Final Jeopardy: The Olympics (3-23-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/23/2021) in the category “The Olympics” was:
The “City of Angels” hosted the Olympics twice, the second time this many years after the first.
New champ Kathryn Peters, a research center exec. director, won $20,001 yesterday. In Game 2, her opponents are: Claire Nieman, a registered nurse from Seattle, WA; and Amal Dorai, a product manager orig. from Lexington, MA.
Round 1 Categories: Brand Mascots – Nurses – Space-y Sayings – Christian Glossary – Have A Drink At… – The Prancing Pony
Kathryn found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Space-y Sayings” under the $1,000 clue on the very last pick of the round. She was in second place with $4,000, $1,600 less than Claire’s lead. She bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.
When a youngster has trouble adapting to adulthood, it’s this 3-word phrase, like when the rocket doesn’t make it to the pad. show
Claire finished in the lead with $5,600. Kathryn was close behind with $5,000 and Amal was last with $2,200. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: No. 1 Lyrics – Border Towns – Crass Warfare – Books Of The 1980s – Sold At Auction – “S”ix-letter Words
Amal found the first Daily Double in “Crass Warfare” under the $1,600 clue on the 13th pick. He was in 3rd place with $4,600 now, $3,800 less than Claire’s lead. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
The USA’s “Ghost Army” kept the Axis on its heels with inflatable M4 these, 93 pounds instead of the real thing’s 32 tons. show
Amal got the last Daily Double in “Border Towns” under the $1,600 clue on the 19th pick of the round. In first place now with $12,800, he had $4,400 more than Claire in second place. He bet $2,800 and he was RIGHT.
A city appropriately called these “Falls” sits on Minnesota’s northern border. show
Amal finished in the lead with a runway $19,600. Claire was next with $6,000 and Kathryn was in third place with $5,400. TWO clues went uncovered.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Los Angeles, CA has held the Summer Olympics twice with, the first time in 1932 and the second 52 years later in 1984. In 1932, the games were held during the Great Depression which led to some nations not making the trip. However, Los Angeles redeemed itself with the 1984 games widely considered to be the most financially successful modern Olympic Games and a model of how the games should be run. As Dr.Oz stated, Los Angeles will host the games again in 2028. The current Los Angeles mayor has a goal to have the 2028 Olympic games unite the world. You can find out more about previous and upcoming Olympic games on olympic.org.
An old clue from 2000: BALLET ($600): In 1932 the ballet “Elysia” was commissioned by the Hollywood Bowl in celebration of this sports event
Kathryn got confused with today’s FJ question and answered with “Los Angeles.” She bet $4,270 and finished with $1,130.
Claire took a guess and went with “64.” That cost her $5,999 and left her with $1.
Amal wrote down “28” and that was incorrect as well. He lost $5,000 and won the game with $14,600. Amal Dorai is the new Jeopardy! champ.
2 triple stumpers from SOLD AT AUCTION
($800) In 1990, exactly 100 years after it was painted, this artist’s “Portrait of Dr. Gachet” sold for $82.5 million
($2000) Christie’s recently offered art, objects &, of course, photos from this late former husband of Princess Margaret
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Countries of the World”
Because its overseas empire was dwindling, Spain declared war on this much closer country across the water on Oct. 22, 1859 show
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Having been a lifelong California native resident and Los Angeles-area “local” during the 1980’s, I was quite keen to this aspect of Olympic history. While the 1984 Olympics were playing, those who paid attention to the media knew this was the second time the city played host. During the first go-around in 1932, the LA Coliseum was built, which is where the opening and closing ceremonies were held, and then held there again in 1984. So all I had to do was a little arithmetic, and came up with the correct response, “What is 52 years?” That makes my fourth Final Jeopardy! *skunk* of 2021, after connecting with three within a week just last.month.
It wasn’t kathy’s day today since Amal was quick on the buzzer today. Despite not getting final, I think he might have a shot at getting a streak going. Whenever a final jeopardy clue comes, the contestants must pay careful attention to the clue about what they are asking for and not just put in some random answer that has nothing to do with the clue.
So “brotherly love” was accepted as the definition of “agape”? Actually, there’s another word for “brotherly love”, philia.
I’d highly recommend C.S. Lewis’s “The Four Loves”, which covers both, along with “storge” and “eros”.
Tough FJ as we got a triple stumper for the second Tuesday in a row. Just like before, nobody knows about Olympic Games.