Final Jeopardy: Milestones in U.S. History (12-17-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (12/17/2019) in the category “Milestones in U.S. History” was:
Congress declared September 6, 2008 Louisa Swain Day because Louisa did this in Wyoming on that date in 1870
New champ Kirby Copelin, a data analyst from Cincinnati, OH, won $34,401 yesterday. In Game 2, she is up against: Rodolfo Yuichiro Bedoy, an IT Project Manager from New York, NY; and Dagmar Klein, a systems specialist from Rockville, MD.
Round 1 Categories: Contemporary Reviews of Children’s Books – 6-letter Words – The Jeopardy! School of Enlightenment – New Millennium TV – Battle Losers – International Yuletide
Rodolfo found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in Children’s Books” under the $800 clue, with 4 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $5,000, $1,000 more than Dagmar in second place. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
In 1943 the L.A. Times said this “tale of a little boy from a very little asteroid” was “so big with meaning” show
Rodolfo finished in the lead with $8,600. Dagmar was second with $4,000 and Kirby was last with $800.
Round 2 Categories: Liquor is Quicker – Earth Science – Tony Award Winners – Final Resting Places – Asia – “Ack”!
Dagmar found the first Daily Double in “Final Resting Places” under the $800 clue, with 8 clues left after it. She was in second place with $10,400 at this point, $4,200 less than Rodolfo’s lead. She bravely bet $6,000 and she was RIGHT.
The tombs of Machiavelli & Michelangelo can be found in this city’s Basilica of Santa Croce. show
Dagmar found the last Daily Double in “Tony Award Winners” under the $1,600 clue, with one clue left after it in the same category. In the lead with $19,600, she had $5,800 more than Rodolfo in second place. She decided to “tread lightly” and only bet $3,000 this time. That was lucky because she drew a blank and was WRONG.
In 2017 this actress won a Tony for “Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes”, but in 2018 she did not win a race for N.Y. Governor. show
Dagmar finished in the lead with $16,600. Rodolfo was next with $13,800 and Kirby was in third place with $4,400.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS VOTED?
The Wyoming Suffrage Act of 1869 was passed when Wyoming was still a territory. From History.com: “The following September, 69-year-old Louisa Swain, described by a local newspaper as ‘a gentle white-haired housewife’ became the first women to cast a ballot under the law in her town of Laramie, Wyoming…. The new law also allowed women to serve on juries and hold public office. Esther Morris became Wyoming’s first female justice of the peace in 1870, and she tried more than 40 cases during her tenure.”
When the territory became a state in 1890, women retained the right to vote and the state gained the nickname “The Equality State.”
Kirby got it right with “voted.” She didn’t bet anything so she remained at $4,400.
Rodolfo got it with “become the first woman voter.” He added $4,999 to finish with $18,799.
Dagmar wrote down “become elected.” She lost her $11,111 bet, leaving her with $5,489. That made Rodolfo the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS OF CHILDREN’S BOOKS ($1000) Dorothy Parker wrote, “Tonstant weader fwowed up” in her 1928 review of the book “The House at” this place
LIQUOR IS QUICKER ($1000) Tennessee’s Ole Smoky Distillery bottles this electric-sounding stuff, also a 2-word term for moonshine
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “World War II”
The book “From the Volcano to the Gorge” tells the story of this World War II battle. show
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Thrilled for Rodolpho. First Class Gentleman. Hope he goes far up the ladder.
Well and here I thought Kirby was going to build up on her win but it never happened. Her challengers were too quick today. Congrats to Rodolfo and Kirby on getting this right. Perhaps Rodolfo could be our next streaker? We shall see. Also didn’t Susan b Anthony played a critical role in the woman’s suffrage movement VJ and allowed all women the right to vote?
Actually, I was wondering if maybe thinking about Susan B. Anthony is what threw Dagmar off the track. Anthony was convicted of voting illegally (in NY, in a presidential election) just 2 years after the year in today’s clue.
That article on History.com that I linked to mentions other times before the 19th amendment where women were allowed to vote: “single women owning property ‘worth fifty pounds’ were allowed to vote in New Jersey between 1776 and 1807…. In 1838 Kentucky allowed widows with school-age children to vote in school elections, and Kansas followed in 1861.” So Louisa Swain was not really the first woman to vote. She was the first woman to vote in Wyoming. I guess that makes Rodolfo lucky they didn’t get nitpicky with his response.
LINK: more clues from the game