Final Jeopardy: Colleges (6-3-24)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/3/2024) in the category “Colleges” was:
Of the Seven Sisters colleges, this one located in a place of the same name is the farthest south
3x champ Adriana Harmeyer, an archivist from West Lafayette, IN, has now won $71,600. In Game 4, she is up against: Matthew Kahn, an IP docketing assistant from San Diego, CA; and Carol Ritchey, a retired letter carrier from Eastpointe, MI.
Round 1 Categories: Historical Documents – You Had One Job! – Bestselling Books by Decades – Around New York – 2+2=1 – Classic Song Numbers
Carol found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Historical Documents” under the $800 clue on the 19th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $3,800, $400 more than Matthew in second place. Carol bet $2,500 and she was RIGHT.
The signers of this document pledge to “covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politick” show
Carik finished in the lead with $7,900. Adriana was second with $6,600 and Matthew was last with $5,200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Bodies of Water – Humanitarians – Animal, Vegetable or Mineral – Celebrity Lifestyle & Beauty Brands – Aviation History – Starts With “J”
Adriana found the first Daily Double in “Starts with ‘J’” under the $1,600 clue on the 5th pick of the round. She was in second place with $7,800, $500 less than Carol’s lead. Adriana bet $4,000 and she was RIGHT.
This word for a lamentation full of complaints references an Old Testament prophet show
Carol found the last Daily Double in “Bodies of Water” under the $2,000 clue with 7 clues left after it. In second place with $15,100, she had $1,500 less than Adriana’s lead. Carol bet $7,600 and guessed the Gulf of Aden without saying “What is” first. That was WRONG anyway.
The Sinai Peninsula lies between 2 gulfs, the Gulf of Suez on the west & this one on the east show
Adriana finished in the lead with a runaway $22,600. Matthew was second with $6,000 and Carol was last with $5,900. All clues were shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS BRYN MAWR?
The Seven Sisters colleges and their locations are:
• Massachusetts: Mount Holyoke (South Hadley), Smith (Northampton), Radcliffe (Cambridge), and Wellesley (Wellesley)
• New York: Barnard (NYC), Vassar (Poughkeepsie)
• Pennsylvania: Bryn Mawr (Bryn Mawr)
Only Wellesley and Bryn Mawr are situated in a place with the same name, as you can see. If it’s not obvious which is farthest south, think Boston and Philadelphia. Wellesley College is close to Boston, and Bryn Mawr is close to Philadelphia. More info on Wikipedia’s Seven Sisters article.
Carol thought it was Princeton. She lost $5,800 and finished with $100.
Matthew left the R off the end of his otherwise correct response. That cost him $2,000 and left him with $4,000.
Adriana went with Smith. She lost $2,400 but won the game with the remaining $20,200. Adriana’s 4-day total is $91,800.
A triple stumper from each round:
HUMANITARIANS ($1600) In 1905 he published a book on Johann Sebastian Bach & then headed to French Equatorial Africa to build his hospital
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “IN MEMORIAM 2022”
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The only 2 of the 7 Sisters that came to mind were Vassar and Bryn Mawr, so, I confidently went with Bryn Mawr. “Rarely in error, and NEVER in doubt”!
That last DD is a different story. I said “The Persian Gulf”, so, I was wrong anyhow!
Concur with Howard (natch) – the first round was fire!
It was refreshing for the “Forrest Bounce” being absent today!
That first round was electric! Carol pretty much shot the moon on that very knowable DD, then collapsed on another clue or two and was done. For a while I thought that this being a Monday show, the coordinators might have pulled the strongest competitors from the week’s contestant pool.
I said Vassar for FJ, knowing that probably was wrong. Princeton was a lame guess; never to my knowledge one of the 7 Sisters, Smith was a real stretch because it certainly wasn’t located in a town of the same name.
Just by way of general knowledge, there are a lot of places named Smith and Smith Township. There’s even a Smith crater on the moon!
I see that the Beatles’ hit ‘Eight Days A Week’ came up again in reference to Paul McCartney’s reputed conversation with a taxi driver. Actually, ‘Eight Days A Week’ surfaced in FJ a couple of years ago which was described as a “work song”. In fact, it was purely a love song. Predictably, a big stink among Jeopardy fans soon followed after that snafu. Anyways, I took a wild guess with Yale for today’s FJ, but it didn’t pan out. Wow, that FJ was a real bummer!
The “work” reference supposedly stems from Paul’s chauffeur telling him “I’ve been working hard, working eight days a week.” From there it morphed into a love song. So yes, not a work song at all, but that was its inspiration.
Yes, I know.
If only Matthew thought of Bryn Mawr a few seconds earlier, he would have got it and would have been the only player in FJ! correct, but he ran out of time to put an R at the end making it a triple stumper.
That’s why today’s final was a tough one.