Jeopardy First Edition -- Game #10

Hi friends!

It's been a while, but I've published a new video in the Jeopardy, First Edition, series. Let's take a look at Game #10. As in previous posts, my goal is to share what I've learned about the clues in this game.

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: Art and Artists, U.S. Coins, Exotic Cities, Television, Automobiles, Lost and Found

• U.S. Coins ($100): From 1838-1861, the U.S. Government minted gold coins at Dahlonega, Georgia and used the mint mark "D", so "What is Dahlonega?" should be a correct answer, too. Gee, I wonder why the mint closed down in 1861? The mint would burn down in 1878. Price Memorial Hall at North Georgia College sits on the same foundation as the old mint. (For the record, coins were first minted in Denver in 1906, so there's no ambiguity about the "D" mintmark.
• U.S. Coins ($400): The phrase "In God We Trust" came out of the Civil War. The first appearance of the phrase on a U.S. coin happened in 1864, when the two-cent piece (!) included it.
• U.S. Coins ($500): Let's get a bit pedantic...Although silver was removed from the dime and quarter after 1964, the Kennedy half dollar used 40% silver in coins minted from 1965-1970. So, 1970 could be considered the correct answer.
• Television ($100): I think a case could have been made for VH1, too.
• Television ($300): Highway Patrol was a syndicated drama from 1955 through 1959 (!) No wonder I had never heard of it! The entire series still exists today and can be seen on various television channels and streaming platforms.
• Automobiles ($100): Did you know that the Stanley Motor Carriage Company lasted from 1902 to 1924? These cars don't seem very safe, but Wikipedia claims that "there is not a single documented incident of a Stanley boiler exploding", as there were plenty of pressure relief valves.
• Lost and Found ($100): Perhaps I should have known more about the film The Lost Weekend, because it was the Best Picture at the 18th Annual Academy Awards. Ray Milland won Best Actor for the role.
• Lost and Found ($300): The game is correct that Atlantis and Mu are lost continents, not cities. Mu was created by Augustus Le Plongeon during the late 1800s. Atlantis is much older, dating back to the days of Plato.
• Exotic Cities ($500): Why did Timbuktu become synonymous with exotic places? Wikipedia claims that it is because of the gold that found its way to Europe from Timbuktu in the 17th and 18th centuries. Unfortunately, today's Timbuktu is impoverished and suffers from desertification. Odd fact: Timbuktu is the sister city of Tempe, Arizona.
• Lost and Found ($500): The lost tribes were the tribes of Reuben, Simeon, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Manasseh, and Ephraim. The King of Assyria exiled them out of Israel. The two other tribes were the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. Old Testament history is not my forte, I'm afraid.
• Art and Artists ($500): In the clue, it was stated that Guernica was recently returned to Spain. There's an interesting to this. Spain's Francisco Franco wanted Guernica to be permanently shown in Spain. Picasso refused "until the Spanish people again enjoyed a republic". This was even stipulated in Picasso's will. After Picasso's death in 1973 and Franco's death in 1975, it was believed that the new democratic constitutional monarchy satisfied Picasso's wishes. However, the Museum of Modern Art in New York disagreed. Negotiations were held, and it finally became Spain's in September 1981.
• Automobiles ($400): Despite the ubiquity of the Checker Cab Company in popular culture, the company doesn't exist anymore. They went out of business in 1982.
• Automobiles ($500): The clue most likely refers to the Ford Durango, Chrysler Cordoba, and the Cadillac Seville. Let me know in the comments if there are more likely candidates.
• Exotic Cities ($300): Ipanema is a neighborhood in Rio, hence my confusion.

Double Jeopardy! Round

Categories: The Solar System, College, Racing, State Flags, Comedians, Cats and Dogs

• College ($200): The Hasty Pudding Club was founded in 1795. It got its name from the dish of ground corn cooked in milk and water, and it was the dish served at the first meetings.
• College ($800): I'm sure we can come up with other alumni of Gonzaga that are more well-known...let's see...oh, boy... How about former Speaker of the House Tom Foley? Ironically, it's also a Jesuit university (see the $400 clue on Loyola).
• Comedians ($800): The Purple Onion is a San Francisco club that now exists as a restaurant. Diller, Richard Pryor, Jim Nabors, and--another circle-back to an earlier clue--the Smothers Brothers were famous for their shows at the Purple Onion.
• State Flags ($800): Mississippi's flag had the, ugh, Stars and Bars in the upper-left corner of the flag from 1894 until...holy Hannah, 2020! To their credit(?), Mississippi was toying with the idea of changing the state flag for a while, but pressure from the NCAA, the SEC, and Conference USA lead to the change. They all banned postseason sporting events from being held in Mississippi until the flag was changed. Georgia, meanwhile, had a perfectly fine flag until 1956, when they decided to throw the Starts and Bars on there. Why? It's a bit unclear, but it may have been a reaction to 1954's Brown vs. Board of Education ruling that removed segregation from public schools. A 2000 research report from the Georgia Senate states that the flag was adopted in an era when the Georgia General Assembly "was entirely devoted to passing legislation that would preserve segregation and white supremacy". The flag was changed once in 2001 and again in 2003. Sadly, the current version uses the "First National Flag of the Confederacy" as its basis, which...isn't great. Like Mississippi, Georgians weren't too happy about their 1956 flag, especially in the 1990s when the Olympics came to Atlanta. Alabama's flag is based on the cross of St. Andrew (think a big red X on a white background)--perhaps it has bars, but no stars. I had mentioned South Carolina after the correct question was revealed. Their flag never had the Stars and Bars. I was thinking of the Confederate flag controversy where the flag was on the grounds of the state capital. (It had been flown over the state capital from 1961 to 2000.)
• Solar System ($800): Okay, let's move on to something less controversial....Why did Saturn eat his children? (!) Well, it might have actually been Cronus, Saturn's Greek counterpart, that consumed the kids. Apparently, "he was destined to be overcome by his own children, just as he had overthrown his father [Uranus]. As a result, although he sired the gods Demeter, Hestia, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon...he devoured them all as soon as they were born to prevent the prophecy." His sixth child, Zeus, survived.
• Racing ($800): We learned about Robyn Smith in an earlier blog post. Let's learn about Barbara Jo Rubin. Rubin "was the first woman to win a professional horse race", according to Wikipedia. How a woman ran faster than the horses, I'll never know. Ha! Hmmm. She was a jockey in 22 races after 1969, and she won 11 of them. The first win was at Charles Town in West Virginia.
• Racing ($1000): The Hambletonian (Stakes) started in 1926 and continues today. It is the first race in the Triple Crown...of Harness Racing...for Trotters and is held at the Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, New Jersey. This year's winner was Cool Papa Bell. I think my favorite winner's name was 2008's Deweycheatumnhowe. The Hambletonian is named after a horse: Hambletonian 10 (1849-1876).
• Comedians ($600): Minnie Pearl may have been best known for her work on Hee Haw, the long-running television series. She also performed at the Grand Ole Opry from 1940-1991. Odd fact from Wikipedia: "In 1992, Paul Reubens made what would be his last appearance as Pee-Wee Herman for 15 years at a Minnie Pearl tribute show." Apparently, the two were friends. You can see a picture of her hat, referenced in the clue, here.
• Cats and Dogs ($400): I was thinking of a Saint Bernard...
• Cats and Dogs ($1000): The poem referenced in the clue is called Fog, and given it was published in 1912, I think I can reprint it here: The fog comes / on little cat feet. / It sits looking / over harbor and city / on silent haunches / and then moves on.

Final Jeopardy! Round

Category: Famous Quotes

• The quote referenced in the clue comes from the end of the Gettysburg Address: "It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

What other facts and trivia did I miss? Let me know in the comments, and stay tuned for the next game!