Final Jeopardy: Brand Names (10-7-24)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/7/2024) in the category “Brand Names” was:
In 1886 this brand’s bookkeeper came up with its name & flowing script logo, saying, “The two Cs would look well in advertising”
New champ Mark Fitzpatrick, a content manager from Riverside, CT, won $30,401 last Friday. In Game 2, he is up against: Daniel Gately, a teacher from Tucson, AZ; and Amanda Prusila, a communications advisor from Ottawa, Ontario.
Round 1 Categories: Stunting at the Gym – The Middle East – NFL Team Addresses – You’re Gonna Have to Share – Opera – Plural-Only Nouns
Amanda found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Opera” under the $1,000 on the 11th pick of the round. She was in second place with $600, $4,800 less than Mark’s lead. Amanda bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.
At age 37, Rossini composed his last opera, this one set in medieval Switzerland show
Mark finished in the lead with $6,800. Amanda was second with $3,000 and Daniel was last with $1,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: National Historical Parks – The Foreign-Born Director – Cooking Terms – Spy Novels – Law – Diminishing Returns
Mark found the first Daily Double in “Spy Novels” under the $1,200 clue on the 11th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $10,400, $8,600 more than Daniel in second place. Mark bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.
Goldfinger tells James Bond he calls his chauffeur this “because that describes his functions on my staff” show
Daniel found the last Daily Double in “Law” under the $800 clue with 7 clues left after it. He was in second place with $3,800, $19,200 less than Mark’s lead. Daniel bet $800 and said trieda conflict of interest. That was WRONG.
If you’re a company officer, director, or 10% stockholder, you’re this type of person–no trading its stock based on secret info show
Mark finished in the lead with a runaway $23,400. Daniel was second with $4,200 and Amanda was last with $600. One clue worth $400 was not shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS COCA-COLA?
Frank Mason Robinson was a bookkeeper and marketer who worked for John S. Pemberton, the inventor of Coca-Cola syrup. Pemberton was a chemist and pharmacist who used coca leaves and kola nuts in making this product. Those ingredients inspired Robinson to name it Coca-Cola. In this video, it says something about the color red signifying that there was no alcohol content in the product. There were traces of cocaine, however, and Jeopardy! covered that in this 1997 clue: This ubiquitous soft drink removed its cocaine by 1905 but kept the caffeine
This 2008 Final Jeopardy! clue was a triple stumper: BUSINESS TRADEMARKS: Registered in 1893, this product’s trademark is written in the Spencerian script of bookkeeper Frank Robinson — they didn’t have any Cs to help them out so they were all over the place
Amanda went with Chanel. That cost her nothing and she finished with $600.
Daniel had Currier. He didn’t risk a penny either so he finished with $4,200.
Mark also went with Coco Chanel. He lost $3,400 and won the game with the remaining $20,000. Mark’s 2-day total is $50,401.
A triple stumper from each round. (Please don’t put the answers in the comments)
YOU’RE GONNA HAVE TO SHARE ($1000) The shared liver of these conjoined twins born in what’s now Thailand in 1811 is on exhibit at Philadelphia’s Mutter Museum
NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARKS ($1600) The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park in Atlanta includes MLK’s birthplace & this church where he served as pastor
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “BRAND NAMES”
A neighbor’s charcoal drawing of Ann Turner Cook at age 4 or 5 months won a 1928 contest to appear in ads for this brand show
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That FJ was seriously easy. And Coco Chanel was only 3 in 1886!
In hindsight, Final seemed so easy.
Surprised they missed 3 of the 5 words that came directly from the letters in RETURNS. I thought all five were obvious. The last one was tricky, but a 3-letter synonym for regret made it a cinch.
A couple of the links didn’t work for me. “More Clues on Page 2” (this happens sometimes but I can click on the numeral 2 instead) and the two Italian pasta links in the stumpers.
Got 2/3 DDs and can’t believe I missed the Goldfinger one. Saw it when it came out, still my favorite Bond flick. He used his chapeau to maim his boss’s antagonists. (“Chauffeur” threw me off.) MLK church; adjustable weights; vintage wine lyric; pampered eggs; French herbs all nailed. I’m curious to know what the ziti answer was, as I make my own in a Crockpot.
That’s fixed, Howard. My daughter is a big ziti-lover. She makes it the traditional way but I wonder if she’ll want to try it in the crockpot.
I was also surprised at the misses in RETURNS. I think Anne from Friday’s game would have knocked off a lot of the stumpers in this game.
Thank you, I would not have known that answer. My version is meatless and has mozzarella, cottage and parmesan cheeses. Takes maybe 15 minutes to put together and 4 hours in the crock. I got the recipe years ago from our newspaper. The crock liners make for no cleanup.
Thanks, Howard, I told my daughter about it and she said she’d give the crockpot method a try.
Hmmmm…….All I could come up with in FJ was Campbell’s, and I knew that wasn’t going to fly. Actually, I haven’t purchased soda drinks from the stores in years as I make my own carbonated beverages (they all contain table sugar). Consequently, that probably explained why Coca-Cola didn’t readily come to mind. However, one of us did get the FJ.
Has anyone noticed alot of Canadian contestants lately?
And we begin the week with a triple stumper since today’s final was a tough one.
Well, that was so unexpected. I wasn’t surprised at the 2008 triple stumper (see the recap) because they only had the year to go on. But a script C with a flourish is what did it for me.
I bet they’ve seen today’s logo answer way more than the Coco Chanel logo
On the other hand VJ, there aren’t many people who regularly purchase pop anymore so those old soda brands aren’t exactly in vogue. In fact, I rarely see a TV commercial advertising one of those soda brands. In short, they’re simply fading from view, and which might explain why neither of the contestants could come up with the correct response.