Final Jeopardy: History (4-13-22)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/13/2022) in the category “History” was:

Intimately familiar with World War I, Churchill considered this war from some 150 years before the “first world war”

6x champ Mattea Roach, a tutor from Toronto, Ontario, has won $148,000. In Game 7, she takes on these two players: Rachel Skytt, a bookseller from Burbank, CA; and Adam Wallick, an airline planning analyst from Chicago, IL.

Round 1 Categories: A Reign of Error – Household Initials – A Number between 2 & 115 – Book ‘Em – At the Movies – Ends in Double Letters

Adam found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “A Number Between 2 & 115” under the $800 clue on the 9th pick of the round. He was in second place with $400, $200 less than Mattea’s lead. Adam made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.

Feb. 6, 2022 began Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, marking this many years on the throne show

WHAT IS 70?

Mattea finished in the lead with $7,200. Rachel was second with $4,000 and Adam was last with $2,000. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: Around the USA – Oh Me of Little Faith – Catch the TV Musical Act – Bat Quiz – What the Letter Says – Sincerely Yours

Adam found the first Daily Double in “Around the USA” under the $2,000 clue on the third pick of the round. He was in third place with $1,600, $5,600 less than Mattea’s lead. Adam bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.

Southwest of Tallahassee, this community got the same name as a Central American capital in 1909, when its people were excited about possible trade show

WHAT IS PANAMA CITY?

Adam got the last Daily Double in “What the Letter Says” under the $800 clue with four clues left after it. He was in third place with $6,000, $13,200 less than Mattea’s lead. Adam bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.

In 1855 she wrote a friend in England apologizing for not writing sooner but the Crimean War wounded were keeping her busy show

WHO IS FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE?

Mattea finished in the lead with $20,400. Adam was second with $10,200 and Rachel was last with $8,000. All clues were shown.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS THE SEVEN YEARS’ WAR?

From americanheritage.com: “Historians usually call it the Seven Years’ War. Modern Americans, recalling a few disconnected episodes…know it as the French and Indian War. Neither name communicates the conflict’s immensity and importance. Winston Churchill came closer in The History of the English-Speaking Peoples when he called it ‘a world war—the first in history,’ noting that unlike the previous Anglo-French wars, this time ‘the prize would be something more than a rearrangement of frontiers and a redistribution of fortresses and sugar islands.'”

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Rachel went with the French and Indian War, the name the conflict is known as in the USA. That was not accepted because it only refers to the North American theater of the war. Rachel bet nothing, standing pat at $8,000.

Adam had the same response. He bet and lost his whole $10,200.

Mattea got it right with “Seven Years’ War.” She bet $1.00 and won the game with $20,401. Her 7-day total is $168,401.

A triple stumper from each round:

BOOK ‘EM ($800) African-American actress & writer Alice Childress is known for her young adult novel “A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But” this

WHAT THE LETTER SAYS ($2000) A 1496 letter authorizes him & his son Sebastian to sail for England & claim isles, regions & “provinces of heathen & infidels”

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “American Authors”

She published under her middle name; her first name was Nelle, Ellen backward in honor of her grandmother Ellen Finch show

WHO IS HARPER LEE?

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