Final Jeopardy: History of the 19-Teens (9-24-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (9/24/2021) in the category “History of the 19-Teens” was:
Saying he ignored warnings of enemy vessels, the British Admiralty sought to blame William Turner, this ship’s last captain in 1915
27x champ Matt Amodio, a PhD student from New Haven, CT won $955,201 so far. In Game 28, the challengers are: Troy Pozirekides, a written communications specialist from Santa Monica, CA; and Rebecca Fox, an administrative assistant from Pasadena, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Royalty Around Us – The Middle Ages – Get-Togethers – “And” So Forth – Channel – No. 5
Matt found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Get-Togethers” under the $1,000 clue on the 5th pick of the round. At $3,800, he was the only one with any money. Troy and Rebecca had not buzzed in yet. Matt bet it all and came up with convention but that was WRONG.
Similar to a seminar, this small conference derives its name from Greek words meaning “to drink together”. show
Matt finished in the lead with $6,600. Troy was second with $5,600 and Rebecca was last with $400. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: Italy – Novels by Quote – Furry Road – Notable Asian Americans – Signature Songs – Tough Vocabulary
Rebecca found the first Daily Double in “Novels by Quote” under the $1,600 clue on the very first pick. She was in third place with $400, $6,200 less than Matt’s lead. She bet the $2,000 allowance and thought it was “A Tale of Two Cities”. That was WRONG.
”One man’s life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought”. show
Matt got the last Daily Double in “Notable Asians Americans” under the $1,200 clue on the 8th pick. In first place with $12,600, he had $8,600 more than Troy in second place. Matt bet $6,000 and he was RIGHT.
Not a fan of rock music, he initially turned down the job of designing The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. show
Matt finished in the lead with a runaway $31,800. Troy was next with $7,200. At negative $4,000, Rebecca was out of the game at this point. No clues went uncovered.
BOTH contestants left in Final Jeopardy! got it right.
WHAT IS THE LUSITANIA?
In 2015, National Geographic did an interview with Erik Larson, author of “Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania”, the No. 1 bestselling book in Ship History on Amazon. Larson discusses several misconceptions about the tragedy and takes the position that the German U-boat captain, Walter Schwieger was responsible for the deaths of the 1,195 who perished when the Lusitania sank: “Nobody made him press the button and launch the torpedo that sank that ship. The British Admiralty later tried to lay the blame on Captain Turner. But in the end it all comes down to Schwieger. He killed almost 1,200 people at the push of a button.”
As to why the British Admiralty sought to blame Captain Turner, he says: “It’s not exactly clear why the Admiralty went after Turner. But what is very clear from the record is that the Admiralty went after him immediately, within 24 hours…. I believe it’s because the Admiralty was trying to protect Room 40. Hence, the whole idea of letting it stand in the historical record for decades that the Lusitania was sunk by two torpedoes, when Room 40 knew beyond a doubt that it was only one torpedo.”
Troy got it right with “Luisitania.” He bet it all and doubled his score to $14,400. Mayim gave a sound-alike justification for accepting that spelling with “final cruise of the Lusitania.”
Matt got it, too, after crossing out Titanic. He bet $17,000 and won the game with $48,800. That put him over the million dollar mark with a 28-day total of $1,004,001. Hooray! We didn’t have to wait till Monday to see that. Congratulations, Matt!!
A triple stumper from each round:
ROYALTY AROUND US ($600) In 1959 AT&T targeted women with this product that came in pastel colors
NOVELS BY QUOTE ($2000) “I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel”
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “U.S. Currency”
In 1929 Alexander Hamilton became the new face of the $10 bill, replacing this foe of his legacy, who got moved to another denomination show
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A big congratulations to Matt for crossing the $1 million mark. What I find ironic is someone had posted on this website not too long ago that Matt was getting tired. Interesting! Considering the fact Friday he earned more money than any day this week which catapulted him into the millionaire club somebody is lacking in the observation skills category. Congratulations to a 30-year old millionaire who proved it pays to be smart. 👏
@Jacob, that was me that said Matt looked tired on Thursday. My observational skills may indeed be lacking these days but on Thursday, Matt finished with $25,800, the lowest score of the week and a lot less than on Friday. $10.4K of Thursday’s score was from one Daily Double (the last).
That wasn’t the only total opposite — on Thursday, he crossed out the right answer and went with frogs. On Friday, he crossed out the wrong answer (Titanic) and went over the million mark with the right answer. (He didn’t need to get FJ right on either day to win).
In any event, I’m not hoping he loses any time soon. I’d like to see him beat the 32-game record and still be there when Ken starts hosting, too!
VJ, I didn’t realize it was you but I must respectfully disagree about incorrect responses being caused by tiredness. Some contestants blow clues on their very 1st appearance on Jeopardy. That can’t be attributed to tiredness. For someone who spends K-20 years in school, which is the normal time for any student earning a doctorate degree, I find it difficult to attribute tiredness to missing some responses.
Perhaps they just don’t know the correct response. No one knows everything and imo it is unfair to expect contestants to be perfect. Matt had an upward trend week and the over $1 million payday Friday speaks volumes.
No one has the tenacity to spend approximately 20 years seeking formal knowledge without a love for learning despite being wrong sometime. I don’t know how far Matt will go on Jeopardy but to become a millionaire at 30 years of age while still working on a Ph.D. is commendable regardless of the outcome on Jeopardy going forward for this young man. No contestant as young as Matt while working on a Ph.D. has ever reached the millionaire milestone before on Jeopardy. Kudos to Matt the newly minted millionaire.
That’s fine. I don’t have a problem with anyone disagreeing with my observations. However, I did not mean to imply that I thought he missed that answer because he was tired. Rather, I thought his reflexes were off because he was tired and I was expecting him to knock off a few $1K clues by the 5th clue. I’m human, too, and I honestly don’t expect contestants to be perfect. I mostly hope they won’t buzz in if they don’t know an answer.
idk what you mean by Matt having an upward trend week. Mon – $31,200; Tue and Wed – $36,200 both days (incidentally he also made $36,200 on Tue 9/14). On Thursday, he won $25,800 so I don’t see how it would be unfair of anyone to think we might have to wait til Monday to see him go over the million and I’m glad we didn’t.
VJ, you’re using fluctuating data points on a daily basis. I was looking at day 24 as beginning the week when he finished the game with total winnings of $857,001 & ended day 28 for the week with total winnings of $1,004,001. That is an upward trend. Have a good week next week. I’m off to bed.
So… Luisitania gets credit by a bubblehead host but a child on kids jeopardy loses the big money by writing emancipatation. For crying out loud!
Jackson, It’s not up to the host. It’s up to the judges. Mayim looked like she was reading the explanation off the card she was holding anyway.
Cruise is not the only word in the English language where the letter sequence “ui” sounds like “oo” –there’s juice, fruit, nuisance, sluice. I don’t see the comparison to the “Emanciptation” incident.
Go Matt! Congrats on winning $1 million!
$1,004,001. Palindromic way to end the week, huh?
@John Christian — I would definitely agree with that. If you didn’t watch the other games of his streak, he has actually became more big with his FJ! ( Final Jeopardy ! ) scores. And that is to say, will, he keep going next week? I sure hope he does!
He broke the one million dollar mark just like James Holzhauer and Ken Jennings did and was the third contestant to break the million dollar mark.
Poor Rebecca being the first contestant of Season 38 to get dismissed before Final J!. Oh well, at least Matt broke the $1M mark.
I thought that the answers were a tad tougher than usual tonight, but perhaps it was me. In any case, the final question was a breeze.
All of them much too young to have heard of a Princess phone. I always wished I had one of those.
Oh no! Rebecca wouldn’t catch up and now she got pre-empted (As VJ says in the early spoiler) I apologize for the clues being bad to her. (Also VJ rocks!)
I wish a different a contestant will be faster than Matt.
Eventually, we’ll get that contestant.
We can’t. He’s gonna be here throughout the season. All 230 games.
@Richard Corliss. — Uhhhh, I don’t think so. Matt’s streak will end eventually. I don’t see what you mean by “He will win all 230 games of season 38.” I just don’t. There’s nothing I can say about that. I just don’t get that in general. That is my point.
Sorry that the clues were mean to Rebecca.
I thought that quote was difficult to trace to “Frankenstein”, and I read the book just a couple years ago.
My knee jerk reaction, JP, was “Crime and Punishment”. Imagine confusing Dostoevsky with Mary Shelley. lol. (just kidding)
“Crime and Punishment” came to my mind as well – I just reread it a couple months ago. But I couldn’t come up with a decent guess. I never associated “Frankenstein” with a quest for knowledge.
Same with me. I read the book 2 or 3 years ago and I did not remember the quote.
Well, all bad breaks and whatever else aside, I’m glad that Rebecca got this $1200 clue in Novels by Quote:
($1200) “We would not talk of Manderley, I would not tell my dream. For Manderley was ours no longer”
No way was she missing that one!! 😁
Rebecca was unable to catch up to the guys. She must have gotten charles dickens confused with Mary Shelley in that book quote daily double. But as always congrats to Matt on getting to one million dollars today. He will need a break for the weekend and recharge next week to continue his streak. The lusitania disaster had very few survivors during the first world war. But there have been other ship disasters like the dona paz in the Phillippines in 1987 which collided with an oil tanker leaving only 26 survivors. The blame was placed on.the captain and the crew of both ships.
William Weyser would say darn those daily doubles.
Well we ended the week with a first 2 player final but congrats to Matt for becoming the third played to reach the million dollar mark.