Final Jeopardy: The Supreme Court (12-25-18)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (12/25/2018) in the category “The Supreme Court” was:
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes once referred to this 1857 decision as the court’s first self-inflicted wound
New champ Charbel Barakat, an attorney from Tampa, FL, won $30,700 yesterday. In Game 2, he is up against: Lanier Heyburn, a neuroscientist from Bethesda, MD; and Richard Koehler, a data scientist from Wilmington, DE.
Round 1 Categories: 3-letter Words – Blame Canada – Car Talk – Meanwhile… – It’s “National” – TV From the Next Room
Richard found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Meanwhile…” under the $400 clue, with 5 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $7,600, $3,600 more than Lanier in second place. He bet $2,600 and missed on one name so he was WRONG.
Burton & Speke visited Lake Tanganyika in 1858, when these 2 were running for U.S. Senator & debated each other 7 times. show
Lanier finished in the lead with $5,600. Richard was second with $5,000 and Charbel was last with $1,200.
Round 2 Categories: 13-letter Phrases – Books About Books – Olympians From Countries That No Longer Exist – U.S. National Laboratories – That Was Some Christmas! – You Won’t Believe What I Got!
Lanier found the first Daily Double in “U.S. National Laboratories” under the $2,000 clue on the 14th pick. She was in the lead with $10,800 now, $2,200 more than Richard in second place. She bet $3,000 but got a mental block so she was WRONG.
This Southwest facility began as Site Y in the Manhattan Project 75 years ago. show
Charbel found the last Daily Double in “Some Christmas!” under the $2,000 clue, with 11 clues left after it. In the lead with $10,000, he had $1,400 more than Richard in second place. He bet $1,000 and thought it was LaSalle. That was WRONG.
After suffering a stroke, this French explorer died on Christmas 1635 in Quebec. show
Richard finished in the lead with $14,600. Charbel and Lanier were tied in second place at $9,000.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Charles Evans Hughes had quite a career, serving 2 terms as Governor of New York, and then as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. After a failed Presidential bid, he served as Warren G. Harding’s Secretary of State and was later appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by Taft. His remarks regarding the Dred Scott case are quoted in many articles, such as Was this the worst Supreme Court decision ever? on the ABA’s site for law students.
A 2012 clue: BARTLETT’S PAIRS $1600: The 2 quotes by Charles Evans Hughes, the USA’s 11th this, include “The Constitution is what the judges say it is”
Charbel got it right. He bet it all and brought his score up to $18,000.
Lanier wrote down Plessy v. Ferguson. She lost $2,300 and had $6,700 left.
Richard got it right, too. He bet $3,401, just enough to win the game by a buck with $18,001. Richard Koehler is the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
BLAME CANADA ($800) In a dispute over these rights between Maine & Canada, one man said “Canadians are like Vikings! They…pillage”
BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS ($800) In “The Name of the Rose”, it is revealed that the murders are related to this Greek’s “Poetics”
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “The Civil War”
Made from a boiler at a Mobile, Ala. machine shop, it was deemed a success though it went down off Charleston 3 times. show
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Sadly, nobody in 2018 swept a week, aka, win all games in a single day. Some did close on the Friday game, and it didn’t work out for them, and some of them lost, because 1 of their opponents made the game a runaway, and can’t be caught. Oh well, there’s always a chance for someone to sweep a week in 2019.
Looks like the players ruined their Christmas with their DD wagers, and as a result, some of its clues were left hidden. I wonder what will they do with it. Anyway, Christmas came and went, and so is the position of the J! champion. I have a feeling there will be a lot more as 2018 comes down to its final days.
Merry Christmas to you guys as well. Though jeopardy is preempted for me once again because of the NBA. Furthermore, LaSalle explored Mississippi and parts of Canada. How charbal didn’t know Champlain is beyond me. But I happy that two got the landmark supreme court final right. Lanier couldn’t catch up today. By the way VJ and John what did the Dred Scott decision state now according to the supreme court?
@Lou
It found that a slave was no U.S. citizen and could not sue in federal court. In addition it declared an act of Congress unconstitutional. This was only the second time it happened. The first time was 1803, when outgoing President John Adams and incoming President Thomas Jefferson. Adams tried to frustrate Jefferson by appointing a bunch of judges. But when Jefferson took office, some of the notices were not delivered yet and ordered his Secretary of State,Madison, not to deliver them because they would be void. The SCOTUS however ordered Madison to deliver them, the case was Marbury v. Madison, Marbury being one of the people who had not received their commission in time. The court issued a “writ of mandamus” , i.e. ordering the commissions to be delivered and thus declared a law that had passed NOT to deliver them as unconstitutional. The Scott v. Sandford decision is regarded by almost all historians as one of the more important reasons that led eventually to the Civil War.
Hope that helps a little.
J.
Thanks my friend! Much appreciated. And also hope you got plenty of christmas presents!
@Lou
YES!!😊🎄
Hope the same for you!!!
@Lou
Yes.And how about the location of Lake Champlain..???!!!
Its located on the border of Canada and the state of Vermont. you can take the ferry from that state straight into New york as well.
@Lou
Exactly! Named after Samuel.
Merry Christmas to everyone celebrating today. Remember when we couldn’t wait for the new season to start in September? Now there’s only one week left in this year… hope it’s a good one for everyone, too.
LINK: 10 more clues from this match
Ah well, this was kind of a rather strange game I think. All 3 DDs missed, one by each and we have the new champ I expected. Yet I was surprised that 2 knew FJ! Always better to miss on this side than the other way around.
And one more time Merry Christmas! Santa was very nice to me this year!!😊
PS
Got enough in just amazon cards to buy the entire 7 seasons of West Wing! Hope it didn’t come up in the TV category today…! Can’t understand why they don’t air reruns of that show, it was one of the best imo. They have all kind of cr** in reruns, but not the WW…. Now I can watch it anytime I want ,the whole thing is about 115 hours…..🎁
Nice Santa, but then I was a VERY good boy all year!!😉