Final Jeopardy: Historic Spots (7-23-24)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/23/2024) in the category “Historic Sites” was:
Known for a fabled event of 1881, it housed an auto repair shop after the disappearance of the horse & buggy
2x champ Neilesh Vinjamuri, a software engineer from Lionville, PA, has now won $41,100. In Game 3, his challengers are: Lindsay Denninger, a writer from Smithtown, NY; and Tim Herd, a Ph.D student from Detroit, MI.
Round 1 Categories: Flavors – Also a Bird – Spring in Your Step – Summer Reading – Taking a Fall – The Winter of Our Discontent
Lindsay found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Summer Reading” under the $400 with 1 clue left after it. She was in second place with $4,600, $2,000 less than Neilesh’s lead. Lindsay made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
The nonfiction “The Boys of Summer”, about the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s, mentions this ballpark in the subtitle show
Lindsay finished in the lead with $9,600. Neilesh was second with $6,600 and Tim was last with negative $3,600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: U.S. Areas & Territories – It’s All Greek Myth to Me – Time for Science – The Roaring ’20s – Writer-Directors – Drop In
Lindsay found the first Daily Double in “It’s all Greek Myth to Me” under the $1,200 clue on the 8th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $11,200, $4,600 more than Neilesh in second place. Lindsay bet $3,000 and went with kraken. That was WRONG.
This name applied to a sea monster with 12 feet & 6 heads, each head containing 3 rows of sharklike teeth, or just a rock show
Neilesh found the last Daily Double in “Drop In” under the $2,000 clue with 2 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $17,000, $5,200 more than Lindsay in second place. Neilesh bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
Kick both “in”s out of a 2-word principal route of a railroad to get this gendered 4-letter word show
Neilesh finished in the lead with $19,000. Lindsay was second with $13,000. Tim was last with negative $2,400 and out of the game at this point. All clues were shown.
NEITHER contestants left in Final Jeopardy! got it right.
WHAT IS THE O.K. CORRAL?
The gunfight between the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday and “the Cowboys” actually took place near but not at the O.K. (Old Kindersley) Corral in Tombstone, Arizona on October 26, 1881. However, when the shootout became famous in the 1930s, the public was led to believe it occurred at the O.K. Corral. The building and corral burned down entirely in 1882 but continued as a business location after it was rebuilt. The businesses, of course, adapted to the needs of the times. In 1961, the Tombstone Historic District was declared a National Historic Landmark and 3 years later, a group of investors bought the O.K. Corral, which is now operated as a tourist attraction. The gunfight at the O.K. Corral is reenacted several times daily at the Historic Complex.
Wild West City in New Jersey is another site where the Earps and Cowboys shoot it out again. (I have a picture of “Doc Holliday” holding my then 2-year-old son back in the day.)
Lindsay tried Ponce de Leon. She lost $8,000 and finished with $5,000.
Neilesh drew a blank. He lost $7,001 but won the game with the remaining $11,999. Neilesh has a 3-day total of $53,099.
A triple stumper from each round. (Please don’t put the answers in the comments)
SUMMER READING ($800) R.L. Stine takes a stab at the bard with his horror tale called “A Midsummer Night’s” this
THE ROARING ’20S ($2000) In 1926 this L.A. evangelist was the subject of a scandal when she disappeared for a month & claimed to have been kidnapped
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “OPERA”
An aria from this opera says, “Put on your costume & apply make-up to your face. The people pay & they want to laugh” show
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I was really hoping for Lindsay. Maybe she gets a second chance invite.
Final was just WAY too vague, and using the word “fabled” was not the best. Likewise, what’s the deal with the horse and buggy? In any case, I didn’t get it.
The FJ was confusing to say the least, and which might have explained why it stumped the contestants. Anyways, it was another good game though, and I did reasonably well.
That was a tough final which ended in a double stumper.
Missed all but FJ, so didn’t see the future PhD implode. Nasty final again. Ponce de Leon is a historic spot?
2/3 DDs and a few stumpers are all I can claim. Jolly escapade/prank; type of number (really?); Hood minus in/steal (come on); saintly resort town; Chevy Chase president; Orphan Annie phrase all there for the taking, and more than enough to have gotten future Dr. Tim out of the hole and give him at least a semblance of self-esteem.
All those misses in that Bird category were just koo koo
Since when did we ever have a regular Jeopardy contestant who did not get any correct responses at all in the entire game?
There was a man that ended up -7500! Maybe a year or two ago.
Wait, you’re talking about Patrick Pearce who appeared on Jeopardy during LeVar Burton’s first episode as a guest host and he had set a low scoring record at negative $7,400. There was a female contestant named Erin who finished at negative $7,200 which was a couple hundred dollars behind the aforementioned contestant.
-$3,600 at the end of the first round is the lowest score ever that we seen in the history of the show and it’s a record. Tim must be the unluckiest player ever in the show’s history. Only 1 correct and 5 incorrect and Tim never got out of the hole. He can really say I goofed up big time because he’s most likely the last player this season to get dismissed. Only 3 games left of the season.