Final Jeopardy: Business (4-23-24)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/23/2024) in the category “Business” was:
In the 1850s the .925 sterling silver standard was instituted by this company, the first American one to do so
New champ Nam Nguyen, a playwright from Mississauga, Ontario won $26,999. In Game 2, his challengers are: Lianne Schaffer, a piano teacher & musician from Newton, MA; and Mark Lashley, a professor from Philadelphia, PA.
Round 1 Categories: Presidents & First Ladies – Culture, Popularly – Italian Products – Words & Their Meanings – What Are You Afraid of? – Relax, It’s Math
Lianne found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Italian Products” under the $600 clue on the 11th pick of the round. She was in last place with negative $200, $4,200 less than Nam’s lead. Lianne bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.
This car brand’s name begins with the first phonetic letter of the NATO alphabet & ends with another show
Nam finished in the lead with $8,600. Lianne was in second place with $2,600. Mark was last with $1,800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: The Picture of Someone Named Grey – Shared International Lakes – Name That Author – 20th Century Song, 21st Century Ad – I’ll Remember Late April – “Pro” Nouns
Nam found the first Daily Double in “I’ll Remember Late April” under the $2,000 clue on the 6th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $9,400, $4,800 more than Mark in second place. Nam bet $3,000 and said UNICEF. That was WRONG.
This organization was founded 80 years ago on April 25th to benefit institutions including Howard & Morehouse show
Nam found the last Daily Double in “Name That Author” under the $1,600 clue on the 9th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $8,000, $3,400 more than Mark in second place. Nam bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
“It was porkmaking by machinery, porkmaking by applied mathematics.. but this slaughtering machine ran on” show
Nam finished in the lead at $17,600. Mark was in second place with $9,000. Lianne was last with $7,000. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS TIFFANY?
In 1851, Tiffany signed an agreement to make hollowware pieces with a leading New York silversmith named John C. Moore who used the .925 standard for English sterling. As a result, Tiffany became the first American company to use the .925 standard, which was eventually adopted by the United States. Tiffany and Moore later merged operations and Moore’s son Edward became Chief Designer for Tiffany. Authentic Tiffany silver designs bear the “AG925” mark.
Wikipedia has a page with an overview of all silver standards. Sterling silver, it says, is an alloy of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% copper or other metals. The United Kingdom was using the 92.5% silver sterling standard as early as the 12th century, except for a period of “debasement”, when the silver content had to be lowered due to Henry VIII’s rampant spending. The The Great Debasement led to Henry VIII getting the nickname “Old Coppernose”.🤣
Lianne got it right. She bet it all and doubled her score to $14,000.
Mark got it, too. He bet $8,601 and finished with $17,601.
Nam thought it was Wells Fargo. He lost his $401 bet and finished with $17,199. That made Mark Lashley the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
ITALIAN PRODUCTS ($400) It takes 12 years to make the traditional kind of this 2-word “black gold” from northern Italy
SHARED INTERNATIONAL LAKES ($1200) This Russian hero named for a victory at the Neva River also won a battle on frozen lake Peipus, now shared by Russia & Estonia
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Countries of Africa”
Old maps depicting what’s now this 125,000-square-mile country labeled the area with the French word for “teeth” show
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I got final. T & Co is very near and dear to me. Got my wedding band from there, among other things, most notably, THE dumbest thing I have ever bought in my life. Anything you wear, it’s made for other people to see; even if lingerie, for at least one other person. However, what is one clothing accessory that is never, ever supposed to be seen? How about a collar stay? Then, buy it in silver from Tiffany. Genius! (NOT!)
Also, though, about a decade ago, was in correspondence with Bill Bragger, the Tiffany historian. Nice guy, and has, possibly, THE best job ever.
As ably stated by Howard, as always, Nam was just thisclose to the runaway, and it did cost him. Everyone has their Achilles heel.
The last clue is what prevented Nam from securing a runaway, and it cost him dearly. I didn’t know FJ but guessed Tiffany.
Did not expect Nam to know the UNCF on that DD. (He may have, though, but confused it with UNICEF.) It was better-known in the 1970s, when it devised the famous slogan “A mind is a terrible thing to waste,” or as VP Dan Quayle butchered it, “What a waste it is to lose one’s mind.”
Thought someone would know the (blank) of friction, but it wasn’t the type of clue one could guess.
A slam dunk for Fj. Why have the contestants been shaking hands and hugging at the end of the show now? I mean, this isn’t supposed to be a family get together.
The way I see it, after one group did it, they all thought it was good and followed suit. Kind of like the bring it thing.