Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Eponyms (4-3-23)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/3/2023) in the category “20th Century Eponyms” was:

A 1940 headline about this included “Failure”, “Liability When It Came to Offense” & “Stout Hearts No Match for Tanks”

2x champ Sharon Stone, a manager from Round Rock, TX won $33,600 last week. In Game 3, she is up against: Crystal Zhao, a tech consultant from Bloomington, MN; and Dan Bayer, a college administrator orig. from Strasburg, OH.

Round 1 Categories: President Grover Cleveland’s Non-Consecutive World – Horrors! – How Does It Fasten? – Rocks & Minerals – You’re Gonna Sing – Like a Bird

Crystal found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Rocks & Minerals” under the $1,000 clue with 6 clues left after it. She was in the lead with $4,600, $1,000 more than Dan in second place. Crystal bet $2,000 but drew a blank so she was WRONG.

In 2019 a giant raft of this rock measuring more than 50 square miles was found floating in the pacific near Tonga show

WHAT IS PUMICE?

Dan finished in the lead with $5,400. Sharon was second with $3,400. Crystal was last with $2,600. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: The Superlative Earth – Their Lesser-Known Books – National Heroes – Common Bond Cuisine – TV – Adjective Then Noun

Sharon found the first Daily Double in “Adjective Then Noun” under the $1,600 clue with 8 clues left after it. She was in second place with $11,400, $1,600 less than Crystal’s lead. Sharon bet $2,500. She got half of it but the other half was WRONG.

The path to quick success, as in “Jones is on” it “to the top”; make the combo a verb & it means to speed up a process show

WHAT IS FAST TRACK?
Sharon said “fast escalator”

Dan got the last Daily Double in “National Heroes” under the $2,000 with 2 clues left after it. In second place with $10,200, he had $2,400 less than Crystal’s lead. Dan bet $3,000 and guessed New Zealand. That was WRONG.

A hero of this island nation where he was born, Marcus Garvey has been proposed to appear on its $100 bill show

WHAT IS JAMAICA?

Crystal finished in the lead with $11,000. Sharon was second with $8,900. Dan was last with $7,200. All clues were shown.

NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS THE MAGINOT LINE?

The words in today’s final clue were in this New York Times 6/19/1940 headline: “Failure of French Military Policy Is Laid to Maginot Fortifications; Devised Purely for Defense, Line Proved to Be Liability When It Came to Offense– Stout Hearts No Match for Tanks”. (On this page, it says you have to be a NYT subscriber to access the entire article.)

The Maginot Line (Ligne Maginot) is a series of underground bunkers along France’s border with Germany. It was intended to protect France from German invasions at an exorbitant cost in the billions. In June 1940, the Germans conquered France, cutting through Belgium and Luxembourg via the Ardennes Forest thereby circumventing the Maginot Line. As a result, the Maginot Line became a joke and a synonym for failure, although the Army says it had its uses after WWII, “as part of a Cold War defense against any possible Warsaw Pact invasion.”Learn more.

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Dan wrote down something that began with W. Ken couldn’t read it and neither could we. He lost $5,400 and finished with $1,800.

Sharon had no response. She lost $5,600 and finished with $3,300.

Crystal’s response was a rifle. She lost $6,801 but won the game with the remaining $4,199. Crystal Zhao is the new Jeopardy! champ.

2 triple stumpers from the last round:

NATIONAL HEROES ($1200) This national hero was first radicalized during the Ten Years War of 1868-1878 & died in his fight for Cuban independence in 1895

ADJECTIVE THEN NOUN ($2000) Political scientist Joseph Nye’s term for international influence without wielding force

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Book to Screen”

Horrified by the 1964 movie musical from her work, she okayed a U.K. stage version as long as “no Americans” were involved. show

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