Final Jeopardy: Presidential Geography (8-26-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (8/26/2020) in the category “Presidential Geography” was:

This Midwest city is the burial place of one 19th century President & was named for a relative of another

Today’s show is a rerun of the third semi-final of the 2020 College Championship that originally aired on 4/15/2020. The players are: Nathaniel Miller, Marshall Comeaux and Xiaoke Ying.

Click here for the original recap of this game.

Here are the triple stumpers from the last semi-final game of the 2014 College Championship, if you want to compare games.

WEBSITES ($1000) Need a ride? Go to the site called this to schedule your pickup & look for the pink carstache

RECENTLY BANNED OR CHALLENGED BOOKS ($1000) A Katy, Texas school district didn’t have a Jane Smiley face after complaints about this numerically titled book

STATE LINES ($1000) “So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea, while we were marching ____ ____”

THE MOVIE SUPERHERO WHO… ($800) is asked, “You’ve been called the da Vinci of our time. What do you say to that?” “Ridiculous. I don’t paint”

SORORITY SISTERS ($400) We can see this 3-named Supreme Court justice, a Cornell AEPhi, just trashing a frat house at a kegger

($2000) Chi O! & Roll Tide! This author won a Pulitzer for fiction in 1961

FRENCH HISTORY ($1600) In Feb. of this year France hosted the Grenoble Winter Olympics; in May protests nearly led to a leftist revolution

($2000) To grant religious freedom to Protestants, in 1598 King Henry IV issued the Edict of this city

CIVIL WAR SLANG ($1200) A Confederate soldier could be called by this first name whether he was “marching home” or not

($1600) A Union soldier could be called this, now found before “Trade Commission”

($2000) Now it’s slang for any bad situation; back then it was a foraging soldier