Final Jeopardy: American Women (5-22-13)
The Final Jeopardy question (5/22/2013) in the category “American Women” was:
Referring to a 1955 incident, she said: “Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.”
Rachel Eastwood took over the Jeopardy! champ title yesterday by virtue of her knowledge of French literature. She won $20,000. Today she is up against these two players: Scott Singer from Boca Raton, FL; and Cecily Squier from Austin, TX.
Cecily found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Annual Events.” She was in second place with $2,200, $800 behind Scott and Rachel, who were tied for the lead. She bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.
The Cereal Festival, with ‘the world’s longest breakfast table,’ is an annual event in this Michigan city. show
Rachel finished in the lead with $7,000. Cecily was second with $5,400 and Scott was last with $4,400.
Scott, who is an attorney, immediately went for the $2,000 clue in Supreme Court Cases for his first pick and it was the first Double Jeopardy Daily Double! So the scores were exactly the same as above. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
The court has OKed the requirement to buy health insurance, as it “may reasonably be characterized as” this. show
Scott found the last Daily Double in “The Quotable Dickens.” He was in third place with $11,400 when he found it, $400 behind Cecily in second place. He was then awarded $2,400 on a prior answer judged wrong and that put him in second place with $13,800, $6,400 less than Rachel’s lead. He bet $9,000 and he was RIGHT.
“I give Pirrip as my father’s family name. On the authority of his tombstone.” show
Scott finished in the lead with $22,800. Rachel was next with $20,200 and Cecily was in third place with $12,200.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right, as you probably expected.
“Rosa Louise Parks has been called the “Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement.” By not giving up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery , Alabama… Rosa Parks started thus, a protest that was felt throughout the United States…. She was arrested and fined for breaking the law. In response to her arrest, black men and women in Montgomery boycotted… the city buses. They demanded an end to segregation… Because of the protesters’ refusal to ride the buses, the bus system nearly went out of business.” (RosaParks.com)
Cecily bet $11,000. She finished with $23,200.
Rachel bet $9,800 and finished with $30,000.
Scott made the biggest bet — $17,601 — so he finished with $40,401 and became the third Jeopardy! champ of the week.
