Final Jeopardy: U.S. Businesses (11-28-24)
The Final Jeopardy question (11/28/2024) in the category “U.S. Businesses” was:
In 2024 this company said only 4 of its 400+ locations will let Mr. Munch, Helen Henny, Jasper T. Jowls & its namesake still perform
3x champ Kevin Laskowski, an Episcopal priest from Falls Church, VA, has now won $52,999. In Game 4, his opponents are: Debbie Mercer, a retired special education teacher from Oak Park, IL; and Laurel Day, a project manager orig. from Austin, TX.
Round 1 Categories: How Conventional – Life Science – 3-Word Phrases – Fun with Zip Codes – Sports-pourri – Turkey Day
Kevin found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “How Conventional” under the $400 clue on the 7th pick of the round. Debbie had $1,000, the only one with any money. Kevin bet the $1,000 and thought an airplane would fly but that was WRONG.
The 1899 Hague Convention explicitly forbade dropping bombs from these; nice idea but technology soon passed it by show
Kevin finished in the lead with $3,400. Debbie was second with $1,400 and Laurel was last with $600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Geography – Asian Literature – Do You Want to Build a Building? – a Real Smoke Show – A Project – -ology
Laurel found the first Daily Double in “Asian Literature” under the $1,200 clue on the very first pick. The scores were the same as above. Laurel bet $400 and she was RIGHT.
“Frog” by Mo Yan follows Gugu, a midwife during China’s implementation of this policy. show
Debbie got the last Daily Double in “Do You Want to Build a Building?” under the $1,200 clue on the 10th pick. In 2nd place with $3,800, she had $2,800 less than Laurel’s lead. Debbie bet $1,200 and she was RIGHT.
In 1943 this art collector asked Frank Lloyd Wright to build a building for a museum unlike any other in the world show
Laurel finished in the lead with $11,400. Kevin and Debbie were tied in second place at $9,400. A reversal (see below) bumped Laurel’s score up to $14,600. All clues were shown.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS CHUCK E. CHEESE?
In November 2023, Chuck E. Cheese announced that it was retiring its animatronic bands from all locations except one in Northridge, CA. The company decided to keep Munch’s Make Believe band at that one location for nostalgic reasons.
In May 2024, the number of locations rose to 4 when the company decided that Munch’s Make Believe Band can also play in Springfield, IL; Hicksville, NY; and Charlotte, NC. Additionally, Nanuet, NY has a solo Chuck E. Cheese animatronic, for a total of 5 legacy stores.
Debbie bet $5,202 and finished with $14,602.
Kevin bet $9,399 and finished with $18,799.
Laurel bet $4,201 and won the game with $18,801. Laurel Day is the new Jeopardy! champ.
Reversal: -OLOGY ($1600) The first 3 letters are an abbreviation some have discarded, but this is still the study of flying saucers & the like – Laurel mispronounced UfOlogy then corrected it. Ken missed the correction and didn’t accept her response. Kevin said what Ken wanted to hear. After the judges reviewed the tape, Laurel got $3,200 back.
A triple stumper from each round. (Please don’t put the answers in the comments)
3-WORD PHRASES ($1000) It means doing everything right, or getting a hit every time up, though the math doesn’t strictly work on that last one
-OLOGY ($2000) King James I of England published a guide to witchcraft & devilry titled this “-ology”
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “LANGUAGE & ITS MEANINGS”
Now meaning someone with nocturnal habits, it catches a sleeping dove in Shakespeare’s “The Rape of Lucrece” show
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I did a little above average in the game, and all of the contestants were sharp tonight. Regarding the FJ, I have never heard of Chuck E. Cheese. In fact, I’ll check to see if there was even one such location in Michigan.
Yes, there are indeed 12 Chuck E. Cheese locations in Michigan, and one located a dozen miles from me. However, I’m not sure that anyone that I know had ever dined there. It certainly wouldn’t have been me as I was never fond of pizza.
My niece and nephew are between 27 and 30 years younger than me. My mother and sister would take them to C-E-C’s (Chuck’s given name is Charles Entertainment Cheese), and my now-departed mother would say that calling it pizza is an insult to bad pizza. She said it couldn’t be any worse. Ironically, my nephew worked there some 15 years later!
And, Nolan Bushnell, who founded Atari, also founded C-E-C!
I seriously thought that the smartest person on that stage was Ken. Even that Schenectady ZIP – ABC? Huh?
I got FJ, and was 2/3 on DD.
I have a ZIP code story: my ZIP in Waipahu HI was 96797. Say your handwriting was atrocious, and your second 7 looked like a 9. Do you know where 96799 is? About 6k miles away, in American Samoa!
Oops, forgot to change channels during football game.
One of those very rare times when I found all 3 DDs and FJ easy.
Knew the zip code stumpers. My cousins live in Schenectady, and I remembered the first 3 digits there. The rest of it was obvious.
The “doing everything right” phrase is well-known in baseball and has spread into the language. Figured out the fish shade plants and kelpology subject, and the colorful sea. I watched the first two episodes of that ABC show and gave up on it, but there was enough in the clue for me.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone celebrating the holiday.
I was hoping my son would get to watch the show today but he called me and said he can’t because he’s watching football and having company. So I read him the Final Jeopardy! clue. I knew he would get it because his first job was playing Jasper T. Jowls at Chuck E. Cheese.
Before that, he disagreed with me when I said if you eat the same thing everyday you’ll get sick of it. He changed his tune about that after too much free pizza. 🤣🤣🤣
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! This is a great way to end the Thanksgiving day show with everyone getting Final correct.