Final Jeopardy: 2001 News (8-4-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (8/3/2020) in the category “2001 News” was:

In 2001 the zinc industry was up in arms over Rep. Jim Kolbe’s bill calling for the phasing out of these

Today we’re watching a rerun of the second quarter-final of the 2002 Million Dollar Masters Tournament that originally aired on 5/2/2002 and featured: Claudia Perry, a sports copy editor from Jersey City, NJ; Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, PA; and Kate Waits, a law professor at the University of Tulsa from Tulsa, OK

Round 1 Categories: Art & Artists – My Favorite Films – Big City Life – Discovery Channel – World War I Vets – I’m in “Seventh” Heaven

Kate found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “My Favorite Films” under the $600 clue on the 5th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $1,200, $200 more than Claudia in second place. “Ah, that classic line,” she said, “Let’s make it a true Daily Double.” She did and she was RIGHT.

When you rent this 1970 biopic, watch for Tim Considine as the soldier who gets slapped. show

WHAT IS “PATTON”?

Brad finished in the lead with $5,800. Claudia was second with $4,400 and Kate was last with $3,800.

Round 2 Categories: The New York Times Magazine – Literary Movements – Middle Age Folks – Oh, No! It’s Opera! – Monsters Inc. – Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

Brad found the first Daily Double in “Be Afraid” under the $1,200 clue on the 16th pick. He was in the lead with $11,800 now, $2,200 more than Claudia in second place. He bet $1,200 and he was RIGHT.

She could have called her 1973 bestseller “Aviophobia” show

WHO IS ERICA JONG?
(“Fear of Fying”)

Claudia got the last Daily Double in “Middle Age Folks” under the $800 clue, with 5 clues left after it. In second place with $11,200, she had $5,800 less than Brad’s lead. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.

His brothers Thorvald & Thorstein & half-sister Freydis also traveled to Vinland. show

WHO IS LEIF ERICSON?

Brad finished in the lead with $17,800. Claudia was next with $12,400 and Kate was in third place with $4,200.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT ARE PENNIES?

The particular bill the clue was referring to back then was the Legal Tender Modernization Act of 2001. It was not Rep. Jim Kolbe’s first effort to eliminate the penny, as you can see in Wikipedia’s article, Penny Debate in the United States. Since 1982, the penny has contained 97.5% zinc so, of course, the zinc industry continues to be unhappy with the prospect.

The penny may die someday but songs like “Pennies from Heaven” never will. (This rendition is by Louis Prima from 1957)

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Kate crossed out subsidies and went with batteries. She bet and lost it all.

Claudia got it right. She added $5,000 and finished with $17,400.

Brad got it, too. He bet $7,001 and won the semi-finalist spot with $24,801.

2 triple stumpers from ART & ARTISTS:

($600) He was in his prime– or should we say his “Primavera”– when he painted “Fortitude” in 1470

($1000) This Romanian known for his “Endless Column” also sculpted the scandalous “Princess X”

More clues on Page 2

6 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “The Oxford English Dictionary”

As of 2013, this 3-letter verb common in sports, theater & politics has the largest entry in the online OED. show

WHAT IS “RUN”?

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