Final Jeopardy: Magazines (12-15-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (12/15/2020) in the category “Magazines” was:

This magazine had the same person on its cover since its founding 20 years ago until it chose Breonna Taylor as its Sept. 2020 cover

New champ, Valerie Castelo, a career counselor from San Leandro, CA;, won $38,001 yesterday. In Game 2, her opponents are: Margaret de Larios, a public affairs specialist from Pasadena, CA; and Brayden Smith, a policy intern from Las Vegas, NV.

Round 1 Categories: Marco Polo Slept Here – What Are the Odds? – Book Barriers – Reality TV – Not Gonna Throw Away – My “Shot”

Brayden found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Book Barriers” under the $600 clue on the 5th pick of the round. He was in second place with $400, $200 more than Margaret’s lead. He bet the $1,000 allowance and he was RIGHT.

This Melville scribe spends time staring at “dead-walls”. Then at the high walls of prison. show

WHO IS BARTLEBY?

Brayden finished in the lead with $7,600. Valerie was second with $3,000 and Margaret was last with $1,400. A $600 and a $200 clue went uncovered.

Round 2 Categories: American History – the Whisker Rebellion – 10-Letter Nations – Musical Instruments – At the Movies – Anagrams of Each Other

Brayden found the first Daily Double in “American History” under the $1,600 clue on the 4th pick. He was in the lead with $9,600 now, $6,600 more than Valerie in second place. He bet $3,500 and he was RIGHT.

In 1832, hoping to reclaim land in Illinois, this Sauk leader led Native Americas against U.S. forces in a months-long war. show

WHO IS BLACK HAWK?

Brayden got the last Daily Double in “10-Letter Nations” under the $1,200 clue on the very next pick! In the lead with $13,100, he now had $10,100 more than Valerie. He bet $3,500 again (“it worked the first time”), and he was RIGHT.

One of the world’s most populous countries, it’s in the delta of the Ganges & Brahmaputra Rivers. show

WHAT IS BANGLADESH?

Brayden finished in the lead with a runaway $28,200. Valerie was next with $7,400 and Margaret was in third place with $7,000. Two $400 clues went uncovered.

ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE? (just “O” was acceptable)

Oprah’s magazine “O” is a monthly magazine that was first published on 4/19/2000, and regularly featured its creator on the cover. In 2009, Oprah shared the cover twice: in April, with Michelle Obama and in December, with Ellen DeGeneres. The September 2020 edition was the first time that Oprah did not appear on the cover. Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old woman who was shot to death by police in Louisville, Ky. Oprah wrote: “What I know for sure – we can’t be silent. We have to use whatever megaphone we have to cry for justice. And that is why Breonna Taylor is on the cover of O magazine. I cry for justice in her name.”

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Margaret bet $3,500, bringing her up to $10,500.

Valerie bet $6,601 and finished with $14,001.

Brayden bet $2,800 and won the game with an even $31,000. Brayden Smith is the new Jeopardy! champ.

2 triple stumpers from Round 2:

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ($1600) In 1787 this pear-shaped lute was featured in “Don Giovanni”; nearly 200 years later, in Bruce Hornsby’s “Rain”

AT THE MOVIES ($1600) One-word title of the 2020 Pixar movie about 2 brothers on an indomitable quest to spend one more day with their late father

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Bible Books”

The title of this Old Testament book is from the Greek for “song sung to a harp” show

WHAT IS PSALMS?

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