Final Jeopardy: American Women (6-15-21)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/15/2021) in the category “American Women” was:

During her second marriage, she split her time among homes in New York, New Jersey, Paris & Greece & a yacht

2x champ Katie Sekelsky, a graphic designer from Kent, OH won $16,698 in the last week. In Game 3, the challengers are: Quan Do, a catalyst development engineer orig. from Annandale, VA; and Erin Rion, a director of clinical services from Napanoch, NY.

Round 1 Categories: Face the Performer – Decades in American History – Nautical Words & Phrases – Jumble Gym – I Have to Give You Credit – Having a Positive Altitude

Katie found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “I Have to Give You Credit” under the $1,000 clue, with 7 clues left after it. She was in the lead with $4,400, $1,800 more than Erin in second place. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.

In 1950 the inaugural charge of this first universal credit card fittingly paid for a meal in New York City show

WHAT IS DINERS CLUB?

Katie finished in the lead with $7,400. Quan and Erin were tied for second with $3,600. No clues went uncovered.

Round 2 Categories: The Stage – Home, Sweet Animal Home – Pop Culture Tidbits – Definitely Definitions – 5 Nights – At Freddy’s

Erin found the first Daily Double in “The Stage” under the $1,600 clue, with 14 clues left after it. She was in second place with $7,200 now, $1,000 less than Katie’s lead. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.

In this Albee play, Martha’s husband George is an Associate Professor of History show

WHAT IS “WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF”?

Katie got the last Daily Double in “At Freddy’s” under the $1,600 clue, with 6 clues left after it. In second place with $9,000, she had $200 less than Erin’s lead. She bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.

Frederick The Wise, ruler of Saxony, protected this controversial reformer at Wartburg Castle in 1521 show

WHO IS MARTIN LUTHER?

Katie finished in the lead with $11,600. Erin was next with $9,600 and Quan was in third place with $3,600. No clues went uncovered.

ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS JACKIE KENNEDY ONASSIS?

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy became the widow of President John F. Kennedy when he was assassinated in Dallas, TX on 11/22/1963. Five years later, she married Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, one of the richest men in the world. Now Mrs. Onassis, the former First Lady was promptly dubbed “Jackie O” by the tabloids. The gossips said she married Onassis for his money and he married her for social standing. As the clue says, the couple owned many residences around the world. You can see pictures of some of Jackie’s homes here.

Onassis owned an apartment in Paris, a home in Athens and Skorpios, the private Greek island where the couple were married. His yacht, the Christina, was named after his daughter by his first wife. The Onassis marriage ended when Aristotle died in 1975. His daughter Christina died in 1988, leaving Athina, her only child, sole heir to the Onassis fortune. Athina sold Skorpios to a Russian oligarch in 2013. A recent report says the island is being turned into a luxury resort. As for that yacht, according to this article, you can charter it for about $101K per day, if you’ve got that kind of moolah.

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Quan bet $600 and finished with $4,200.

Erin wagered nothing and finished with $9,600.

Katie bet $7,601 and won the game with $19,201. Her 3-day total is $35,899.

A triple stumper from each round:

FACE THE PERFORMER ($200) Ming-Na Wen was marvelous as Melinda May, a one-woman cavalry on this ABC series

POP CULTURE TIDBITS ($1200) The French film “Les Traducteurs” was inspired by the real-life efforts to translate this novelist’s “Inferno” into many languages

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Landmarks”

Poet Rabindranath Tagore compared this landmark to a teardrop glistening on the cheek of time show

WHAT IS THE TAJ MAHAL?

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