Final Jeopardy: 19th Century Americans (2-21-24)
The Final Jeopardy question (2/21/2024) in the category “19th Century Americans” was:
In 1896, 15 years after a famous showdown, this man was accused of fixing a championship boxing match
Today’s Champions Wildcard contestants are: Deb Bilodeau, a restaurant server from San Francisco, CA; Jesse Matheny, a customer success specialist orig. from Huntington, IN; and Mira Hayward, a podcast host from Portland, OR.
Round 1 Categories: Science Quiz – 1990s Music – Fun & Games – Boozy – It’s Reigning Men! – Hallelujah!
Jesse found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Hallelujah!” under the $1,000 clue on the 10th pick of the round. He was in last place with $1,800, $1,600 less than Deb’s lead. Jesse bet it all and he was RIGHT.
As an interjection, it means freakin’ awesome, dude! As a noun, it’s a less freakin’ awesome unit of scientific measurement show
Deb finished in the lead with $7,200. Jesse was in second place with $6,800. Mira was last with $3,800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Places to Visit – American Authors – Art & Artists – Ends in “ir” – Extremely Random Calculations – Mr. Steve Martin
Jesse found the first Daily Double in “Places to Visit” under the $1,200 clue on the 10th pick of the round. He was in second place with $8,800 now, $2,000 less than Deb’s lead. Jesse bet all of it and tried the Falklands. That was WRONG.
Tourists who make their way to these islands 600 miles off South America often miss the fur seals, which love rocky & shady areas show
Jesse found the last Daily Double in “Art & Artists” under the $800 clue with 9 clues left after it. In last place with $3,200, he was $8,400 behind Deb’s lead. Jesse bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
Picasso liked to draw this bird, also his daughter’s name translated from Spanish show
Deb finished in the lead with $13,600. Mira was in second place with $9,800. Jesse was last with $5,400. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS WYATT EARP?
Wyatt Earp is one of those legendary heroes from the annals of the Wild West. He is most closely associated with the 12/28/1881 shootout at the O.K. Corral. However, shady episodes in Earp’s life depict him, among other things, as a crooked gambler and crooked boxing referee. Earp was chosen to referee the 12/2/1896 boxing match between Bob Fitzsimmons and Tom Sharkey that took place at Mechanic’s Pavilion in San Francisco. The match was held under the Marquess of Queensberry rules.
After Fitzsimmmons knocked Sharkey down, the latter cried foul. Earp disqualified Fitzsimmons for hitting below the belt and declared Sharkey the winner. Spectators insisted that Fitzsimmons hit Sharkey in the solar plexus and Earp was accused of being in on a “fix.” The fallout from this match dogged Wyatt Earp for the remainder of his days. He still showed up in the ring in Gentleman Jim Corbett’s corner in the 1897 title fight when Bob Fitzsimmons used that solar plexus punch to became heavyweight champion.
Jesse thought it might be James Braddock but the Cinderella Man was born in 1905. Jesse lost $2,600 and finished with $2,800.
Mira went with Doc Holliday, who was at the O.K. Corral but not the boxing match. That cost her $7,000 and left her with $2,800.
Deb got it right and bet $8,000. Deb finished with $2,800 and won this match with $21,600. These scores will be added to tomorrow’s final scores. We’ll see who takes the top prizes then.
A triple stumper from each round:
AMERICAN AUTHORS ($800) She’s the author of “The Kitchen God’s Wife” & “The Bonesetter’s
($1600) This alliterative author of Western novels wrote several Hopalong Cassidy books under the pen name Tex Burns
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “18th Century History”
The stated aim of this period was using violence to achieve political goals; its success aided in its demise in under a year show
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They/them are plurals. Why do we have to be on board with this distortion and misuse of words?
You don’t have to be on board with it, Denise. You just have to not mock people who are on board with it. You know — to each his own.
It is not a misuse of words if that is how people request to be addressed. I’m sure Ken Jennings check with the staff on how contestants wish to be addressed on the show. Imo it shows respect.
Agreed. We need a gender neutral term that is SINGULAR. I have no issue whatsoever with gender neutral pronouns, but this use of the plural is confusing beyond belief. Even my son, who argues this point with me all the time, got completely lost during a conversation we were having. (“Who are you talking about, Mom?!” Exactly.)
What I can’t figure out is how people who refer to themselves as “I” and “me” can even ask other people to use plural pronouns. I asked someone why that is and the response I got was it’s because if they referred to themselves as “we” and “us”, people would think they’re crazy. I doubt if that’s why because if it was, people would think the request is crazy.
At the university we were advised by HR years ago in faculty meetings to address a student as “they” if that was how the student requested to be addressed. Bear in mind college students are adults. Some requested the gender neutrality term “they” in writing. Some colleagues argued that the term was not grammatically correct. The response from HR was “We are concerned with respecting the rights of the students. We’re also concerned about your bias. If you don’t want to respect the students find another career.” Complete silence fell over the room.
HR is concerned about their bias but not concerned over their facism forcing people to accept the new policy
Paloma means both dove and pigeon
I was shocked that Jesse missed the Galapagos DD. What else could it have been? He probably just overthought it.
And i disagreed with the Picasso DD. Paloma is pigeon, not dove.
Thanks. I don’t know much Spanish, but I knew his daughter was Paloma, and I assume they’d have had to accept that answer. But I just Googled “dove in Spanish,” and it came up paloma. My background is in French, and their word for dove is colombe.
I blanked out on Galapagos and also said Falklands.
I also said “Las Islas Malvinas” (that’s what Argentina calls the Falklands). That’s what else it could have been.
Had no clue on FJ, but Wyatt Earp came to mind quickly, so I stuck with it.
Utterly shocked that none of those smarties knew the alliterative Western novels author. The Martin-Tomlin movie was pretty popular, but probably too long ago for these youngsters to remember it.
Maybe someone here can explain something to me. Ken is very PC when it comes to pronouns. He refers to Mattea and others as “they,” and I get that. But when he called Deb “they” Monday night, I inferred that she was something other than a straight female. And tonight, during her interview, she gushed on and on about her boyfriend. Unimportant in the grand scheme of things, but it’s a head-scratcher. All I can come up with is that maybe she’s bisexual and prefers “they.” Anyway, Deb’s a strong player and deserved to move on.
You should probably ask Deb about that, Howard. Anyone else would just be guessing.
Sexuality and gender identity are different concepts. Nothing about Deb using they/them pronouns signifies anything about their sexuality.
I was happy that Deb was a little bit more “reined in”, and not so demonstrative. She did “risk it” when she sang the one response, as she said, what was it, “Happy I got it right”?
I got FJ kind of in an instant. VJ, another reason Doc Holliday couldn’t be there at the fight was he was dead! 1887.
I did above average in today’s game, but missed the FJ. Actually, all that I could come up with was Buffalo Bill, but I knew that was never going to wash. Anyways, who would have ever thought that an esteemed sheriff like the legendary Wyatt Earp was also a crooked gambler? As for the 1896 boxing match, I would have tended to give Wyatt Earp the benefit of the doubt.