Final Jeopardy: The Wild West (12-15-23)
The Final Jeopardy question (12/15/2023) in the category “The Wild West” was:
In 1888’s “Ranch Life & the Hunting-Trail” Teddy Roosevelt wrote his 2 ranch hands were “able to travel” like this animal
In the first of two final matches in the Champions Wild Card (Hearts) tournament, the contestants are: Yungsheng Wang, Thursday’s semifinal winner; Tyler Vandenberg, Wednesday’s semifinal winner; and Gary Hollis, Tuesday’s semifinal winner.
Round 1 Categories: Country Add a Letter – Not Really Married – Historic Documents – Musical Instruments – Double Y-Ed – Trailer Park
Gary found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Musical Instruments” under the $800 clue on the 8th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $2,600, $200 more than Yungsheng in second place. Gary made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
Ricola ads have featured this Swiss horn show
Gary finished in the lead with $9,400. Yungsheng was in second place with $6,800. Tyler was last with $2,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: San Francisco, Now & Forever – An “L” of a Team – Water World – Flowers – Fictional Languages – Wish I’d Said that!
Gary found the first Daily Double in “Flowers” under the $1,200 clue on the 14th pick of the round. He was in second place with $13,400, $1,000 less than Yungsheng’s lead. Gary bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
Oh, the vanity! These flowers represent egotism, as their mythological name indicates show
Gary got the last Daily Double in “Wish I’d Said That” under the $1,200 clue on the 20th pick of the round. He was tied in the lead with Yungsheng at $16,400, $8,000 more than Tyler in second place. Gary bet $3,000 and took a shot at it with “bad.” That was WRONG.
H.L. Mencken defined Puritanism as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be” this word show
Yungsheng finished in the lead with $16,800. Gary was in second place with $14,600. Tyler was last with $8,800. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS A BULL MOOSE?
The bull moose must have been the favorite animal of Theodore Roosevelt, the nation’s 26th President. He used it often as a symbol of unrivaled strength and vigor. In other instances, Roosevelt said “It takes more than that to kill a bull moose”, after being shot in a failed assassination attempt. When asked how he felt after losing the Republican nomination to William Howard Taft in 1912, Roosevelt said he felt as “fit as a bull moose”. Rallying his supporters, he formed the Progressive Party, which was nicknamed the Bull Moose Party.
As a result, as you will learn in the above video, Democrat Woodrow Wilson became the 28th President of the United States.
Tyler got it right. He bet it all and doubled his score to $17,600.
Gary went with a buffalo. That cost him $8,600 and left him with $6,000.
Yungsheng thought it was a mule. He lost $8,800 and finished with $8,000.
These scores will carry over to the last match of this tournament on Monday. They will be added to Monday’s final scores to determine the winner.
A triple stumper from each round:
FLOWERS ($1600) The moccasin flower is also known by this other shoe name
FICTIONAL LANGUAGES ($400) You can be like Daenerys & actually learn about 4,000 words of this language of Khal Drogo
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “19th Century British Authors”
She called herself “the daughter of two persons of distinguished literary celebrity” in an introduction to one of her novels show
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We all came up with ‘buffalo’ for FJ, and that seemed logical. As for the bull moose, its habitat is actually located all across the northern regions of the continental United States along with Canada and Alaska.. As such, it is not strictly confined to the western part of the country, and perhaps that was what threw us off.
The description in the clue comes from Chapter VIII of T.R.’s 1888 book “Ranch Life & the Hunting-Trail” — where he talks about taking his 2 men with him to recover a stolen boat. It’s the only reference to bull moose in the whole book.
Congrats to Tyler. I wasn’t really surprised he got it. I was surprised that Yungcheng didn’t.
Last June they had this clue about Trebek’s favorite animal: THE ANIMAL KINGDOM ($800) We hate to let a season pass with no mention of Alex Trebek’s favorite animal, this 750-lb. Arctic ruminant with curved horns
Things sure changed quickly. They didn’t miss much tonight. The Jeremy Bentham quote was the only stumper I guessed correctly. I thought the Redford/Fonda film would be a stumper, but it wasn’t. Pretty sure I saw it at the time at Radio City. FJ answer made perfect sense–once I saw what Tyler wrote.