Final Jeopardy: Words in the News (8-21-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (8/21/2020) in the category “Words in the News” was:

On September 25, 2019, searches on merriam-webster.com for the definition of this 3-word Latin term increased by 5,500%

Today’s show is a rerun of the last quarter-final of the 2020 College Championship that originally aired on 4/10/2020. The players are: Tyler Combs, Natalie Hathcote and Nibir Sarma,

Click here for the original recap of this game.

Here are the triple stumpers from the fifth 2014 College Championship quarter-final, if you want to compare games.

THE STAGE ($400) From “Annie Get Your Gun”, it was Ethel Merman’s signature song about life on the stage

($1000) He wrote of 2 very different women in “Saint Joan” *& “Mrs. Warren’s Profession”

U.S. CITIES ($1000) A memorial on the site of the former South Fork Dam commemorates the devastating flood in this Pennsylvania city

COLLEGE FOOTBALL ($800) Hey, y’all, let’s put on our Tajh Boyd jerseys & hit Death Valley to see the Tigers, this ACC team

ONLINE & TEXT ABBREVIATIONS ($400) Someone who types “bio” is likely headed to this room

“GR”AD SCHOOL ($600) Season 1 episodes of this TV drama included “Three Bad Wolves” & “Game Ogre”

THE TOPIC IS MICROSCOPIC ($400) The end of a conflict, or a measure of the detail a microscope can observe

($1600) Sharing its name with a body part that helps you breathe, this part of the microscope changes the amount of light used to view a specimen

LANGUAGES ($2000) Until the early 1800s, it was the standard written language of Norway

GETTING SCHOOLED ON TV ($1200) NBC’s “Community” college attended by Star-Burns & Fat Neil

THE “EX” FACTOR ($1600) Meaning “higher”, this Latin word is New York’s state motto

WHERE WERE YOU & WHEN? (($2000) Aaron Burr, July 11, 1804: crossing this river to go fight a duel