Final Jeopardy: Landmarks (12-5-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (12/5/2022) in the category “Landmarks” was:
In 2009, during a 20th anniversary celebration, it was called “an edifice of fear. On Nov. 9, it became a place of joy”
20x champ Cris Pannullo, a customer success operations manager from Ocean City, NJ, has now won $710,865. In Game 21, he is up against: Steph Martin, an editor, writer and proofreader from Lakewood, CO; and Ben Hebert, a shipping manager from Chicago, IL.
Round 1 Categories: State Capital Nicknames – Animals In Books – Pointing Out Decimals – “oo”, Booze! – Entertainment Awards – A Pack Of Lies
Cris found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “A Pack of Lies” under the $800 clue on the 12th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $4,800, $3,200 more than Steph in second place. Cris bet the whole $4,800 and he was RIGHT.
Columnist Jimmy Breslin popularized this truth-obscuring idiom that mentions 2 things employed by magicians show
Cris finished in the lead with $11,000. Ben was second with $3,200 and Steph was last with $1,400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: History On The Double – Myth – Tree Time – Let’s Play Quarters – Musicals By Female Roles – Starts Or Ends With X
Cris found the first Daily Double in “Myth” under the $800 clue on the 18th pick. He was in the lead with $20,600, $11,800 more than Ben in second place. Cris bet $7,000 and he was RIGHT.
7 boys & 7 girls who did not volunteer as tributes were sacrificed to this monster annually until Theseus killed it show
On his next pick, Cris landed on the last Daily Double in “History on the Double” under the $2,000 clue. In the lead with $27,600, he had $18,800 more than Ben in second place. Cris bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
Prophetically, around 30 B.C., these 2 lovers founded a club called those who will die together show
Cris finished in the lead with a runaway $33,200. Ben was in second place with $12,400 and Steph was last with $600. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS THE BERLIN WALL?
On November 10, 2009, The San Diego Union-Tribune published a selection of quotes from world leaders and others at various celebrations of the 20th anniversary of November 9, 1989, the day the Berlin Wall came tumbling down. The particular quote in today’s Final Jeopardy! clue came from German President Horst Koehler:
“The wall was an edifice of fear. On Nov. 9, 20 years ago, it became a place of joy. For 28 years, East Germans could not even approach it. On Nov. 9, 1989, people danced on it – and the world looked different afterward”
Steph got it right. She added $100 to her score to finish with $700.
Ben thought it was the Bastille. He lost his $$11,750 and dropped down to third place with $650.
Cris got it right, too. He bet $4,221 and won the game with $37,421. His 21-day total is $748,286.
A triple stumper from each round:
ANIMALS IN BOOKS ($600) “The Tale of” him is subtitled “Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, & a Spool of Thread”
MUSICALS BY FEMALE ROLE ($2000) Mimi Marquez & Joanne Jefferson
2 years ago: ONE of the players got this FJ in “Comedy Movies”
In the original script for this 1975 film, the title object was finally found in London’s Harrods department store show
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“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall!” Even if you didn’t know the exact year it came down, FJ was pretty obvious.
Yeah, the clues were all more than obvious in FJ, but I somehow came up with Tiananmen Square. Well, as former President Kennedy once said: “Success has a hundred fathers, but failure is an orphan”.
Happy to see Cris and Steph getting the final todaay. Today is actually the 50th anniversary of that event that took place in 1989.
I don’t know where you got that idea from, Lou, but 50 plus 1989 is 2039, and it’s only 2022 right now.