Final Jeopardy: Words of the 2000s (5-3-19)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/3/2019) in the category “Words of the 2000s” was:

In 2008 Time Magazine described this new practice as “one part social networking and one part capital accumulation”

21x champ James Holzhauer, a pro sports gambler from Las Vegas, NV, has won $$1,608,630. In Game 22, he is up against: Pete Vanderhyden, an airline pilot from Murrieta, CA; and Carol Hansen, a retired database administrator from San Francisco, CA.

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Round 1 Categories: TV Shows by Couple – Begins & Ends With “W” – Classic Literature – Sci-fi Stuff – Nobody Expects – The Spinach Acquisition

James found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Classic Literature” under the $1,000 clue on the very first pick of the round. Nobody had a sou. He bet the $1,000 house limit and he was RIGHT.

Part One of “Les Miserables” is “Fantine”; Part Two is named for this daughter of hers. show

WHO IS COSETTE?

James finished in the lead with $13,200. Carol was second with $1,800 and Pete was last with $1,400.

Round 2 Categories: Classical Dance Mix – Government & Politics – World Cities – A Bunch of Hooey! – Things That Happened – Getting All Science “E”

James found the first Daily Double in “Getting All Science ‘E'” under the $1,200 clue on the 12th pick. He was in the lead with $24,400 now. Pete and Carol were tied at $1,400. He bet $11,381 and he was RIGHT..

Proprioception is a synonym for this sense of balance. show

WHAT IS EQUILIBRIUM?

Carol found the last Daily Double in “Government & Politics” under the $1,200 clue, with 11 clues left after it. In second place with $4,200, she had $37,981‬ less than James in the lead. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.

He became U.S. Attorney General in 2019, 27 years after taking the job for the first time. show

WHO IS WILLIAM BARR?

James finished in the lead with a runaway $47,381. Carol was next with $5,800 and Pete was in third place with $4,600.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS CROWDFUNDING?

Here’s a link to the 2008 Time Magazine article that says: “One part social networking and one part capital accumulation, crowdfunding websites seek to harness the enthusiasm–and pocket money–of virtual strangers, promising them a cut of the returns.” Fundable.com has a timeline of crowdfunding since 1997 when, it says, “a British rock band funded their reunion tour through online donations from fans.” However, the practice is actually centuries old, says socialmediaweek. Michael Sullivan is credited with coining the term crowdfunding when he launched fundavlog in 2006. A few years later, the term became more widely known. It took until 2015 for crowdfunding to make it into the OED.

Only one other clue on it from 7/21/2016 (Pranjal Vachaspati’s 3rd game): NEW TO THE OED ($400) The practice of financing “a project or venture by raising money from a large number of people”

Pete went with online banking. He bet and lost it all.

Carol was trying to think of something that started with cyber. She lost her $3,401 bet, landing in second place with $2,399.

James got it right. He bet $35,000 and won the game with $82,381. His 22-day total is $1,691,008.

A triple stumper from each round:

THE SPINACH ACQUISITION ($800) Each day Berghoff’s Restaurant in Chicago makes a giant cauldron of delicious spinach in this form

A BUNCH OF HOOEY! ($1600) “Stuff and” this is an idiom to be interjected when you hear something untrue

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Monarchs”

In 2016 Elizabeth II became the world’s longest-reigning living monarch when this country’s king died after a 70-year reign. show

WHAT IS THAILAND?

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