Final Jeopardy: Fashion (7-3-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/3/2023) in the category “Fashion” was:
The name of these items that became a 1940s fad derives in part from a word meaning “to cut short”
New champ Ilena Di Toro, a public relations specialist from Philadelphia, PA, won $9,500 last week. In Game 2, she is up against: Elliott Kim, a television editor from Los Angeles, CA; and Sarah Daily, an artist manager from New York, NY.
Round 1 Categories: Riots in History – A Job in Television – Car Go Fast – “Neg” Bait – Like Aversion – Touched for the Very First Time
Elliott found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Touched for the Very First Time” under the $800 clue with one clue left after it. He was in the lead with $9,200, $6,400 more than Ilena in second place. Elliott bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.
Finally touched with goodness, this literary character says, “I will live in the past, the present, and the future!” show
Elliott finished in the lead with $15,200. Ilena was second with $2,800 and Sarah was last with negative $400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Books by Chapters – Words within Words – Nature – “B” Movie Quotes – Counties of England – No Cap
Elliott found the first Daily Double in “‘B’ Movie Quotes” under the $1,600 on the 5th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $18,000, $15,200 more than Ilena in second place. Elliott bet $5,000 again and he was RIGHT again.
”My people are praying for a man who can drive their team to victory over Messala” show
Elliott got the last Daily Double in “Counties of England” under the $1,600 clue with 6 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $28,400 now, $24,400 more than Ilena in second place. Elliott bet $1,400 and took a shot at it with Dover. That was WRONG.
Legend says King Arthur was born at Tintagel Castle in this pointy county that juts into the Atlantic Ocean show
Elliott finished in the lead with a runaway $27,200. Sarah was second with $4,000 and Ilena was last with $3,200. All clues were shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT ARE BOBBY SOCKS or SOX?
Etymology Online has an entry for “bobby sox”. It’s the n.2 entry that talks about “bobby sox” and traces its earliest mention in print to 1944: “Months ago colored bobby sox folded at the top were decreed, not by anyone or any group but, as usual, by a sudden mysterious and universal acceptance of the new idea. Now no teen-ager dares wear anything but pure white socks without a fold. [Life magazine, Dec. 11, 1944]” The entry also goes into various other meanings of the word “bob”, like bobbing for apples at Halloween parties. Additionally, there’s this info about sox: “altered plural of sock (n.1), 1905, originally in commercial jargon.”
The bobby sox fad continued into the 1950s and became forever associated with poodle skirts, saddle shoes and sock hops, where teenage girls danced to “the devil’s music” (rock ‘n roll) in their bobby socks so their saddle shoes wouldn’t scuff up the floor.
Ilena thought it was a demiskirt. She lost $1,800 and finished with $1,400.
Sarah came up with culottes. She bet and lost her whole $4,000.
Elliott had the same response as Sarah. He lost $2,800 but won the game with the remaining $24,400. Elliott Kim is the new Jeopardy! champ.
2 triple stumpers from BOOKS BY CHAPTERS:
($800) From Russia: “The Grand Inquisitor”, “Plans to Save Mitya”
($1600) “The Piiper at the Gates of Dawn”, “Mr. Toad”
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Monarchies”
The future Charles I suddenly became next in line to the throne of Austria in this year show
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And we got a triple stumper to start the week since today’s final was a tough one.
I predicted correctly – Ilena one and done. As usual, Howard is right on target. All the wrong answers didn’t help.
Likewise, as usual, I got about half the TS. However, I did get the last DD! And, the Irish county, because my maternal grandmother’s family came from there! And, it is the only Republic of Ireland county in the ancient province of Ulster!
I missed FJ – I said “beanie”!
Well, at least the women made it to the final round. Never had a chance, and all their wrong answers didn’t help.
All I could come up with for FJ was coattails (from curtail). Toughie.
Someone should have known the uncapped damages and the 4-letter salmon. And Biden’s age in 2012. Latin word for spirit/anger was difficult but I figured it out. Wasn’t so lucky on the DDs.
Sarah did know the salmon but she gave the word it was in, which was the second time she did that in the same category. Ken promptly reminded her of that although he didn’t have to. (It was the last clue in the category.)
I was mucho surprised no one knew the Mr. Toad book.
Today, Elliott is really good at playing. He guessed 2 DDs right but got it wrong on the last one. When they went to final Jeopardy, everyone got it wrong, resulting a Triple Stumper for today.
Tomorrow is 4th of July!!!