Final Jeopardy: American History (7-27-18)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/27/2018) in the category “American History” was:

The last survivor of this battle that started a war died in 1854 & more men marched at his funeral than fought with him

New champ Rick Terpstra, an aspiring English teacher from Pennsylvania, won $23,201 yesterday. In his second game and the last game of the season, his challengers are : Karla Nickels, a retired business & property manager from Oklahoma; and Jerry Tsai, a data scientist from California.

BIG THANKS to all my visitors and commenters for keeping me company throughout Season 34. It certainly had its highlights and we had a lot of fun with our guessing games and chatting about the clues. One of those highlights, the 2017 Tournament of Champions, will be shown again beginning next Monday.

Round 1 Categories: Travel Hawaii – Quick Books – Quotable Women – The Worst Picture Razzie – Sounds Like It to Me – Keep on Truckin’

Rick found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Quick Books” under the $600 clue on the 11th pick of the round. He was in a tie for the lead with Karla. They both had $1,600, $200 more than Jerry in second place. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.

1813: Ms. Bennet confronts 2 specific things. show

WHAT IS “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE”?

Jerry finished in the lead with $5,200. Rick was second with $4,200 and Karla was last with $2,400.

Round 2 Categories: Classical Music Terms – Around the Body – Defunct Sports Franchises – Norse Gods – Found in Translation – The U.S. Congress With Nancy Pelosi

Jerry found the first Daily Double in “Around the Body” under the $1,200 clue on the 4th pick. He was in the lead with $6,000 now, $1,000 more than Rick in second place. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.

Named for the way they release secretions, they’re the body’s 2 main types of glands. show

WHAT ARE EXOCRINE AND ENDOCRINE?

Rick found the last Daily Double in “Defunct Sports Franchises” under the $1,600 clue under the 12th pick. In second place with $7,800, he had $4,400 less than Jerry’s lead. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.

In 1914 & 1915 the Terrapins repped this town in baseball’s upstart Federal League. show

WHAT IS BALTIMORE?

Jerry finished in the lead with $18,200. Rick was next with $14,200 but a reversal (see below) bumped him up to $17,400. Karla was in third place with $5,600.

NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON?

In Harper’s Young People, Vol. 2 (1881), historian Benson J. Lossing recounts his 1848 visit with Jonathan Harrington, “The Fifer of Lexington,” who was only 17 years old at the 4/19/1775 “Battle of Lexington.” (“It wasn’t a battle,” Jonathan says, “only a skirmish.”) Lossing kept track of Harrington, who died 6 years later: “Late in March 1854, when he was almost ninety-six years of age, Jonathan Harrington died, and was buried with public honors. In the funeral procession was a large body of military as an escort, and the hearse was followed by the committee of arrangements, the Governor of Massachusetts, the Lieutenant-Governor and Council, and a vast multitude of citizens gathered from the neighboring towns. After impressive religious services in the church at Lexington, his remains were deposited in the family tomb. Sacred be the memory of the Fifer of Lexington!”

The Liberator also noted Harrington’s passing (“Last Survivor of the Battle of Lexington”) in its April 7, 1854 issue (on the third page, 4th column, where the 1st item is a letter from poet John Greenleaf Whittier, and the second is a news item calling President Pierce “a stool pigeon for the South.”

Karla didn’t have a response and she didn’t bet anything. She remained at $5,600.

Rick thought it was Bunker Hill. He lost $801, leaving him with $16,599.

Jerry came up with Fort Sumter. That cost him $16,801. Rick Terpstra remains the Jeopardy! champ, with a 2-day total of $39,800. See you in September, Rick!

Reversal: FOUND IN TRANSLATION ($1600) To lean or tilt to one side — Of course, you knew $3,200 was coming Rick’s way after Alex rejected his response of “slant” because the preferred response was “list.”

A triple stumper from each round:

QUOTABLE WOMEN ($1000) She once remarked, “Freaks was a thing that I photographed a lot”

THE U.S. CONGRESS WITH NANCY PELOSI ($2000) In 2009 I proudly unveiled the capitol portrait of this first African-American woman elected to Congress, who said she wanted to be remembered as a catalyst for change

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Colleges & Universities”

This Catholic university gets its name from the Latin for “new” & “house” & was in the news in Spring 2016. show

WHAT IS VILLANOVA?

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