Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Notables (6-2-16)
The Final Jeopardy question (6/2/2016) in the category “20th Century Notables” was:
Despite protests in 2009 some of his personal effects as seen here were sold at auction.
New champ Kelly Bayles won $16,900 yesterday. She’ll face off today against these two challengers: Ed Brown, from Pasadena, CA; and Ariel Watkins, from Monterey, CA.
Round 1 Categories: TV Maps – Drinking Vessels – On the Interwebs – In His State of the Union Address – Of Course – Crime Wave
Ed found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “State of the Union” under the $400 clue on the 12th pick of the round. He was in the hole for $400, $3,400 less than Kelly’s lead. He bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
“The Congress assembles… under the shadow of a great calamity… (the) President was shot by an anarchist.” show
Kelly finished in the lead with $8,600. Ed was second with $5,200 and Ariel was last at zero. After the break, Ariel was awarded $1,200 on a reversal in “Of Course” for her “short” response.
($600) Adding this 5-letter word in front of “course” creates a term meaning “brief intense instruction”
Round 2 Categories: Take a Look at the Monitor – Virginia is for Writers – Plots of 1970s No. 1 Songs – Anthropology – In the Canadian Province – Rhyme Wave
Kelly found the first Daily Double in “Virginia is for Writers” under the $1,600 clue on the 9th pick. In the lead with $11,800, she had $7,800 more than Ed in second place. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
She was born in Virginia in 1873 but, at age 9, moved to Nebraska where her best known works are set.
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Ed found the last Daily Double in “In the Canadian Province” under the $1,600 clue with one clue left after it. He was in second place with $7,200 now, $11,400 less than Kelly’s lead. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
The Jimi Hendrix Shrine, not all that far from Jimi’s birthplace. show
Kelly got that last clue and finished with a runaway $20,600. Ed was next with $10,200 and Ariel was in third place with $1,600.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
On 3/10/2009, the New York Times reported “After intense protests from India’s government and the Indian press, Mohandas K. Gandhi‘s eyeglasses and some of his other belongings were sold on Thursday afternoon for $1.8 million at an auction in Manhattan, after last-minute attempts to halt the sale.” Getty Images has an image gallery of items that were sold.
Evidently, That wasn’t the only Gandhi auction. The BBC reported on the 5/21/2013 London auction, where Gandhi’s will and a blood sample (among other things) were up for bids.
Ariel wrote down Osama Bin Laden. That cost her $1,400 and she had $200 left.
Ed thought it was (John Wayne) Gacy. He lost his $6,999 bet, finishing with $3,201.
Kelly had (Ernest) Hemingway. She didn’t bet anything, natch. Her 2-day total is $37,500.
Today’s triple stumpers:
TV MAPS ($600) “Cougar Town” opens with a map of this U.S. state
VIRGINIA IS FOR WRITERS ($1000) This native of Newport News wrote about Virginia history in “The Confessions of Nat Turner”
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “19th Century U.S. History”
A dignitary at the dedication of this said it was “keeping watch and ward before the open gates of America.” show
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Does anyone remember the question related to Crown Point, Indiana? I don’t remember which category it was under.
The entire game is on J-Archive now. You can find it on there.
Can anyone tell me what the full question was, about Jimi Hendrix. The answer was British Columbia.
It is up there in the recap, Cheryl –the third Daily Double
No J! for me tonight; some ballgame instead. So I’ll read VJ’s wonderful recap and see if I can find something to vent about, I’m in that kind of mood. 🙂
Later.
Thank goodness for this. Because of nba playoffs wof and jeopardy are on late at night on the west coast.
anyone remember the clue answered “What is mental floss?”.
ON THE INTERWEBS ($600) It’s not a thin thread for your teeth but rather it’s this .com that “gives smart, curious knowledge junkies their fix”
thanks so much. I have subscribed to mental floss mag many years. wonderful mag and web site: Mental Floss.com
Kelly is certainly an excellent player. If she makes it another runaway tomorrow, I predict the Julia Collins comparisons will begin (even though Julia only had one runaway in her first 3 games)
Here is the link to the rest of the triple stumpers
Does anyone remember the last clue of the game, the answer was Nova Scotia?
Here it is, Rhonda. It showed a photo of the church and an image of the window.
IN THE CANADIAN PROVINCE ($2000) St. Paul’s, the country’s oldest Protestant church, which preserves a broken window from the 1917 ship explosion
Thank so much, VJ.