Final Jeopardy: World War II (2-3-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (2/3/2023) in the category “World War II” was:
Mimi Reinhard, who never learned to type using more than 2 fingers, produced this with 1,100 names, including hers
New champ Matthew Marcus, a software developer from Portland, OR, won $42,200 yesterday. In Game 2, his competitors are: Andrew Bembenek, a construction project manager from Los Angeles, CA; and Ricky A. Rivera II, an employee stock ownership plans analyst from Chicago, IL.
Round 1 Categories: 19th Century Names – Second Cities – Juice Bar – That’s a Crime! – Roman Numeral Spelling – Michael, Boltin’
Matthew found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Second Cities” under the $1,000 clue on the 7th pick of the round. Matthew was in the lead with $2,600, $1,000 more than Andrew in second place. Matthew bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
Bulawayo in this nation is home to State House, built by Cecil Rhodes show
Matthew finished in the lead with $8,600. Andrew was second with $4,600 and Ricky was last with $3,400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: The Plays & Playwrights Are The Thing – A Little Astronomy – The National Park System – Water Music – First Off, How Dare You – Now, We Duel
Ricky found the first Daily Double in “Plays & Playwrights” under the $2,000 clue on the 1st pick of the round. He was in last place with $3,400, $5,200 less than Matthew’s lead. Ricky bet all of it and he was RIGHT.
We need your initial reaction to this 1988 David Henry Hwang play about a singer in the Beijing opera with many secrets show
2 clues later, Matthew snagged the last Daily Double in “A Little Astronomy” under the $1,200 clue. In the lead with $10,200, he had $3,400 more than Ricky in second place. Matthew bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
This type of astronomy sprang into being thanks to a 1930s investigation into interference with telephone calls show
Matthew finished in the lead with a runaway $28,800. Andrew was second with $11,800 and Ricky was last with $11,200. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS SCHINDLER’S LIST?
Mimi Reinhard was in the news in early April 2022 when she passed away at the venerable old age of 107. Reinhard was an Austrian Jew who was born Carmen Koppel in 1915. In 1944 during World War II, she was imprisoned in a Polish concentration camp when her fluent German and ability to take shorthand came to the attention of German industrialist Oskar Schindler. He gave her a secretarial job which included typing a list of over 1,000 Jewish prisoners working in his factories, which ultimately saved their lives. “The only practical thing in my life that I learned was shorthand, but I never learned to type,” Reinhard told the New York Times in 2007. “I typed with two fingers only.”
The 1993 film “Schindler’s List” won multiple Oscars, including Best Picture. It was based upon the 1982 Thomas Keneally novel “Schindler’s Ark” (published as “Schindler’s List” in the USA). See more info and Jeopardy! clues on the movie here.
Ricky got it right. He bet it all and doubled his score to $22,400.
Andrew got it, too. He bet $11,798 and finished with $23,598.
Matthew had the Holocaust Memorial. He lost his $5,000 bet but won the game with the remaining $23,800. Matthew’s 2-day total is $66,000.
A triple stumper from each round:
(image) 19TH CENTURY NAMES ($400) Here’s Walt Whitman as captured by this 19th century photographer
WATER MUSIC ($800) Carly Simon wrote “Let The River Run” for this film starring Melanie Griffith & Harrison Ford
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “British Army History”
The army’s longest continuous campaign, 1969-2007, began in this Northern Ireland city known by either of 2 different names show
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A comment about the other day. Jeopardy gave away the ending of The Hustler bur I never saw The Hustler. I knew about Newman and Gleason but I never knew the ending. Bad move by Jeopardy.
Also, Jeopardy once gave away the ending of Psycho. I didn’t mind that too much because the sitcom Happy Days gave away the ending of Psycho.
I’m trying to recall what was another clue that J! spoiled the ending for – Anna Karenina, maybe? It was something Russian or German. They are well-skilled at it.
I think I remember something about the Anna karenina ending given away on a Jeopardy show.
Has Jeopardy ever given away the ending to the Sixth Sense or does Jeopardy only give away the endings to old movies?
It’s not fair to give away the endings because many young people watch the show and haven’t had the opportunity to see those old movies yet.
Of the 2 challengers who might have won that game, Ricky in particular gave too many wrong answers throughout the show to avoid a runaway. (One bad guess by me lost $1000 and an eventual win.)
I thought FJ was a semi-softball.
I guessed Nuremberg Trial List on the final. I thought that one was kinda tough.
Mimi Reinhard would have had to have been born in 1915 if she died in 2022 at the age of 107. Good thing this wasn’t a math category.
You’re right, Joseph. lol. I copied the wrong date from her wiki entry. I didn’t notice it was the approx. year of her first marriage. For some reason, they put that in there before her born and died dates. It’s fixed now.