Final Jeopardy: 18th Century Americans (6-20-19)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/20/2019) in the category “18th Century Americans” was:

“Essays to Do Good” by Cotton Mather inspired Silence Dogood, the newspaper pseudonym of this man

It’s the 4th quarter-final of the 2019 Teen Tournament and here are today’s teens: Jackson Jones, a junior from Louisville, KY; Sreekar Madabushi, a junior from Basking Ridge, NJ; and Audrey Sarin, a senior from Redmond, WA.

Round 1 Categories: Where You Go From Here – College Bound – Career Track – Don’t Rush Me! – A Gap Year – In the TV Room

Sreekar found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “A Gap Year” under the $800 clue, with 9 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $4,600, $2,200 more than Jackson in second place. He bet $2,000 and guessed “Washington.” That was WRONG.

Visitors can walk the Cumberland Gap Trail this man blazed in 1775. show

WHO IS DANIEL BOONE?

Jackson finished in the lead with $6,000. Sreekar was second with $2,800 and Audrey was last with $1,200.

Round 2 Categories: 23 & You – Ancient Rome – Meteorology – Actors by Role – Books of Mystery – “O” Pourri

Sreekar found the first Daily Double in “Ancient Rome” under the $1,600 clue on the 7th pick. He was in second place with $5,600 at this point, $1,600 less than Jackson’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.

St. Ignatius of Antioch, who died around 110 A.D., was believed to be the first Christian to be martyred in this arena. show

WHAT IS THE COLOSSEUM?

Jackson found the last Daily Double in “Meteorology” under the $1,200 clue on the 17th pick. In the lead with $16,000, he had $4,000 more than Sreekar in second place. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.

This triatomic allotrope of oxygen leaves that peculiar smell in the air after thunderstorms. show

WHAT IS OZONE?

Jackson finished in the lead with $22,000. Sreekar was next with $14,400 and Audrey was in third place with $8,400.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN?

According to the New England Historical Society, Ben Franklin read Cotton Mather’s “Do Good” essays when he was 11 years old. At age 16, Franklin is said to have borrowed from that title and from Mather’s “Silentiarius” essay to come up with the pseudonym Silence DoGood, a middle-aged woman. His intention was to publish a letter, mocking hypocrisy, in his brother James’ newspaper, The New England Courant, where he served as apprentice. Ben wrote a total of 14 Silence Dogood letters between April and October of 1722 before telling his brother that he was Silence Dogood. The revelation was not well-received by James.

A couple of years later, Ben visited Cotton Mather and learned a lifelong lesson from the Puritan minister that he related to Mather’s son, Samuel, in a 1784 letter.

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Audrey got it right. She bet everything and finished with $16,800.

Sreekar got it, too. He bet $3,600, finishing with $18,000.

Jackson came up with Jonathan Edwards. That only cost him $400. He won the semi-final spot with the remaining $21,600.

A triple stumper from each round:

IN THE TV ROOM ($800) In the second-to-last episode of this ABC Family series, Charlotte’s killer is finally revealed

ANCIENT ROME ($2000) Agrippina’s machinations led to this heir becoming Rome’s first teenage emperor

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Europe 1962”

Rudolf Abel & this American are most associated with Germany’s Glienicke Bridge on February 10, 1962. show

WHO IS FRANCIS GARY POWERS?

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