Final Jeopardy: Military Innovations (4-18-17)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/18/2017) in the category “Military Innovations” was:

The U.S. Navy’s photonics mast has replaced this familiar device.

New champ Jamie Newland won $15,500 yesterday. Today he is trying for a repeat win against: Ani Gupta, from Berkeley, CA; and Kimberly Bond, from Cumming, GA.

Round 1 Categories: From Their Inaugural Addresses – In the Dictionary – Grave Matters – State the City – Drinks for Everyone! – Gambling on Vegas Movies

Ani found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Inaugural Addresses” under the $800 clue, with only one clue left after it. He was in the lead with $3,400, $400 more than Jamie in second place. He bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.

“My fellow citizens: the world and we have passed the midway point of a century of continuing challenge. show

WHO IS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER?

Ani finished in the lead with $4,400. Jamie was second with $4,000 and Kimberly was last with $2,200.

Round 2 Categories: Baseball – Power Hitters – Fowl – Dug Out – “Grand” Slam – Double Play

Jamie found the first Daily Double in “‘Grand’ Slam” under the $2,000 clue on the 10th pick. He was in a tie for the lead with Ani. They both had $4,400, $1,800 more than Kimberly in second place. He bet $2,000 and took a guess with Grand Valley. That was WRONG.

It makes sense that this Colorado city is found where the Gunnison & Colorado Rivers meet. show

WHAT IS GRAND JUNCTION?

Jamie found the last Daily Double in “Power Hitters” under the $800 clue, with 8 clues still to go. In the lead with $8,400, he had $2,400 more than Ani in second place. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.

Her forbes.com profile says it all: $2.9 billion… producer, entrepreneur, personalty, philanthropist. show

WHO IS OPRAH WINFREY?

Jamie finished in the lead with $15,200. Ani was next with $8,000 (He broke Jamie’s runaway with the last $2K clue), and Kimberly was in third place with $5,400.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS A PERISCOPE?

In “Not your grandfather’s submarine periscope,” John Keller writes: “We’ve all seen the movies — Run Silent, Run Deep; Das Boot; U-571, and others — in which the submarine captain orders “up periscope,” a big tube rises, the captain quickly unfolds a pair of handles, swivels his hat backwards, and looks through eyepieces…. While this makes for enjoyable movies, rest assured it’s in the ancient past and getting father in the rear-view mirror all the time. Today’s optical devices that enable submerged submarines to see what’s on the surface are far more advanced…. In fact, they’re not even called periscopes anymore. On the U.S. Navy’s most advanced submarines today, these optical devices are called photonics masts.”

Kimberly got it right. She bet $5,399 and finished with $10,799.

Ani thought it was radar. He lost $7,201, and was left with $799.

Jamie wrote down antenna, crossed that out and went with searchlight. He only bet $801. He won his second match with the remaining $14,399 and has a 2-day total of $29,899.

A triple stumper from each round:

GRAVE MATTERS ($1000) Edith Piaf is among those buried in this Paris cemetery

DOUBLE PLAY ($800) “Tartuffe” and “The Imaginary Invalid”

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Bodies of Water”

The Finnish call it Itameri and the Germans call it Ostsee. show

WHAT IS THE BALTIC SEA

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