Jeopardy First Edition -- Game #13

Hi friends!

It's time for Jeopardy, First Edition, lucky number #13. Will I win enough fake money to cross the $200,000 career winnings mark? 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: Mammals, Fairy Tales, Movie Who's Who, Sunshine State, Valleys, Applesauce

• Applesauce ($200): So when did that whole apple for the teacher thing start? According to Dictionary.com, the tradition started in Denmark, Sweden, and the United States. Teachers were underpaid, and parents of students had some responsibility in housing and feeding teachers. Apples were abundant, so apples were frequently gifted.
• Sunshine State ($400): Before we start this one, I want to confirm that I was thinking of the right events in history around "Anita Bryant's crusade", as it was referred to in the clue. Here's the story: Bryant was a singer and second runner-up in the 1959 Miss America pageant. Her success as a singer led to her becoming the spokeswoman for the Florida Citrus Commission and appeared in many commercials for orange juice in the 1970s.
  
  Here's Wikipedia's summary of the "crusade": "In 1977, Dade County, Florida, passed an ordinance...that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Bryant led a highly publicized campaign to repeal the ordinance, as the leader of a coalition named Save Our Children. The campaign was based on conservative Christian beliefs regarding the sinfulness of homosexuality and the proposed threat of homosexual recruitment of children and child molestation....She also perpetuated the idea of the gay community 'recruiting' children...to become homosexual themselves."
  
  Ugh. The bad news is that the anti-discrimination ordinance was repealed. The good news was that a huge anti-Anita Bryant campaign sprung up, which severely impacted Bryant. From 1977-1980, there was a massive boycott of Florida orange juice. According to Wikipedia, gay bars replaced screwdrivers (orange juice and vodka) with "Anita Bryant Cocktails" made of apple juice and vodka. One protestor even famously threw a pie at her during a television appearance in Iowa. Johnny Carson used Bryant as a punchline in his monologues on The Tonight Show. She was regularly the butt of jokes on Saturday Night Live and The Gong Show.
  
  Bryant lost a sponsorship offer from the Singer Corporation due to her anti-LGBT efforts. Her contract with the Florida Citrus Commission was not renewed. She tried to restart her music career in the 1990s, but ended up declaring bankruptcy. Dade County's ordinance was reinstated in 1998 and was upheld by voters in 2002, 56%-44%.
  
  Now, this is easily the longest entry I've made for this series so far. I wanted to share the full story because this is a good example of the saying "those that do not learn history are doomed to repeat it". As I write this entry, Florida governor Ron DeSantis seems to be starting his own crusade against LGBT people, especially transgender people. His rhetoric is eerily similar to that of Bryant, particularly the homophobic idea that transgender and other LGBT people are trying to "recruit" children. My hope is that Americans continue to push back on DeSantis's bigotry the same way American pushed back on Bryant's bigotry in the 1970s.
  
  Remember: this channel and blog are welcoming of all people who want to learn and play, regardless of sexual orientation, gender, race, disability status, and age.
• Applesauce ($500): Johnny Appleseed was really John Chapman, who planted apple trees in "Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and... Ontario".
• Sunshine State ($500): Spain did "own" Florida from the 1500s until 1763. That year, "Spain traded Florida to the Kingdom of Grate Britain for control of Havana, Cuba, which had been captured by the British during the Seven Years' War".
• Mammals ($500): The common dolphin can swim up to 40 miles per hour (64 kilometers per hour).
• Mammals ($300): For comparison, the record life span for an Asian elephant is 86 years. There is some evidence that the bowhead whale can live for close to 200 years!
• Valleys ($300): The Big Valley was an ABC television series that aired from 1965 through 1969. Barbara Stanwyck would win an Emmy for her role as Victoria Barkley. Linda Evans played Barkley's daughter on The Big Valley; she would later portray Krystle Carrington on Dynasty. Lee Majors starred on The Fall Guy and played Heath Barkley on The Big Valley.
• Movie Who's Who ($200): Woody Allen starred and directed in the movie Bananas, which was the film referenced in the clue.
• Valleys ($400): Rudy Vallee really did sing through a megaphone. From Wikipedia: "Singers needed strong voices to fill theaters in the days before microphones....His voice still failed to project in venues without microphones and amplification, so he often sang through a megaphone, a device he had used when leading the Yale football band."
• Movie Who's Who ($300): Jane Alexander received an Oscar nomination for the 1983 film Testament, about a San Francisco suburb that "falls apart after a nuclear war destroys outside civilization". It's possible that Meryl Streep was added onto the answer for her work in Silkwood (1983), which is about a plutonium plant whistleblower. Let me know if there is a different movie that better fits the clue for Meryl Streep.
• Movie Who's Who ($400): Steven Spielberg's first film was Duel, which was an ABC Movie of the Week in 1971. Dennis Weaver is a California commuter who is being chased by a semi-truck.
• Movie Who's Who ($500): Kaufman would eventually get that Oscar nomination for 1988's Unbearable Lightness of Being. He was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Double Jeopardy! Round

Categories: World Cities, Oscars, Law, Children's Classics, Fads, Fishy Foods

• Fads ($400): Moon Zappa is the oldest child of Frank Zappa. At 14, she appeared in Frank Zappa's song "Valley Girl" (1982).
• Fads ($600): Breakdancing began to appear in its current form in New York in the 1970s. It's still very much in fashion today.
• Children's Classics ($600): Listening to my "think aloud" for this clue, I can tell I was close. Washington Irving authored Rip Van Winkle in 1819. He also wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Sleepy?), which contained the character Ichabod Crane. So, I was dancing around the answer, at least.
• Law ($400): The Verdict did well, earning 5 Academy Award nominations.
• Law ($1000): The use of "John Doe" in law dates back to the 1300s and British law.
• Children's Classics ($1000): Tom Swift books date back to 1910. The original series of 40 books lasted until 1941. The first 26 books are in the public domain and can be found on Project Gutenberg. Several subsequent series were produced from 1954-1971, 1981-1984, 1991-1993, 2006-2007, and 2019. Wikipedia counts 103 volumes through the full run. Tom Swift was produced by the same creator as the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew.
  
  During the video, I alluded to the "Tom Swifty". In short, the Tom Swift books are heavy on adverbs, so much so that a popular pun was to write out a spoken sentence, ending with "Tom said" and then an adverb that is a bit too on the nose based on the spoken sentence. Games Magazine would feature several puzzles around this theme. Wikipedia's two examples include:
• "I lost my crutches," said Tom lamely.
• "I'll take the prisoner downstairs," said Tom condescendingly.
• Fishy Foods ($600): Sardines are not the same as anchovies, I'm afraid, however...
• Fishy Foods ($800): ...sardines are members of the herring family!
• World Cities ($200): The Montreal Expos (now the Washington Nationals) first played in 1969. The Toronto Blue Jays would first play in 1977.
• World Cities ($400): After the 1948 war in Israel, Jordan claimed East Jerusalem, and Israel claimed West Jerusalem. After the Six-Day War of 1967, Israel occupied and took over East Jerusalem.
• World Cities ($600): At the time the game was produced, Belgrade was part of Yugoslavia. Today, it is the capital city of Serbia.
• Oscars ($600): This one's a weird one...For many years, George Molchan played the Oscar Mayer mascot "Little Oscar", while the real Oscar Meyer avoided publicity. Oscar G. Mayer and Little Oscar would travel the country in the Weinermobile promoting their products and handing out little toys to the kids. There's a picture of Little Oscar on Wikipedia.
  
  Before Molchan, Meinhardt Raabe played the role of Little Oscar. Raabe was also in The Wizard of Oz, playing the coroner. Raabe passed away in 2010; Molchan passed away in 2005.

Final Jeopardy! Round

Category: Russia

• The clue makes it sound as though Boris Pasternak declined the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature, but history suggests that this was the order of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. Doctor Zhivago was "rejected for publication in the USSR, but the manuscript was smuggled to Italy". The Communist Party would vilify Pasternak in the last years of his life, which corresponded with the Nobel Prize win. In 1989, Pasternak's son was able to accept the award on his father's behalf.

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