Final Jeopardy: Famous Americans (2-3-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (2/3/2022) in the category “Famous Americans” was:
He was buried in 1969 in one of the World War II uniform jackets named for him
New champ Emma Saltzberg, a consultant from Brooklyn, NY won $22,200 yesterday. In Game 2, her challengers are: Heather Brice, a retired flight attendant from Brooksville, FL; and Zach Gozlan, a data analyst from Washington, D.C.
Round 1 Categories: The 20th Century – It’s a National Thing – Dating the Reality Show – It Was All Purple – For Naught – Mashed-Up Book Titles
Emma found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “It’s a National Thing” under the $400 clue on the 12th pick of the round. Emma was in second place with $1,000, $200 less than Zach’s lead. Emma bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.
The Feb. 1588 death of its admiral, the Marquis De Santa Cruz, would loom large in the coming disaster that befell this big group show
Emma finished in the lead with $6,000. Zach was second with $5,200 and Heather was last at negative $400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: The Exile Files – Idioms & Expressions – Laughter in the Bible – Rocks & Minerals – The Music “Man” – Tributaries
Emma found the first Daily Double in “Idioms” under the $1,200 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. She was in the lead with $6,800, $1,600 more than Zach in second place. Emma bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
Tangled wires led to the 19th c. phrase this type of “telegraph”: eventually, this became the way you hear a rumor show
Heather got the last Daily Double in “Rocks & Minerals” under the $2,000 clue with 10 clues left after it. She was in third place with $4,400, $8,800 less than Zach’s lead. Heather bet $2,500, and said potato. That was WRONG.
Meaning “stone ball” this rocky 60-mile outer layer of the Earth consists of the crust & the upper part of the mantle show
Emma finished in the lead with $20,200. Zach was second with $12,800 and Heather was last with $4,300. All clues were shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER?
The Smithsonian has an Eisenhower jacket on display. It was donated by William Lubar who wore it while he was a flight-training instructor. General Eisenhower didn’t like the way the World War II uniform fit and enlisted the help of his tailor to rectify the matter. Ike’s tailor altered a Wool Field Jacket Model 1944 to the future President’s specs: “According to an aide, Eisenhower wanted the jacket to be ‘very short, very comfortable, and very natty looking.'” Also known as the “Ike jacket,” it became standard issue for U.S. troops towards the end of 1944.
Eisenhower died at age 78 on 3/28/1969 and was buried in the iconic “Ike jacket” at the Place of Meditation at the Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene, Kansas. His son Doud (1917–1921) is also buried there. Wife and mother, Mamie, joined them in 1979. A bronze statue of the 34th President in the Ike jacket stands between the library and museum buildings.
Heather wrote down “flak,” a jacket developed by British Col. Malcolm C. Grow. She lost her $4,000 bet and finished with $300.
Zach went with Lindbergh. That cost him $7,401 and left him with $5,399.
Emma also had flak. She lost $5,401 but won the game with the $14,799 she had left. Emma Saltzberg’s 2-day total is $36,999.
A triple stumper from each round:
DATING THE REALITY SHOW ($1000) Punning on a vodka drink, MTV’s “Ex” here has reality stars trying to find new love while dealing with past lovers
THE EXILE FILES ($2000) During his exile in England in the 1720s, this French writer & philosopher met, among others, Alexander Pope & Jonathan Swift
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Advertising and Music”
In 2008, 34 years after it made Billboard’s Top 10, this song title was used by a Southern state in a tourism campaign show
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I was there, and still in high school when Ike died. It was my third “skunk” of the year 2022 in Final Jeopardy!
I think maybe they stack the deck with less-than-stellar players later in the season. It’s the only way I can justify getting many many Final Jeopardy skunks early on in each calendar year, and then falling short toward the end. Anyway, I got Van Gogh on Jan 12, and Hawaii on Jan 15. A “skunk” as I define it, is when I get the Final Jeopardy reponse correct, and all the contestants missed it. :
I’m surprised no one picked Dwight David Eisenhower in FJ, but then again, I failed to pick Garry Kasparov in yesterday’s FJ.
That is why Bialik wins FJ again this week.
And, yet, Bialik still doesn’t seem to have her timing down. I don’t know if it is definitely that, or she is constantly referring to the judges. One example was the “Desert Storm”, and dead air from her, then the player saying “Operation Desert Storm” and Mayim nearly interrupts her to say she’s correct. It happened again with the guy, but, I didn’t note the clue. For me, she hasn’t gotten any better.
As for Eisenhower, I knew 1890-1969, just like Lindbergh 1902-1974. I got it right.
For the Final I picked “Macarthur”.
No, the esteemed General Douglas MacArthur passed away in 1964.
How many people knew Ike’s and Macarthur’s dates of death while the Final question was being asked?
MacArthur came to mind first, but I quickly remembered being in 8th grade in 1964 when he died. Which also means I’m old enough to know about the short Ike jacket. That was a fairly tough Final. The GOATS would have known it despite their relative youth.
There were two smart contenders today, so I was a bit surprised no one knew the French writer-philosopher.
For anyone who hasn’t heard, Amy has taken leave from her job and signed with a talent agency in LA.
Tough final as we got another triple stumper. Nobody knows about Famous Americans.