Final Jeopardy: Transportation USA (3-28-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/28/2023) in the category “Transportation USA” was:
This public agency runs the USA’s busiest bus terminal, opened in 1950 for commuters awed by its polished steel & stone
New champ Nicole Rudolph, an associate dean from Williston Park, NY, won $16,800 yesterday. In Game 2, her challengers are: Mara Lasko, a fundraiser from Washington, D.C.; and Lisa Sriken, a lawyer from New York, NY.
Round 1 Categories: Geometrical Geography – Fancified Beastly Idioms – “M”usic Class – ’80s Movie Comedies – 3 Men – A Baby
Lisa found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “A Baby” under the $800 clue on the 4th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $600, $200 more than Mara in second place. Lisa bet $1,000 and guessed speech. That was WRONG.
The APGAR score is a 5-part test of appearance, pulse, grimace, activity & this function show
Nicole finished in the lead with $5,800. Mara was second with $3,400. Lisa was last with $2,600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: When in Rome – Writers of the Cloth – Tough Tough-Guy TV – Words from Greek & Latin – World History – Before & After Female Duos
Nicole found the first Daily Double in “Words from Greek & Latin” under the $1,200 clue on the 8th pick. She was in the lead with $8,200, $4,800 more than Mara in second place. Nicole bet $3,000 and ran out of time before she could come up with anything. That counts as WRONG.
A letter that the Pope sends around, it’s from the Greek for “circle” show
Lisa got the last Daily Double in “When in Rome” under the $1,600 with 9 clues left after it. In last place with $4,400, she had $5,200 less than Nicole’s lead. Lisa bet $1,800 and she was RIGHT.
Explore these underground passages that were used as ancient cemeteries show
Nicole finished in the lead with $9,600. Lisa was second with $5,400. Mara was last with $4,200. One $200 clue was not shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS THE PORT AUTHORITY?
The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (PANYNJ) is an interstate agency formed in 1921 “to develop and modernize the entire port district in order to improve commerce and trade.” Overseeing transportation on land, sea and air. It is the third largest port in the nation.
The Port Authority Bus Terminal (PABT) in midtown Manhattan is the first of three bus terminals constructed and operated by PANYNJ. The largest and busiest bus terminal in the USA, it serves some 200K people on an average weekday. Located on Eighth Avenue between 40th Street and 42nd Street, PABT is a stone’s throw from Times Square.
Mara got it right. She bet $4,000 and finished with $8,200.
Lisa also got it. She bet $4,201 and finished with $9,601.
Nicole thought it was the MTA. She lost $1,201, dropping her score down to $8,399. That made Lisa Sriken the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from TOUGH TOUGH-GUY TV:
($1200) In the series this Michael Connelly hero: “Legacy”, he’s off the LAPD & his daughter is on it
($1600) Tough on the streets of Austin, tender with his boyfriend, officer Carlos Reyes is on this show with an emergency number in its title
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “The Olympics”
The “City of Angels” hosted the Olympics twice, the second time this many years after the first. show
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Wow – Howard and VJ took my comments! Great minds, and all that!
To wit: Mara and Mayim, Lisa all over the place and so demonstrative.
The APGAR was, believe it or not, another bad question. Virginia Apgar was who created it (and, Howard, I think she had a stamp!). It was after the fact that the “appearance, pulse, grimace, activity, respiration” was created. It wasn’t a de novo acronym.
What a low scoring affair. Was hoping for more.
And, I lived in NYC for 3 years, and said “MTA”. I think I rode a bus twice – maybe once.
Oh, and, the Triumvirate clue! Haha!
Three delightful contestants (other than Lisa’s incessant facial contortions), but a very uneven contest punctuated by many wrong answers. On the first DD, the clue gave the APGA portions of the APGAR score, but Lisa didn’t pick up on that and said “speech,” which of course is not measurable in a newborn. I had no clue what each letter stood for, but figured out the R-word.
She was VERY fortunate to get back into the game right at the end. She was up and down like a yoyo the whole game.
Stumpers were very tough. Only one I knew was the Charlie Brown/Senator Pro Tem.
I thought all 3 DDs were easy, for a change,
In 1972 I was a temporary mail carrier for the Times Square PO on W 40th St, adjacent to the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Last time I visited, the PO was gone. I’ve taken many a ride to and from that building, as recently as last October.
the $400 clue in Double Jeopardy they were supposed to get in time was Tough Tough-Guy TV.
Hmmmmm………I came up with the New York Transit Authority for FJ. I don’t suppose that Ken Jennings would have accepted that?
Nope. As far as I know, the MTA operates city buses and subways, and the Long Island RR. Port Authority a different entity. I assume it also oversees the docks. I’m not sure there’s a NY Transit Authority these days, although I think that was a name that preceded the MTA.
I always knew it as the New York Transit Authority, but I guess that I was mistaken.
I can’t believe Nicole missed final jeopardy. She lives in Long island and I’m sure she’s been to the city frequently. She probably overthought it. I expected the contestant from Boston to miss it and she got it correct. Always surprises on Jeopardy. 🤔🤔
Can’t wait to see the show tonight. I want to see Nicole’s reaction. Wow! I’m shocked.
It never occurred to me this morning, but maybe she thought the same two words couldn’t be the FJ answer when they were the answer to the 1950 hint
I just watched the show and Nicole’s reaction was exactly what I expected. It was a look of “I overthought this.” Things like that can and do happen.
Btw, I posted that the non-New Yorker contestant was from Boston but she was introduced as being from Washington DC & VJ has her as being from there as well. Don’t know where I got Boston. 🤣
I must have missed it. What 1950 hint?
Hi Marilyn, it’s this part of the final clue — the USA’s busiest bus terminal, opened in 1950 (referring to the bus terminal). I put their acronyms (PABT & PANYNJ) in the info part to show they start with the same 2 words, but have different endings. Locals just call them both “Port Authority” as far as I’ve ever heard.
That first Roman triumvirate won a Master Minds contestant $10K yesterday.
More coincidences: I just watched “Man in the Attic” starring Jack Palance last night.
After that time they had the Mayim categories with Ken hosting, we wondered what he was thinking about Mara’s resemblance to Mayim 🤣
Thanks VJ my brain was not working.