Jeopardy First Edition -- Game #11

Hi friends!

This week, I published a new video in the Jeopardy, First Edition, series. Let's take a look at Game #11. 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: Dickens, Pennies, Begins with "I", Chicago, "Key" Notes, Filthy Folks

• Pennies ($300): The Lincoln Memorial was removed from the "tails" side of the penny in 2009, when the Lincoln Bicentennial cents were minted. (2009 would have been Lincoln's 200th birthday.) Technically, the half-completed U.S. Capitol dome would be a correct answer today, since it appeared on one of the four bicentennial designs in 2009. Since 2010, we've used the shield on the back of the penny, making this clue obsolete.
• "Key" Notes ($100): I had never heard of the "free throw lane" as the "keyhole", but I have heard it called the "key". Wikipedia does say the following: "Originally, the key was narrower and was shaped more like a keyhole, measuring six feet (1.8 m) wide, hence its name 'the key'".
• "Key" Notes ($300): Key Largo was a 1948 film that won supporting actress Claire Trevor an Academy Award.
• "Key" Notes ($400): The Keystone Cops were a slapstick comedy troupe that appeared in films for the Keystone Film Company between 1912 and 1917. Charlie Chaplin and Fatty Arbuckle both appeared in various Keystone Cops films. A lost Keystone Cops film, A Thief Catcher, was re-discovered in 2010 at a Michigan antique sale (I love re-discovered lost films! The film is in the public domain and can be viewed here.) The Cops would be revived for various films, including ones with Buster Keaton and Abbott and Costello. Keystone Studios would eventually close in 1935.
• Begins with "I" ($300): I was curious, and yes, the "Ides" of a month can happen in any month, not just March.
• Filthy Folks ($100): Reverend Jim was indeed played by Christopher Lloyd. He got the name "Reverend" because he "was ordained as a minister with the Church of the Peaceful".
• Filthy Folks ($400): My Google search are turning up nothing around Pigpen and "the Soil of Egypt". Let me know in the comments what they might be referring to here.
• Dickens ($100): Atlas Obscura gives us some information about the real Old Curiosity Shop. The building still exists, but as of this past summer, the shop is temporarily closed.

Double Jeopardy! Round

Categories: Names from Old Maps, Elvis Presley, Famous Rivals, Mammals, Hard & Soft, Lost Causes

• Mammals ($800): Obscure fact--the plural of "mongoose"? "Mongooses".
• Hard & Soft ($800): Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly with His Song" spent a total of 5 weeks as the number 1 song in the United States. It was the number 3 song on the end-of-the-year charts. The song won Grammy Awards for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. It's also been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Not bad at all!
• Names on Old Maps ($200): According to Wikipedia, in 1939, there was a decree to change the name of Siam to Thailand. That's why the name changed.
• Names on Old Maps ($800): Constantinople "changed" to Istanbul in the 1930s. The Turkish people used the name "Istanbul" well before the 1930s, while Western people used the name "Constantinople". "As part of the Turkification movement, Turkey started to urge other countries to use Turkish names for Turkish cities."

Final Jeopardy! Round

Category: American Politics

• The clue refers to the Communist Control Act of 1954. The bill was deemed unconstitutional in an Arizona federal district court in 1973, and the American version of the Communist Party exists today.

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