Final Jeopardy: National Historic Sites (7-5-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/5/2022) in the category “National Historic Sites” was:
Less than 100 yards north of the J. Edgar Hoover building is this notorious location
New champ Yungsheng Wang, a public defender from Los Angeles, CA, won $22,800 yesterday. In Game 2, his challengers are: Suzy Garver, an elementary school teacher orig. from Eugene, OR; and Jake Marvin, a banking analyst from Charlotte, NC.
Round 1 Categories: It Happened in July – A Number between 1 & 100 – Animal Sounds? – A Novel Death – The III – Stuck in the Middle with “Q”
Jake found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “A Number Between 1 & 100” under the $800 clue with 11 clues left after it. He was in second place with $2,400, $1,000 less than Yungsheng’s lead. Jake made it a true Daily Double and came up with 90. That was WRONG and the second time this year that Miss Ross was mistaken for a nonagenarian.
Your standard photograph record until the 1950s, or the age Diana Ross turned in 2022 show
Yungsheng finished in the lead with $6,400. Jake was second with $2,200 and Suzy was last with $1,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: A Dip in the Bay – Economics – Actresses in the Show – 19th Century Technology – The Arts – Tool Words & Phrases
Jake found the first Daily Double in “A Dip in the Bay” under the $2,000 clue on the 7th pick. He was in the lead with $5,800 now, $1,400 more than Yungsheng in second place. Jake bet $3,500 and he was RIGHT.
The Sunshine Skyway Bridge crosses this body of water, sheltered in part from the Gulf of Mexico by the Pinellas Peninsula show
Yungsheng got the last Daily Double in “19th Century Technology” under the $2,000 clue, with 12 clues left after it. In second place with $8,800, he had $500 less than Jake’s lead. Yungsheng bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
Friedrich Koenig’s improvements to this machine, not much changed since the 1450s, included self-inking show
Yungsheng finished in the lead with $15,800. Jake was next with $12,500 and Suzy was in third place with $4,600. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
The DC Historic Sites website has a great history of Ford’s Theatre, from its beginnings to the present, and there’s a little map at the bottom. Three months after Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865, the Secretary of War had the building seized and the interior torn out. The building served various governmental purposes in subsequent years when “Ford’s Theatre was transferred to the ownership of the National Park Service in 1931, and in 1967, the building was restored to its 1865 appearance. Currently, the building continues to stage plays and operate as a theatre, in addition to hosting the Lincoln Museum and Library.”
The U.S. Government also bought the Petersen House in 1895, where Lincoln died the morning after John Wilkes Booth shot him. It was transferred to the National Park Service in 1931. It is open to the public as a historic house museum.
Suzy responded with the grassy knoll (in Dallas). She lost her $4,599 bet and finished with $1.00.
Jake went with the Watergate (in DC’s Foggy Bottom section). He bet and lost every penny.
Yungsheng got it right. He bet $9,201 and won the game with $25,001. Yungsheng’s 2-day total is $$47,801.
2 triple stumpers from 19TH CENTURY TECHNOLOGY:
($1200) Ella Gaillard’s invention of the eyeless this revolutionized surgery
($1600) In 1824 bricklayer Joseph Aspdin patented Portland this, stronger than traditional mortars
3 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Famous Phrase Origins”
One theory says a phrase for euphoria comes from Plate No. 9 in an 1896 meteorological “Atlas” of these show
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I thought Jake was a little too loose. Good back and forth.
I think Yungsheng got away with one with the “thirds” category, as “90210” was an abbreviated reference to “Beverly Hills 90210”, but, “90210” was a different show. Then again, I know Luke Perry was in both shows, but, I don’t recall the other person.
I got FJ. I don’t know why. I’ve been to DC 3 times, and don’t specifically recall seeing either Ford’s Theatre, or the Watergate building.
Although our family visited Ford’s Theater 60 years ago, the Watergate Hotel was all I could come up with.
Oh Jake, your grandparents who probably listened to 78 rpm recordings are spinning in their graves tonight. And even this opera know-nothing knew Mimi was from “La Boheme”, and later “Rent.” My parents had several 78s that are long gone now. I pulled one out back in high school days, and that’s when I learned Sinatra recorded “Try a Little Tenderness” long before Otis Redding did.
A little surprised no one knew the eyeless surgery device, the Portland mortar, or the prison guard/tool. The 2 guys were pretty darn good, though.
Last time Diana Ross’s name came up as an answer, the contestant thought she was 95, tonight Jake thought she was a mere 90 lol.
I took wild guesses on FJ before, but honestly, “the grassy knoll”? I mean, that was located in Dallas, Texas.. Personally, I thought that it might have been the Watergate Building. I don’t think that was a bad guess even though it turned out to be wrong.
Happy to see Yungsheng winning again. Keep it going Yungsheng!