Final Jeopardy: 20th Century History (4-23-25)
The Final Jeopardy question (4/23/2025) in the category “20th Century History” was:
A 1919 Punch cartoon titled ‘The Gap in the Bridge’ showed Uncle Sam sleeping on the missing keystone of this
3x champ Liam Starnes, an undergraduate student from Barrington, IL, has now won $72,202. In Game 4, Liam takes on these two players: Abigail Arnold, an academic administrator from Waltham, MA; and Eric Cordova, a compliance specialist from Chicago, IL.
Coincidence Department: $72,202 is the exact same amount that 6x champ Andrew Hayes had won by the beginning of his 4th game.
Round 1 Categories: Back When the Animals Were Young – Compound Words – Also a Car Part – Difficult but Funny Tv Characters – 2024 in the Rearview Mirror – Making Some Pour Decisions
Abigail found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Also a Car Part” under the $1,000 with 8 clues left after it. She was in the lead with $7,800, $5,600 more than Liam in second place. Abigail made it a true Daily Double and guessed program. That was WRONG.
Something broadcast by a television network, for example show
Liam finished in the lead with $4,200. Eric was second with $1,200 and Abigail was last with $400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: A Premiere Musical Event – World Geography – Actors by the Films They Directed – 19th Century Lit – Boats & Ships – Ends With “A-G-E”
Liam found the first Daily Double in “World Geography” under the $1,600 clue on the 6th pick of the round. He was in second place with $4,600, $600 less than Abigail’s lead. Liam made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
The northernmost summer Olympics were held in this European City in 1952 show
Liam found the last Daily Double in “Boats & Ships” under the $800 clue on the 21st pick of the round. He was in the lead with $14,000 now, $800 more than Abigail in second place. Liam bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.
On July 24, 1857 Henry David Thoreau & 2 others set off on Moosehead Lake in an 18-foot one of these show
Liam finished in the lead with $18,800. Abigail was second with $14,000 . Eric’s score was $0 so it was the end of the line for him. All clues were shown.
NEITHER contestant left in Final Jeopardy! got it right.
WHAT IS THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS?
Punch, or The London Charivari, was a long-running British magazine famous for political satire and humorous commentary, often conveyed with cartoons. The 1919 cartoon in today’s clue refers to a cartoon that lampooned the United States for refusing to join the League of Nations, an organization that was in fact proposed by then President Woodrow Wilson. The whys and wherefore are explained in detail by Jamie Portman, a former principal in the UK.
Project Gutenberg has a bunch of Punch magazines freely available
Abigail went with London Bridge. She lost $4,801 and finished with $9,199.
Liam thought it was the Golden Gate Bridge. He lost $9,201 but won the game with $9,599, so Liam now has a 4-day total of $81,801.
A triple stumper from each round:
A PREMIERE MUSICAL EVENT ($2000) Drunk conductor Alexander Glazunov helped wreck the 1897 premiere of the 1st symphony by this Russian composer & piano virtuoso
BOATS & SHIPS ($2000) Change the last syllable in monorail to get this kind of sailing boat whose advantages vs. a catamaran are debated
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “HOLLYWOOD HISTORY”
Last name of 3 men who missed the 1927 premiere of “The Jazz Singer” because a 4th of that name had died hours before show
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Because I knew the US was not part of the League of Nations, that was my response but honestly, I thought it was dead wrong. Thought the League was more of a 1930s thing.
Very surprised none of the players didn’t get that FJ from two years ago. Sporty Corvette was easy. Knew the Apollo 13 director but no clue on the other two.
I was hoping that Eric would make it to the FJ, but he just couldn’t quite get into the positive territory. Anyways, the clues in FJ seemed to have been referring to a bridge (or at least that was what I could make out of the riddle). In that regard, I went for the London Bridge.
So Eric is the latest contestant to get dismissed before Final J! as two incorrect responses sunked his chances and he finished the Double Jeopardy round with a gooseegg score.
In other words, congrats to Liam on winning his fourth game in a close match against Abigail. Although Abigail herself did not actually win the game, she would very likely be the perfect candidate to qualify for Second Chance.
Abigail definitely a strong player, may question that gutsy daily double wager
You know, they tend to go all in on the first round DD and I guess that’s okay before the first break.
After that, I think they should at least try to hang on to half their score. I thought Abigail might have had a runaway if she had held back 5K.
All the same, Abigail showed what a great player she is, getting the lead back for a while after that.
Eric needed to get that last clue in order to make it to FJ! but he fell short and you can see on that last clue that all three players were ringing in at the same time but Abigail got it. With 25 correct responses, Abigail has to be a candidate for next season’s Second Chance.
Ugh! That was a really rough FJ! Back in the day, when a clue like that showed up in FJ!, they would include an image of the cartoon, blanking out the words League of Nations.
There really wasn’t anything in the clue from which to infer a metaphorical rather than a literal bridge.