 10th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $7,000, $1,400 more than Joseph in second place. John bet $2,000 and drew a blank so he was WRONG.
This canyon sinks about 8,000 feet below the rim to the Snake River below on the Oregon-Idaho border show
Joseph found the last Daily Double in “No, Not the Dog” under the $1,200 clue with 5 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $7,600 now, $2,600 more than John in second place. Joseph bet $2,400 and he was RIGHT.
Charles Darwin sailed around the world in this ship from 1831 to 1836 show
Joseph finished in the lead with $10,000. Jacqui was second with $8,000 and John was last with $7,000. 1 clue was not shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS THE GUTENBERG BIBLE?
Johannes Gutenberg was a German inventor who developed a printing method that led to the creation of the “Forty-Two-Line” Bible, which became universally known as the Gutenberg Bible.
According to Fact No. 9 in the above video, the Archbishop of Mainz awarded Gutenberg an annual stipend, 2,180 liters of grain and 2,000 liters of wine, tax-free. Gutenberg was also made a gentleman of the court with the title Hofmann. Apparently, a snazzy court costume went along with it so he didn’t show up at court in his printer’s apron.
John got it right. He bet $6,999 and finished with $13,999.
Jacqui had an incomplete response. That cost her $6,000 and left her with $2,000.
Joseph got it right, too. He bet $6,001 and won the game with $16,001. Joseph Carlstein is the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
UTOPIA ($600) 2023’s blockbuster “Utopia” was this rapper’s first solo album in five years
FRENCH AUTHORS ($1600) This 16th century French doctor-author is a symbol of raunchy humor–just add “-ian”
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “PHRASES IN AMERICAN HISTORY”
Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill that gave reparations to formerly enslaved people, hence this phrase for an unfulfilled promise show
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