Final Jeopardy: 19th Century Americans (3-26-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/26/2019) in the category “19th Century Americans” was:
Though he became a Cabinet Secretary & Chief Justice, once he wanted to change his name because of its “awkward, fishy” sound
2x champ Dave Scatena, a chemical engineer from San Francisco, CA, has now won $23,200. In Game 3, he is up against: John Shortino, a software developer from Pittsburgh, PA; and Emma Badame, a digital marketing manager from Toronto, Ontario.
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Round 1 Categories: Baby’s First Instagram – It Happened in South America – One T, Double T – Birthplace of a Brand – We Hold These Truths – To Be Elf-Evident
Dave found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Birthplace of a Brand” under the $800 clue, with 8 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $4,200, $800 more than Emma in second place. He bet $2,000 and thought it was Indiana. That was WRONG.
Maytag Appliances show
John finished in the lead with $3,800. Emma was second with $3,200 and Dave was last with $2,600.
Round 2 Categories: The Last Time I Saw England – Body Language – Blue Man Group – Literary Antagonists – World of Warcraft – Talk Nerdy
Dave found the first Daily Double in “Talk Nerdy” under the $800 clue on the second pick. He was in third place with $3,000 now, $800 less than John’s lead. He bet $1,000 and thought it was a meteor. That was WRONG.
Caltech scientist Carrie Nugent explained how to track and predict the impact these would have if on a collision course with Earth; the method used in the movie “Armageddon” is not very practical show
Emma found the last Daily Double in “Literary Antagonists” under the $1,200 clue on the 11th pick. In the lead with $5,600, she had $200 more than John in second place. She bet $1,600 and she was RIGHT.
Nurse Ratched rules the asylum with an iron fist in this novel. show
Emma finished in the lead with $14,400. John was next with $10,200 and Dave was in third place with $7,600.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Salmon Portland Chase was Abe Lincoln’s Secretary of the Treasury. He became the sixth Chief Justice of the United States upon Lincoln’s nomination after the death of Roger Taney. Chase indicated his desire to change his name in a P.S. to a letter he wrote to Charles D. Cleveland, a Dartmouth college friend, on 2/8/1830: “P.S. I have been thinking whether it wouldn’t be a good plan to change my awkward, fishy name, which was given me to perpetuate the memory of an Uncle, (whose family has no intercourse with ours) for some other. I have thought too of getting the consent of my brothers to change the spelling of our surname…. How wd. this name do (Spencer de Cheyce or Spencer Payne Cheyce). Perhaps you will laugh at this but I assure you I have suffered no little inconvenience from this simple circumstance. Laugh or not however you need not mention it — S.P.C.”
A Daily Double from 1988: FAMOUS “CHASE”s ($3,000) Lincoln’s Secretary of the Treasury, as Chief Justice he presided over Johnson’s impeachment
Dave gave “Mackerel” a try. He bet and lost it all.
John went with Warren. He lost half his score, leaving him with $5,100.
Emma picked Seward, Lincoln and Johnson’s Secretary of State, who was never Chief Justice. She only lost $1,800 and won the game with $12,600. Emma Badame is the new Jeopardy! champ
A triple stumper from each round:
LITERARY ANTAGONISTS ($1000) Pazuzu is an ancient Babylonian demon who possesses this little girl in “The Exorcist”
WORLD OF WARCRAFT ($2000) Followed by Samurai, this Japanese “Way of the Warrior” has been compared to the Code of Chivalry
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Historic Anniversaries”
In July 1938 about 2,000 people with an average age of 94 gathered at this site for a 75th & final reunion. show
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Any guesses for the unrevealed “Blue” man group? “The Moody Blues” was in J6. The only other ones I can come up with are “Shocking Blue” and “Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes”.
I was thinking Blues Image, (“Ride Captain Ride”). If it was, maybe Dave knew it…
73 men sailed up from the San Francisco Bay
Rolled off of their ship, and here’s what they had to say
oh, about that Exorcist clue, everybody — I linked to a page that gives the child’s full name but they were only looking for her first name (same name as King Lear’s “R” daughter)
I really don’t remember a game where they didn’t get to at least two DDs, but okay. You would think they might worry more about making the clues shorter. Those clues in the Elf-Evident category were rather long.
Yesterday, I wished they finished the Non-Fiction category, when they only got to 2 clues. Today it was the Blue Man Group, but at least they got to 4 of them.
LINK: 10 more clues from the game
Well Dave played decently at best. But I can see that none of the contestants ever saw a ten thousand dollar bill that featured Salmon Chase. But still congratulations to Emma though. John was thinking of Warren burger. Also VJ and John have you ever seen a ten thousand dollar bill ever being used before? It’s very rare nowadays and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in DC has it.
Well, another game is in the books. 2 missed DDs again and the FJ bets were kind of strange. Even if John had bet it all Emma would have won with a conventional wager of 6,001. John’s answer “Warren” was kind of ambiguous. WARREN… which one? In the end it did not matter. Congratulations to Emma.
Alex Trebek used to have fun saying Samurai when the Suzuki Samurai was offered in the bonus round on Classic Concentration. There’s actually a rule change for season 35, someone on the show recently said they won’t end the first round until the DD has been found, and won’t end the second round until at least one DD had been found.
@aaaa, That would certainly be a good move. A DD that is not played often would/could change the outcome of the entire game!