Final Jeopardy: U.S. Senate (2-4-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (2/4/2019) in the category “U.S. Senate” was:
An 1890 Resolution by Sen. Aldrich was killed by this, the very technique it sought to limit; A 1917 rule set some boundaries on it
New champ Will Dawson, a tour guide from Washington, D.C., won $32,601 last Friday. In his second game, he is up against these two players: Susan Campbell, a research scientist from Baltimore, MD; and Morgan Burns, an accountant from Somerville, MA.
Round 1 Categories: Our Fair City – Oxford – Eugene – Roam – Fill “E” – Chicago, Atlanta & Miami Sound Machine
Will found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Our Fair City” under the $400 clue on the 7th pick of the round. He was in second place with $1,200, $600 less than Morgan’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
The River in the name of this South American metropolis is really Guanabara Bay. show
Susan finished in the lead with $5,600. Will was second with $5,400 and Morgan was last with $4,800.
Round 2 Categories: Literary First Lines – The Human Body – The Ancient Roman Army – Numeric Words & Phrases – International Holidays – Durable Directors
Susan found the first Daily Double in “Literary First Lines” under the $2,000 clue on the 5th pick. She was in the lead with $8,400 now, $2,600 more than Will in second place. She bet $3,000 and took a stab at it with “Paper Moon.” That was WRONG.
From 1931: It was Wang Lung’s marriage day. show
Will got the last Daily Double in “Ancient Roman Army” under the $2,000 clue. There were 2 whole categories still to go after it. In the lead with $12,600, he had $3,800 more than Morgan in second place. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
These leaders of groups of 100 men were divided from senior to junior grades. show
Will finished in the lead with $21,800. Morgan was next with $11,200 and Susan was in third place with $9,800.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
On 12/29/1890, Sen. Nelson Aldrich (R-RI) introduced a cloture resolution in connection with Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge’s (R-MA) “force bill,” which was being filibustered. The resolution sought to allow “any Senator to demand that debate thereon be closed.” It was unsuccessful because it was filibustered, too. On 3/8/1917, at the urging of President Woodrow Wilson, a Cloture Rule was adopted. Interestingly, that was only 4 days after Sen. La Follette almost threw a spitoon at Sen. Joseph Robinson on the Senate floor. More on that and other Weird Things Done During Filibusters on Mental Floss.
From 2006: POLITICIANS ($1200) Nelson Aldrich, a senator from 1881 to 1911, was the grandfather of this vice president named for him
Susan bet $2,000 and finished with $11,800.
Morgan bet $10,001, increasing his score to $21,201.
Will bet $601 and won the match with $22,401. His 2-day total is $55,002.
A triple stumper from each round:
ROAM ($600) Peter Mayle followed “A Year in Provence” with “Toujours Provence” & this title that includes French for “again”
NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES ($2000) The title of a 1936 book, this 3-word nickname for the U.S. Supreme Court ceased to apply in 1981
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Mythological Names”
With depths of up to 30,000′, ocean trenches make up a zone named for this brother of Poseidon & his domain. show
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I’ve read many books by Pearl Buck, which I discovered when I was living in Taiwan. The books I mean. She was living in Hong Kong at the time, so I didn’t have a chance to meet her. I did know the director of the orphanage she maintained in Tamshui out on the Taiwan Strait. Everybody knew Tony and was an old drinking buddy of ours at the American Legion Post 49.
Pearl had been trying to get back into mainland China since 1949, but they never did allow her in. Of course her first language was Mandarin, and they would not have been able to pull the wool over her eyes, as they did to so many foreign visitors. Personally I think one the main reasons they refused her entry was because she had come up first with the idea of “bare foot doctors for China” back in the old days, which Mao expropriated for his own reasons, and it wouldn’t look good if it were known that one of his chief concepts actually came from an “evil Westerner and American” who had grown up in China. I heard that Mao had at one time liked to play table tennis, but if he had known that the game was introduced by missionaries, he might have banned it. He may have thought it was a Chinese creation because the Chinese had created 2 new Chinese characters for it: 乒 乓, which is pronounced “Ping Pong”.
Such wonderful moral support that Sinclair Lewis gave Pearl which she needed, when she won the Nobel Prize in 1938.
She was a very fine writer, and “The Good Earth” was a very good book, which I can’t say as much for the MGM movie. But very few people realize that “The Good Earth” is the first part of a TRILOGY, “Sons” came out in 1933 and “A House Divided” appeared in 1935. She also wrote a series of books under the name John Sedges.
@Taiwan Bill, I watched the film with 3 teenagers the last time i saw it and they liked it. I remember my son saying he wanted to find out how they got the ox to look at O-Lan the way it did when she came in there with a knife.
Was this FJ too easy? What else could the answer have been?
@Albert
Sometimes – no matter how easy – you get the weirdest responses, simply because some players overthink things or say “this is TOO easy” and look for something else. This said, yes, it WAS a VERY easy FJ.
Well, starting the week on a Triple Solve, but won’t sugarcoat Patriots’ victory in Super Bowl LIII. 2018 Red Sox and now, the 2018-19 Patriots, the WORST TEAMS EVER to win. Truly, a dark day for sports and humanity.
What does it take to get you to post your sports-related remarks on the sports post?
@Lou, a couple of decades ago, I read The Good Earth for the second time. I also saw the Paul Muni / Luise Rainier film a couple of times. Great stuff!
@John, According to this Smithsonian article, it was the explorers who thought the bay was the mouth of a river (not the cluewriters). It also says “some scholars argue that in 16th-century Portuguese, a rio might have been a looser term for any deep indentation along a coast”
LINK: 10 more clues from the match
@VJ
Then my tour guide was wrong. Guanabara “river” is more a creek, one of more than a dozen creeks and rivers that feed the bay…..not that important,really.
Well, we have the start of a new week , All got it, so congratulations to all players, especially to Will for his second win. Slight mistake in the 1st DD. Guanabara Bay is NOT a river but is fed by several rivers and as bay is the second biggest in Brazil behind All Saint’s Bay, also fed by several rivers…… only little “black” mark: nobody knew the French word for “again”…..
Encore is used so often…..in concerts, theaters you have an “Encore” etc…. But just a small glitch.
Well, this is what I like to see. A triple solve by the contestants. But still I thought Morgan almost had the game locked in his favor with his bet in final jeopardy. But congratulations to Will once again despite Susan missing that daily double. Also I think will might build a streak, which is what you guys want to see right John and VJ? Also when did you guys last read The Good Earth?