Agriculture (7-6-22) – Fikkle Fame

Today’s Final Jeopardy query (7/6/2022) within the class “Agriculture” was:

Being delivered to the U.S. by a ship docking at San Francisco in 1851 helped result in it now being a significant crop within the Midwest

2x champ Yungsheng Wang, a public defender from Los Angeles, CA, received $47,801 for the reason that starting of the week. In Game 3, he takes on these two gamers: Jen Alfonso-Punzalan, a college librarian from San Mateo, CA; and Alicia O’Hare, a social employee from Long Beach, NY.

Round 1 Categories: Geography – Movie Magic & Wizardry – Stock Symbols – We Recognize – The Representative From… – The State of Denial

Jen discovered the Jeopardy! spherical Daily Double in “Geography” below the $1,000 clue on the tenth choose of the spherical. She was in final place with $1,000, $1,400 lower than Yungsheng’s lead. Jen made it a real Daily Double, and stated the Sahara. That was WRONG.

Afrikaner Gert Alberts was the chief of a well-known crossing of this desert within the 1870s present

WHAT IS THE KALAHARI?

Alicia completed within the lead with $8,600. Yungsheng was second with $6,400 and Jen was final with $600. All clues have been proven.

Round 2 Categories: Historical Hodgepodge – Literary Doctors – Billboard No. 1 Lyrics – Examine the Science – In the Courtroom – “A” earlier than “E”

Alicia discovered the primary Daily Double in “Literary Doctors” below the $2,000 clue on the eleventh choose. She was within the lead with $12,600 now, $4,600 greater than Yungsheng in second place. Alicia guess $4,000, and stated Goethe. That was WRONG.

This German creator’s 1947 novel “Doctor Faustus” reimagines the Doc as a twentieth century composer present

WHO IS THOMAS MANN?

Yungsheng obtained the final Daily Double in “Historical Hodgepodge” below the $1,200 clue, with 5 clues left after it. In second place with $13,600, he had $200 lower than Alicia’s lead. Yungsheng guess $4,000 and he was RIGHT.

Thomas Cranmer, who held this non secular publish from 1533 to 1556, was the primary Protestant within the job present

WHAT IS THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY?

Yungsheng completed within the lead with $19,200. Alicia was subsequent with $18,200 and Jen was in third place with $3,000. All clues have been proven.

ALL of the contestants obtained Final Jeopardy! proper.

WHAT ARE SOYBEANS?

On its method from Hong Kong to San Francisco in December 1850, the Auckland got here throughout a struggling Japanese junk with 17 folks on board. The Auckland rescued the crew and proceeded to San Francisco. Dr. Benjamin F. Edwards, a brother of former Illinois governor Ninian Edwards, was in San Francisco on the time. The HMdb.org (the Historical Marker database) has the inside track on how Dr. Edwards obtained a few of the seeds and the place he planted them in Illinois, “thus playing a significant role in soybean development across the country.”

Connections: One of the people rescued by the Auckland was Joseph Heco who turned the primary Japanese individual to be naturalized as a U.S. citizen. He additionally took half within the 1853-54 diplomatic Perry Expedition to Japan. Soybean seeds and 4 Japanese chin canine have been among the many presents despatched again to then President Franklin Pierce.

Jen didn’t guess something so she completed with the $3,000 she began out with.

Alicia guess $6,200. That introduced her as much as $24,400.

Yungcheng put a giant $17,201 on the road and received the sport with $36,401. His 3-day whole is $84,202. What a sport!

There have been solely two triple stumpers in the entire sport. It’s been fairly some time since we’ve seen that!

WE RECOGNIZE ($400) We acknowledge this flower; seen right here is the creeping sort that grows wild throughout North America (picture)

BILLBOARD NO. 1 LYRICS ($2000) 1987: “Baby, I know you’re asking me to stay, say ‘please, please please, don’t go away’”

More clues on Page 2

2 years in the past: ALL of the gamers obtained this FJ in “Games”

When this sport was launched in 1860, it had squares like Intemperance & Poverty & should you hit the Suicide sq. your sport was over present

WHAT IS (THE GAME OF) LIFE?

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