Final Jeopardy: Colors & History (6-29-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/29/2021) in the category “Colors & History” was:
A blue pigment & a shade of blue popular in shirts are named for these, the 2 opposing nations in an 1870-71 war
New champ Courtney Shah, a community college instructor from Portland, OR won $15,400 yesterday. In Game 2, the challengers are: Jay Morris, a senior client consultant from San Rafael, CA; and Xiao Stroming, a homemaker from Kildeer, IL.
Round 1 Categories: Monuments & Memorials – Anagrams of Each Other – A Non-Alcoholic Category – Pop Culture Relatives? – So Close… – Here’s Your Constellation Prize
Jay found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “So Close…” under the $600 clue on the 13th pick of the round. He was in second place with $1,600, $1,000 less than Courtney in the lead. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
One of these of “the first kind” means seeing a UFO in some sort of detail show
Courtney finished in the lead with $5,200. Jay was second with $3,800 and Xiao was last with $1,400. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: Past Lives – Mediterranean Geography – Lit-Pourri – Aviation – Fore! No, 5 Golf Movies – Ok, You Can “Boo”!
Xiao found the first Daily Double in “Lit-Pourri” under the $800 clue on the 6th pick. She was in third place with $5,000 now, $1,000 less than Courtney’s lead. She bet $2,000 and thought it was “Walden”. That was WRONG.
Gandhi said this 1849 essay by Henry David Thoreau “left a deep impression upon me” show
Courtney got the last Daily Double in “Mediterranean Geography” under the $800 clue, with 9 clues left after it. In the lead with $10,400, she had $200 more than Jay in second place. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
8 miles wide at its narrowest, this strait separates Europe and Africa show
Courtney finished in the lead with $13,200. Jay was next with $11,800 and Xiao was in third place with $7,000. Two clues went uncovered.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
The Franco-Prussian War took place between July of 1870 until the French were defeated in January of 1871. From History.com: “The humiliating defeat of Louis Napoleon’s Second Empire of France is made complete on May 10, 1871, when the Treaty of Frankfurt am Main is signed, ending the Franco-Prussian War and marking the decisive entry of a newly unified German state on the stage of European power politics, so long dominated by the great empires of England and France.”
According to Wikipedia, Prussian blue was around more than a century before the Franco-Prussian War and “From the beginning of the 18th century, Prussian blue was the predominant uniform coat color worn by the infantry and artillery regiments of the Prussian Army.” Bleu de France (Blue of France) “has been used in the heraldry of the French monarchy since at least the 12th century…. A brighter version, based on the blue of the French Tricolour, is used in modern times, particularly in a sporting context.”
Xiao went with Britain and France. She lost her $6,201 bet and was left with $799.
Jay went with Indigo. That cost him $11,799 and left him with $1.
Courtney got it right. She bet $10,500 and won the game with $23,700. Courtney’s 2-day total is $39,100.
A triple stumper from each round:
HERE’S YOUR CONSTELLATION PRIZE ($1000) Our favorite Greek god of medicine, take your place in the sky as Ophiuchus, the serpent bearer
LIT-POURRI ($1200) Sara Crewe is the title lass in this beloved children’s book by Frances Hodgson Burnett
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Other Nations’ Presidents”
This nation’s 1st 8 presidents were all born in the U.S.; the 1st local-born president came in 1884, 37 years after independence show
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This morning, we were talking about how we got the right response to FJ! on Spoiler Talk. I got it from the War Approach. I always remember the dates of the Franco-Prussian War because of this short story by Alphonse Daudet called “The Last Class”. When the war ended, France surrendered most of Alsace and parts of Lorraine to the new German Empire. A schoolboy tells how that affected him in this story.
The way Rhonda got it is even better: the Soap Opera Approach. She recently saw a storyline involving poison (the antidote: Prussian Blue) on the Young and the Restless, after seeing a similar one a few years ago on General Hospital. She figured out the other country from there.
Yes, that was it, thalium poisoning! The poor guy nearly died, thank goodness the doctors figured out in time that Prussian Blue was called for. LOL The Soap Opera Approach, I love that, VJ! You never cease to amaze me with your diligence and thoroughness!
Good win today by Courtney. I definitely hope she can end the string of leader curses. Since veronica had won four games last year I think Courtney could do what veronica did. Indigo wasn’t a bad guess but it wasn’t close. I heard of Prussian blue but not french blue.
I definitely hope she becomes a 4x champ or a 5x champ or maybe even a 999999999999x champ in the future beating Ken Jennings!