Final Jeopardy: Journalists in History (12-2-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (12/2/2021) in the category “Journalists in History” was:
Bismarck Tribune correspondent Mark Kellogg died June 25, 1876 while on a field assignment covering this man.
11x champ Amy Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, CA went over $400K yesterday and has now won $421,200. In Game 12, her challengers are: Sinnott Martin, an attorney from New Orleans, LA; and Jessica Morgan, a writer from Pasadena, CA.
Round 1 Categories: It’s Too Crowded – Exam Time – Fiction – Funny Ladies – Ain’t that America – For “U” & “Me”
Amy found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Fiction” under the $600 clue on the 8th pick of the round. At $1,600, she was the only one with anything to bet. Amy made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
Emily is imprisoned in a gloomy castle– that tells you “The Mysteries of Udolpho” is a classic of this big 1790s genre. show
Amy finished in the lead with $7,800. Jessica was second with $3,800 and Sinnott was last with $3,200. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: From the Greek – Let There Be Art & Music – Sailing the Black Sea – “T” for… – Pop Culture-Pourri – Words in Elements
Sinnott found the first Daily Double in “Sailing the Black Sea” under the $1,600 clue on the 9th pick. Sinnott was in second place with $4,400, $9,000 less than Amy in first place. He made a true Daily Double and came up with Turkmenistan. That was WRONG.
It’s alphabetically last of the countries that border the Black Sea. show
Amy got the last Daily Double in “From the Greek” under the $2,000 clue at the halfway point. In first place with $19,400, she had $16,400 more than Jessica in second place. Amy bet $9,000 and she was RIGHT.
I: This Allfather. show
Amy finished in the lead with a runaway $36,800. Sinnott was second with $4,800 and Jessica was last with $3,000. No clues went uncovered.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER?
Mark Kellogg was born in Ontario, Canada in 1831 to American parents. His family moved back and forth between the States and Canada before settling in LaCrosse, WI in 1851. By the 1870s, Kellogg was working in Bismarck, Dakota Territory as a reporter with editor Clement Lounsberry at the Bismarck Tribune. It was actually Lounsberry who was supposed to accompany Custer to Little Bighorn and send first-hand reports back to Bismarck. In one of those weird twists of fate, Kellogg went and died with Custer and many members of the 7th Cavalry between June 25 and June 26, 1876. He was 45 years old.
Parts of Kellogg’s diary survived and have been transcribed online as part of the North Dakota State Historical Society’s contributions to Digital Horizons.org.
Jessica had no response. She lost her $1,900 bet and finished with $1,100.
Sinnott got it right. He added $4,000 to his score and finished with $8,800.
Amy also got it. A bold $25,000 bet brought Amy’s win up to $61,800, her biggest payday yet. Amy’s 12-day total is $483,000.
A triple stumper from each round:
FUNNY LADIES ($1000) She’s won Emmys for voicing Lois Griffin on “Family Guy”, & for her role as Susie Myerson on “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”
LET THERE BE ART & MUSIC ($1200) The song with this Latin title was one of the few pieces Schubert got published in his lifetime & has been popular since
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Word Origins”
From a Sanskrit word for “descent”, it’s the form a god takes upon descending to earth show
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Omit Bismarck and 1876, and the Final isn’t such a dead giveaway.
Had a feeling Amy would go big on her final wager. Playing with house money, so to speak.
Now averaging $40K a show.
I love to see those big bets pay off!
6K is a big payout for Amy today as she is closer to 500K. She is unstoppable now and could be our next megachamp if she keeps winning like this. Glad the daily doubles helped her today . The clue reminded me of the Battle of Big Horn and Custer’s Last Stand which is a little history I picked up in grade school. If I remember correctly James also broke records in his original run as well but I wonder if Jason Zufferaneri did the same as well?