Final Jeopardy: Southern Politicians (2-13-24)
The Final Jeopardy question (2/13/2024) in the category “Southern Politicians” was:
An article written after his 1935 death asked, “will some crown prince arise to take his place?”
Today’s Champions Wildcard contestants are: Long Nguyen, a retired engineer from Las Vegas, NV; Kat Jepson, an artist from Roanoke, VA; and Nicole Rudolph, an associate deanfrom Williston Park, NY.
Round 1 Categories: Lending You a Poker Hand – Rhyming Phrases – Oh, the Places You “Can” Go! – Duck Soup – It Happened in Congress – 50 Greatest Rappers of All Time
Long found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Oh, The Places You ‘Can’ Go” under the $800 on the first pick of the round. Nobody had any money. Long bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
”The accent is on the ‘can’” said the woman announcing the name of this newly chosen yet-to-be-built capital in 1913 show
Long finished in the lead with $6,600. Kat was in second place with $5,000. Nicole was last with $1,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Wistful Thinking – Siblings of Note – There’s a Vaccine for that – Vwllss Cmpns – Documentaries – “RH” Factor
Long found the first Daily Double in “Siblings of Note” under the $1,600 clue on the 14th pick of the round. He was in second place with $11,000, $5,200 less than Kat’s lead. Long bet everything and he was RIGHT.
Marcel’s kid sister Suzanne Duchamp caught the bug for this movement with artworks like “Accordion Masterpiece” show
Kat found the last Daily Double in “There’s a Vaccine for That” under the $800 clue on the 20th pick of the round. She was in second place with $18,600, $5,000 less than Long’s lead. Kat bet $7,000 and she was RIGHT.
The CDC wants you to know that the 4 vaccine shots for this are fairly painless & now given in the arm, not the stomach show
Kat finished in the lead with $28,000. Long was in second place with $26,400. Nicole was last with $3,000. All clues were shown.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS HUEY LONG?
Huey Long was a popular, yet controversial, politician from Louisiana whose nickname was “The Kingfish”. That explains the reference to a “crown prince” when, on 9/10/1935, Long was assassinated and died at the age of 42. Long served as the state’s 40th governor from 1928 until 1932, when he went on to represent Louisiana in the Senate until his death.
“Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long” is a 1995 made-for-TV movie starring John Goodman as Long, or, if you prefer a historical look at his life, History.com has an article on his life, divided into sections from his early years to his legacy.
Nicole stood pat on her $$3,000.
Long bet $1,601 and finished with $28,001. The coincidence of answering with his own name was not lost on Long 🤣 he added (not me) to his response.
Kat bet $24,801 and won the game with $52,801. Kat Jepson advances to the semifinals. Leapin’ catfish! That was some game!
2 triple stumpers from the last round:
WISTFUL THINKING ($400) John Greenleaf Whittier noted, “For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these” 4 words
SIBLINGS OF NOTE ($2000) A new method of prostate surgery was pioneered by & punningly nicknamed for Robert, brother of this 20th century French novelist
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “World Literature”
In a classic novel from 1866, the murders of 2 women take place in this city show
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My only comment: as prior champions, Nicole getting her phrasing wrong, irrespective of her wrong answer, just bugs me. That’s an amateur move.
Terrific two-way battle tonight. I found FJ easy, IF you knew his nickname and the reference to royalty. Thought I nailed the Whittier quote, then learned I had the first word wrong.
“Biothrax” clue was embarrassingly easy. And the upper back muscles with “rh” in the name were gettable.
The Whittier quote comes from “Maud Muller” a poem about 2 people looking back at a chance meeting, thinking their lives would have been happier if they married each other.
In response, Bret Harte wrote Mrs. Judge Jenkins, a parody poem that concludes those aren’t the saddest words:
“More sad are these we daily see:
It is, but hadn’t ought to be.”
On the vaccine clue, it was only $400 so I thought one of them might take a swing at it even if not completely sure, but sometimes it seems they don’t think it’s worth taking a chance at the end of the Double Jeopardy round
Interesting, thanks. I thought the first word was “what,” because that begins a phrase I sometimes think about.
I did very well in tonight’s Jeopardy game, the the FJ was a shoo-in.
What an intense battle between Long and Kat. 52,801 is the biggest total we seen this season.