Final Jeopardy: Presidential Irony (11-21-18)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/21/2018) in the category “Presidential Irony” was:
1 of the 2 Presidents who offered Daniel Webster the VP slot; he declined both, thinking the job went nowhere
2x champ Mary Ann Borer, a marketing coordinator from Pomona, CA, won $53,400 in her first 2 games. In Game 3, she is up against: Casey Amspacher, a senior data engineer from Brooklyn, NY; and Abby Roughton, a lawyer from Boston, MA.
As fun as the Teen Tournament was, it’s great to be back to the regular games!
Round 1 Categories: Cyber Monday – Giving Tuesday – Wacky Wednesday – a Pop Culture Thanksgiving – Black Friday – Small Business Saturday
Casey found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Small Business Saturday” under the $800 clue, with 4 clues left after it. He was in second place with $2,800, $4,200 less than Mary Ann’s lead. He bet $1,200 and couldn’t come up with the exact term so he was WRONG.
The SBA encourages banks to make these, of $50,000 or less; they can help a business more than a “tiny” bit. show
Mary Ann finished in the lead with $8,000. Casey was second with $2,600 and Abby was last with $1,600.
Round 2 Categories: 5 Saint’s Days – U.S. Lakes & Rivers – Music of Yesterday & Today – Such Novel Characters – Govt. Abbrev. – “Dead”
Mary Ann found the first Daily Double in “5 Saint’s Days” under the $1,200 clue, with 7 clues to go after it. She was in the lead with $16,000 now, $6,600 more than Casey in second place. She bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
April 23 is the feast of this saint feared by dragons everywhere. show
Casey got the last Daily Double in “U.S. Lakes & Rivers” under the $800 clue, the very last. In second place with $12,600, he had $6,800 less than Mary Ann. He bet $7,000 and took a guess with Lake Lafayette. That was WRONG.
This largest Louisiana lake was named for a French count. show
Mary Ann finished in the lead with a runaway $19,400. Casey was next with $5,600 and Abby was in third place with $800.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Daniel Webster famously turned down the VP position offered to him by William Henry Harrison in 1839, responding: “I do not propose to be buried until I am dead.” Harrison chose John Tyler for his running mate (”Tippecanoe and Tyler, too). Harrison died just a month after his inauguration. When Zachary Taylor offered him the same position, Webster must have thought that kind of thing couldn’t possibly happen twice, yet it did. Millard Fillmore was the guy who accepted the position and he became President when Taylor died 16 months after his inauguration. Read more on Mediaite
A 1997 clue: HISTORIC PEOPLE ($1000) This orator served as Secretary of State under William Henry Harrison & John Tyler
Abby didn’t have an response though it looked like she scribbled out a “Z.” She lost her $790 bet and finished with $10.
Casey got it right with Old Rough and Ready. He bet $3,999, bringing him up to $9,599.
Mary Ann thought it was Abraham Lincoln. She lost $5,000, winning the game with the remaining $14,400. Her 3-day total is $67,800.
Reversal: GIVING TUESDAY ($400) Your donation to this, the WWP, helps injured veterans & their families – Abby’s response of Wounded WarriorS ProjectS was initially accepted, then nixed because of the extra S’s.
A triple stumper from each round:
U.S. LAKES & RIVERS ($2000) Geysers, hot springs & fumaroles can be found at the bottom of this largest natural Wyoming lake
MUSIC OF YESTERDAY & TODAY ($1200) In 2018 this “American Idol” winner & country singer star sang you can do a lot to cover stuff up, but you can’t “Cry Pretty”
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Names in the American Revolution”
A newspaper announcing his death in 1801 said he died in England & was “notorious throughout the world” show
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As someone who recently taped a Jeopardy episode I can tell you that I wasn’t even aware the TOC tracker existed. Nor are we told what the cut-off period for the TOC is. Possibly because there’s enough information overload as it is?
That was a tough Final. I guessed James Buchanan.
VJ, you have a typo, you typed that Daniel Webster turned down the VP offer in 1939.
Thanks, Rhonda, I’m about to fix it. omg LOL
You’re welcome, VJ!
Kind of quiet around here today. I guess everybody is already preparing her/his turkey etc..🍗🍗🍗🍗🍗🍗
I wonder if tomorrow’s FJ will have at least a remote link to Thanksgiving, maybe they’ll put in an entire category??
Great to be back after the exciting Teen Tournament, and Casey thought he could lead going to FJ!, unfortunately, his gutsy risk of $7,000 cost him, making Mary Ann Borer knocking Erik Agard out. Interestingly, this was the same FJ! response in the clue, “4 Republican, 2 Democrat, and these 2 Whig presidents died while in office”. Indeed, a twist of irony, isn’t it?
It’s great to be back to the regular games and mary Ann is looking good right now and I can see she will win game four as long as she has confidence. Lake pontchartrain was seen as a scene in everything or nothing a James bond game on PlayStation though how Casey didn’t know that I have no clue. But still glad he got final right despite not able to defeat Mary Ann. Abby had trouble getting into the rhythm today. By the way VJ when was the last time you visited Louisiana and seen the lake?
Yeah, Lou, that might have all turned out differently if he made a small bet on that last DD. I’ve only been to Louisiana a couple of times myself and not by that lake.
LINK: 11 more clues from the match
Well, we got pretty much what we did expect, congratulations to Mary Ann and all the “J”s who got it, VJ, JJ. J seems to be a lucky letter when it comes to predictions…
So Mary Ann is now #15 on the ToC list, she bumped Erik off but trails Ali Asan by ONE DOLLAR….. Don’t the players study the ToC list??
Given the numbers before FJ there must have been a few misses and/or TS questions, though the last DD with minus 7K certainly brought the total down. But Casey did what he had to do. Too bad for him that there is no lake Lafayette in LA.
If Mary Ann wants to feel safe she has to win at least one more game, then there would be only three 3 game winners left, Scott,Dave and Ali. Why do I have the nagging feeling that Mary Ann will win tomorrow and maybe Fri and then lose. Pretty soon after her loss: another 4 or 5 game winner…..And once all 3 game winners are gone, the ToC will be announced. Just a hunch.