Final Jeopardy: State Mottos (7-13-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/13/2022) in the category “State Mottos” was:
This motto is the name of a city in that state & is a famous quote by an ancient Greek from the 3rd century B.C.
2x champ Steve Clarke, a lawyer from Chesapeake, VA, has won $38,400 so far this week. In Game 3, he takes on these two players: Emily Fiasco, a middle school band director from St. Louis, MO; and Jin-Soo Huh, an education non-profit employee from Chicago, IL.
Round 1 Categories: Quoting the King James Bible – Making Money – Reel Estate – Welsh Folk – Shores – Horses, Anagrammed
Steve found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Quoting the King James Bible” under the $1,000 clue right after getting the first 4 clues in the category right. He was in the lead with $2,000. No one else was on the board. Steve made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
It’s the entirety of John 11:35, often acknowledged as the shortest verse in the Bible. show
Steve finished in the lead with $10,400. Emily was next with $3,600 and Jin-Soo was in third place, at negative $200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Presidential Globetrotting – Plays & Playwriting – Antarctica – Hodgepodge – TV Comedy – Word “L”
Steve found the first Daily Double in “Presidential Globetrotting” under the $1,200 clue on the 9th pick. He was in the lead with $12,000 now, $5,600 more than Emily in second place. He bet $2,500 and he was RIGHT.
He made goodwill visits to 10 Latin American countries as president-elect in late 1928, but never left the country as prez. show
Emily got the last Daily Double in “Plays & Playwriting” under the $1,600 clue, with one clue to go after it. In second place with $16,000, she had $1,700 less than Steve’s lead. She bet $2,000 and thought it was 9. That was WRONG.
The courtroom drama “Night of January 16th” by Ayn Rand needs exactly this many people to be selected from the audience. show
Steve finished in the lead with $17,000 and Emily was next with $14,000. At negative $200, Jin-Soo was out of the game at this point.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS EUREKA?
“Eureka” meaning “I have found it” is attributed to Archimedes of Syracuse, considered a leading scientist of his time. According to legend, tasked with finding out if a crown was made of pure gold, Archimedes “found” the principle of displacement when stepping into his bath. (According to the above video, that is totally inaccurate!) Regardless, “Eureka” was a popular expression in the late 1840s due to its association with the California Gold Rush. Thus the name was given to the California settlement on Humboldt Bay in Northern, California in 1850. The bay was named for naturalist and explorer, Alexander von Humboldt. Perhaps not coincidentally, Edgar Allan Poe’s last major work was named “Eureka: a Prose Poem” and dedicated to von Humboldt.
California was admitted to the Union in 1850 and its State Seal has featured the word “Eureka” since then. However, “Eureka” was not made the official State Motto until 1963.
Emily got it right. She bet it all and doubled her score to $28,000.
Steve thought it might be Corpus Christi. (TX state motto: “Friendship”.) Steve lost $10,301 and finished with $7,399. That made Emily Fiasco the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
REEL ESTATE ($1000) The Cannes villa where Cary Grant romanced Grace Kelly in this 1955 thriller was being offered in 2016 for over $50 million
PLAYS & PLAYWRITING ($2000) In 2022 Matthew Broderick & Sarah Jessica Parker headlined this author’s classic comedy “Plaza Suite” on Broadway
3 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “20th Century America”
In 1939, turned down by 2 local theaters, Howard University was able to get an outdoor venue for this singer’s yearly concert show
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I can only ascribe it to nerves, when someone misses something with which they are intimately associated. Jin-Soo, not exactly, but, like the lawyer in the recent past who didn’t get “sidebar”, or, the other player a few days ago didn’t get Jerry Springer, despite having been in the audience for a taping!
I always chuckled at the idea of Archimedes running down the street, naked, yelling “I have found it!”. What, exactly, did a naked guy find? But, in any case, that lead me to getting FJ correct.
And thank heavens, VJ, that someone isn’t doing a rerun rundown of what happened in the game, after you did a very good write up!
Last night’s controversial wagering went semi-viral on the interweb.
I give Emily credit for staying within range of a fairly quick and dominant player, even though she flubbed that easy DD near the end. that cost her a lead.
Figured out the FJ halfway through. Didn’t hurt to have lived in California for over 10 years once.
Some of those stumpers were quite tricky, but I came up with Grant-Kelly movie; $1 bill; Plaza Suite author; Oscar winner who went to Broadway; Antarctic station name; L word for slice/tear.
Also the capital Truman visited. Not a lot of countries have a governor-general and a PM.
The exact same thing happened in one of Mattea’s early games. She got FJ wrong, a player behind got it correct, yet made an idiotic wager, and didn’t win, despite the fact she could have, had she wagered correctly.
I am happy for Emily winning final today. Good game by the players. I loved that eureka show on disney junior.
That was a bummer for Jin-Soo. He said during the chat that he grew up in California
Eureka! is also a show on Disney Junior featuring prehistoric times.