Final Jeopardy: Organizations (12-3-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (12/3/2021) in the category “Organizations” was:
In the U.S. & its territories, this nonprofit whose roots trace to 1980 fulfills a word in its name every 34 minutes
12x champ Amy Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, CA, with winnings of $483,000, is looking to close in on the half million mark today. In Game 13, these two players are looking for a different result: Brooke Sachs, a user experience designer from Washington, DC; and Andrew Rafner, a set decorator from Thousand Oaks, CA.
Round 1 Categories: The Franco-Prussian War – It’s a Science – Animal Mascots – Trending – Canadian Sports – You Get a “C”
Amy found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “It’s a Science” under the $1,000 clue with 5 clues left after it. She was in first place with $6,200, $2,200 more than Brooke in second place. Amy bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
A German zoologist coined the name of this branch of biology that studies the relationship between organisms & their environments. show
Amy finished in the lead with $11,000. Brooke was second with $4,400 and Andrew was last with $3,200. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: Novels – Put Up Your Dukes – Pulling into “Town” – It’s Hyphenated – Dennis Quaid Movie Roles – Eponyms
Andrew found the first Daily Double in “Novels” under the $1,200 clue on the 10th pick. Andrew was in third place with $2,400, $13,400 less than Amy in first place. He made a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
This Leon Uris novel portraying Israel’s birth is about 10 times longer than the Bible book of the same name. show
Amy got the last Daily Double in “Pulling into Town” under the $1,600 clue with 5 clues left after it. In the lead with $27,800, she had $23,000 more than Brooke in second place. Amy bet $6,000 and she was RIGHT.
In 1862 Confederate General John Magruder followed in Cornwallis’ footsteps in having a very bad day in this historic place. show
Amy finished in the lead with $33,400. Brooke was second with $4,800 and Andrew was last with $4,000. No clues went uncovered.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS THE MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION?
The seed for the Make-A-Wish Foundation was planted in Phoenix in 1980 when 7-year-old Christopher James Greicius was fighting leukemia. Christopher wanted to be a police officer like Ponch and Jon in “CHiPs”. His community banded together to make his wish come true before the disease claimed his life. This led to the formation of the Make-A-Wish Foundation which has grown to 59 chapters in the USA and 39 international affiliates and since granted many thousands of wishes to children battling terminal diseases.
There is a timeline highlighting notable accomplishments on Make-A-Wish’s “about-us” page, as well as a “Donate” button if you wish to help out.
Andrew wrote down “idk. lol” He lost half his score and finished with $2,000.
Brooke thought it was Feed the Children (founded the year before Make-A-Wish). She lost her $3,999 bet and finished with $801.
Amy got it right. She bet $20,000 and won the game with $53,400. Amy went sailing over the half million mark with a 13-day total of $536,400.
A triple stumper from each round:
PUT UP YOUR DUKES ($800) A bit surprising that a Frenchman, François Gérard, (image) painted this Duke, the reddest of all Redcoats
($1600) On his wedding day in 2011, Prince William was given the title Duke of this place
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Classic British Novels”
The title character of this novel says of his home, “the wind breathes cold through the broken battlements and casements” show
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“Jeopardy” didn’t come on till 10 Friday night because of football. I spaced out and didn’t catch on till the halfway point. Poor Brooke had that “deer in the headlights” look the whole time I watched.
Amy blitzed them, especially in the latter stages, and rang in on almost every clue. She really is an exceptional player. Most of the all-time greats were in their 30s, so she stands out in that regard.
In hindsight, FJ wasn’t that tough, but it stumped me. My only glory was knowing the two high-dollar Quaid clues and Prince William’s dukedom.
I’ve noticed that blitz thing in several of Amy’s games. It reminds me of Matt Jackson — he’d let the challengers get a bunch of clues in the first round and clobber them in the second.
It also seems like the majority of Amy’s challengers fold after she gets a $5K lead.
Thank goodness the Dennis Quaid movie role wasn’t the same as the football category back in 2/2/18.
I was thinking they would have had a clue from the 1980s film when Dennis played Jerry Lee Lewis but they didn’t. I was already curious to see if they knew that one because I was remembering a triple stumper from last July when they had a clue asking for Jerry Lee’s nickname and it was a triple stumper (The legendary Jerry Lee Lewis has this lethal nickname). The name of the movie was the same as Jerry Lee’s most famous song
The younger generation doesnt know jerry lee lewis. I know him because i am 54.
In 25 years it will be hard to find a radio station or radio program that plays the oldies from the 1950s.
You could be right about that, Albert, but I think that they will still put lots of ’50s songs in cartoons, TV shows and movies, like Purple People Eater, Yakety-Yak, Tutti Frutti, Hound Dog, etc. They’ll also have reissues and new artists who will cover them (and make kids think they’re new)
Well congrats to Amy on winning game 13 today and getting 500K in winnings. I hope she enjoys the two week break for the professors tournament.
Amy’s is #1
So that means that Amy gets to relax for the next two weeks because starting on Monday, Jeopardy will have its first ever Professor’s Tournament.
it doesn’t mean that. no outsider knows the taping schedule. they may have taped the tournament before they taped amy’s games. it’s like when in december sometimes they have a string of christmas categories, but the games may have been taped in august. still, the host mentions the christmas connection and the players play along.
Exactly. Plus it appears Mayim is hosting this tournament, and her run ended on Nov 5.
So it’s possible she taped this upcoming series back when those regular episodes were taped.