Jeopardy First Edition -- Game #3

 Hi friends!

As part of the MS-DOS Jeopardy! series, I hope to write a post-game review of the clues. The goal is to highlight any clues that may be out-of-date and to provide some additional trivia about some of the more interesting clues.

Notes are in the order they appear in the original video, which you can find here.

Wikipedia is my primary source for much of this material (so take that with a grain of salt).

Jeopardy! Round

Categories: State Capital, Photography, Number Please, The 70's, College Sports, and Teacher on T.V.

• College Sports ($100): I wasn't able to verify the accuracy of this clue. Can anyone in our community provide evidence? Interestingly, women's college rowing is an NCAA sport, but men's college rowing is outside the scope of the NCAA.
• College Sports ($200): According to Wikipedia, Bryant's "Bear" nickname "stemmed from his having agreed to wrestle a captive bear during a carnival promotion when he was 13". 1920's Arkansas was a strange place.
• Number Please ($500): Carat as it appears in the clue is the British spelling. In the U.S., it's karat with a "K". It's defined as the mass of pure gold divided by the total mass of the metal times 24. So, 75% x 24 = 18 K gold.
• State Capital ($200): Some sources claim 1873, not 1875, when New Haven ceased being a co-capital. Does anyone know why they had two capitals? connecticuthistory.org claims that Hartford and New Haven were separate settlements that were joined by royal charter around 1665. General Assembly meetings were held in Hartford in May and in New Haven in October.
• State Capital ($400): It's not Boston anymore. If it's defined as the city proper, then Phoenix is the only U.S. capital with over 1 million people per the 2020 Census. Boston is 8th on the list. If it's defined as the metropolitan statistical area, Atlanta's 6+ million beats out Boston's 4.9 million.
• College Sports ($300): UCLA holds 11 men's basketball championships, the latest in 1995. Kentucky is second with 8, and North Carolina is third with 6. In 2022, you could make a case that the answer is the University of Connecticut--their women's team has won 11 national championships (though all happened after this version of Jeopardy! was released.)
• Teacher on T.V. ($200): Room 222 aired from 1969 through 1974 on ABC.
• Photography ($300): Keaton did win the Academy Award for Annie Hall, as I guessed in the video. Keaton's subject for photography: hotel lobbies and ballrooms. She published a book of photos in 1980.
• The 70's ($200): This was the San Fernando Earthquake (or the Sylmar Earthquake)--a 6.5 on the Richter scale.
• The 70's ($100): As of 2022, seven states have not ratified the 26th amendment: Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Utah.
• Teacher on T.V. ($500): Don Herbert was born in Waconia, Minnesota and majored at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (near where I grew up)

Double Jeopardy!

Categories: Africa, Dancing, Religion, Academy Awards, 3-Letter Words, Bear Facts

• Academy Awards ($800): Since this game was published, the following war films have won the Academy Award for Best Picture: Platoon (1986), Schindler's List (1993), Forrest Gump (kinda? 1994), Braveheart (1995), and The Hurt Locker (2009).
• Dancing ($800): The box step is not the same as square dancing (but I appreciate that the game accepted both answers, given the rough judging in the Bear Facts category).
• Bear Facts ($1000): One more bear fact: The polar bear was previously considered to be in its own genus: Thalarctos. Today, scientists consider the polar bear as the same genus as brown bears (ursus).
• Academy Awards ($600): Sadly, we lost Louise Fletcher around the time I recorded this game. She passed away on September 23, 2022 at age 88. Fletcher's parents were both deaf and were famous for working at deaf ministries and churches in Alabama.
• Academy Awards ($1000): Jessica Lange is from Cloquet, Minnesota. The roles were in Frances (tragic lead) and Tootsie (comic support). Like a goof, I mixed her up with Jessica Tandy when I made the Driving Miss Daisy comment. (Movies are not my strong suit, as you'll learn in this series!)
• Africa ($1000): The Mau Mau Uprising was a sad event all around--war crimes, executions, hangings on both sides. (John Oliver recently talked about it as part of a Last Week Tonight segment on Queen Elizabeth's death.) Let's just move on to Final Jeopardy!...

Final Jeopardy!

• Mythology: Poor guy. Prometheus was punished for stealing fire by being tied to a rock and having an eagle eat his liver. His liver would regenerate overnight, and the eagle would eat his liver again and again. What a way to go.

Are there any interesting facts about the game's clues that I missed? Let me know in the comments, and stay tuned for the next game!