Final Jeopardy: Presidential Candidates (12-10-24)
The Final Jeopardy question (12/10/2024) in the category “Presidential Candidates” was:
The running mates of this candidate included John Kern, Arthur Sewall & Adlai Stevenson I
New champ Bill McKinney, a VP of restaurants & bars, orig. from Boston, MA., won $22,000 yesterday. In Game 2, his challengers are: Sara Walker, a family & sports medicine physician orig. from Brighton, MI; and Dan Sand, a law student orig. from Kennett Square, PA.
Round 1 Categories: Life Imitates Pop Culture – Who Wants History? – Galleries – A Meat & Potatoes Category – Grab Bag – King Arthur’s Very Punny Knights
Dan found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Who Wants History?” under the $800 on the 2nd pick of the round. Dan was the only one on the board with $800. He bet the $1,000 allowance and tried Bolivar. That was WRONG.
Last name of Gonzalo, who as governor of Peru took up arms against Spain after his half-brother Francisco’s death show
Sara finished in the lead with $4,800. Bill was second with $4,000 and Dan was last with $2,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Islands – Women Writers – A “W” for Science – Adjectives – Broadway Musicals – How’s Your Legalese?
Dan found the first Daily Double in “Adjectives” under the $1,200 clue on the 13th pick of the round. He was in second place with $6,800, $2,800 less than Bill’s lead. Dan bet $3,000 and said he didn’t know so he was WRONG.
Related to the word “diamond”, it means unyielding or inflexible, perhaps in your opinion show
Dan found the last Daily Double in “A ‘W’ for Science” under the $1,200 clue on the 16th pick of the round. He was in last place with $5,000, $4,600 less than Bill’s lead. Dan bet $2,000 and, this time, he was RIGHT.
It’s the distance between 2 crests of sound or light that are next to each other show
Bill finished in the lead with $12,000. Sara was second with $8,800 and Dan was last with $7,800. All clues were shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN?
William Jennings Bryan, aka “the Perpetual Candidate”, ran for President on the Democratic ticket on 3 separate occasions. In 1896, Bryan/Sewall lost to Republicans McKinley/Hobart. In 1900, Bryan/Stevenson lost to McKinley/T.Roosevelt. The third time was not the charm when, in 1908, Republicans Taft/Sherman defeated Bryan/Kern. There is a reason the clue says Bryan’s running mates “included” the 3 men named. In 1896 Bryan was also the Populist candidate and Thomas E. Watson was his running mate.
Just this past September, a player lost 3K on this Daily Double in PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION LOSERS: Twice to one William & once to another William, this William ran & lost 3 times
Dan thought it was Nixon. He bet $6,799 and finished with $1.00.
Sara went with Teddy Roosevelt. That cost her $3,198 and left him /her with $5,602.
Bill came up with Cleveland. He lost $6,000 but won the game with the other $6,000 he held on to. Bill’s 2-day total is $28,000.
A triple stumper from each round:
LIFE IMITATES POP CULTURE ($400) NASA’s countdown before a rocket launch can be traced to a 1929 silent German film called “Frau im Mond”, “Woman in” this
WOMEN WRITERS ($1600) Known for her “magical thinking”, she wrote a short novel called “Democracy” & co-wrote the 1976 film “A Star is Born”
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “19th CENTURY AMERICANS”
Demonstrating the dignity & humanity of Black Americans, he sat for 160 known photographs, the most of any American in the 19th century show
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I was 3/3 on DD and got FJ. I don’t know why WJB was stuck in my melon, because, if you showed me a picture of him, I couldn’t identify him!
It was a “moderate” game. Gratz to the champ for a second win.
Good game, good players, but a few too many flubs and stumpers IMO. Dan seemed nervous when he wasn’t at home in the legalese category. And his guess of Nixon was lame, not to mention Honolulu’s island.
Nailed the final! Because the category was candidates, not presidents, my mind took me to Harold Stassen and Wm Jennings Bryan. Was pretty sure the latter ran 3X–I will swear on a cross of gold that he did. Adlai Stevenson I pointed me toward Bryan, ultimately.
I went to that British gallery but had no idea it now has “Britain” in its name.
Bible not my thing, but knew the virtue(s). Very surprised no one knew Major Major’s novel, Palma’s island, or the correct name of the Seurat musical.
First 2 DDs were tricky, third was cake.
Wow, a somewhat tough FJ this time around, and all I could come up with was Harry S. Truman. Yes, this one clue (‘Adlai Stevenson I) obviously pointed to an earlier era, but I didn’t have the foggiest of which presidential candidate that the clues were really alluding to. But “Richard M. Nixon”? No!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyways. it was a great game, and I was actually rooting for Dan.
And we end the episode with another triple stumper in the final since it was a tough one.