Final Jeopardy: Memorials (5

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/29/2023) in the category “Memorials” was:

The Vietnam War crypt at this memorial has been empty since the remains once there were identified & moved to St. Louis

New champ Diandra D’Alessio, a technical writer from Montreal, Quebec, won $3,299 last Friday. In Game 2, she is up against: Travis Lee, a systems engineer from Phoenixville, PA; and Niranjan Murali, a policy professional from Washington, D.C.

Round 1 Categories: Poetic Subjects – The Rockefellers – Trees Company – Who Was That Masked Man? – Yes, Oui – Cannery

Travis found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Cannery” under the $2,000 clue on the 18th pick of the round. He was in last place with $1,400, $1,000 less than Diandra’s lead. Travis bet it all and said Faulkner. That was WRONG.

This author said of Monterey, “The corrugated iron of the canneries glows with the pearly lucence of platinum” show

Niranjan finished in the lead with $4,200. Diandra and Travis were tied for second place with $2,800. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: History – The Gulf of Mexico – Chemistry – Pop Instrumentals – Monthly People, Real & Imagined – Play “Free” Words

Niranjan found the first Daily Double in “Monthly People, Real & Imagined” under the $1,200 clue on the 8th pick of the round. He was in second place with $3,800 now, $1,800 less than Diandra’s lead. Niranjan made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.

The first woman to chair the U.K. conservative party, she led even more after becoming prime minister in 2016 show

Travis got the last Daily Double in “Gulf of Mexico” under the $1,200 clue with 4 clues left. He was tied in second place with Diandra at $6,800 now, $800 less than Niranjan’s lead. Travis bet $6,000 and he was RIGHT.

This 76,000-square-mile peninsula juts up into the Gulf’s south end show

Travis finished in the lead with $12,400. Diandra was second with $8,800 and Niranjan was last with $8,000. All clues were shown.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS THE TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER?

From military.com: “For 14 years, the remains of Air Force 1st Lt. Michael Joseph Blassie lay beneath the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington. … Blassie, a decorated pilot, was 24 when he died in May 1972. His 138th combat mission ended near An Loc, South Vietnam, when the wing was blasted off his plane by enemy fire. The aircraft went down in flames.”

Michael’s sister Pat’s efforts to find out if the remains in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier were those of her brother led to the remains being disinterred in May 1998. Advances in forensic medicine led to the identification of Blassie’s remains. In July 1998, He was sent home for burial in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery near St. Louis. The crypt in Arlington has remained vacant since then.

Niranjan got it right. He bet $800 and finished with $8,800.

Diandra got it right. She bet $3,601 and finished with $12,401.

Travis got as far as “Tomb of the unk”. He lost $5,201 and landed in third place with $7,199. That made Diandra a 2x time champ with total winnings of $15,700.

A triple stumper from each round:

HISTORY ($1600) This paramilitary group of young people was used in the 1960s to enforce the Cultural Revolution

MONTHLY PEOPLE, REAL & IMAGINED ($2000) “Married”, an 1884 collection of stories by this Swede, got him prosecuted for blasphemy

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “20th Century Artworks”

The artist’s wife described the scene of this 1942 painting as “brilliant interior of cheap restaurant” show

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