Final Jeopardy: European Cities (2-8-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (2/8/2023) in the category “European Cities” was:
Alphabetically the first German city in encyclopedias, it was also the first one taken by the allies in World War II
4x champ Matthew Marcus, a software developer from Portland, OR, has now won $114,200. In Game 5, he takes on these two players: Becky Molder, a social media specialist from Salt Lake City, UT; and Dan Wohl, a high school history teacher from Forest Hills, NY.
Round 1 Categories: Show Me Missouri Show Biz People – The “C” Shore – Squirrels Just Want to Have Fun – Ends with the Same 2 Consonants – Acts of Congress – Also a Baseball Term
Matthew found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Acts of Congress” under the $800 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. He was in second place with $400, $200 less than Dan’s lead. Matthew bet $1,000 and said Richmond. That was WRONG.
Talk about landmark legislation–a 1935 act authorized national historic landmarks & this colonial VA. capital was among the first show
Dan finished in the lead with $6,000. Matthew was second with $5,000 and Becky was last with $1,600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: I’m Henry VI, I Am – The Corporate Structure – Comedy Time – I before E – The Fine Arts – That’s Dedication
Dan found the first Daily Double in “The Corporate Structure” under the $1,600 clue on the 15th pick of the round. He was in second place with $10,000, $3,000 less than Matthew’s lead. Dan made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
British architect Richard Rogers designed One Lime Street, the London headquarters of this venerable insurance company show
Matthew got the last Daily Double in “That’s Dedication” under the $1,600 clue on the 19th of the round. In second place with $15,800, he had $8,200 less than Dan’s lead. Matthew bet $6,000 and came up with Arthur Conan Doyle. That was WRONG.
Though his son would star in kids books, this Brit dedicated “The Red House Mystery” to his dad, a fan of detective stories show
Dan finished in the lead with a runaway $26,400. Matthew was second with $13,000 and Becky was last with $5,200. One $400 clue was not shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS AACHEN?
From Historyhit.com: “On 21 October 1944, US troops occupied the German city of Aachen after 19 days of fighting. Aachen was one of the largest and toughest urban battles fought by US forces in World War Two, and the first city on German soil to be captured by the Allies.” The article goes on to explain why Aachen was of “huge strategic importance”. In addition to being the first WW2 battle fought in Germany, as the ancient seat of Charlemagne, Aachen was an important symbol of power to Hitler’s regime.
Today, Aachen Cathedral is the city’s main tourist attraction. Charlemagne is buried there and some 30 German kings and 12 queens were crowned there. In another first, Aachen Cathedral was the first German site to be granted UNESCO World Heritage status.
Becky didn’t have a response. She lost her $5,100 and finished with $100.
Matthew got it right. He added $2,500 to his score, bringing him up to $15,500.
Dan got it right, too. He bet $399 and won the game with $26,799. Dan Wohl is the new Jeopardy! champ.
Reversal: I BEFORE E ($1200) Encompassing on all sides, like air temperature or some music – Becky’s “ambience” answer was rejected in favor of Matthew’s “ambient”. The judges decided not to split that hair and gave Becky the thumbs up.
A triple stumper from each round:
THE CORPORATE STRUCTURE ($800) A Chicago building is named for this product, & to play on an old commercial, you’re soaking it in
COMEDY TIME ($1200) 1990s: David Spade & Chris Farley have a wild encounter with a deer on the road
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “European Royalty”
In 1653 King Louis XIV performed as this Greco-Roman god in the Ballet “de la Nuit” show
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Why was that one clue in the Double Jeopardy in a different font?
That was a reference to the answer (question) e.e. cummings, the poet who wrote mostly in all lowercase. May have made it too easy, but it was a low value clue.
My head is spinning. A 4-day champ from my current home town is defeated by a challenger from the place I lived and received all of my pre-college education (Forest Hills, NY). And tomorrow he’ll be challenged by another fellow Portlander.
Gutsy move by Dan on that DD, which turned out to be a softball. As was the one Matthew missed in the first round. A non-runaway game would have made FJ riveting.
The category for the last $400 clue in DJ! that they missed was “That’s Dedication”.
A tough FJ (at least I thought so), and I’m only surprised that the two contestants got it right. Congratulations to them!
$20,000 is the highest Coryat score in the Sky’s the Limit era for a player locked out before Final. We saw a reversal today in the DJ! round that you forgot to put.
Thanks, Kevin. It’s in there now.