Final Jeopardy: Fast Food (2-25-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (2/25/2020) in the category “Fast Food” was:

FAST FOOD: This sandwich was 1st sold in 1962 as an attempt to give the many Catholics of Cincinnati something to eat on Fridays during Lent

6x champ MacKenzie Jones, a program development director from Tulsa, OK, has won $$162,403 now. In Game 7, her opponents are: Christopher Cartagena, a social studies educator from Royal Palm Beach, FL; and Sandha Khin, an artist & performer from Los Angeles, CA.

Round 1 Categories: The Constitution Says – Geography – Whose No. 1 Album? – “Inch” Word, “Inch” Word… – Distill Crazy – After All These Years

Christopher found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Geography” under the $600 clue, with 10 clues to go after it. He was in the lead with $3,400, $1,600 more than Sandha in second place. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.

Along the Mediterranean there’s a French & an Italian this, Italian for coast. show

WHAT IS RIVIERA?

Christopher finished in the lead with $7,200. MacKenzie was second with $4,600 and Sandha was last with $2,800.

Round 2 Categories: Pro Bonobo Work – Antonyms – Ancient Greek Theater – Aptly Named – That’s So 500 Years Ago! – Playing Real People

MacKenzie found the first Daily Double in “500 Years Ago” under the $1,600 clue on the 16th pick. She was in the lead with $13,000 at this point, $3,400 more than Christopher in second place. She bet $6,000 and she was RIGHT.

One of the largest religious complexes ever built, this temple dedicated to Vishnu was mostly abandoned in 1431. show

WHAT IS ANGKOR WAT?

Christopher landed on the last Daily Double in “Ancient Greek Theater” under the $1,600 clue, with 3 clues left after it. In second place with $10,000, he had $10,600 less than MacKenzie’s lead. He bet $5,000 and took a shot with “tragedy.” That was WRONG.

Aristotle wrote about drama in his “Poetics” & used this word for the release of emotions brought on by a play. show

WHAT IS CARTHARSIS?

MacKenzie finished in the lead with a runaway $20,600. Christopher was next with $5,000 and Sandha was in third place with $4,400.

ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS FILET-O-FISH?

Lou Groen invented the Filet-O-Fish sandwich at about the same time that Ray Kroc came up with the Hula Burger. In 1962, Kroc decided to put the two creations on the menu one Friday and made a deal with Groen that the bestseller would stay on the menu. Obviously, Kroc lost or the clue would be about the Hula Burger! Read the whole story on QCTimes.com

Actually, Catholics had to abstain from eating meat every Friday in 1962 as well as during Lent and on certain Holy Days. Those rules were modified by Pope Paul VI in 1966.

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Sandha bet it all and doubled her score to $8,800.

Christopher did the same and doubled his score to $10,000.

MacKenzie bet $1,205 and won the game with $21,805. Her 7-day total is $184,208.

A triple stumper from each round:

GEOGRAPHY ($1000) The river known as the Tsangpo in Tibet and the Dhang in northeast India has this name, meaning “Son of Brahma” when it joins the Ganges

PLAYING REAL PEOPLE ($800) Christopher Plummer: “I had faced questions years before from this notoriously tough interviewer, which helped me play him on film in ‘The Insider'” (image)

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Americana”

A 1931 story in the New Yorker said this “weighs 600,000,000 pounds (&) … contains 37,000,000 cubic feet” show

WHAT IS THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING?

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