Final Jeopardy: Sports in Court (4-26-18)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/26/2018) in the category “Sports in Court” was:
This athlete lost a 1931 lawsuit against the Curtiss Candy Company
New champ Jen Regan, won $14,780 yesterday. In her second game, the challengers are: Carolyn Walsh, from Brooklyn, NY; and Robert Marx, from Nashville, TN.
Round 1 Categories: Spitting – Image – Me, Myself & “I” – Politics – We Love the ’80s – Expressions From Old Brit Lit
Jen found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Politics” under the $400 clue, with one $200 clue remaining after it. She was in second place with $2,200, $5,800 less than Robert’s lead. She bet it all and didn’t have a response so she was WRONG.
In 1913 James Hamilton Lewis became the first Senator in this job of counting votes & rounding up members. show
Robert finished in the lead with $8,000. Carolyn was second with $1,400 and Jen was last at zero.
Round 2 Categories: The Spitting Image – Italian Literature – The Sea Section – Hello, “B.B.” – The Old West – Cheesy Mashups
Carolyn found the first Daily Double in “The Old West” under the $1,200 clue on the 15th pick. She was in second place with $4,200 at this point, $9,000 less than Robert’s lead. She bet $4,000 and drew a blank so she was WRONG.
The source of the Old West term “buckaroo”, it’s Spanish for cowboy. show
Carolyn found the last Daily Double in “Italian Literature” under the $1,600 clue, with 5 clues left after it. In second place with $6,600, she had $5,000 less than Robert’s lead. She bet $4,000 and, this time, she was RIGHT.
The 1st known one was written c. 1235 by Giacomo da Lentini; Petrarch wrote several to the unattainable Laura. show
Robert finished in the lead with $12,800. Carolyn was next with $10,600 and Jen was in third place with $5,200.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
In 1920, the Curtiss Candy Company “coincidentally” capitalized on the celebrity of baseball’s Babe Ruth by renaming its “Kandy Kake” product “Baby Ruth,” Curtis Candy founder, Otto Schnering tried and failed to get Ruth’s endorsement. In 1926, Babe Ruth tried to go into the candy business and use his own name himself. When the George H. Ruth Candy Company tried to trademark its own creation (“Ruth’s Home Run Bar” and “Babe Ruth’s Own Candy”), it was sued for copyright infringement by the Curtiss Candy Company, and lost due to what is known in trademark disputes as “the likelihood of confusion.” In 1931, the candy company bearing Babe Ruth’s name appealed that ruling and lost again.
Veteranscribe’s Blog has a great post on the “Babe and the Bar,” with info on the dubious connection to “Baby Ruth” Cleveland and some extra tidbits on other candy bar names.
Jen got it right. She bet $2,500, to finish with $7,700.
Carolyn didn’t have a response and she didn’t bet anything either. She stayed at $10,600.
Robert wrote down “Cane,” for Candy Cane, he explained. He lost his $8,201 bet so he landed in third place with $4,599. Carolyn Walsh is the new Jeopardy! champ.
Reversal: IMAGE ($200) No, that movie battle scene didn’t really have $50,000 extras– too expensive! They used CGI, short for this — Carolyn’s response of computer graphic imaging was rejected and Robert’s computer generated image was accepted. Carolyn got back $400 on reversal.
A triple stumper from each round:
IMAGE ($1000) In the 1920s, this American TV pioneer created the first video camera and called it an image dissector
THE OLD WEST ($1600) The 1850s discovery of this “Lode” named for a prospector set off a silver rush in Nevada
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Islands”
The Spanish name of these islands is Islas de Sotavento; their French name is Iles Sous-le-Vent. show
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I really hate it when the show has difficult names to pronounce like Mnuchin, and then Trebek is a pedantic stickler when a person has the slightest bit of trouble with the pronunciation. IMO, I believe that players be given leeway when a difficult name arises.
@ Albert I agree, but then you open a can of worms. What exactly IS a “difficult” pronunciation? What one considers easy is a reason for somebody else to twist his tongue 100 times over? I guess it depends what your native tongue is, how many languages you speak, how often a particular word is used in daily conversations etc. Unfortunately there is no universal standard.
How is Mnuchin pronounced anyway? Is the M silent or the N silent or are both M & N pronounced?
It’s not as if the name Mnuchin has been around as long as the name Pepys, where at least 98% of adult Jeopardy players know that Pepys rhymes with ‘sheep’.
I’m so so happy for Carolyn. Began to dislike Robert when he started with his, “Can I have the ______ for $____ please Alex?” Wasting precious seconds. You’re on tv, save your pseudo-politeness for the real world. And Carolyn has such a nice smile and bubbly personality.
VJ, did you notice Alex’s error in explaining the FJ answer where he claimed that Babe Ruth sued the candy company over the unauthorized use of his name? As I mentioned in my CotD post and you explain above, it was Curtiss Candy that sued Ruth for copyright infringement when he launched his own brand of Babe Ruth candy bars.
yes I did, Nell. LOL!! Actually a lot of sites say that the Babe sued Curtiss Candy but I think the site I linked to made it clear that the 1931 action was an appeal of the 1926 ruling
Haha, VJ. Trust me, unless you are suffering from insomnia, you DO NOT want me to start expounding on case law. Suffice to say that most of those sites are wrong. The Babe appealed the denial of his trademark application to the Copyright and Patent Court where he lost, but he never brought suit against Curtiss Candy for unauthorized use of his name.
I’m going to pipe down now.😀
Wednesday night’s group and tonight’s group were not very strong. I would have won yesterday and today. I really hope I am picked for an in-person audition.
I’m glad Jen got final but I am also.commending Carolyn for not betting anything since I hope she makes a run of wins like Alan Lin did last year VJ. I know she is a software engineer so she has to have great knowledge. Plus where did candy cane come from? Was that a mistake on Robert’s part?
@Lou, idk, I guess Robert couldn’t make the right connection and took a shot with that.
LINK: 9 more clues from the match
Carolyn Walsh looks familiar. There was a character also named Carolyn Walsh on the movie Racing Stripes which was a clue yesterday. In that movie before the beginning Channing’s mother Carolyn died in a horse race after her horse stumbled causing her father Nolan to be a widow and not to train horses anymore until he looks at the picture of Tucker who was the same age as Stripes. Hayden Panettiere from Disney’s A Bug’s Life, Ice Princess, and Remember the Titans played Channing while her little brother Jansen played Stripes himself younger. Frankie Muniz from My Dog Skip, Cody Banks, and Malcom in the Middle played Stripes.
Judging from the bets, the ladies were not too comfy with the category.
But congratulations to Carolyn, she did instinctively the right thing (maybe she also contemplated it). It was a looooong time ago, so I am really not surprised.
@NELL
And I ESPECIALLY liked your reasoning in the second part of your post. Very well done!!!
Thank you, John. That’s high praise coming from you.
And congrats back at ya for your correct prediction. This is twice this week you and I have been on the same wavelength.