Final Jeopardy: Business History (2-24-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (2/24/2021) in the category “Business History” was:
David McConnell’s cosmetics & perfume co. was rebranded in 1939 with this name, honoring the home of his favorite playwright
New champ Aaron Craig, a business litigation attorney orig. from Toronto, Ontario, won $22,027 yesterday. In Game 2, he takes on these two players: Andrew Vaughn, a PhD student from Moraga, CA; and Ken Shen, an astrophysicist from San Francisco, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Buy Me – Subpoenas – Cracker Jacks – Cities of the Midwest – Double-Vowel Words – Let’s Talk Plumbing
Aaron found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Cities of the Midwest” under the $600 clue on the 17th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $3,600, $400 more than Ken in second place. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
This home city to Kansas State University shares its name with a Big Apple borough. show
Aaron finished in the lead with $9,800. Ken was second with $4,800 and Andrew was last with $2,400. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: Horse & Writer – Paintings – Soldiering on – Movies – A System of Graft – “T-N-T”
Andrew found the first Daily Double in “Paintings” under the $2,000 clue on the 5th pick. He was in second place with $6,000 now, $5,400 less than Aaron’s lead. He bet $2,500 and he was RIGHT.
He depicted the horrors of war & the execution of his fellow Spaniards by Napoleon’s troops in “The 3rd of May 1808” show
Ken got the last Daily Double in “Horse & Writer” under the $1,600 clue on the 14th pick. In third place with $7,200, he had $6,200 less than Aaron’s lead. When asked what he wanted to do, Ken said he’d like to do a different category. 🤣 Mike Richards said, “Let me check the rules on that. No, we can’t do that.” Ken decided to bet $3,700 and he was RIGHT.
Soon after his death in 1910, tourists began visiting his Yasnava Polyana estate, where they saw his dog Belka & his horse Delir. show
Ken finished in the lead with $18,500. Aaron was next with $17,400 and Andrew was in third place with $14,500. No clues went uncovered.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
From Reference for Business: “Avon founder David McConnell was born on July 18, 1858, near Oswego, New York…. He went to work as a door-to-door book salesman with Union Publishing Company. To entice female customers to buy his books, he gave them a small vial of rose-scented perfume. When he discovered that many women were buying books just to get the perfume, McConnell decided to launch his own perfume company.” McConnell chose to use a door-to-door sales force, believing the best representatives for his newly formed “California Perfume Company” would be women. David McConnell Jr. became the second president of the company after his father’s death in 1937. In 1939, he changed the company’s name to Avon Products as an homage to his father, who was a great fan of William Shakespeare, the Bard of Avon.
An old clue from 1987: CORPORATE AMERICA ($100) Selling “Little Dot” perfume door-to-door in 1886, Mrs. Albee is considered the 1st of these saleswomen (Note: Statuettes of Mrs. Albee are awarded to top Avon ladies annually)
Andrew got it right. He bet $5,000 and finished with $19,500.
Aaron got it, too. He bet $11,827 and that brought him up to $29,227.
Ken wrote down “MAC” with a sad face. 😞 He lost his $16,301 bet, landing in third place with $2,199. So Aaron Craig remained the champ. His 2-day total is $51,254.
2 triple stumpers from HORSE & WRITER:
($800) Elizabeth in his novel “The Pioneers” is based on his sister Hannah, who died when she fractured her skull falling off a horse
($2000) He wrote about “Riders of the Purple Sage” & owned 2 horses called Black Star & Night
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “African Geography”
The 7-letter names of these western- & easternmost mainland countries begin with the same letter show
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I feel so sorry for Ken. Aaron seems to be a smug, annoying person but the person he beat yesterday seemed even more annoying. So I lived through that. But today, a strong player like Ken losing, is too much. Hope Aaron loses tomorrow.
Sometimes I wonder what makes a viewer take a dislike to a game show contestant. I mean, does the person have a mannerism that reminds the viewer of someone they disliked in real life? In any event, I didn’t see anything smug about Sam and I don’t see anything smug about Aaron so they must not have pushed my “smug” button lol.
Personally, I prefer players who are obviously delighted that they won the game, as opposed to the ones who act like they got FJ wrong when they got it right,.
good analysis VJ. he did push my “smug” button as u put it. 🙂
@klm I met Aaron on reddit and he was pretty nice
MAC Cosmetics was not a bad guess by Ken. He may have been focusing on the first part of the clue rather than the later part. Living in a household where adult female daughters visit us periodically over recent years before the pandemic I’ve seen MAC Cosmetics in their possession but can’t recall seeing any products with Avon names. I can see him being more familiar with a recent popular cosmetics company. Poor Ken should have focused on the second part of the clue.
Wasn’t the question turbulence wrong in the T-N-T category? I listened twice and it didn’t sound like turbulent to me. Maybe my hearing is going.
I definitely heard “turbulent”, Larry. (just listened to it with my eyes closed)..
This was the clue: ($200) Adjective for air that moves suddenly & violently
I heard turbulence too. Andrew muffed it. No one caught it.
It’s funny to see Ken wanting to switch categories even after he found the daily double. That was the best moment of the show. But still though congrats to Aaron on his second win. He needs that third win to stay in the lead. VJ do you also remember that threesome response from Kara spak previously? There should be more great moments like this.