The 27-year-old North Side resident earned $25,601 on Wednesday’s episode for a three-day win total of $97,002. She told “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek that her travel goal this year is to visit major cities that only have the “o” vowel in their name, including London and Toronto.
“When do you hit Oslo?” Trebek asked.
“I’m hoping to do that,” Boettcher said.
“And what others?” Trebek asked.
“Well, Rockford, Illinois, is closest, but perhaps not as glamorous a destination,” Boettcher said.
Boettcher, who hails from the Philadelphia area, had $24,400 going into “Final Jeopardy!,” and she correctly answered the final clue about X-rays. D.C. education policy analyst Erin Garratt had $12,800 for the final round, and she missed the final clue. New Jersey high school social studies teacher Jonathan Greenstein didn’t get to play the final round because he didn’t have enough money.
Boettcher faces a Massachusetts policy researcher adviser and an Alabama freelance writer on Thursday’s episode, which is scheduled to air at 3:30 p.m. on WLS-Ch. 7.
She is beginning to reveal a deadpan wit, which I suspect those who know her see a lot of but seems a touch disconcerting to Alex. However, she was more at her ease on Day 3, completely dominating the board in a Holzhauer-like way.
I am surprised that she didn’t bet more in the final. She may have a conservative streak in her. After all, she is a librarian not a professional gambler. No doubt she was reading Shakespeare at Princeton while James was majoring in Poker at Illinois.
Emma needs to put together a few more wins in order to enter the Jeopardy Pantheon and qualify for Tournament of Champions, which reprises retired champs. I think she can do it, but, as Machiavelli observed, Dame Fortune always lies in readiness to destroy the great: when Fortune turned against Cesare Borgia and James Holzhauer they were finished. So it will be for Emma Boettcher some day and so for us all. In the meantime…
On second thoughts I might have been in the wrong area yesterday. It is quite possible Emma would be working at the Mansueto Library, which is connected to Reg by a somewhat futuristic enclosed walkway (hence being used in the Divergent movie).
Mansueto was finished in 2011 and obviously I never spent my time studying there. @marlowe1 , was Reg finished when you were at the College? Or was Harper your main library in those days?
Somewhat to my surprise there are still a lot of books at the racks of Reg. I thought all of them were transferred to the technological wonder of Mansueto. It is like going back in time whilst walking amidst the tall racks of books in Reg.
It was Harper in all its faded glory, @85bears46 . There were many smaller libraries all over campus, including rather substantial ones in Swift (philosophy), Classics (classics) Eckhart (sciences) and even the Oriental Institute (Egyptian and Near East books). Some books and bound periodicals were even housed in a warehouse on the west side. The ground floor of Harper was filled with row on row of the massive card catalog for all these holdings. The entrance to the stacks was also there: going down the narrow stairs had very much the feeling of descending to an Underworld that might have been one of Dante’s lesser-known circles, one inhabited by dusty drudges in their carels reading and scribbling under dim lights.
The Reg was only a rumor without a name, though we heard of a coming grand unification of all these holdings in what would be a capacious well-lighted antiseptic brutalist monster of a building which was supposed to go up where once the Monsters of the Midway had ruled the greensward (although that had to remain a secret as long as Mr. Stagg lived - and he lived a long time).
Your searches will be made easier by the present configuration!
As kaukauna said, every time when I read marlow1’s post, I too need to do a google search to understand the meaning of his words and thus my vocabulary is enriched
I believe last night’s game was for her the fourth of the taping day. She was much slower on the trigger than on the previous day. Both the opponents were also much better than all previous ones not named James Holzhauer. And, as always, luck played a part - the fellow who ultimately won hit two daily doubles and betted high on at least one of them. However, she also hit one and had the lead at the end of the game up to the very last question, which he answered and thereby nosed her out by only $200. Lord, how I hated that guy! I was gnashing my teeth at the injustice of it all, believing it likely that that measly $200 would make the difference inasmuch as I expected they would both answer final jeopardy correctly. It actually came as a relief that she misfired on that one and that the end was decisive - though why she thought “A. Guthrie” was the troubadour of the Depression is hard to fathom. If there was a doubt about which Guthrie filled the bill she ought not to have written any initial at all. She surely knew that bit of strategy - don’t give superfluous information unless you know it absolutely. That was another indication she must have been growing tired. Well, it was a close-run thing, and it capped a fine performance over four days.
“Men must endure their their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.” --Said by whom in which play of which Immortal Bard?
Marlowe - I could cheat and consult Dr. Google, but let’s wait for someone who really knows.
Aside from that, it’s a gem of a quote and, as with so much of Shakespeare, food for thought which will keep me fed for much of the day.
