Final Jeopardy: Business 2019 (11-25-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/25/2019) in the category “Business 2019” was:
The NYSE allowed jeans on the trading floor for the initial public offering of the stock with this 4-letter symbol
3x champ Elise Nussbaum, a financial counselor from Jersey City, NJ, has now won $79,600. In Game 4, she is up against: Beth Stewart, a receptionist from Naperville, IL; and Stephen Pokora, a naval architect from Annapolis, MD.
Round 1 Categories: Show Me the Money! – The 1960s – Medical Idioms – New York-Set Novels – If It Were an Action Movie – Word on the Street
Elise found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “New York-Set Novels” under the $1,000 clue, with 10 clues left after it. She was in the lead with $3,600, $1,200 more than Beth in second place. She bet $1,600 and offered “The Devil in White City” at the last second. That was WRONG.
Psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler & his team track down a brutal serial killer in this bestseller set in 1896. show
Elise finished in the lead with $5,800. Beth was second with $4,000 and Stephen was last with $3,000.
Round 2 Categories: Models of the Heavens – 1990s Lyrics – Philosophy – Double Letters in the Middle – World Geography – Historic Mercenaries
Beth found the first Daily Double in “World Geography” under the $1,200 clue on the 8th pick. She was in second place with $6,000 at this point, $4,600 behind Elise’s lead. Beth said “faint heart never won fair lady or game show.” She bet $5,000 and she was RIGHT.
This peninsula stretches south about 700 miles from the Isthmus of Kra to Singapore. show
Beth found the last Daily Double in “Double Letters in the Middle” under the $2,000 clue, with a dozen clues left after it. She was in a tie for the lead with Elise. They both had $15,000, $12,000 more than Stephen in second place. She bet $4,000 this time and struggled to get to the word, but she did it within the time limit so she was RIGHT.
An 8-letter Olympic game of horse. show
Beth finished in the lead with $21,400. Elise was next with $19,800 and Stephen was in third place with $2,600.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
That’s the ticker symbol for Levi Strauss & Co. From the New York Times (3/21/19): “For one day, the New York Stock Exchange was denim friendly. Levi Strauss & Company, the company that traces its roots to the days of the California Gold Rush, started trading publicly on Thursday for the second time in its 165-year history. Traders in New York were clad in denim pants and jean jackets, as the stock exchange suspended its prohibition on wearing jeans for the day. Levi’s also set up a “tailor shop” outside of the exchange where traders could personalize their denim.”
Learn more: 12 Things You Didn’t Know About Levi’s
Stephen got it right. He bet $900 bet and finished with $3,500.
Elise thought it was Uber. She lost her $19,000 bet, dropping her down to $800.
Beth got it, too. She bet $18,201 and won the game with $39,601. Beth Stewart is the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
IF IT WERE AN ACTION MOVIE ($600) Audrey Tautou: “I tried to help people be happy. But your relative killed my mom. Now this French waitress is serving revenge…cold”
PHILOSOPHY ($1600) This English liberal philosopher and author of two treatises on government helped inspire the Declaration of Independence
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “German Geography”
Of Germany’s 16 states, these 2 at opposite ends of the country begin with the same letter & are the largest & smallest. show
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That 19K bet was very risky and uber is a limousine company, not a brand of designer jeans. Elise should have just bet zero. The ladies were too fast for Stephen to catch up. By the way VJ, were you into Levi Strauss jeans back in the old days or did you have other brands like seven for all man kind?
Lou, I can’t say I have any brand loyalty or preferences when it comes to jeans. All that matters to me is if they fit right.
Seems that Boris may be a way more popular name for a cat than one would think. In the chat, Elise mentioned her black cat, Miss Boris Karloff. We have a Russian blue cat named Boris, and on Facebook, we saw a lady post a picture of her two Russian blues – Boris and Natasha. We have a black cat, too, but his name is Felix.
LINK: 11 more clues from the game
I thought of your Boris kitty when Elise mentioned Miss Boris Karloff. I mistakenly thought he was your black cat. Boris and Natasha are great names for the two Russian blues that you saw posted on Facebook.
yeah, Rhonda, Boris and Natasha seem like natural picks for a pair of Russian blues. The weird thing was that lady’s Boris cat looked just like ours. (Technically, the 3 cats we have are my daughter’s and she got them in this order: Felix, Roscoe and Boris)