Final Jeopardy: Games (5-27-19)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/27/2019) in the category “Games” was:

When this game was introduced in 1860, it had squares like Intemperance & Poverty & if you hit the Suicide square your game was over

27x champ James Holzhauer, a pro sports gambler from Las Vegas, NV, exceeded the $2 million mark last Friday with winnings of $2,065,535. In Game 28, he is up against: Monica Foy, a financial planner from San Francisco, CA; and Scott Swartz, a medical student from Berkley, CA.

Round 1 Categories: The Secret Life of Bees – The Year’s Biggest Hit Song – National Flags of the Americas – Verb: Ate ‘Em – Some Times – 1 Letter Is All You Need

James found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Some Times” under the $800 clue on the 12th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $8,200, $7,200 more than Scott in second place. He bet it all and he was RIGHT.

Although this era is associated with Monroe, the joy began in Madison’s administration as the War of 1812 ended. show

WHAT IS THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS?

James finished in the lead with $21,800. Scott was second with $3,000 and Monica was last with $600.

Round 2 Categories: My Cabinet Job – 16-Letter Words – Poetic Geography – Imperial-ism – Actresses – Feeling Art “C”

James found the first Daily Double in “Poetic Geography” under the $2,000 clue on the 4th pick. He was in the lead with $24,200 now, $21,200 more than Scott in second place. He bet $11,022 and he was RIGHT.

“Harlem”, sometimes called “A Dream Deferred”, is probably the most famous poem by this man. show

WHO IS LANGSTON HUGHES?

James found the last Daily Double in “Cabinet Job” under the $2,000 clue on the 14th pick. In the lead with $41,622, he had $38,622 more than Scott in second place. He bet $20,000 and he was RIGHT.

A few names, if one isn’t enough: Albert Fall (who very much did), James Watt, Sally Jewell. show

WHAT IS SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR?

James finished in the lead with a runaway $72,022. Monica was next with $6,600 and Scott was in third place with $6,200.

ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS (THE GAME OF) LIFE?

The original name of the board game created by Milton Bradley in 1860 was “The Checkered Game of Life.” The updated 1960 version called “The Game of Life’ was created to celebrate the game’s 100th anniversary. The game is commonly called “Life”, so any of these responses would be acceptable. The American Institute of Learning and Human Development has a history of the game’s evolution. Also, here is an excerpt from an 1864 review of the original game from Scientific American: “This game represents, as indicated by the name, the checkered journey of life, and is intended to present to the minds of the young, the various vices and virtues with which they will come in contact in their journey through life, and to illustrate the effects of each in a manner that will make a lasting impression on their minds, the whole being embodied in an attractive and entertaining amusement well calculated to interest youth and adults.”

A “National Inventors Hall of Fame” Daily Double featured the Checkered Game of Life on 2/9/2018

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Scott bet $6,199, bringing him up to $12,399.

Monica bet $6,595. She finished in second place with $13,195.

James bet $58,000, winning this one with $130,022. It’s not a new one-day record but it’s a new No. 2 for single game winnings in the Jeopardy! Hall of Fame. James’ 28-day total of $2,195,557 is a new No. 2 in the second column over there, too.

2 triple stumpers from the last round:

ACTRESSES ($1600) On ‘The Handmaid’s Tale”, Ann Dowd plays this imposing & authoritarian aunt

($2000) This singer & actress honors her roots with her signature black & white fashion choices

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “19th Century British Authors”

Cliffs Notes says a book by this man “was the work of a mathematician and logician who wrote as both a humorist and as a limerist” show

WHO IS LEWIS CARROLL?

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