Final Jeopardy: Diaries & Journals (4-24-14)
The Final Jeopardy question (4/24/2014), in the category “Diaries & Journals” was:
This archaeologist’s diary for Nov. 26, 1922 mentions 2 “ebony-black effigies of a king, gold sandalled”.
3-day champ Julia Collins has amassed $53,105 in winnings so far. In her 4th game, she competes against these two players: Grace Riley, from Fort Smith, AK; and James Behrens, from San Diego, CA.
Round 1: Grace found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “The Woman Who Wrote…” under the $1,000 clue. She was in second place with $2,800, $600 behind James’ lead. She bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.
In 1882, “An Official History of the Red Cross”. show
Julia finished in the lead with $8,400. Grace was second with $5,000 and James was last with $2,400.
Round 2: Julia found the first Daily Double in “State of the Art” under the $2,000 clue. She was in the lead with $10,800, $3,400 more than Grace in second place. She bet $2,000 and guessed New York. That was WRONG.
Degas’ portrait of his American cousin Estelle, who lived there. show
Julia found the last Daily Double in “Leo the Pope” under the $1,200 clue. In the lead with $13,200, she now had $5,000 more than Grace in second place. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
Leo XIII’s 25-year reign as Pope was the 3rd longest in papal history, following Piux IX & this more recent Pope. show
Julia finished in the lead with $20,800, getting the lock with the very last clue in “Singapore”. James was next with $10,000 and Grace was in third place with $9,400.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
On Nov. 26, 1922, Howard Carter entered the tomb of the Egyptian boy king, Tutankhamun, for the first time. “Open second doorway about 2 pm,” Carter wrote in his journal. In his diary, he recorded what happened next: “It was sometime before one could see, the hot air escaping caused the candle to flicker, but as soon as one’s eyes became accustomed to the glimmer of light the interior of the chamber gradually loomed before one, with its strange and wonderful medley of extraordinary and beautiful objects heaped upon one another.” Carter’s journal and diary are transcribed online on (the Griffith Institute, Oxford’s website, but if you click on the date, you can see the original handwritten (and hard to read) entries.
Grace got it right. She doubled her money and finished with $18,800.
James wrote down “Leakey.” That cost him $8,801 and he finished with $1,199.
Julia thought it was Lord Carnarvon, who was footing the bills and not keeping a diary. She lost $795 but still won the game with $20,005. Her 4-day total is $73,110.
2 years ago:: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Websites”
It launched its first offer on October 22, 2008: a two-for-one pizza deal in Chicago. show
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CYberial cigar cuatro for Julia for winning her fourth game, which she got in large part by getting the last clue in the round to break the lock, given how FJ! went.
I want to say that I like your daily “cigar” comment to the winner, myself. I hope you keep ’em going!
You know they tell the contestants to smile for their closeups at the beginning of the show. They must tell them to give a BIG smile, too.
For most of them, the smiles look forced and phony. Sometimes the person looks positively demented, as happened to Grace today. She made up for it, though, by being a good player.
Oh yes, I agree a lot of those smiles look forced! I know exactly what you mean about some of the “crazy” and “demented” smiles, as well. I can’t think of any off the top of my head, and it’s late, but there’s been so many. Grace was a great player.. You know she had to feel like crap, though… Knowing she was just one correct clue away from breaking that lock, and thus winning the game today on a single get in FJ! I felt so badly for her… But I was happy for the champ. Maybe she can secure one more win.
#4, although she missed FJ for the first time. she made up for it with a runaway though.
the” leo the pope” DD was kind of cheeky, since the right response was only indirectly related to leo XIII…..
“how long did he reign” or simply “popes” would not have been that misleading i think. but to go from leo XIII and end up with john paul II?? especially since the category was named “leo the pope”. even more impressive that julia got it anyway, although j.p. II was kind of a given. still, the category should have been named differently. however: congratulations again!
well, she’s quick on the buzzer, that’s for sure, and cool under pressure.
As for the DDs, I agree the pope one was indirect, but I guess they figured no one would know it at all if they asked for the longest reigning Leo by number. Maybe they could have went with a Leo XIII fact – 3 years of his 25 year papacy took place in this century.
I thought the Degas DD was even easier than the pope one.
agree. although born french, he was creole.
and how many “french states do we have in the u.s.? they were both easy. if you have SOME idea about r.c.,there was only one pope
“recently” whose reign was just 5 years short of the record. strange how you remember things. i was in barbados when i heard that paul VI had died, j.p. I was elected, died a little over a month later and j.p. II became pope. the year of the 3 popes…