Final Jeopardy: Brands (6-15-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/15/2022) in the category “Brands” was:
Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Evan Strong & Roy Campanella broke barriers representing this brand
New champ Megan Wachspress, an attorney from Berkeley, CA., won $17,201 yesterday. In Game 2, she takes on these two players: Gregory Scruggs, a journalist from Seattle, WA; and Peggy Gibbons, a legal editor from Toronto, Ontario.
Round 1 Categories: Milwaukee: News Clues – Body Parts in Latin – Sticks & Stones – The Brady Bunch – Coach & Horses – We’re Full!
Gregory found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Body Parts in Latin” under the $600 clue with 2 clues left after it. He was in last place with $3,400, $1,000 less than Peggy’s lead. Gregory bet $1,800, and guessed the esophagus. That was WRONG.
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Peggy finished in the lead with $5,400. Megan was second with $4,800 and Gregory was last with $600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: The 5th Century – On the Map of Africa – Orphans in Books – State Flora – TV Monsters – Getting “W-R-M”
Gregory found the first Daily Double in “State Flower” under the $800 clue on the 7th pick of the round. He was tied in second place with Peggy at $4,200, $2,200 less than Megan’s lead. Gregory bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
Also known as the ground laurel, it has been Massachusetts’ state flower since 1918, not 1620 show
Gregory got the last Daily Double in “The 5th Century” under the $800 clue on the 12th pick of the round. In the lead with $9,200, he now had $2,800 more than Megan in second place. Gregory bet $5,000 and thought it might be the Vandals. That was WRONG.
This branch of the Goths migrated to the Iberian Peninsula & gained domination over it show
Megan finished in the lead with a runaway $11,600. Peggy was second with $5,400 and Gregory was last with $1,000. One $1,600 clue in Orphans in Books was not shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS WHEATIES?
The above CBS video takes a look at General Mills’ history of featuring Olympians on boxes of Wheaties cereal. Wikipedia has a list of athletes who have appeared on Wheaties from 1934 to 2019, although it does not include the first para-athlete cover featuring gold medalist para snowboard cross racer Evan Strong in 2014. The Wikipedia list notes that until 1958, athletes were shown on the sides or on the back of the cereal box, so that would make Evan Strong the first of those mentioned in the clue to be on the front of the Wheaties box.
More from the Wikipedia list: Baseball’s Lou Gehrig was the first athlete on the box in 1934. In 1935, golf’s Babe Didrikson Zaharias became the first woman athlete. In 1936, track & field’s Jesse Owens was the first African-American shown. There is no “first” notation next to Roy Campanella’s 1952 entry on the Wikipedia list. A 2015 tweet from Wheaties says Campanella was “the first black athlete on a Wheaties box.” I don’t know if that was an oversight on General Mills’ part or they meant to say that Campanella was the first bi-racial athlete. Heck, if they’ve had men and women on there since 1934, I don’t even know what “barriers” they are referring to.
Gregory went with Louisville Slugger. He lost his $998 bet and finished with $2.00.
Peggy thought it was Adidas. That cost her $1,000 and landed her in second place with $4,400.
Megan got it right. She didn’t risk a penny of her $11,000 so that’s what she won the game with. Megan’s 2-day total is $28,801.
2 triple stumpers from TV MONSTERS:
($800) “Return of the Killer Catfish” & “Mekong Mutilator” were episodes of this Animal Planet adventure show
($2000) There were also vampires & werewolves on this Showtime series with characters like Dorian Gray & Victor Frankenstein
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Notable British Names”
Published in 1881, “The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits” was his last & one of his bestselling books show
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That’s what I meant about Gregory. He was at the front, then to the very back. When I said “challenging”, I didn’t mean literal “not in first place”. I meant he looked like he might win the game. Sorry if I was less than clear!
Thanks, Jason
Yikes, what an uneven game. Gregory swayed back and forth the entire game, which was indicative of his wildly-fluctuating score. He went for the kill on one DD and paid a dear price.
Stumpers were pretty tough. I knew only the name for tungsten; the horsey NBA team; and the Irving novel.
FJ was a toughie, but I came up with it quickly enough, having remembered many sports stars being honored with their faces on the Wheaties box over the past 60+ years.
@Howard, I used to find that swaying back and forth so distracting until a May 2015 game. The champ continued to sway from side to side in his 6th (and final) game while the challenger who won was bobbing up and down. It was so funny! I brought it up in the comments.
I was telling my daughter about it when we were watching today’s game and she couldn’t help laughing at the mental picture she got.
I didn’t even notice. The only thing about Gregory that struck me was his approach to the median ($0). He was challenging for the lead!
Overall, not a very competitive game. But, a win’s a win!
Jason, idk what you mean by “challenging for the lead”?? Gregory got all the DDs and went from 3rd place when he got the first one, to 2nd place on the 2nd to a $2,800 lead when he got the third!
After losing 5K on that last DD, he managed to go from $4,200 to $1,000 at the end of the round partly from buzzing in on clues he didn’t even have a guess on.
I remember Wheaties being the correct response on 4/5/16 that nobody got right, and Jeff Crosby won with $8,400, by a margin of $200, thanks to an excellent $3,600 wager.
Yes, at least they let them know they were looking for a cereal brand in that game!
I came up with Levis for FJ, but the FJ was a tough one to be sure. Actually, I’ve only been eating Wheaties regularly for the last few years , and only one of those aforementioned names rang a bell with me. This FJ seemed to go in streaks as yesterday’s FJ was a no brainer, and yet this one was a real puzzler. Actually, I wonder how long today’s champion had been eating Wheaties as she obviously came up with the correct response.
Wow that FJ question was very misleading, considering that Strong and Campanella were both paralyzed, I thought it had to be relevant. There are so many other athletes they could have used to not lead a knowledgeable sports fan down that path.
Good job by Megan!
Congrats on a well played game Megan