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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Famous Names) for Wednesday, June 12, 2024 (Season 40, Game 198):
Vying with Eiffel, this engineer wanted to create big; an admiring account said the Obelisk of Luxor is too short to be a spoke
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Enzo Cunanan, a student from Orlando, Florida |
Connor Townsend, an attorney from Chelsea, Michigan |
Adriana Harmeyer, an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana (10-day total: $225,700) |
Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Yesterday, Adriana Harmeyer became the 17th player in Jeopardy! history to win at least 10 regular games on the show, forever cementing her legacy in J!‘s historical lore. In what might be called “an interesting historical curio but not statistically meaningful in any way”, the previous 16 all won their 11th game. However, if there was a time for that streak to end, it might be today: challenger Enzo Cunanan was the captain of University College, Oxford’s entry in Series 29 of University Challenge (airing in 2022–23). Of course, that says nothing about second challenger Connor Townsend, who passed the same test and is equally capable of playing giant-killer today. I know I am looking forward to what happens!
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Correct response: Who is George Ferris?
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After the success of the Eiffel Tower at the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris, the Americans felt a need to outdo the French. At a height of 264 feet, the Ferris Wheel ended up as the most important attraction at Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Modeled on the principles of a waterwheel and a bicycle wheel, it was powered by a 1,000-horsepower steam engine. During the 1893 fair, almost 1.5 million people paid to ride on the wheel itself. It was later transported to St. Louis for the 1904 fair in that city and was demolished in 1906 by St. Louis.
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