Final Jeopardy: Toys & Games (7-23-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/23/2019) in the category “Toys & Games” was:
The prototype for this game that was introduced in 1948 was called Lexiko
2x champ Jason Zuffranieri, a math teacher from Albuquerque, NM, brought his winnings up to $45,200 yesterday. In Game 3, his opponents are: Peggy Robin, a publisher from Washington, D.C.; and John Myers, a financial trader from Chicago, IL.
Round 1 Categories: British Literature – Starts With a Silent “K” – Company Ads & Slogans – Life in Ancient Times – Amethyst – The Powers That Be
Peggy found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Company Ads & Slogans” under the $1,000 clue, with 9 clues left after it. She was in second place with $3,200, $3,400 less than Jason’s lead. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
This bank was “Established 1852. Re-established 2018” show
Jason finished in the lead with $8,200. Peggy was right behind him with $7,200 and John was last with $1,000.
Round 2 Categories: The 40-Year-Old German – Grammy for Song of the Year – That Place Sounds Legendary – Spurn Notice – State of the Art – The “B” That Powers
Jason found the first Daily Double in “State of the Art” under the $2,000 clue on the 5th pick. He was in the lead with $9,800 now, $2,600 more than Peggy in second place. He bet $2,000 (despite Alex saying he could make it tough on his opponents) and he was RIGHT.
The Crazy Horse Memorial. show
John found the last Daily Double in “40-Year-Old German” under the $800 clue, with 3 clues worth $4,000 left after it. In third place with $11,000, he had $6,000 less than Jason’s lead. He bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.
After the 1994 election, she became Germany’s Minister of Environment, Conservation & Reactor Safety, but a promotion awaited. show
Jason finished in the lead with $18,600. John was next with $15,000 and Peggy was in third place with $12,400.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Lexiko (a play on “lexicon”) was the brainchild of Alfred Mosher Betts. After studying popular games in the 1930s, he concluded that the only thing preventing word games from becoming as popular as card games was a scoring system. Butts developed Lexiko in the ’30s and ’40s, changing the name to Criss Cross Words, but had no success in getting it to market. Teaming up with entrepreneur James Brunot proved to be the turning point. With some rules and design tweaks and a new name, SCRABBLE Brand Crossword Game was trademarked in 1948. “Then in the early 1950s, legend has it, that the president of MACY’S discovered the game while on vacation and ordered some for his store. Within a year, the SCRABBLE game was a ‘must-have’ hit….” Read more on Hasbro’s Scrabble subdomain.
From 2013: APPS ($800) Alec Baldwin was willing to get kicked off a flight rather than stop playing this game that’s much like Scrabble
Peggy bet nothing and remained at $12,400.
John bet $14,998 to finish with $29,998.
Jason bet $11,500 and won the game with $30,100. His 3-day total is $75,300.
A triple stumper from each round:
THE POWERS THAT BE ($400) Austin Stowell played U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers in this movie, a 2015 Best Picture Oscar nominee
THE 40-YEAR-OLD GERMAN ($2000) Vroom! He showed off his 25-HP, 4-stroke, single vertical cylinder compression engine on the cusp of 40 in 1897
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Europe”
Once a feudal state, it has the highest capital city in Europe at an elevation of about 3,300 feet. show
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I haven’t looked lately in storage, but I may have the original Scrabble set that Mother brought home in 1950. We were crazy about it for a while. She was a crossword whiz since the 1920s.
@Taiwan Bill, that’s how my mom was, too– a crossword whiz but I preferred cryptograms. My mom would come up with these variations of Scrabble, like you could use proper names or you could use foreign words. heh heh heh
Congrats to all the players getting this right and to jason on winning the game. John nearly had a lock on jason but fell short. Let’s see how well Jason does tomorrow. I think he could be another streaker to end this week and the season. How good are you at scrabble VJ?
I don’t play the game anymore, Lou, though I was pretty good at it when I used to play with my mother. She was tough!
LINK: 9 more clues from the game
The $400 clue in State of the Art (name the state each work of art is located in) asked the players to ID where Lucy the Elephant is. It is located in Margate, NJ near Atlantic City (also the home of MarvEn Gardens, misspelled as Marvin Gardens on the Monopoly board), straddling the line between AC suburbs Margate and Ventnor). The contestants were asked to ID the state when given the clue “near Atlantic City”.