Final Jeopardy: Famous Americans (10-5-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/5/2020) in the category “Famous Americans” was:

Will Smith & Lennox Lewis were pallbearers at this man’s 2016 funeral

2x champ, Phillip Howard, a naval officer from Santa Clarita, CA, has now won $43,000. In Game 3, he is up against: Garrett Marcotte, a software engineer from Santa Monica, CA; and Melissa Smight, a retired history teacher from Thousand Oaks, CA.

Round 1 Categories: Groups in the Bible – Word Derivations – TV Animals – Restaurants – 2 – Your Heart’s Content

Phillip found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Your Heart’s Content” under the $1,000 clue, with 10 clues to go after it. He was in second place with $3,600, $1,200 less than Garrett’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double and thought it might be a regulator. That was WRONG.

Your heart has a natural this, the sinoatrial node, which emits electrical impulses that cause it to contract. show

WHAT IS A PACEMAKER?

Garrett finished in the lead with $7,800. Phillip was second with $1,000 and Melissa was last with $200.

Round 2 Categories: Letters From Authors – At the Airport – British Actresses – Heads Up! & Off! – Ends With “A” – Radio: Then & Now

Phillip landed on the first Daily Double in “At the Airport” under the $2,000 clue on the 12th pick. He was in third place with $3,000 now, $4,800 less than Garrett’s lead. He bet $2,000 and took a shot at it with SFO. That was WRONG.

Idlewild Wine Bar. show

WHAT IS JFK?

5 clues later, Phillip got the last Daily Double in “Heads Up! & Off!” under the $2,000 clue. In second place with $2,600, he had $7,600 less than Garrett’s lead. He bet it all and went with Julius Caesar. That was WRONG.

After his death in 43 B.C., this Roman orator made a final appearance on the speakers’ platform at the Forum– well, his head & hands did. show

WHO IS CICERO?

Garrett finished in the lead with a runaway $17,000. Phillip was next with $5,600 and Melissa was in third place with $4,600. Both boards were finished today.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS MUHAMMAD ALI?

Legendary former heavyweight champ Muhammad Ali passed away at age 74 on 6/3/2016. He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 1984 and remained active while his condition permitted. As his health deteriorated, however, he began to limit his public appearances. Ali and his wife, Lonnie, planned his funeral years before he actually died. It was held in his hometown, Louisville, on June 10, 2016, followed by a public memorial service, seen worldwide by an estimated billion.

Lennox Lewis is a former heavyweight champ. BET America ranks him as the third greatest heavyweight of all time and Muhammad Ali as first. Will Smith portrayed Muhammad Ali in a 2001 movie, simply titled “Ali”. See the full list of pallbearers here.

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Melissa got it right. She bet $2,600 and finished with $7,200.

Phillip went with “Kobe,” who died on 1/26/2020. That cost him $4,600 and left him with $1,000.

Garrett didn’t have a response. Only a question mark. He lost his $3,000 bet but won the game with the remaining $14,000. Garrett Marcotte is the new Jeopardy! champ.

A triple stumper from each round:

TV ANIMALS ($800) Cute & cuddly, boys! “The Penguins of” this place waddled on to Nickelodeon

LETTERS FROM AUTHORS ($2000) She wrote to husband Leonard before taking her life: “I feel certain that I am going mad again”

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “World Literature”

In a recent poll of 125 authors, this long 1870s novel about a woman ranked as the greatest work of fiction of all time show

WHAT IS “ANNA KARENINA”?

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