Final Jeopardy: Southern Colleges (11-24-22)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/24/2022) in the category “Southern Colleges” was:

To aid transport in poorer nations, in the 1920s grads of this college built makeshift buggies celebrated in their fight song

13x champ Cris Pannullo, a customer success operations manager, won $416,102 so far. In Game 14, his opponents are: Megan Burr, a manager of film acquisitions, orig. from Guntersville, AL; and Tarun Narasimhan, a data scientist from San Francisco, CA.

Round 1 Categories: Character Actors – 20th Century Campaign Slogans – Revenge Lit – Near the Front of the Dictionary – Car Accessories – It’s a Thanksgiving Miracle!

Cris found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Near the Front of the Dictionary” under the $600 clue just before the commercial break. He was the only one with money at $8,200. Cris bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.

From Latin for “proverb” it’s a saying that expresses a common observation, like “a penny saved is a penny earned” show

WHAT IS ADAGE?

Cris finished in the lead with $16,200. Megan was second with $1,400 and Tarun was last with $600. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: Historical Fiction – Simply Gorges – Biology – Stars of Oscar’s Best Picture – Take the Fifth – Double-T Words

Cris found the first Daily Double in “Historical Fiction” under the $2,000 clue on the 8th pick. He was in the lead with $25,400, $24,800 more than Tarun in second place. Cris bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.

Min Jin Lee’s novel about a Korean immigrant family in Japan is named for this upright Japanese game using small metal balls show

WHAT IS PACHINKO?

Cris got the last Daily Double in “Biology” under the $2,000 clue on the 19th pick of the round. In first place with $34,000, he had $28,600 more than Megan in second place. Cris bet $9,000 and he was RIGHT.

In the cell cycle, it follows metaphase; alphabetically, it comes first show

WHAT IS ANAPHASE?

Cris finished in the lead with $46,600. Megan was in second place with $5,000 and Tarun was last with $3,400. All clues were shown.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS GEORGIA TECH?

On its website, Georgia Tech says the Ramblin’ Wreck name “gained widespread acceptance in the 1920s, when Tech graduates began building makeshift mechanical buggies to improve a poor transportation system in South America.” I wanted to know where in South America that was happening. Instead I found “A Ramble Through Wreck History,” an article that indicates the nickname itself and the fight song first showed up in the 19th century. That article says “Although the “Ramblin’ Wreck from Georgia Tech” fight song predates the car— and calls upon the memory of a train wreck involving the Tech football team— the term was co-opted by students some 30 years later to describe a completely different vehicle. It first became the nickname for a dilapidated 1914 Ford Model T that Floyd Field, a math professor and later Tech dean of men, drove to work daily from 1916 until 1928.”

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Tarun got it right. He bet $1,601 and finished with $5,001.

Megan went with Auburn. That cost her $2,000 and left her with $3,000.

Cris got it right, too. He bet a hefty $25,221 and won the game with $71,821. Chris Pannullo’s 14-day total is $487,923.

A triple stumper from each round:

CHARACTER ACTORS ($800) Lance Reddick played a cop on “The Wire” & on this Amazon Prime drama as Chief Irvin Irving

HISTORICAL FICTION ($1200) Marie Benedict tells of Mileva Maric, a physicist in her own right, who lived in her husband’s shadow in “The Other” this surname

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Dog Breeds”

Alpendog was a proposed name for this dog breed show

WHAT IS SAINT BERNARD?

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