Final Jeopardy: Symbols (3-11-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/11/2022) in the category “Symbols” was:
This U.S. politician asked for a multicolored pennant for a parade; demand increased after his death in 1978
4x champ Maureen O’Neil, an executive assistant from Rye Beach, NH has won $58,200 this week. It’s that all important Game 5 for Maureen as she takes on these two players: Laura Dera, a hotel assistant manager from Studio City, CA; and Matt Glassman, a bar owner from Los Angeles, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Artists – Bank “C” – Munch – Bosh – Hopper – Says Ann(e)
Laura found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Artists” under the $800 clue with 12 clues left after it. She was in third place with $600, $1,200 less than Maureen’s lead. Laura made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
Before executing an 1890s monument to Balzac, this sculptor got the late novelist’s measurements from his former tailor show
Matt finished in the lead with $3,400. Laura was second with $3,200 and Maureen was last with $3,000. One clue worth $200 was not shown.
Round 2 Categories: 17th Century Happenings – Ab-Work – Brit Lit – Music of the 2000s – Here Be Lions – 6-Letter World Capitals
Laura found the first Daily Double in “Brit Lit” under the $1,200 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. She was in the lead with $4,000, $600 more than Matt and Maureen who were tied for second place. Laura bet $1,000, and said “War of the Worlds.” That was WRONG.
Chapters in this H.G. Wells novel include “In the Golden Age” & “The Sunset of Mankind” show
Matt got the last Daily Double in “6-Letter World Capitals” under the $1,200 clue with 12 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $9,000, $1,600 more than Laura in second place. Matt bet $2,500, and said Zurich. That was WRONG.
This European city is alphabetically last among world capitals show
Laura finished in the lead with $7,400. Matt was second with $6,900. Maureen was last with negative $2,600 and out of the game at this point. 2 clues worth $1,200 were not shown.
Only ONE of the two contestants left in Final Jeopardy! for it right.
WHO IS HARVEY MILK?
Harvey Milk was the first openly gay person elected to public office as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in California, taking office in 1978. As an activist, he encouraged LGBT people to stand up for who they are and refuse to be shamed. According to artist Gilbert Baker, Milk asked him to design a symbol of pride for the gay community. Baker believed that flags are “a way of proclaiming your visibility or saying, ‘This is who I am!'”
The first rainbow flags had 8 different colored stripes, were handmade and were flown at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day parade on 6/25/1978. Harvey Milk and San Francisco’s mayor, George Moscone, were both assassinated on 11/27/1978 by Dan White, a former supervisor. As demand for the rainbow flag increased, it was revamped with 6 stripes in order to facilitate mass production. The colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet) came to represent both diversity and unity in the LGBTQ community. Read more, including the flags impact on Gilbert Baker’s life and the return of the original 8 stripes are back.
Matt got it right. He bet $2,000. That brought him up to $8,900.
Laura went with Truman. She bet and lost it all, and that’s how Matt Glassman became the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
ARTISTS ($1000) A portrait by him, Leonardo’s almost exact contemporary, sold in 2021 for $92 million (image), a record for an old master not named Leonardo
BRIT LIT ($2000) Squire Allworthy finds a baby in his bed one night–the title character of this 1749 novel by Henry Fielding
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “From the Desk of the Pope”
A 1919 letter quotes Jesus, “Go into the whole world and preach the gospel” & notes the vigilance, energy & hardships of these workers show
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I’m a day late, but, whatever. What struck me was that Maureen and Laura didn’t seem to take the game seriously. I’m not saying to be stone faced, but, at least, don’t look like you’re being flippant.
But, I concur with others. 19 TS? That is unacceptable. And, yes, IF Maureen gets a TOC invite, she ain’t going too far.
Maureen will not go far in the TOC.
This was not a pleasant show to watch. Maureen was a weak 4-day champ who alternated between being likable and goofy. Laura had her moments, but some of her and Maureen’s poor responses should be used in a future “Stupid Answers” category. Adobe? Matt wasn’t as erratic as the women, but he came up with a few clunkers too.
I lived in the SF area for 18 months in 1978-79. During that time, Harvey Milk and Mayor Moscone were murdered by Councilman Dan White. And the Jonestown mass suicide occurred, claiming many residents from the Bay Area.
@Howard, you can call me crazy if I’m wrong but I thought that particular “Ab-Work” clue was pretty stupid in and of itself. (Adding “AB” to a 3-letter type of poem gets you this type of housing)
At least in my vocabulary, an abode is not a type of housing. It’s a synonym for housing, dwelling, etc. Any type of housing can be your abode, including one built with adobe.
That’s probably what led Maureen to blurt out “adobe”, but of course, it couldn’t have worked because the answer had to start with “ab”
Maureen was probably thinking of Adobe Photoshop when she blurted that response out VJ> have you noticed that? I knew that didn’t work out because the category are all words that start with AB. But I agree with you and howard, that should be in the stupid answers category especially with Anne Boyleyn reponse. This was definitely not pleasant to watch for me. As a geography, music, and literature buff, I would never have come up with such clunker responses in this game.
Sigh, we know you never get anything wrong, Lou, or at least say you don’t. You tell us that almost every day. I don’t even think I know half the stuff you claim to know, but I knew that adobe is a material used in building abodes before I ever heard of Adobe Photoshop.
Here is a link to the page for ADOBE on wikipedia. Notice that it says right on there that the page is not about the software company Adobe Inc. and that “adobe” is not to be confused with “Abode” or “Adobo”. If you click on the link to “Abode”, it redirects to a page entitled “Dwelling”. That totally supports my statement that abode is a synonym for dwelling, doesn’t it?
Regarding the FJ, I’m only surprised that one of the contestants actually did get it right. In fact, some of the answers on both Jeopardy and Double Jeopardy were noticeably tough as the contestants couldn’t score sometimes no how.
The clues were not nice to Maureen.
VJ, I thought there was supposed to be two podiums with two contestants after Final Jeopardy.
well, Richard, I don’t know if they did or not — that’s what I saw up there when I took the screen cap.
Today was a difficult game material as all three players struggle in both rounds and we had 19 triple stumpers which is the most record for triple stumpers and Maureen was not able to recover by getting out of the red in time for FJ! But she had a great run this week with 4 wins and over $50,000. There is a good chance that we may see her again in the Tournament of Champions.