Final Jeopardy: 20th Century People (2-10-22)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (2/10/2022) in the category “20th Century People” was:

In 1946 she was aboard a train to Darjeeling when she heard what she later described as “the call within a call”

3x champ Lawrence Long, a nursing student and stay-at-home uncle from East Bend, NC has now won $74,792. In Game 4, the challengers are: Kelsey Davison, a program manager from Seattle, WA; and Nick Heise, a technical services engineer from Madison, WI.

Round 1 Categories: Their 2021 College Conference – Other Countries Separated by a Common Language – Amusing Canadians – War – Go Fish – Gin / Rummy

Lawrence found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “War” under the $1,000 clue on the 9th pick of the round. All three players were tied with $1,800. Lawrence made it a true Daily Double and thought it was Monroe. That was WRONG.

In 1814 this man later to be president helped negotiate the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812 show

WHO IS JOHN QUINCY ADAMS?

Lawrence finished in the lead with $5,200. Nick was second with $3,400 and Kelsey was last with $2,400. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: That’s Where That Is – Add a Letter – From the British Royal Website – Recent Books – Singing about the Weather – E.R.

Lawrence found the first Daily Double in “Recent Books” under the $800 clue with 13 clues left after it. He was in third place with $9,200, $1,000 less than Nick’s lead. Lawrence bet $5,000, but ran out of time before he could come up with anyone so he was WRONG.

Published in 2020, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” by this author is set in Panem show

WHO IS SUZANNE COLLINS?

Nick got the last Daily Double in “British Royals” under the $1,200 clue with 3 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $11,000 now, $200 more than Kelsey in second place. Nick bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.

On October 21, 1950 she was baptized in the music room of Buckingham Palace show

WHO IS PRINCESS ANNE?

Nick finished in the lead with $13,000. Kelsey was second with $12,800 and Lawrence was last with $8,600. All clues were shown.

ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS MOTHER TERESA?

On September 10, 1946, the 36-year-old woman who came to be known to the world as “Mother Teresa” was on her way to her annual retreat at the Loreto Convent in Darjeeling, India. During the train ride, she experienced what she described as “a call within a call”: “It was a second calling. It was a vocation to give up even Loreto where I was very happy and to go out in the streets to serve the poorest of the poor. It was in that train, I heard the call to give up all and follow Him [Jesus Christ] into the slums—-to serve Him in the poorest of the poor…” Mother Teresa referred to this day as “Inspiration Day”, the true beginning of the Missionaries of Charity she founded to minister to the poor.

Also see, Important dates in the life of Mother Teresa.

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Lawrence bet it all and doubled his score to $17,200.

Kelsey bet $5,000. That brought her up to $17,800.

Nick bet $12,900 and won the game with $25,900. Nick Heise is the new Jeopardy! champ.

2 triple stumpers from the last round:

RECENT BOOKS ($1200) “Sex and Vanity” is this alliterative author’s first novel outside the universe of “Crazy Rich Asians”

E.R. ($1600) In World War I, the 26 victories by this American fighter ace included 22 planes & 4 balloons

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Ranks and Titles”

Canada, Belgium & the U.S. are among nations that bestow this artistic title that dates to the Greeks & a tree sacred to Apollo show

WHAT IS POET LAUREATE? (just “laureate” also accepted)

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