Final Jeopardy: U.S. National Memorials (5-17-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/17/2023) in the category “U.S. National Memorials” was:
Efforts recently began to reintroduce 2 species of oyster to help restore the contaminated waters of this, a national memorial
5x champ Ben Chan, a philosophy professor from Green Bay, WI, won $157,000 so far. In Game 6, he takes on these two players: Brittani Seagren, a nurse practitioner from Bourbonnais, IL; and David Lu, a mail processing clerk from Los Angeles, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Great Brits – “X” in the City – Pantomime Horse – That’s Our Motto! – Y’Know, the Movie Where… – We’re Full of Questions
Ben found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “That’s Our Motto!” under the $800 clue on the 4th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $1,400, $400 more than Brittani in second place. Ben bet $1,000 and said MIT. That was WRONG.
Of this Massachusetts University translating from Hebrew: “Truth, even unto its innermost parts” show
Ben finished in the lead with $8,400. Brittani was second with $3,200. David was last with $2,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Podcasts – U.S. Presidential Elections – Scientific Devices & Instruments – Poe”m”s – Recent Pop Music – Jeopardy! After Dark
Ben found the first Daily Double in “U.S. Presidential Elections” under the $1,200 clue on the 5th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $13,200, $10,000 more than Brittani in second place. Ben bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.
In 1852 this political party nominated war hero Gen. Winfield Scott, its last candidate for the job, before disbanding show
Ben got the last Daily Double in “Podcasts” under the $1,600 clue with 11 clues to go after it. He was in the lead with $20,600 now, $18,600 more than Brittani in second place. Ben bet $5 and he was RIGHT.
Season 1, Episode 6 of this Sarah Koenig-hosted podcast was called “The Case Against Adnan Syed” show
Ben finished in the lead with a runaway $24,205. David was second with $1,200. Brittani was last with $400. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS PEARL HARBOR?
From Waterkeeper Alliance: “Hawai‘i’s Pearl Harbor was named for its oysters, which were once so plentiful that Native Hawaiians named the area Wai Momi, or ‘Pearl Waters.’ Sadly, the number of wild native oysters has declined steadily over the last century. In response, O‘ahu Waterkeeper, the U.S. Navy, and the Pacific Aquaculture & Coastal Resources Center at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo have planted more than 10,000 native oysters at Pearl Harbor and four other locations around the island. These oysters have already begun to reproduce, exponentially expanding the project’s impact.” The benefits of the oyster project are multifold such as cleaning up contaminants in the waters; building future carbon sinks; and teaching schoolchildren about bioremediation.
Learn more of Pearl Harbor’s history on the National Park Service website.
Brittani got it right. She bet $399 and finished with $799.
David went with Three Mile Island. That cost him $200 and left him with $1,000.
Ben also got it right. He bet $795 and won the game with $25,000. His 6-day total is $182,000.
A triple stumper from each round:
PODCASTS ($1200) I’m Matt Rogers, and yes, I do have a podcast. Thank you for asking. It’s “Las Culturista” and rule of culture No. l: this co-host of mine is a national treasure and was Emmy-nominated for “Saturday Night Live” in 2022
RECENT POP MUSIC ($1600) “Ctrl” and “SOS” are albums by her seen here (image)
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “World’s Fairs”
The theme of Seattle’s 1962 World’s Fair was “Man in the” this era show
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But… Jeopardy has no “questions”. The answers are give and the contestants have to come up with the questions.
So Final Jeopardy is the final Answer, not the final question.
Wow, those stumpers are brain-crushers, all but the Jimmie Foxx one.
Those are all Masters/GOATs/ToC-caliber questions.
At least I got the first two DDs and FJ.
During regular Jeopardy today, and just before the commercial break, David’s response to “What is it?” in French was “Qu’est-ce que c’est?”, and yet Mayim Bailek wouldn’t accept it. Actually, that was exactly my response too.
As for the “National Memorials” in FJ, well goodness gracious, the Arizona went down 82 years ago, and the waters at Pearl Harbor are still polluted from the oil spill? I mean, give me a break! Anyways, I came up with Prudhoe Bay for lack of a better choice.
Rick, David did not say the French question in a way that Mayim could give him credit for — he ended his phrase with “que”.
I’m leaving your comment the way it is for now, but please don’t give the answers to triple stumpers in the comments to give folks who didn’t see the game a chance to answer the clue (it is on page 2)
I toured Pearl Harbor in 2015 and learned that the oil was still leaking then, so that solved FJ for me.
Very odd to see Ben so far ahead yet wager so little in FJ. Not like him. He bet $19K on Monday, also in a runaway game.
I went with Plymouth Bay on the final. I’m not happy that I missed this one, seems pretty easy.
I said Massachusetts Bay. Irony is, I lived in HI; that didn’t even click with me.
Concur (as usual) with Howard: those TS were tough. As for the French, he said it wrong, that’s all there is. Phonetically, it’s “kess kuh say”, and he didn’t say that.
And, I’ll give it to Ben: he has some weird cadence to his speech.
The challengers were barely on the plus side. Ben is the first player to have runaways in his first 6 games.