Final Jeopardy: Presidential Candidates (9-13-19)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (9/13/2019) in the category “Presidential Candidates” was:

This is the most recent presidential election year when both major Pres. candidates were residents of the same state

10x champ Jason Zuffranieri, a math teacher from Albuquerque, NM, increased his winnings to $273,843 yesterday, a $40,600 jump. A win like that will put him over the $300K mark today unless he loses to one of these players: Jack Gutshall, a college student from Hoover, AL; and Tabitha Walker, a gallery assistant from New York, NY.

Round 1 Categories: Fantasy Island – Mottoes – Live Entertainment – Official Languages – Hunting & Fishing – Antonyms

Jason found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Mottoes” under the $1,000 clue on the third pick of the round. He was in the lead with $1,800 and the only one with any money. He bet it all and he was RIGHT.

The New York Times has used this 7-word motto on its front page since 1897. show

WHAT IS “ALL THE NEWS THAT FIT TO PRINT”?

Jason finished in the lead with $12,800. Tabitha was second with $2,600 and Jack was last with $400.

Round 2 Categories: Sage Against the Machine – Crossword Clues “O” – Surnames – International Literature – Their Entire Oscar Speech – Get Him to the Ancient Greek

Jason found the first Daily Double in “Surnames” under the $1,600 clue on the 8th pick. He was in the lead with $16,000, $13,400 more than Tabitha in second place. He bet $6,000 and he was RIGHT.

In Vietnam, an estimated 40% of the population answer to this last name, the country’s most popular. show

WHAT IS NGUYEN?
how do you say that?

Jason found the last Daily Double in “Sage Against the Machine” under the $2,000 clue on the 16th pick. In the lead with $28,800, he had $26,400 more than Jack in second place. He bet $8,000 and he was RIGHT.

In 1816 Lord Byron penned a “Song for” these loom-smashing rioters who were being displaced by new technology. show

WHO ARE THE LUDDITES?

Jason finished in the lead with $44,400. Jack was next with $5,600 and Tabitha was in third place with $1,400.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS 2016?

Here is some home info on the 2016 major presidential candidates: Donald Trump is a native New Yorker, born in Queens in 1946. Business Insider has an article on the home where he grew up. Hillary Clinton took up residence in Chappaqua, NY in 1999. She became a New York Senator a year later. House Beautiful has an interesting slideshow of her home, which continues to be her primary residence, even though she bought another nearby home in 2018.

This list of U.S. Presidential candidates on Wikipedia shows which states the two top candidates were from since 1856. It has some interesting possibilities for future clues of this nature, like the winning candidate in the 4 elections from 1868 to 1880 all represented Ohio.

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Tabitha got it right. She bet $1,399 and finished with $2,799.

Jack thought it was 1996. That cost him $2,000 but he stayed in second place with the remaining $3,600.

Jason got it right, too. He bet a hefty $14,000 and won the game with $58,400. And over $300K he went– big time! His 11-day total is $332,243.

2 triple stumpers from the last round:

SURNAMES ($2000) Horvat & Knezevic are common surnames in this country; Horvat comes from the country’s name for itself in its own language

GET HIM TO THE ANCIENT GREEK ($1200) He said, “The unexamined life is not worth living”, so let’s examine it– he wed Xanthippe & was an Athenian hoplite soldier

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Global Organizations”

“Connecting police for a safer world” is the motto of this 190-member organization show

WHAT IS INTERPOL?

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