Final Jeopardy: Newspaper Talk (3-18-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/18/2022) in the category “Newspaper Talk” was:
Meaning an important part of a story, this distinctive spelling helped distinguish the word from a substance used in typesetting
New champ Finn Corrigan, a student from Vista, CA, won $19,601 yesterday. In Game 2, he takes on these two players: Debra Burgess, an adjunct asst. professor of history from Cincinnati, OH; and Michael Qin, an attorney from Atlanta, GA.
Round 1 Categories: Arthropodcast – Global Organizations – Analyzing the Seuss Character – The 5 W’s in Other Languages – Easy Peasy – Lemon Squeezy
Michael found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Analyzing the Seuss Character” under the $800 clue at the halfway mark. He was in the lead with $1,000, $400 more than Debra in second place. Michael bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
Pro-environment & perhaps with a savior complex, he “was shortish. And oldish…and mossy”, & kinda looked like Wilford Brimley show
Michael finished in the lead with $4,400. Finn was second with $4,000 and Debra was last with $2,800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Tools of the Trade – U.S. Geography – Biblical Passages – Women of Country Music – South American History – Middle E
Michael found the first Daily Double in “U.S Geography” under the $1,200 clue on the 5th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $6,000, $800 more than Finn in second place. Michael bet $3,000 and I don’t really know what he said.* Closed captioning rendered it “Kawahan Bay” but I heard an ‘r” in there, more like “Krayhan Bay.” Whatever he said, it was WRONG.
The cities of Providence & Newport lie at opposite ends of this bay show
*I asked Michael on Twitter and he replied: “I said (mispronounced) Quahog. Random guess, also trying to take advantage of the phonetic safe harbor.” (emphasis added)
3 clues later, Finn landed on the last Daily Double in “South American History” under the $1,200 clue. He was in the lead with $6,400, $1,800 more than Michael in second place. Finn bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
In 1997, 30 years after his death in Bolivia, the remains of this revolutionary were returned to Cuba show
Finn finished in the lead with $10,800 (the exact same score he had at this point yesterday). Debra was second with $10,000. Michael was last with $8,600. All clues were shown.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS THE LEDE?
The usual explanation given for the use of “lede” for a newspaper’s lead story is right in the clue — to distinguish it from the molten lead previously used in the industry. Since no one seems to be able to pinpoint why the lead story needed to be distinguished from molten lead, the hole ishue seams sillee.
However, in 2019 on Poynter.org, Roy Peter Clark examined the “lead vs. lede” issue. Clark’s research led to this explanation by Donald Murray in his 2000 book “Writing to Deadline”: “We still used the spelling ‘l-e-d-e’ for the word lead so it would stand out on the telegraphic printout – ‘NU LEDE’ – to signal a new top…” Clark concluded that “the intentional misspelling of both NEW and LEAD – to NU LEDE – served as a kind of alert for news or wire editors working on multiple editions of the newspaper.”
Michael bet $2,201 and finished with $10,801, $1.00 more than Finn’s Pre-FJ score.
Debra bet $4,500. She finished with $14,500.
Finn bet $9,201, winning his second game with $20,001. His 2-day total is $39,602.
2 triple stumpers from LEMON SQUEEZY:
($400) Whisk yolks in the top of a double boiler & slowly add clarified butter & lemon juice to make this, 1 of cuisine’s “mother sauces”
($1000) Salt-preserved lemons can accompany this Moroccan stew made in an earthenware pot of the same name
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Birds”
Black-footed & black-browed are 2 species of this seabird whose name was influenced by the Latin word for “white” show
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Update on the Geography Daily Double: Michael said “quahog” (pronounced KO-hog). See the update in the recap under the second DD.
Evidently, I misunderstood Ken’s “it is in Rhode Island remark.” I thought he was talking about a bay but as it turns out, quahogs are icons in Rhode Island.
It was somewhat quizzical to me when Ken went out of his way to say that Finn had a good poker face, when, for the second time in a row, he smiled (not just smirked) before his FI was revealed. Dude has an OBVIOUS tell, and it is not a good poker face. I don’t think Ken has “face blindness”.
Oh, and, I don’t know where else to put it: so, Ken is leaving “The Chase”, and, there is much propaganda about Mayim wanting the permanent job. I read this as Ken getting the perm job.
I majored in newspaper journalism, but didn’t think the final answer was that well-known.
Surprised all 3 got it. More surprised no one knew who cleans your teeth, the jeweler’s glass, or the famous Idol idol. But a good group overall tonight.
Thanks for saying that, Howard, I had never heard of that answer before myself.
Jeopardy! is again preëmpted by the NCAA, as are many others, I’m sure.
Krayhan bay does not exist as far as I checked, there is a bay called Karehana bay in Pimmerton somewhere in Porirua.. Maybe this is what Michael was trying to say VJ. As far as narragansett bay, I’ve been there a couple of times with my family getting crabs during the summer months. But still glad to see everyone getting final right to wrap up the week. And Congrats to Finn on winning again.
The most recent instance of a champion’s first two wins having the same score going into Final Jeopardy: Annie Marggraf, with $15,600 on March 8-9, 2017.