Final Jeopardy: Historic Documents (11-17-11)
The Final Jeopardy question (11/17/2011) in the category “Historic Documents” was:
It’s the shorter, better-known name of the document “United States-Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967”
Yesterday’s winner, Ellen Lewis from New York, came back today to take on two new contestants, Glenn Sullivan, from Virginia, and Matt Andelman, from Maryland.
Alex said they haven’t had a champion who made as little as $10,000 in “many many” weeks. Actually, last month, there were two much lower winners in one day: Lanny Timan and Liz Greenwood tied on October 18th, each winning $1,599. So don’t let Alex laugh at your $10,000, Ellen. It was quite respectable.
After sweeping through the first 4 clues in the category “Airships,” Glenn found the Jeopardy round Daily Double in the last clue. Glenn had $2,600 and bet $1,700. He got it RIGHT, even though he didn’t seem 100% sure.
He began construction of his first airship in June 1, 1898 in a wooden hangar on Lake Constance show
Glenn finished in the lead with $6,300. Ellen and Matt were tied with $5,000.
Somehow, Glenn managed to have the same amount he started Double Jeopardy with when he found the first Daily Double of the round in the category “Color Movies.” He bet half his dough — $3,150. It didn’t look like he was going to get it, but he figured it out and caught up to Matt, who was in the lead at this point with $10,200.
“In this animated film Fred captains the title transport to Pepperland.” show
They finished every category except “Homeland Security.” We all knew the clues were going to be read by Janet Napolitano. We also knew the second Daily Double had to be in there. We didn’t know the clues were going to be long as hell and after two long as hell clues, time ran out so the second Daily Double was lost to the players.
Going into Final Jeopardy, Matt had the lead with $13,400, Glenn was in second place with $8,650 and Ellen was last with $7,800.
Glenn and Ellen stopped writing before the camera got up close, but Ellen picked up her writing implement again. Hard to tell if they thought they knew it or not. Only ONE of them did.
WHAT ARE THE PENTAGON PAPERS?
“These were the famous documents that were released to the press about 40 years ago,” Alex informed us after the Final Jeopardy music ended. Here is an interesting link to an online audio report on how, on June 13, 1971, the papers were first brought to the public’s attention. 1971 Year in Review: The Pentagon Papers.
Ellen began writing down the letters “SEI” and gave up. She bet $2,200, leaving her with $5,600.
Glenn added $6.951 to his score with the correct answer, finishing with $15,601.
Matt wrote down “The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.” That cost him $4,000 bringing his score down to $9,400, for the second place win.
This time getting the Final Jeopardy answer right won the game. Congrats to Glenn.
