Final Jeopardy: Rivers (1-23-15)

The Final Jeopardy question (1/23/2015), in the category “Rivers” was:

This North Amer. river first sailed by Europeans in 1534 is named for a man who was martyred in Rome in the 3rd century.

Current champ Will Anderson survived what Alex Trebek called “one of the strangest games in a long, long time” when his tied contenders bet and lost everything in Final Jeopardy! yesterday. That brought his winnings up to a 2-day total of $23,199. Today his opponents are: Sarah Boulding, from Rockledge, FL; and  Brad Nehring, from Federal Way, WA.

Round 1: Brad found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “World Capitals” under the $800 clue. He was in third place with $2,000, $3,800 less than Will’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.

Enjoy the Van Gogh Museum and the Stock Exchange founded in 1602 in this city… but don’t stop for any red lights. show

Will finished in the lead with $5,600. Brad was second with $3,800 and Sarah was last with $3,400. Upon returning from the commercials, he was awarded $1,200 for answering “ironside” to a “Ships Don’t Lie” clue*, so he went into the second round with $5,000.

*$600 – A portion of the CSS Georgia, one of these “metallic” Civil War ships, was recovered in 2013 from a Georgia river.

Round 2: Brad found the first Daily Double in “Features of Creatures” under the $1,600 clue. He was in the lead with $7,400, $3,000 more than Will in second place. He bet $1,500 and came up with a possum. That was WRONG.

This creature of the genus hippocampus has a prehensile tail & a brood pouch. show

Brad found the last Daily Double in “The Kids Are Not All Right” under the $2,000 clue. He was now in the lead with $10,300, $4,900 more than Sarah in second place. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.

“Veruca Salt, the little brute, has just gone down the garbage chute”, wrote this author. show

Brad finished in the lead with $15,900. Will was next with $8,000 and Sarah was in third place with $7,000.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER?

“St. Lawrence has a Canadian connection! It happens that the early explorer, Jacques Cartier, found himself in a bay on August 10th, the day of Lawrence’s martyrdom. He named the bay the Bay of St. Lawrence, and the adjoining river the St. Lawrence river. The river became a symbol of the historical development of Canada, as the primary east-west waterway, and as a communication system uniting all of Canada, other than British Columbia…” (Saint Lawrence: an Archival Saint)

So if Cartier had landed in the bay on August 9th, the river might have been named St. Julian, or on August 11th, St. Philomena. Catholic Saints Feast Days in August.



Sarah got it and doubled her score to $14,000.

Will didn’t get it right and we have no idea what he wrote down. He lost his $7,901 bet and finished with $99.

Brad got it right and bet $101, so he won the game with $16,001. He is our new champ and we will be seeing him again on Monday.

FJ Results: 1-23-15

Brad is a copywriter who was once a Peace Corps worker in Zambia, involved in an organic farming forestry program. One of his tasks was keeping the elephants away from the crops by mixing chili pepper powder with motor oil, producing a noxious odor that does the trick.

2 years ago:: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Musical Theatre”

Before this show hit Broadway in 1964, one of its working titles was “The Luckiest People”. show

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18 Responses

  1. Howard Armstrong says:

    Conratulations Brad on your victory on Friday.
    I was so excited to see you again after all these years.

  2. Cece says:

    VJ – I started to laugh as your son’s prediction came true and Alex started remarking on yesterday’s game. I kept watching poor Will’s face as Alex was going on and on about the guy being in and out of the hole…

    Happily, today was a normal game.

    • VJ says:

      Will got lucky with a government category in that first round, but it might as well have been science since he shot himself in the foot with his misreading, bad guessing, buzzing in and trying to think of an answer. Ugh.

      Do you have any idea what he was trying to come up with in FJ?

      • Cece says:

        He did got lucky with that category! I found him to be very nervous today. I think I heard him letting out a sigh of relief twice when he gave the correct answers. No, I have no idea what he was trying to come up with in FJ. I asked my boyfriend and he couldn’t figure it out either. Poor guy.

        • VJ says:

          Yeah, he was somewhat vocal after his responses, right or wrong, either the sighs or exclamatory reactions to his wrong answers. Can’t say I felt bad for him, though. That gets on my nerves more than ignoring categories gets on Tom’s.

        • Cece says:

          And I know that another one of your pet peeves is when a daily double is left on the board 🙂

          I felt bad for him ‘cuz he seemed like a sweet guy… I don’t know…and with that government category he started building up his money, then going backwards.

        • VJ says:

          True dat about the DDs. As for Will, he has $23,199 + $1,000 reasons not to feel too bad, more than anyone else made this week.

  3. john blahuta says:

    just on a – somewhat – unrelated issue. i just checked the average iq in the u.s. by state . it goes from 104 (highest)=NH, to 94 (lowest), SC and MS.

    just barely ONE point above @ 95: you guessed it:

    DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA !!!

    now i am not surprised anymore about our government. actually i stopped being surprised a long time ago. but this is the confirmation. i wonder by how much congress, all the government agencies/bureaus dragged the average down :):):) LOL

    • Tom Clark says:

      I know you’re joking, with three smilies and one LOL — but at the risk of pointing out the obvious, I doubt many of the higher level government workers actually reside within the city limits of Washington, D.C.

      As for the states (and D.C.) with the highest and lowest IQs, there’s an elephant in the room here, but I’m not going to be the one to point it out.

  4. john blahuta says:

    WHAT DOES IT TAKE FOR A CLEAN SWEEP????

    6/15 for fj for the week. 40%

    HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND EVERYBODY!!!

    stay safe and don’t do what i wouldn’t do :):)

    • jacob ska says:

      40% is exactly what the percentage for fj correct responses was last week. We’re not trending up for sure. Have a good weekend as well.

  5. john blahuta says:

    just reading the first dd: i would be offended if i were dutch! there are a lot of other cities that have “red lights” at least there they are “advertised”….as in brussels, hamburg, etc etc. and no, don’t ask me how i know!! :):)

    • Cece says:

      John – pardon me if I’m being dense, but I didn’t get the “red lights” allusion and now, reading your comment, I’m thinking, prostitution?

      • john blahuta says:

        sim.eles sao chamodos “red light district” in english, sort of discreet, you would simply call them directly “zona de prostituicao”
        sorry that i do’t have the special signs like the cedille or the ene with the little wave over the portuguese “a” as in the spanish “n” in some spanish words, senor e.g.
        tenha um bom fim de semana!!

        • Cece says:

          Thanks, John! “Zona de baixo meretrício” is the formal expression, mas chamamos simplesmente de “Zona”. And the word “Zona” is also used in the sense of “a mess”. Que zona! (What a mess!)

          Bom fim de semana pra você também!

  6. jacob ska says:

    Loved the 1st DD. The Dutch East India Company in Amsterdam, Netherlands was the 1st company to issue stock certificates. My favorite topic.

    • jacob ska says:

      Congrats Brad. It was a matter of time for Will.

    • john blahuta says:

      the red light allusion was kind of tongue in cheek/slightly insulting.
      but as i said, there you know at least who they are, sitting behind display windows….. in vegas it could be an undercover cop or a real one….