Final Jeopardy: World War II (3-27-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/27/2019) in the category “World War II” was:
In 1943 millions of matchbooks were distributed in the Philippines with this 3-word quote to boost morale
New champ Emma Badame, a digital marketing manager from Toronto, Ontario, won $12,600 yesterday. In her second game, her opponents are: Amy Kroll, a quality control specialist from Rockville, MD; and Steven Grade, a sports industry consultant from Atlanta, GA.
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Round 1 Categories: He Was Senator & President – Hairstyles – I’m Walkin’ Here! – The Elements – Getting an Education – Set in the City
Steven found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Senator & President” under the $800 clue on the 12th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $3,400, $2,600 more than Amy in second place. He bet $2,400 and he was RIGHT.
Though he served Penn. in the Senate from 1834 to 1845, he supported pro-slavery Southern positions; he didn’t get better as Pres. show
Steven finished in the lead with $10,800. Emma was second with $4,200 and Amy was last with $400.
Round 2 Categories: Tenth – Doctor – Allons-y – Fill in the Tony-Winning Play Title – Called Out in Song – Irish People?
Steven found the first Daily Double in “Tenth” under the $1,200 clue on the 9th pick. He was in the lead with $15,600 now, $11,400 more than Emma in second place. He bet $3,000 and thought it was the metric system. That was WRONG.
In 1585 Flemish mathematician Simon Stevin’s work “The Tenth” introduced this numbering system to Europe. show
Steven found the last Daily Double in “Doctor” under the $800 clue, with 10 clues left after it. In the lead with $15,400, he had $6,400 more than Emma in second place. He bet $2,600 and he was RIGHT.
This doctor made flaked cereal a thing when he started giving it to his sanitarium patients, including Mr. Post. show
Steven finished with a runaway $21,600. Emma was next with $10,600 and Amy was in third place with $5,200.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
TitanicItems.com shows collectible matchbook covers that includes images of the “I Shall Return” cigarettes and matchbook covers at the very bottom of the page. It says they were manufactured by the Larus and Brother Company of Richmond, VA and were smuggled behind enemy lines. “These, along with other items were distributed by US and Filipino guerrillas and helped keep the Filipino’s hope for liberation alive until General MacArthur returned in October 1944.”
See the cigarette pack in this video clip from “American Guerrilla in the Philippines” (1950)
Amy got it right. She didn’t bet anything so she stayed at $5,200.
Emma came up with “We Are Winning.” She lost $5,200 and finished with $5,400.
Steven got it right, too. He didn’t bet anything either– he was already the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
HE WAS SENATOR & PRESIDENT ($400) This Ohioan found the Senate “far more to my liking than” being Pres. could be; scandal & death in office followed
($1600) This 1952 Nobel Peace Prize winner gained fame for building a hospital in Africa
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Words in the News 2016”
NASA wished John Glenn this 8-letter word when he made the 1st U.S. manned orbital flight in 1962 & again upon his passing in 2016. show
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I think Steven is going to beat the four-day curse.
Maybe we’ll have a drink of regular Pepsi before we find out.
I thought that movie clip was a great find.
Emma could have broken the lock on the game if she knew the last clue about antiseptics but Steven still would have won.
LINK: 9 more clues from the game
Well, Emma knew she.wasn’t going to win today with that response in final jeopardy. But congratulations to Steve on his big win despite not betting anything. Amy couldn’t get much going today but glad that she and Steve got final right. By the way VJ and John when was the metric system first introduced?
I was surprised to learn that our modern conception of the decimal system only dates back to the 1500s. And now children learn it in grade school! It’s crazy to think about the things that took geniuses hundreds of years to develop that all children now understand easily.
@Lou
1795 by the French, but it took till 1875 to be generally adopted.
As for the game: congratulations to Steven for the runaway game.
Sorry I missed the CotD for so long, I had no idea it could be found under “Who all else: as well.
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For Doris’ sake I hope Nixon was not one of the guys in the Sen@Prez names, it was J so he could have been in the question but not the answer (given clue)….
@JP
More to the age of enlightenment, so around 1650.(Cogito ergo sum)…
And in what good company we are: only the the U.S., DRUM ROLL…….BURMA and LIBERIA have not adopted the metric system as the official one. Even the UK went metric .Reluctantly and late but they did.
Yet we still are bothering the rest of the world with inches, ounces, gallons etc etc etc, forcing everyone to convert antiquated units and measures,the ONLY industrialized nation in the world to do so. Talk about being isolationist….unfortunately not just with this.
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The first Dutch idea in the 16th century about metric never took hold. It took the French Revolution to get things going and heads rolling…LOL