Final Jeopardy: Final Resting Places (11-17-21)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/17/2021) in the category “Final Resting Places” was:

A cemetery on this island has the graves of Robert Fulton & 2 of the first 4 treasury secretaries

5x champ Andrew He, a software developer from San Francisco, CA won $157,365 so far. In Game 6, he is up against: Max McDonald, a freelance artist and designer from Brooklyn, NY; and Amy Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, CA.

Round 1 Categories: Nations by World Heritage Sites – Italian Arts & Culture – Biblical First Names – It’s a New Machine – 1985 in Entertainment – Beverage Rhymes

Max got the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Italian Arts & Culture” under the $800 clue on the 8th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $1,400 now, $400 more than Amy in second place. He made it a true Daily Double but couldn’t come up with a response so he was WRONG.

It’s the Italian name for the lively folk dance also known as “the dance of the spider” show

WHAT IS THE TARANTELLA?

Andrew finished in the lead with $7,200. Amy was second with $3,600 and Max was last with $1,200. No clues went uncovered.

Round 2 Categories: The Pittsburgh Address – It’s History – Readers, Digest – Science – Grammy’s Album of the Year – Same First & Last Letter

Amy found the first Daily Double in “It’s History” under the $1,600 clue on the 7th pick. She was in second place with $7,600 now, $400 less than Andrew’s lead. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.

In 1756 Voltaire wrote that this, which had lasted nearly a thousand years, was none of the 3 elements in its name. show

WHAT IS HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE?

Andrew got the last Daily Double in “Science” under the $1,600 clue at the halfway mark. In second place with $10,800, he had $2,000 less than Amy’s lead. He bet it all and he was RIGHT.

It’s the process of atoms acquiring a positive or negative charge, as when sodium & chlorine combine to make salt. show

WHAT IS IONIZATION?

Andrew finished in the lead with $26,800. Amy was second with $19,600 and Max was last with $6,800. No clues went uncovered.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS MANHATTAN?

Experience First is a website that offers walking tours of many major cities. Its Lower Manhattan Walking Tour includes Trinity Church, where “all but one side [of the church] is a graveyard covered in headstones, statues and monuments. Many politicians, war heroes, and businessmen are buried in Trinity Churchyard. It’s one of the most famous churchyards in all of New York.” These 3 people mentioned in today’s clue are the Top 3 in their list of 5 most famous people buried in Trinity Churchyard: Alexander Hamilton, the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury; inventor and engineer, Robert Fulton; and Albert Gallatin, the nation’s fourth Secretary of the Treasury. John Peter Zenger, printer and journalist, is No. 4 and Elizabeth Schuyler, Alexander Hamilton’s widow, is No. 5.

Is New York City considered an island? This interesting list of Q & As answers a bunch of questions about New York City.

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Max came up with Martha’s Vineyard. That cost him $6,798. He had $2.00 left.

Amy got it right. Her $12,000 bet brought her up to $31,600.

Andrew thought it was Ellis Island. He lost $12,401 and finished with $14,399. That made Amy Schneider the new Jeopardy! champ. Super game, Amy!

A triple stumper from each round:

IT’S A NEW MACHINE ($1000) In 1969, Leonard Kleinrock & his team sent the first message over the internet with the first this, which now connects devices like modems

GRAMMY’S ALBUM OF THE YEAR ($1200) The first country artist to win the award was him, for 1968 & “By the Time I Get to Phoenix”

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Italian Inventors”

In a 1644 letter he wrote, “We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air”, which is what his invention measures show

WHO IS (EVANGELISTA) TORRICELLI?

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