Final Jeopardy: Names in U.S. History (11-29-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/29/2022) in the category “Names in U.S. History” was:
This father was the only man among the 13 plaintiffs in a class-action case filed in 1951
16x champ Cris Pannullo, a customer success operations manager from Ocean City, NJ, has won $566,344 to date. In Game 17, his challengers are: Sheila Anderson, a philanthropic advisor from Seattle, WA; and Matt Harvey, a healthcare administrator from Providence, RI.
Round 1 Categories: Politicians Back in the Day – We Make that Vehicle – Annual Events – TV Cartoon Villains – How Tall/Long/High? – “Give” or “Take”
Matt found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “How Tall/Long/High?” under the $600 clue on the 8th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $4,000, $3,200 more than Cris and Sheila tied in second place. Matt made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
525 feet tall: a flagpole built in this strip of land by North Korea to make a statement show
Matt finished in the lead with $6,400. Cris was second with $4,400 and Sheila was last with $1,800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: German Cities – Cast Upon the Waters – Nobel Literature Prize Winners – Huff & Puff – Molecules – More than One Silent Letter
Matt found the first Daily Double in “More Than One Silent Letter” under the $2,000 clue on the 8th pick. He was in the lead with $13,600, $7,200 more than Cris in second place. Matt bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.
This word that can precede arthritis would be just fine without its second & third letters show
Cris got the last Daily Double in “Nobel Literary Prize Winners” under the $800 clue with 11 clues left after it. In second place with $12,400, he had $5,000 less than Matt’s lead. Cris bet it all and he was RIGHT.
Greek author George Seferis who won the award in 1963, wrote “Six Nights On” this hilltop show
Cris finished in the lead with $24,000. Matt was in second place with $21,400 and Sheila was last with $4,200. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS (OLIVER) BROWN?
In 1951, the NAACP in Topeka, Kansas recruited African-American parents to mount a legal challenge against the “separate but equal” doctrine that permitted segregation in public schools. Oliver Brown was the only male among 13 plaintiffs and he was listed first “as a legal strategy to have a man at the head of the roster”, according to the Myth or Truth page on the National Park Serivce website. (Note: Although one of the women’s surnames was also Brown, she was not Oliver Brown’s wife.)
In a landmark decision in 1954, the U.S.Supreme Court ruled that state laws requiring separate but equal schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, striking down the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling. Explore this and other landmark Supreme Court cases here.
Sheila got it right. She stood pat on her $4,200.
Matt came up with James. That cost him $12,999 and left him with $8,401.
Cris got it right, too. He bet $20,000 and won the game with $44,000 even. His 17-day total is $610,344.
2 triple stumpers from the last round:
CAST UPON THE WATERS ($1600) Oscar winners Laurence Olivier, Daniel Day-Lewis & Mel Gibson were entwined with this title 1984 ship
NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS ($1600) This Dublin-born playwright got the nod in 1925 for works marked by idealism, humanity & stimulating satire (image)
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Historic Documents”
One of the liberties listed in this: “No man shall be forced to perform more service for a knight’s ‘fee’…than is due from it” show
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Good FJ; I should have known it cold. I had the right idea but said Thurgood Marshall who, I think, was the lead attorney and not a plaintiff.
Only stumpers that surprised me were the Irish playwright and the national park.
I thought Cris was about to be defeated, too, but congrats to him on another successful win!
Wow! That game was tense to watch. I was wondering if it was going to be curtains for Cris. I was certain he didn’t know fj but that Poker face fooled me again.
I got the information that Oliver Brown’s wife was not the plaintiff Darlene Brown from this Feb. 2022 article in which Oliver Brown’s daughter says a lot of stuff written about her father on the internet is not true. She mentions her mother, Leola, by name and also says that from an alphabetical perspective, Darlene Brown should have been the lead plaintiff, but her father was chosen because of his gender.
I was looking forward to a new champion being crowned today.
That will be at the end of the season, in my opinion.