Final Jeopardy: Last Words (10-8-19)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/8/2019) in the category “Last Words” was:

In 1876 in the Dakotas this American said, “The old duffer broke me on the last hand”

New champ Jessica Garsed, a librarian from Augusta, ME, won $12,600 yesterday. In her second game, her opponents are: Rahul Garabadu, a judicial law clerk from Salt Lake City, UT; and Scottie Biddle, a software engineer from San Francisco, CA.

Round 1 Categories: Many Hands – Make Light Work – History, Through the Centuries – The Meat Industry Hall of Fame – Song & Movie: Same Title – “Ra”, “Ra”, “Sis”, “Boom”, “Ba”

Scottie found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “History” under the $800 clue on the 5th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $1,400, $1,200 more than Jessica in second place. He bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.

17th: on this woman’s death in 1617, a London writer referred to her as “the Virginian woman” show

WHO IS POCAHONTAS?

Jessica finished in the lead with $7,600. Scottie was second with $5,200 and Rahul was last with $800. A reversal in the “Meat” category (see below) knocked Jessica down to $6,000.

Round 2 Categories: 1890s Literature – These TV Shows Are Old Enough to Drink – Computer Keyboards – We Need Some Help – Women Composers – Municipal Before & After

Scottie found the first Daily Double in “Computer Keyboards” under the $1,600 clue on the 7th pick. He was in second place with $6,000 at this point, $4,000 behind Jessica’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double bet and could only think of “send.” That was WRONG.

New evidence suggests that the QWERTY keyboard design may have sprung from telegraph operators translating this. show

WHAT IS THE MORSE CODE?

Scottie found the last Daily Double in “Municipal Before & After” under the $1,200 clue, with 7 clues left after it. In second place with $4,000, he had $12,000 less than Jessica’s lead. He bet $2,000 and said “concertina.” That was WRONG.

“Small” piano that is the Michigan burial place for Gerald Ford. show

WHAT IS BABY GRAND RAPIDS?

Jessica finished with a runaway $17,200 and Scottie was next with $2,800. At negative $400, Rahul was out of the game.

Only ONE of the contestants left in FJ! got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS WILD BILL HICKOK?

From Roadside America: “The most important event in Deadwood history was a poker game in Saloon #10 on August 2, 1876, where the sniveling coward Jack McCall snuck up and shot Wild Bill Hickok in the back of the head. Hickok had arrived in Deadwood only a few weeks earlier, played a succession of card games, and never in his life sat with his back to the door. Until that day.” It’s an interesting article about Deadwood’s daily summer reenactments (except Sundays) of the events surrounding Hickok’s demise.

From 2011: “D” DAY ($1200) It’s the nickname of the hand of aces & eights held by Wild Bill Hickok at the time of his 1876 murder

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Scottie came up with Custer, who died at Little Bighorn in Montana in June of the same year. He bet and lost it all.

Jessica got it right. She bet $2,800, giving her an even $20,000 win. Her 2-day total is $32,600.

Reversal: THE MEAT INDUSTRY HALL OF FAME ($800) Nebraska’s Alan Simon made his fortune with mailable beef from this company – Jessica left the “S” off Omaha Steaks.

A triple stumper from each round:

SONG & MOVIE: SAME TITLE ($1000) Song: by Cream; Movie: about the beer-loving McKenzie brothers from “SCTV”

WOMEN COMPOSERS ($1600) British-born Rebecca Clarke gained notice with her 1919 sonata for this instrument spelled the same as a woman’s first name

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “20th Century Novels”

The protagonist of this novel “was fairly sure that his age was 39, and he believed that he had been born in 1944 or 1945” show

WHAT IS “1984”?

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