Final Jeopardy: Monarchies (6-28-21)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/28/2021) in the category “Monarchies” was:

The future Charles I suddenly became next in line to the throne of Austria in this year

New champ Austin Weiss, a pediatrician from San Diego, CA won $12,900 last Friday. In Game 2, he takes on these two players: Courtney Shah, a community college instructor from Portland, OR and Spencer Pace, a store operations associate orig. from Boston, MA.

Round 1 Categories: Rock Bands – Talking Heads – Journey – America – The Cars – Sound Garden

Courtney found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Journey” under the $800 clue on the 19th pick of the round. She was in second place with $2,200, $3,000 less than Spencer in the lead. She bet $1,400 and had no response so she was WRONG.

An epic poem that begins by talking about a hero’s travels gave us this word for a journey show

WHAT IS AN ODYSSEY?

Spencer finished in the lead with $6,600. Courtney was second with $3,000 and Austin was last with $2,600. No clues went uncovered.

Round 2 Categories: Novellas – Islamic History – “A” before “E” – James Beard Chef of the Year – Science – Channel Islands

Austin found the first Daily Double in “James Beard Chef of the Year” under the $1,600 clue on the 2nd pick. He was in second place with $3,800 now, $2,800 less than Spencer’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.

Alice Waters, the first woman to win the award, won for Chez Panisse in this California college town show

WHAT IS BERKELEY?

Austin got the last Daily Double in “Science” under the $2,000 clue, with 5 clues left after it. In second place with $14,400, he had $600 less than Spencer’s lead. He bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.

This physicist’s effect is the change in a wave’s frequency based on the relative motion between observer and source show

WHAT IS THE DOPPLER EFFECT?

Austin finished in the lead with $20,400. Spencer was next with $15,000 and Courtney was in third place with $11,400. No clues went uncovered.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS 1914?

Emperor Karl I of Austria, aka Charles IV of Hungary, was Austria-Hungary’s last emperor. Karl was a grandnephew of Emperor Franz Josef I. He became heir to the throne when his granduncle Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated on 6/28/1914 in Sarajevo. This event is considered the most immediate cause of World War I.

Franz Josef I died on 11/21/1916. Karl succeeded him on that date and became King of Hungary on 12/30/1916. Karl wanted to get Austria out of World War I but was unsuccessful in his attempts at making peace with the Allies. Eventually, in March of 1919, Karl was forced into exile and was deposed by the Austrian parliament in 1920. Karl’s attempts to regain the crown of Hungary also failed, unsupported by Hungary’s regent, Miklos Horthy. Karl was exiled a second time to the island of Madeira, Portugal. He died, penniless, from pneumonia at 34 years old on 4/1/1922. Learn more on Who’s Who in World War I. Also, see this YouTube video on Karl’s beatification by the Catholic church.

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Courtney got it right. She bet $4,000 and finished with $15,400.

Spencer thought it was 1500. That cost him $14,999 and left him with $1.

Austin came up with 1945. He lost his $9,700 and finished with $10,700. That made Courtney Shah the new Jeopardy! champion.

A triple stumper from each round:

ROCK BANDS ($1000) Fans of this current band are called “Firebreathers”

CHANNEL ISLANDS ($800) The Arrow, Swan & Pearl stations were all created by the Dharma initiative for the island on this show

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Colleges and Universities”

Starting a university after his only son died in 1884, this man said, “The children of California shall be our children” show

WHO IS LELAND STANFORD?

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