Final Jeopardy: The 20th Century (7-20-21)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/20/2021) in the category “The 20th Century” was:

The code name for a historic meeting at this city was Argonaut, after the heroes who searched for the Golden Fleece on The Black Sea

2x champ Josh Saak, a traffic engineer from Boise, ID won $46,800 in the last two games. In Game 3, his opponents are: Grace Devuono, a writer from North Hollywood, CA; and Darwin Fu, a data scientist from Nashville, TN.

Round 1 Categories: 1876 – Homonyms – Internet Businesses – Geography – A Boring Category – We Need New Yogi Bears

Josh found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Geography” under the $1,000 clue on the 16th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $3,600, $1,200 more than Grace in second place. He bet $2,400 and took a shot at it with the Balearics. That was WRONG.

This pair of “larger” and “smaller” islands are in a group about 100 miles off the east coast of Spain show

WHAT ARE MAJORCA AND MENORCA?

Grace finished in the lead with $5,800 and Josh was second with $2,200. At zero, Darwin was last. No clues went uncovered.

Round 2 Categories: Poetry – TV Show Episode Titles – American Nicknames – Parts of the Oceans – 3 of the Same Consonant – Composers, Painters & Scientists

Darwin found the first Daily Double in “American Nicknames” under the $1,200 clue on the 11th pick. He was in third place with $2,000 now, $7,400 less than Grace’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double and thought it might be Mark Twain. That was WRONG.

Born in 1876, this author of several doggone adventures was known as the “American Kipling” show

WHO IS JACK LONDON?

Josh got the last Daily Double in “Parts of the Oceans” under the $1,600 clue, with 9 clues left after it. In the lead with $11,400, he had $3,200 more than Grace in second. He bet $2,600 and he was RIGHT.

The Agulhas and East Madagascar currents flow in this ocean show

WHAT IS THE INDIAN OCEAN?

Josh finished in the lead with $17,600. Grace was next with $9,800 and Darwin was in third place with $2,400. No clues went uncovered.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS YALTA?

According to the U.S. Government Bookstore, the “Argonaut Conference” actually refers to two conferences that took place in 1945. The first took place from 1/30 to 2/3/1945 on the island of Malta, and was attended by British prime minister, Winston Churchill and U.S. president, Franklin D. Roosevelt. The second was held from 2/4 to 2/11/1945 in the Soviet resort town of Yalta, attended by Churchill, Roosevelt and Soviet premier, Joseph Stalin: “These highly significant meetings focused mainly on postwar plans for Europe, and Argonaut was the last wartime conference attended by Roosevelt, who would die on April 12, 1945.”

Here’s an Index of Operational and Code Names.
Notice that besides Argonaut, the Malta Conference also had the codename “Cricket”. (Sounds very British, yes?)

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Darwin got it right. He bet nothing and finished with the $2,400 he started out with.

Grace thought it was Tehran (1943, code name Eureka). That cost her $9,800 and left her with nothing.

Josh got it, too. He added $2,005 and won the game with $19,605. Josh Saak’s 3-day total is $66,405.

A triple stumper from each round:

POETRY ($200) This poet wrote “Adonais” on the death of his friend John Keats

TV SHOW EPISODE TITLES ($2000) “Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship”, “She was Killed by Space Junk”

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “European Countries”

Resolving a decades-long dispute with its neighbor to the south, in 2019 this 28-year-old republic added “North” to its name show

WHAT IS MACEDONIA?

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