Final Jeopardy: U.S. Colleges & Universities (9-15-22)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (9/15/2022) in the category “U.S. Colleges & Universities” was:

Founded as a technical institute in 1900, its sports teams are the Tartans & its official mascot is a Scottish terrier

4x champ Luigi de Guzman, an attorney from Arlington, VA, went over the $100K mark yesterday. He has now won $115,200. In Game 5, his opponents are: Annabel Osburn, a contract manager from Austin, TX; and Gilad Avrahami, a recent college graduate from New York, NY.

Round 1 Categories: Letter-Perfect Books – Party! – TV Title Adjectives – From the Spanish – Cleanup – Isle, 5

Gilad found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Letter-Perfect Books” under the $600 clue on the 4th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $400, $600 more than Luigi in second place. Gilad bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.

Lin Haire-Sargeant’s novel “H” imaginatively fills in the blanks in this character’s 3-year absence from a Bronte novel show

WHO IS HEATHCLIFF?

Annabel finished in the lead with $5,200. Luigi was in second place with $4,600 and Gilad was last with $3,200. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: A Little History – Science Projects – Go Get “Em” – Philosophy – Singers Who Act – Hispanic Heritage Here

Luigi found the first Daily Double in “Philosophy” under the $1,600 clue with 5 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $19,000, $5,400 more than Annabel in second place. Luigi bet $3,500 and he was RIGHT.

Kant wrote “Critiques” of pure & practical this, the method of making logical correlations show

WHAT IS REASON?

Luigi got the last Daily Double in “Science Projects” under the $800 clue on the last pick of the round. In the lead with $26,500, he had $14,100 more than Annabel in second place. Luigi bet $6,000 and he was RIGHT.

In 1996 scientists of the Rediscovery Project at this Virginia site announced the finding of its long-lost fort show

WHAT IS JAMESTOWN?

Luigi finished in the lead with a runaway $32,500. Annabel was in second place with $12,400 and Gilad was last with $6,400. All clues were shown.

NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY?

Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA was founded in 1900 by Scottish-American tycoon and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Originally called the Carnegie Technical Schools, it was renamed the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1912 and continued as such until 1967, when it merged with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research.

The University devotes a page to “Tartan Facts” on its website, acknowledging that the school’s athletic teams’ nickname is a tribute to the Scottish heritage of its founder. They describe tartan fabric in great detail, including how to differentiate it from plaid. Scotty the Dog became the school’s official mascot in 2007 after some 50 years of students dressing up as a Scottish terrier. Evidently, they even got a live dog at that point.

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Gilad came up with Glasgow. He lost his $6,000 bet and finished with $400.

Annabel went with Notre Dame. That cost her $2,600 and left her with $9,800.

Luigi wrote down NJIT to stand for New Jersey Institute of Technology. He lost his $7,000 bet but won the game with the $25,500 he had left. Luigi’s 5-day total is $140,700.

2 triple stumpers from the first round:

LETTER-PERFECT BOOKS ($400) Sue Grafton’s 24th Kinsey Millhone mystery novel simply has this letter as its title

ISLE, 5 ($400) Colombia’s Isla Gorgona got its name from Francisco Pizarro, due to these fearsome creatures he found there

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Medical History”

One of the first recorded autopsies was performed on this man & revealed 23 puncture marks show

WHO IS JULIUS CAESAR?

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