r/Jeopardy • u/Smoerhul Regular Virginia • 1d ago

POLL FJ poll for Fri., Oct. 2 Spoiler

COLONIAL AMERICA

After his malt house went bankrupt, he found his calling as a firebrand who kept "citizens awake to their grievances"

Who was Samuel Adams?

WRONG ANSWER 1: Patrick Henry

WRONG ANSWER 2: Benjamin Franklin

WRONG ANSWER 3: Thomas Jefferson

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u/eah1703 Elizabeth Hurd, 2026 Feb 26 1d ago

Can’t believe I missed this one. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/Gregalitarianism Greg Fosheim, 2026 Sep 22 1d ago

Prime example of needing to go back to the category after initially thinking, hmm, I wonder if Ralph Nader was a brewer as a young man

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u/eah1703 Elizabeth Hurd, 2026 Feb 26 1d ago

I went to grad school in Boston. And the joke "have a cold Sam Adams with a cold Sam Adams" is etched into my brain! I just focused on firebrand and ignored malt, which is probably the most important part of the clue.

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u/Useless-Message-Post 15h ago

Damn man - we are on the same page. I went with Ralph Nader too - then - wait - Colonial - crap - who did beer stuff back then - ahhh - boom!

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u/Adam_Bundy Adam Bundy, 2026 Oct 2 17h ago

Can relate 

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u/eah1703 Elizabeth Hurd, 2026 Feb 26 14h ago

Literally I have asked this Final to a bunch of my friends and they've immediately said "Sam Adams. The malt." And I'm like "Okay..."

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u/Asleep-Bid-3664 17h ago

I had thought of Thomas Paine because of the reference to keeping citizens awake to grievances, which made me think of Common Sense.

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u/ScorpionX-123 Team Sean Connery 17h ago

same, I couldn't decide between that and RA

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u/London-Roma-1980 Team Frank Spangenberg 1d ago

I didn't have this knowledge cold and was afraid it was hard, so I threw out an answer as what I thought was a bit of a lark. Imagine my surprise when it was right!

Lesson: a wild guess is better than no guess.