Final Jeopardy: Americana (5-13-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/13/2019) in the category “Americana” was:
John & Priscilla Alden lie in the USA’s oldest maintained cemetery, which like a poem about the couple, is named for this person
The first semi-final match of the 2019 Teachers Tournament features: Joe Rengstorf, a special education teacher from Poulsbo, WA; Trevor Crowell, a Spanish teacher from Mountain View, CA; and Sara DelVillano, an instrumental music teacher from Lanham, MD.
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Round 1 Categories: 3 of a Kind – Colleges & Universities – Parts of Speech – Biography Subjects – Show – Tell
Sara found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Biography Subjects” under the $600 clue on the 6th pick of the round. She was in third place with $400, half of Joe’s lead. She bet the $1,000 allowance and she was RIGHT.
Peter Guralnick’s book about “The Rise of Elvis Presley” is aptly titled “Last Train to” this city. show
Trevor finished in the lead with $5,800. Sara was second with $4,800 and Joe was last with $1,800.
Round 2 Categories: Water, Water Everywhere – Almost Rhymes With Orange – Nobel Peace Prizes – Thing + Body Part = Condition – Colorful Shakespeare – Film in the Blank
Trevor got the first Daily Double in “Colorful Shakespeare” under the $1,600 clue, with 6 clues to go after it. He was in second place with $9,800 now, $3,000 less than Sara’s lead. He bet $2,000 and just threw “King Lear” out there to say something. That was WRONG in question form or not.
At the end of a major battle in this play, the future Henry VII declares, “We will unite the white rose and the red” show
3 clues later, Joe landed on the last Daily Double in “Nobel Peace Prizes” under the $1,200 clue. In third place with $3,400, he had $9,400 less than Sara’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
The Declaration of the Rights of the Child was a pivotal achievement for this organization. show
Sara finished in the lead with $14,400. Trevor was next with $10,600 and Joe was in third place with $6,800.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Captain Myles Standish, John Alden and Priscilla Mullins Alden were passengers on the Mayflower and notable members of the Plymouth Colony. Their remains lie in the Myles Standish Burying Ground in Duxbury, MA. You can see photos of their monuments on Find-a-Grave. The Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem the clue refers to is “The Courtship of Miles Standish,” relating how Priscilla Mullins came to marry John Alden, not Standish. Here’s a link to more background info on the poem.
From Kids Week 2012: AMERICAN HISTORY ($1600) Miles Standish was one of 41 male passengers who signed this document in 1620
Joe thought it was Poe. He lost $1,401, leaving him $5,399.
Trevor went with Arlington. He bet $10,500 and had $100 left.
Sara wrote down “Mary.” That cost her $6,801. The $7,599 she had left won her the first finalist spot.
A triple stumper from each round:
($1000) “The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters” is about the tragic & glamorous lives of Jackie Kennedy & this sis who died in 2019
NOBEL PEACE PRIZES ($2000) The 1931 Nobel Peace Prize was shared by 2 Americans: Nicholas Butler & this Hull House cofounder
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “The Pulitzer Prizes”
In 1947 a journalist from the Wash. Post became the last to win a Pulitzer for Natl. Reporting by this means. show
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Will do if I get a reply.
I did wonder if Joe was thinking of Caroline Kennedy, but then he might also have known she was named after her aunt.
Thanks, I hope you get a reply 🙂
I got a reply from crew clue. They said that the entire title AND subtitle of the book were in quotes, so they wanted the name in the subtitle, Lee. Both here and on the J! Archive, only “The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters” was in quotes, and the subtitle of the book, The Tragic and Glamourous Lives of Jackie and Lee was not, and the clues both places added “Kennedy and this sister” rather than saying Jackie and ____. I know that Fikkle Fame and the J! Archive probably both got it wrong, but I wish I still had the episode on my DVR to double check.
Thanks for letting us know, Viking. I still have the episode on my DVR so I will make a clip of it with the subtitles showing —
in my defense, I did not have the closed captions on when I watched it and only saw the photo (as you will see from the clip). I would assume that the same thing happened for J-Archive
Appreciate you posting the response so hang tight and I’ll come back with a link to the clip
Okay, Viking, here is the link to the clip of the entire biography category. Apparently, even if I had the subtitles on, I would have typed it the same way. idk if the contestants get to see the picture clues in written form.
Per your information, the clue was intended to be like this: ($1000) “The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters” is about “The Tragic & Glamorous Lives” of Jackie Kennedy & this sis who died in 2019
(last link goes to the actual book)
More confusion, if you ask me. As you pointed out, they supplied Jackie’s last name when married to JFK in the clue. Now they’re saying they would have accepted just Lee?
I felt that Jeopardy erred with the Caroline/Lee Radziwill question as well. Below is the message I sent the clue crew:
On the Monday, May 13th game, I feel that Joe Rengstorf gave what should have been considered a correct answer to the $1000 Biography Subjects question.
Joe answered Caroline, which was the birth first name of Caroline Lee Bouvier. I realize that she used Lee as her name for most of her life, but Caroline is technically correct.
While I know that it is standard practice to require a last name for a correct answer in most cases, your clue included her birth last name, so it is certainly reasonable to not have to repeat Bouvier. Would you have ruled the answer incorrect if Joe had responded “Who is Caroline Bouvier?” At a bare minimum, he should have been allowed a chance to complete his answer.
Also, since Lee Radziwill was married three times, would any of her various last names been acceptable (Bouvier, Canfield, Ross, or Radziwill)? Your question does not specify which era they wanted a name from. She was Jackie’s sister her entire life, no matter which name she used.
@Viking, please let us know if you get a reply.
I’m wondering if they will say Caroline Bouvier would require a be more specific. Jackie’s daughter is Caroline Bouvier Kennedy
On the bouvier sisters question……..someone answered “Caroline” and was deemed wrong…….Lee Radziwill’s real first name IS Caroline.
@Trish, that is true but he didn’t say Caroline Radziwill. He just said Caroline so that was a no go.
Jackie Kennedy’s sister’s name was really and officially Caroline
The question doesn’t call for her last name and if it did……Jackie’s official most recent last name was Onassis not Kennedy…….Jackie only had one sibling, one sister…….the contestant was correct when he said Caroline.
Trish, I’m not going to argue with you about it. Write to Jeopardy! if you feel it was such an injustice. Most people know that it’s only okay to give just a person’s first name on Jeopardy! when the person is widely known by that name, like Madonna, Cher or Beyonce.
I think they will tell you that Caroline would have been accepted if it was accompanied by the last name Radziwill. For that matter, just Radziwill would have been accepted. So it was pretty obvious that the player did not know her last name.
Well, we have a double whammy today. Not only did we start a week off with a Triple Stumper, but also produced a very chaotic country because for the first time since post-Martial Law years, not one opposition candidate made it to the Magic 12. It’s 2016 US presidential election all over again, folks. We’re screwed.
@John B./I., @VJ, @Lou, I don’t know how to say this, but I really hate my country, I am angry at my country, and I’m afraid that the majority of the people wanted change through blood, bullying, and blackmail, dragging my country down to its death. May God bless this cursed country.
Joe got his handlebar mustache off.
Congratulations to Sara to being the first finalist. I thought these guys knew something about myles Standish since this is more of a history related question taught by history teachers. Arlington? Really now? That’s a cemetery in dc. What was Trevor referring to with that response in final? Poe is actually an author here.
The clue wanted a cemetery name so why are you so surprised that Trevor gave a cemetery name?
Charlie Brown has heard of Myles Standish. Her sister Sally said “Stanley Miles” thinking that he was a cyclist.
There’s a cartoon with Elmer Fudd as Myles Standish, too. I can only assume that the poem thing threw them. John and Priscilla Alden, Standish — that was grade school stuff when I was a kid. Longfellow’s poems were, too. Even the boys knew “The Village Blacksmith” by heart. lol. But I can see how they wouldn’t be popular anymore.
Maybe, instead of the poem, a reference to the Mayflower or the year 1620 would have worked better.
LINK: 11 more clues from the game
Same here about her. The fellas were riding hard on Mariah and Tara.
This is Sara’s very first correct answer on a Daily Double. She made Mariah and Tara happy when she became a finalist.