Final Jeopardy: Famous Americans (12-21-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (12/21/2020) in the category “Famous Americans” was:

After his public comments were criticized by FDR, he resigned his Air Corps Reserve commission in April 1941

56x champ Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, UT, won $1,906,400 up to the point when this game first aired on October 14, 2004. His challengers in Game 57 were: Graham House, a musician from Lincoln, NE; and K.C. Backer, a graduate student from Bloomington, IN.

Round 1 Categories: Presidents by Kids – Hockey – Food, Glorious Food – Humanitarian Ladies – Nicknames – “Ick”y Words

Ken found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Food, Glorious Food” under the $800 clue on the 14th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $5,400, $4,800 more than Graham in second place. He bet $2,100 and he was RIGHT.

The name of these sugar, egg white & coconut cookies comes from the same root word as a pasta. show

WHAT ARE MACAROONS?

Ken finished in the lead with $11,300. K.C. was second with $1,800 and Graham was last with $1,600. No clues went uncovered.

Round 2 Categories: World Lit – Whatever Happened to… – Math – Lake City – The Hole Truth – Nothing “But”

Ken found the first Daily Double in “The Hole Truth” under the $2,300 clue on the 18th pick. He was in the lead with $17,700 now, $12,900 more than Graham in second place. He bet $2,300 and he was RIGHT.

Asian location where a notoriously horrible event took place on the night of June 20, 1756. show

WHAT IS THE BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA?

K.C. got the last Daily Double in “Lake City” under the $1,200 clue, with 2 clues left after it. In third place with $4,600, she had $16,600 less than Ken’s lead. She bet $1,200 and she was RIGHT.

Kampala, Uganda show

WHAT IS LAKE VICTORIA?

Ken finished in the lead with a runaway $24,800. Graham was next with $6,800 and K.C. was in third place with $6,600. No clues went uncovered.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS CHARLES LINDBERGH?

In May 1927, Charles Lindbergh became an American hero after a successful nonstop flight across the Atlantic from Long Island to Paris, France. Showered with many accolades, he was promoted to the rank of colonel in the Air Corps Reserve and awarded a Medal of Honor. He also became Time Magazine’s first Man of the Year. After the kidnapping and murder of his infant son, Lindbergh moved to Europe for a number of years. He returned to the USA in 1939, at which time he advocated staying out of the developing war in Europe. He became a leading voice for the isolationist America First Committee. This led to him butting heads with Franklin Roosevelt who viewed Lindbergh as an anti-Semitic and a Nazi sympathizer.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Lindbergh changed his views and flew many missions in the Pacific. He applied to have his commission reinstated, but that was shot down by the White House.

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K.C. wrote down “NO CLUE.” She bet and lost it all.

Graham thought it was “Mitchell.” He lost $6,401 and finished with $399.

Ken got it right. He added $5,100 to his score and won the game with $29,900. His 57-day total is $1,936,300.

A triple stumper from each round:

“ICK”Y WORDS ($1000) These long bloomers were once worn by women & girls as underwear

WORLD LIT ($2000) There’s no dialogue in this author’s novel “The Painted Bird”

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “U.S. Landmarks”

The 1st segment of this was dedicated on July 4, 1930; the next, Aug. 30, 1936; Section 3, on Sept. 17, 1937 & the last, on July 2, 1939 show

WHAT IS MT. RUSHMORE?

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