Final Jeopardy: The 20th Century (7-14-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/14/2022) in the category “The 20th Century” was:
Maybe surprisingly, in 1918 this new leader was the first to recognize the independence of Finland
New champ Emily Fiasco, a middle school band director from St. Louis, MO, won $28,000 yesterday. In Game 2, her opponents are: Mark Primiano, a shelter veterinarian from Chicago, IL; and Anjali Bhat, a lawyer from New York, NY.
Round 1 Categories: The Founding Fathers – Earth – TV Shows by Episode Title – Units of Measure – Terrible Supervillain Names – That’s Cold!
Anjali found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “The Founding Fathers” under the $600 clue on the 13th pick of the round. She was in last place with $400, $2,600 less than Mark’s lead. Anjali bet $400 and she was RIGHT.
Activist lawyer James Otis is credited with saying that this “without representation is tyranny” show
Emily finished in the lead with $5,400. Mark was second with $4,000 and Anjali was last with $2,200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: River Names – Literary Castles – Romance Languages – The Winds of Pop Culture – I Know What You Did – 4 of the Same Letter
Emily found the first Daily Double in “I Know What You Did” under the $1,600 clue on the 13th pick. She was in the lead with $9,400, $3,800 more than Mark in second place. Emily bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
You served as Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996 show
Emily got the last Daily Double in “River Names” under the $1,200 clue with 2 clues left after it. In the lead with $16,000, she had $6,600 more than Anjali in second place. Emily bet $2,000 and thought it was the Chattahoochee. That was WRONG.
This river that gave its name to a Georgia city was known as Rio Dulce, or “Sweet River”, to early Spanish explorers show
Emily finished in the lead with $14,000. Anjali was next with $11,000 and Mark was in third place with $8,000. All clues were shown. Before FJ! began, Anjali benefited from a reversal (see below) and her score rose to $12,600.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Finland became an autonomous grand duchy of Russia in 1809, following war with Sweden. As grand duke of Finland, Russian Emperor Alexander I gave the Finns extensive autonomy and the Finnish national movement grew stronger throughout the 19th century. At the dawn of the 20th century, the goal of a “Russification” policy by Russian nationalists sought to end Finnish separatism. However, power struggles in Russia changed things.
After the failed 1905 Russian Revolution, Vladimir Lenin fled to Tampere in Finland. There he met Josef Stalin for the first time, and in Workers’ Hall, declared that the Bolsheviks would recognize Finnish independence if they won power. The Bolsheviks overthrew the imperial government in the fall of 1917 and on 12/31/1917, Lenin and others, on behalf of the newly formed Soviet government, signed a document formally recognizing Finland’s independence. Per the L.A. Times, the Lenin Museum in Tampere has a copy of that document on display, which was ratified by the Soviet parliament on 1/4/1918.
Mark got it right. He bet $7,500 and finished with $15,500.
Anjali thought it was Stalin. She bet and lost every ruble at her disposal.
Emily got it right, too. She bet $11,201 and won the game with $25,201. Emily’s 2-day total is $53,201.
Reversal: RIVERS ($800) In Sanskrit, the name of this river comes from “sindhu”, which means “river” – the Ganges (Emily) and the Sindh (Anjali) were both rejected in favor of the Indus. The judges approved Anjali’s response and awarded her $1600 before Final Jeopardy!
A triple stumper from each round:
LITERARY CASTLES ($2000) Young Cassandra Mortmain lives in the rundown title structure in “I Capture the Castle” by this “101 Dalmatians” author
THE WINDS OF POP CULTURE ($1600) “Blood On The Coal” by The Folksmen is on the soundtrack album of this Christopher Guest mockumentary
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “20th Century Art”
A derisive description of the shape of the houses in the 1908 painting “Houses at l’Estaque” gave this art style its name show
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If you look at the Britannica entry for the Founding Fathers, you see that there are only two Adams in the group. The second president and Sam. I believe that would be their rationale for not requiring the first name (kind of like Ken Jennings’ first game and the Jones thing in Final Jeopardy!).
And, yup, that Foundingest Father from the $200 clue is right there in Britannica.
FJ should have been a triple solve, it was as easy as the first 2 DDs were. (I took a stab at the 3rd DD and guessed right.) Also, knew the mockumentary and the ecosystem, that’s it.
Agree with Jason that “Adams” was not a sufficient response. Same as answering “Johnson” or “Roosevelt” for a president.
Someone out there probably knows the average number of WINS (not appearances) Jeopardy champions get before losing, but that would be skewed by the inclusion of all the mega-winners like Ken, James, Amy et al. But I’m guessing the median would be between 2 and 3 wins. The overwhelming number of 1- and 2-day champs would more than balance out the number of super-champs.
I can predict that the US version of The Sun, online, will, tomorrow, again pillory Mayim, this time for not asking for clarification/”more specific” in the “Founding Fathers” category, for (Sam) Adams.
As to Anjali and a big DD wager, I would guess not, seeing as to what was her wager on the DD in the J! round ($400, what she had, vs $1000, what she could have). Just my guess.
When Mayim ruled Anjali’s response “Sind” incorrect, I knew it would be overturned. But my question is, the next clue was the DD and since not much else remained on the board, it can be safely assumed she would’ve picked that. The incorrect ruling seems unfair in retrospect. Some might say that well, she got FJ wrong, so it doesn’t matter. Maybe so, but maybe she would’ve doubled up on the DD and gotten the remaining clues also on the euphoria of a big DD win and gone on to get a runaway before FJ. Who knows what might have been!
I think Anjali was deprived of her chance to win because the clue wasn’t better researched (Sind is the actual name of the river, Indus is just its Anglicized version) and the host wasn’t better prepared to rule on the different variations of the correct response.
I agree. And it’s also possible she strategically chose a longshot answer in Final Jeopardy thinking it was her best chance to win whereas if leading she would have picked the most likely answer.
Wow, another no brainer for FJ. Yes, it could only have been Vladimir Lenin.