Final Jeopardy: Presidential Medal of Freedom Winners (3-5-15)
The Final Jeopardy question (3/5/2015), in the category “Presidential Medal of Freedom Winners” was:
She was called a “trailblazer for America’s daughters” when she won in 2012, a century after founding an organization.
New champ Laura Lorson won $11,400 yesterday. Her challengers today are: Rebecca Press Schwartz, from New York, NY; and Austin Roberts, originally from Spring, TX.
Round 1: Rebecca found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Throwing Shade” under the $600 clue. This was her second pick in the round. She had $600, $3,200 less than Austin’s lead. She bet the $1,000 allowance and she was RIGHT.
The 300-foot-tall tree called the coast this lives up to its name: it’s rarely found more than 50 miles inland. show
Austin finished in the lead with $9,000. Laura was second with $4,000 and Rebecca was last with $2,600.
Round 2: Austin found the first Daily Double in “Strong as an ‘ux'” under the $2,000 clue. He was in the lead with $12,600, $1,000 more than Laura in second place. He bet $4,000 but couldn’t come up with a guess so he was WRONG.
This word comes from the Latin for “side by side”. show
Austin found the last Daily Double in “Monster Manual” under the $2,000 clue. He was in second place with $13,800, but only $600 behind Laura’s lead. He bet $3,000 and thought it was the chimera. That was WRONG.
In “The Once and Future King” this beast is described as “falco leonis serpentis.” show
Laura finished in the lead with $18,000. Austin was next with $11,200 and Rebecca was in third place with $6,600.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
“Born in 1860, [Juliette Gordon] Low founded the Girl Scouts in 1912. The organization strives to teach girls self-reliance and resourcefulness. It also encourages girls to seek fulfillment in the professional world and to become active citizens in their communities. Since 1912, the Girl Scouts has grown into the largest educational organization for girls and has had over 50 million members. Low died in 1927. ” (2012 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients Press Release)
Rebecca showed she knew who it was with “the founder of the Girl Scouts” but couldn’t come up with her name. That cost her $3,400 and left her with $3,200.
Austin came up with “Johnson.” He lost his $11,000 bet, finishing with $200.
Laura got it right. She bet $4,000 and won this match with $22,000. Her 2-day total is $33,400.
During the chat, Laura talked about her passion for sour dough bread-making and schooled Alex on how “true French bread basically begins as sour dough…”
2 years ago:: NONE of the players got this FJ in “The Oscars”
Brother & sister who were both nominated for 1969 Oscars: he for a screenplay, she for Best Actress; they didn’t win. show
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Many observant women wear wigs but I guess Mrs. Schwartz favors hats.
Thank you for your website.
Ironically, on a day when an observant woman — as I am — appears on Jeopardy!, it’s a Jewish festival and I miss the show. I appreciate the information you provide to help recap.
The game will probably be on youtube in a couple of days if you don’t get to see it otherwise. There are a bunch of pictures floating around of Rebecca already though because of the way she was shaking her buzzer up and down.
So VJ, did you like that whole category about Byron, or does he now belong in the same sack as “that other poet whose name we shall not mention?” :):)
I liked it, I don’t think Byron is overdone yet. But I liked the 1920s Slang category much better (only knew a few but it was fun).
I liked the Teddy Ruxspin clue, too. :):)
I never knew the cute Teddy. 🙂
I gotta ask: what did Rebecca talk about during the chat (I missed it)? Based on the “French/bohemian” way she was dressed, I’m very curious.
Alex said she was wearing a hat because she is an “observant Jewish married lady” then asked her how many kids she has. She said 5 and proceeded to give their names and ages: Bara, 14; Hava, 12; Bria, 10; Rena, 5; and Yosef, 3. She said that Yosef says “this is Deopardy!” when he watches the show with her. Alex said he is a future Johnny Gilbert and she should have him contact them in a few years.
(Apologies to Rebecca for any misspellings that I got from cc)
Thanks, VJ (boy, you have patience, to get all this info for me). 🙂
Cute – I love the kids names 🙂 I also liked the combination hat/scarf she was wearing.
yes, her look actually kinda went with the 1920s slang category.
In case anyone doubts there’s a lot of luck involved in Jeopardy (which is why I would never go on), yesterday I got all three DD’s and the FJ right, and today I got all four of them wrong. And today, not yesterday, is the kind of day I’d wind up on the show.
Yup. Probably a good bet Austin felt that way with his DDs and FJ, but Rebecca probably felt even worse — knowing the answer but not being able to pull up even the last name.
And Laura was lucky that Austin was unlucky
with his FJ.
She certainly was. Austin was playing so well that I felt bad when the DDs didn’t go his way, but since he didn’t know FJ, I felt better because he probably would have lost anyway even if he got his DDs.
austin would have lost anyway, but not having a clue in a classic language (latin) cost him a swing of 14 K in 2 dd clues.
since laura was in the lead and was the only one to get fj right i would say: a deserved win and congratulations.
ironically, the word “griffin” is most likely derived from the ancient greek, although the description is latin.
You’ll notice that had Austin got it right, Laura would have lost by $200, or $400 if Austin doubled up.
yes, i’m glad you brought it up first. if i bet 4.000 i might as well bet 4.800 (rebecca could not have gone higher than 13,200).
looks like laura – rightfully though- was not too comfy with yesterday’s and today’s fj categories.out of the 6 fj answers for the past 2 days only ONE was correct: laura’s answer today.
we are 5/12 in fj so far this week and that only because of the triple solve on monday, which did strike me as strange. the last 3 days: 2/9 !! about presidents (yesterday ) ZERO. and it was not the most difficult clue about presidents, the solutions were limited. it had to be either ike,jfk or lbj. all 3 managed to miss jfk. i was always under the impression that “american presidents” is one of the first categories you beef up on first and foremost, together with shakespeare?