Final Jeopardy: Libraries (2-2-15)
The Final Jeopardy question (2/2/2015), in the category “Libraries” was:
The street address of his presidential library is 40 Presidential Drive.
This is the first week of the 2015 Teachers Tournament. The players in the first quarter-final match are: Colin O’Grady from Alexandria, VA; Erin McLaughlin, from Queens, NY; and Martha Jackson, from Tabor, IA.
Round 1: Martha found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “In the State Capital” under the $1,000 clue before the first break. She was in the lead with $2,200, $400 more than Colin in second place. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
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Martha finished in the lead with $7,200. Colin was second with $5,800 and Erin was last with $2,400.
Round 2: Colin found the first Daily Double in “British Nicknames” under the $1,200 clue. He was in the lead with $16,200, partly due to his superb knowledge of hard rock. He had $7,800 more than Martha, now in second place. He bet $3,000 and thought it was George II. That was WRONG.
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Martha found the last Daily Double in “Organizations” under the $1,600 clue. In second place with $9,200, she had $7,200 less than Colin’s lead. She bet $4,000 and was just stumped. Alex coaxed “Burning Man” out of her but that was WRONG.
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Colin finished with a runaway $21,200. Erin was next with $7,600 and Martha was in third place with $5,200.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS RONALD REAGAN?
“The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Center for Public Affairs is the presidential library and final resting place of President Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States. The library is located in Simi Valley, California, about 40 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. It is the largest of the thirteen federally operated presidential libraries. The street address is 40 Presidential Drive, numbered in honor of Reagan’s place as the 40th President.” (Presidential History Geeks)
Martha thought it was 41 – George H.W. Bush. She lost her $4,800 bet and finished with $400.
Erin got it right. She added $5,000 to finish with $12,600.
Colin wrote down 42 — Bill Clinton. He didn’t bet anything, though, since he already won the first semi-final spot.
During the chat, high school English teacher Colin talked about how much he loves teaching “Titus Andronicus,” Shakespeare’s goriest play. He covers the classroom with a painter’s tarp and his kids “make fake blood and fling it at each other.”
Here is Jeopardy!’s video of Trebek’s Hard Rock lyrics recital:
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Any HS teacher who doesn’t know the British ruler at the time of the American Revolution should be immediately re-evaluated An English teacher who is not aware of Milton should be fired. I mean, WTF?
A couple/few issues here:
Since everyone here seems to know RWR was #40, of course everyone can say if Cleveland was counted once or twice, right? So, if twice, then GHWB would be the 40th man to be POTUS, yes? If not, then it seems arbitrary that Cleveland should be counted twice just for having non-consecutive terms.Also, besides taking an oath and boring people, what did W. H. Harrison do?The point: it really doesn’t matter what number they were.
Of course it doesn’t. In the long run, nothing matters.
However —
Cleveland is traditionally counted twice. He was the 22nd and 24th president. That’s logical. Otherwise, we’d have to say:
1881 No. 20, Garfield
1881 No. 21, Arthur
1885 No. 22, Cleveland
1889 No. 23, Harrison
1893 No. 22, Cleveland
1897 No. 24, McKinley
Would that be logical to you?
Life can be complicated. Get used to it already. We have to say Obama is the 44th president, but the 43rd person to be president. So? Does that ruin your life?
If it upsets you so much, just pretend it was two different guys named Grover Cleveland.
As for W. H. Harrison: He didn’t do a damn thing but catch his death of pneumonia at his inauguration, but he WAS president for a month. Are you suggesting he just flat out shouldn’t be counted?!
All I can figure out from your strange comment here is that you didn’t get today’s Final Jeopardy and resent it.
LMAO. Yeah, I got it. Instantly. I, however, unlike some other commentaters here, am not myopic enough to judge the intelligence of others by my own standards. This point follows the obtusely reiterated thesis at the end of my comment: the numbers simply don’t matter, ergo are irrelevant.
Tom, you are a very knowledgeable man, to be sure. Please don’t taint that with statements like “life can be complicated. Get used to it already.” I assure you, I know and I have. Please let your posts reflect the same.
these teachers need to do their homework before coming on the show
somewhat ill-prepared
I was involved tangentially with the world of high school education for about twenty years.
I taught on the junior college level and going all the way back to the late ’70s I was appalled at what was graduating from the nation’s high schools. I had many students who were functionally illiterate and couldn’t do the simplest math, yet they had high school diplomas.
It took me a while before I figured out that it was due to the deterioration of teachers in the U.S.
Today’s show says a lot. Here’s a high school English teacher who didn’t know Milton was the blind poet, yet knew all about those hard rock lyrics, which have zero literary value.
He also didn’t know that George III was the King of England when the American colonies declared their independence or that Reagan was the 40th president (or didn’t have the intelligence to figure out that 40 was the significant clue in the FJ answer.)
I saw this coming when he said he taught “Titus Andronicus,” which is generally regarded as atypical Shakespeare and probably his worst play — certainly his most violent — so that the students could throw blood at each other.
The decline of American education, which began about fifty years ago, just gets worse each year.
I guess the idea behind these teacher tournaments is that teachers are presumed to be smart and we’ll see some good games. Nope.
rock lyrics “have no literary value.”? Who decided you are in charge of deciding this.
@Jacob, Colin did not actually run the Hard Rock category. Erin got the first one.
@Everyone, Brag if you ran it. (I did because no one else was here today)
$400 – “Can’t you see me standin’ here, I got my back against the record machine… ah, might as well jump (jump!)”
$800 – “Take me down to the paradise city, where the grass is green & the girls are pretty, oh, won’t you please take me home?”
$1200 – “If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow, don’t be alarmed now, it’s just a spring clean for the May Queen”
$1600 – “The walls were shaking, the earth was quaking, my mind was aching, & we were making it, & you…shook me all night long”
$2000 – “Girls, girls, girls…long legs & burgundy lips, girls, girls, girls…dancin’ down on the sunset strip…girls, girls, girls”
Nope. Didn’t get any of the above. But I knew who the 40th president was. And the blind poet – and a HS English teacher didn’t. Oh Boy! (sigh)
Cece, you may be surprised by the lyrics of some songs and how the music can lift them. I can refer some to you sometime. Although V.J. is, in many ways, phenomenal on here, I have switched the focus of my thoughts and this site has simply lost relevance for me. You know where to find me.
This will be the last time I reference my location. I wish you good fortune either way.
Not even Paradise City, Cece? You are hereby sentenced to listen to Appetite for Destruction
Just kidding. LOL. But it starts at 20:12 on the youtube I linked to if you do want to hear it.
LOL! Well, maybe if Alex had sung them… (God help us all!). See, I may know all most of these songs if I check them out on Youtube, but I don’t know what they’re called.
See, in the 80’s I was still living in Brazil and hardly knew any English to understand what these rockers were saying when they were shouting the lyrics. I still don’t understand them, sometimes.
As for “Appetite for Destruction”, you’ll have to “parole” me until I get Youtube to act civil (Error 404). 🙂
Cece, don’t feel bad. I don’t understand them and don’t want to understand them. Give me Frank Sinatra and singers that don’t have to yell to claim they’re making music.
@Jacob, Thanks, I feel better now. I won’t feel so frustrated anymore when trying to understand their gibberish. 🙂
“if Alex had sung them” LOL! As it was, I thought the way he read them was extremely funny.
Alex thought it was extremely funny in the Strike It “Rich” category that Colin pronounced Cardinal Richelieu as Rich E. Lou (You made him sound like a rocker. Richie Loo). He also seemed most amused that they didn’t get the 2-toed struthio camelus in that category. Maybe that one was his idea.
PS – if you want to understand the lyrics to Paradise City, Pat Boone (of all people) did a cover of it. It’s pretty terrible. :-0
@VJ – I know, right? Alex seemed to be having a good time tonight – LHAO.
See, I was like, who the heck is Pat Boone? So I Googled him – voilà! Never heard of him before ,lol.
And if his version of the song is so terrible, why are you telling me to listen to him? :):)
sorry, Cece, but anyhow, you learn something new, right? Pat Boone has a long time rep in the USA for covering music that he had no business covering (by that I mean, it was surely not an improvement). Here is a Jeopardy! clue from 1999 on him:
ROCK’S ROOTS $300: His “Tutti Frutti” only made it to No. 17 in the U.S.; Pat Boone’s version of it went to No. 12.
Little Richard was the original singer and has often talked about that experience.
VJ, no need to apologize. Thanks for all the info & 1999 clue. Sure I learned something new and that makes me happy. You’re an endless source of information.
🙂
Thanks though now I could almost feel bad for running the category. But not quite… I learned these groups from my son and he learned all the 50s and 60s music (a lot) he knows from me (he loves it when someone says you’re too young to know that song). Also, knowing hard rock music helped me make a website for a talent agency’s tribute bands. Some people actually make a living as hard rock tribute artists and even get endorsements from the original bands.
Beautifully stated, V.J.
Be well.
Thanks vj. I must still have Super Bowl fatigue. I thought I heard Alex say “you did extremely well in that category” so I assumed he ran it. Given that it wasn’t something that interested me or enriched my life I didn’t pay much attention.
I tune out certain categories (no pun intended). I’m still reeling from that Shakira category last week and the Dwarfs category. I totally paid no attention to them whatsoever with the full understanding that in Trivia everything is fair game.
Shakira category was January 23rd and 7 Dwarfs category was January 27 to be exact.
VJ, please tell me you’re joking on 1/3 on fj! I said I wouldn’t go negative on teachers. But this is appalling. I must watch this game.
ONE teacher knows who the 40th president was???
and george II….!! REALLY????
“george III, the king who lost america”…same as “the 100 days of napoleon”…or “a day which will live in infamy”….
college students would have gotten RR…..
did somebody ask me lately if i think the quality of contestants has gone down??
i think you have your answer.
Elementary students would have gotten RR. Just start with our current 44th President and count backwards. All 3 contestants looked old enough to be alive under RR.
Just finished watching. Will not use a name but one teacher ran the “Hard Rockers” category dealing with hard rock music. No applause from the audience. Most times, not always, running a category gets an applause.
John Milton clue, on the other hand, was a triple stumper. Not many famous blind poets to my knowledge. VJ, am I wrong?
well there are a few blind poets, but they narrowed it down to a “one and only.” The category was British nicknames and they even gave the century…
Colin, a high school English teacher who likes to teach Shakespeare, had to have known this so idk what happened there.