Final Jeopardy: 19th Century Contemporaries (9-8-22)

Today’s Final Jeopardy clue in the category “19th Century Contemporaries” was:

Congratulating her on the 1869 release of her biography, Frederick Douglass wrote, “I have wrought in the day –you in the night”

3x champ Megan Wachspress, an attorney from Berkeley, CA, has now won $34,402. In Game 4, her competitors are: Sadie Goldberger, an interpreter from Columbia, MD; and Molly Fleming, a community organizer from Minneapolis, MN.

THIS GAME IS A RERUN FROM JUNE 17, 2022. CLICK HERE FOR THE ORIGINAL RECAP.

Sadie Goldberger was selected to compete in the Second Chance Tournament coming up in October 2022

Here are two categories, one from each round of this game:

JEOPARDY! ROUND: The contestants got all the clues in these random categories
HISTORIC ALLIANCES ($600) Created during the Cold War in 1955, this alliance joined together several countries including Bulgaria & Albania
WORDPLAY-POURRI ($600) 5-syllable words: a person aged 100 years or older
HOME SWEET HOME RENOVATION ($800) Out of the barn & into the kitchen for this type of big sink, installed just under the counter-top & a bit in front of cabinets below
THINK PINK ($800) In 1939 Paul & Betty Pink began selling soda & these from a cart on La Brea & Melrose in L.A. & the rest is history
STATELY RIVERS ($400) Its name derived from words for “truth” & “head”, Lake Itasca is the head or starting point for this river
POP ROCKS ($800) At his Rock Hall of Fame induction, this late legend’s son Dhani joined Tom Petty & others in playing “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”

ANSWERS: show

DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND: The contestants also got all the clues in these random categories
SCI-FI CHARACTERS ($1200) Paul Atreides is the messiah-like Kwisatz Haderach in the novels named for this desert-like planet
HIS WIDOW LIVED ON ($800) Until 2020 you could book a tour of this country that included a visit with its first lady Jehan Sadat, widowed in 1981
MARINE BIOLOGY ($1200) The movement of invasive species from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean via this waterway has been called Lessepsian migration
THE “IT” DEPARTMENT ($2000) Having a right to something, or acting like you have a right to just about anything
THE QUOTABLE MOVIE ($1600) From 2015: “I don’t do romance. My tastes are very singular. You wouldn’t understand”
SUCH A PEASANT LIFE ($800) Our lord’s away fighting again, across the channel in the battles of Blanchetaque & Caen; hope this war is over soon

ANSWERS: show