Final Jeopardy: Who Was The President When …
The Final Jeopardy question (4/19/2012) in the category “Who Was the President When …” was:
the Jets beat the heavily favored Colts in Super Bowl III.
New champ Dan Adkinson won $13,200 yesterday. Today he can duplicate that by defeating:Carol Golliher, from Victorville, CA. and Nathan Fuller from Sharon, WI.
Dan found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in the category “Yo-Yo Ma” near the end of the round. He had the lead with $4,800, $1,000 more than Carol in second place. He risked $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
“Yearning of the Sword” is a Yo-Yo Ma cut on the soundtrack of this 2000 movie with Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh. show
That ended the round and Dan finished in the lead with $5,800. Carol was next with $3,800 and Nathan had $2,400.
Dan found the first Double Jeopardy Daily Double in “4-Letter Crossword Regulars.” He was now in second place with $4,600, $2,000 less than Carol who had the lead. Dan seemed to be having a lot of buzzing in problems and Nathan was in the hole for $1,200 thanks to quite a bit of ill-advised guessing. Dan chose to risk it all with a Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
This fruit of the blackthorn tree flavors a type of gin. show
There was no second Daily Double because the round ended with two clues uncovered in “The Hazards of Dukes” and it was under one of them.
Carol finished in the lead with $14,200. Dan was next with $9,600 and Nathan managed to get out of the hole in the category “Yo Mama” so he had $1,200 to play with in Final Jeopardy!
Only ONE of the players got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON?
“Super Bowl III was the third AFL-NFL Championship Game in professional American football, but the first to officially bear the name “Super Bowl” (The two previous AFL-NFL Championship Games came to be known, retroactively, as “Super Bowls”). The game, played on January 12, 1969, at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, is regarded as one of the greatest upsets in sports history. The heavy underdog American Football League (AFL) champion New York Jets defeated the National Football League (NFL) champion Baltimore Colts by a score of 16–7.[2] This was the the first Super Bowl victory for the AFL.” (wikipedia)
Nathan thought it was Richard Nixon. That cost him $200 and he finished with $1,000.
Dan got it right. His $9,000 bet brought him up to $18,600.
Carol picked JFK and lost $8,000 and the game to Dan, who is now a two-day champ with a combined total of $31,800.
As Alex Trebek explained, it was a bit tricky. Lyndon B. Johnson was still the President because the game took place 8 days before Inaugural Day, whereupon Richard B. Nixon took office.
