Final Jeopardy: U.S. City Names (3-25-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/25/2022) in the category “U.S. City Names” was:
Adopted in 1845, the name of this state capital is a feminized form of a big body of water
New champ Ciara Donegan, an undergraduate student from Towson, MD, won $27,601 yesterday. In Game 2, she takes on these two players: Jackie Kelly, a pension calculation developer from Cary, NC; and Nicole Wachell, a teacher and writer from Los Angeles, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Pop Music Philly-Style – A Bit of Brit Lit – 3-letter Words – Alphabet Land – Beer Today – Lawn Tomorrow
Nicole found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Beer Today” under the $600 clue with 6 clues left after it. She was in the lead with $5,600, $1,000 more than Jackie in second place. Nicole bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
Planning ahead a bit, he signed a 9,000-year lease in 1759 on the St. James’s Gate Brewery in Dublin for 45 pounds a year show
Nicole finished in the lead with $8,400. Jackie was second with $4,600. Ciara was last with $3,400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: What the Hill? – American Law – Scientists – Time to Call It a Day – History’s Mister “E”S – The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Ciara found the first Daily Double in “Time to Call it a Day” under the $2,000 clue with a dozen clues left after it. She was in third place with $9,400, $1,400 less than Nicole’s lead. Ciara bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
Richard Nixon was this type of teacher, but Jimmy Carter is more famous for being one show
Jackie got the last Daily Double in “American Law” under the $800 clue with 6 clues left after it. She was in the lead with $14,600, $1,000 more than Ciara in second place. Jackie bet $4,000 but couldn’t come up with a response so she was WRONG.
Lady Liberty is on the logo of the American Association of Lawyers in this field, founded in 1946 show
Ciara finished in the lead with $15,200. Nicole was second with $12,000 and Jackie was last with $10,600. 3 clues worth $2,800 were not shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS ATLANTA?
There are some very interesting accounts of how Marthasville, Georgia came to be named Atlanta. The Camakstone blog looked into the position that Atlanta evolved from “Atalanta”, the middle name of Martha Lumpkin, daughter of Governor Wilson Lumpkin. Marthasville was named after her to begin with. It is also noted that “Atlanta was supposed to be a more feminine name for ‘Atlantica-Pacifica'” “Terminus” is yet another name that had to do with the city being at the end of the Western & Atlantic railroad line. These names also turn up in a couple of old Jeopardy! clues.
One thing is clear: the official name of the city was Marthasville when it was changed to Atlanta by Act 109 of the Georgia General Assembly on December 26, 1845.
Jackie didn’t have a response. She lost her $3,100 bet and finished with $7,500.
After crossing out the letter “A”, Nicole didn’t have anything either. That cost her $11,201 and left her with $799.
Ciara came up with Annapolis. She lost $10,000 and finished with $5,200. That made Jackie Kelly the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
LAWN TOMORROW ($1000) Creeping red & chewings are “fine” this grass, drought-resistant & green all year if you’re good about maintaining it
SCIENTISTS ($1600) The earth-centric theories of this astronomer of the 2nd century A.D. were largely taken as fact until the 1500s
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Women Authors”
2 events figure prominently in her 2003 memoir: a coup in Chile on September 11, 1973 & the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 show
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I didn’t watch Jeopardy! on Friday, as CBS was doing something else. So I come here to catch the Jeopardy Recaps, as always. The final J! clue was a fine example of over-thinking vs. under-thinking, but it has happened many times before. Naturally, I missed it (as written). Of course, I thought of Atlanta, but wait a minute, in 1845 Atlanta was not the capital of Georgia.
To be fair, the clue does not say it was, nor does it say when it did become the capital. So my over-thinking rejected Atlanta as the response, until I scrolled down, and Voilà! Indeed Milledgeville (down state SE, not far from Macon) was the capital from 1804 to 1868. I was reading a collection by Flannery O’Conner (a very good writer) a long time ago, and remembered that she died in Milledgeville in 1964 at a young age (lupus I think), poor girl. So I had to look Milledgeville up.
I think O’Connor has been used in a previous clue. Another previous clue was had to do with a southern novel that had 1037 pages. Of course, that was Gone with the Wind, which I had just finished reading (the mass paperback). And nowhere in the novel did it say that Atlanta was a capital. And I don’t think the movie version ever mentioned what the real capital was either.
Those two grass triple stumpers I got. I don’t know why I knew the $1000 one, but, the $800 one? The clue specifically states a US state!
I got FJ by reasoning backwards – just quickly thought of oceans, and, there it was!
Jason, what was funny about those grass stumpers to me was that both types are mentioned in a Law & Order recap I wrote 3 years ago. They were instrumental in helping the detectives find a backyard grave. (Ludicrous, I know, but I don’t write the scripts — just the recaps. 🤣) Anyhow, I still only managed to get the state grass!
What put me on the wrong track was the year it was named the capital. Based on that I eliminated the original 13 states, not realizing Atlanta was named the capital much later than the capitals of the other original states.
Yes, Liva, the 1845 bit threw a lot of people off. In my case, it actually made me think Honolulu was correct. This wikipedia list shows Honolulu as capital of the Hawaiian islands since 1845.
imo, the Final Jeopardy! clue should not be that tricky when the contestants only have 30 seconds to comprehend the clue and write down a response.
Seriously, it seemed TOO super obvious. It said it’s a feminized version of a big body of water. Oceans are big bodies and Atlantic….Atlanta. I was wondering how a final Jeopardy could be so basic.
Oh come on now, how do these guys not know atlanta? I mean my family and I have been down there in summer of 2016 when my brother attended Georgia Tech there. The Centennial Olympic Park, Coca cola factory, and the Georgia Aquarium were some of the places we visited while there. It’s a very beautiful place Why did Ciara say Annapolis when that is a bit up north in Maryland? Still two triple stumpers won’t hurt the champ but I doubt Jackie will win a streak of her own.
Lou, where in the clue does it say the city is in the South? A capital city on a body of water beginning with “Anna” is a fine guess there.
You always seem so perplexed at how people miss these supposedly obvious questions, and it’s often based on your own personal anecdotal experiences. Not everyone has lived your life, and it’s tough under the lights with the clock ticking!
Ah Lawrence, I was just going to delete Lou’s comment. I wish I knew what Lou thinks any of that has to do with the clue and what such responses from him look like to other people.
I mean, Lou, do you really think that comment made you look smarter than the contestants?
Ciara went down the same rabbit hole as me and the Bunny — thinking the capital had something to do with a feminine name. I came up with Hono”lulu” (woman’s name and a whole lotta water) I learned that in Hawaiian, Honolulu means “sheltered harbor” or “calm port”, so if that ever comes up, I’m ready. 🙂
Also she is from Maryland. Her incorrect response was logical to me. Empathy is important in life and I thought this was a very tight game going into fj.
Look this isn’t about me being smart and all. It’s just about having knowledge of certain subjects just like playing computer trivia games. I usually have to speak from my personal experiences because some of these clues are special to my heart. The reason why I brought that comment up is because when i was young I never got to see what Atlanta looked like before. Now 20 years later after travelling down there I had the thrill of a lifetime and seeing tons of great things in person for the first time with my family.
@Lou, then you should frame your comments to reflect that the clue reminded you of those things instead of framing it as a put down to the contestants.
So, so true. Count me as dubious of his claims to seemingly always know the answers, particularly when you consider he is sometimes fabricating information that isn’t even in the clue (like here).
I used to read and participate in the comments more regularly but it became irritating.
Still enjoy VJ’s write-ups and turns of phrases.
Hi DC, I figured that was why you stopped commenting. fwiw, I miss your comments.
Sad as it is, Lou didn’t used to take this attitude toward the contestants.
I agree DC….I’m not fooled by him.
And we end the week with another triple stumper as today’s FJ was a tough one. As usual, nobody knows about geography.
So all this week, we had players from the second podium won the game. Will the same thing happened again next week? We’ll see what happens. Mayim Bialik will return to hosting the show on Monday.