Final Jeopardy: Countries of the World (5-17-16)

The Final Jeopardy question (5/17/2016) in the category “Countries of the World” was:

This country’s 2 main ethnic groups are Punjabi (who are also found in india) & Pashtun (also living in Afghanistan).

Today’s Power Players are CNN’s Anderson Cooper, playing for Spike’s K9 Fund; CBS correspondent, Lara Logan, playing for Committee To Protect Journalists; and political analyst Michael Steele, playing for Catholic Charities Mona Center.

Round 1 Categories: Men of Steel – The CDC Says – Just the Facts – Presidential Music? – Around the World – Words from the Portuguese

Anderson found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Words from Portuguese” under the $600 clue. He was in the lead with $3,400, $2,200 more than Lara in second place. He bet $1,000 and couldn’t come up with a guess so he was WRONG.

Its original Portuguese name literally means “snake with a hood”.  show

Anderson finished in the lead with $2,600. Michael was second with $1,600 and Lara was last with $1,200.

Round 2 Categories: The Reagan White House – People in History – Movie Quotes – Nonfiction – I Need – Your Vote

Lara found the first Daily Double in “Your Vote” under the $800 clue on the 15th pick. She was in the lead with $6,800, double what Anderson had in second place. She bet $1,000 but got all flustered and couldn’t come up with it so she was WRONG.

The scarecrow knows about this kind of unofficial vote held as a gauge of opinion. show

Anderson found the last Daily Double in “The Reagan White House” under the $2,000 clue. There were 10 clues after it but you already knew we weren’t going to get to all of them even before Alex said “We’re almost out of time.” At $3,000, Anderson was in second place with $2,800 less than Lara’s lead. He bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.

In 1983 this wife of a U.S. Senator became the first female head of the Department of Transportation. show

Lara finished in the lead with $5,800. Anderson was next with $4,000 and Michael was in third place with $1,600.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS PAKISTAN?

Ethnicity in Pakistan is a blog that gives a breakdown of the nation’s ethic groups: “The province Punjab, also known as the land of five rivers constitutes various ethnic groups. Arabs, Afghani’s, Persians and Turks ruled the land mainly. Even though all these empires gradually disappeared from Punjab, but their culture and language became a part of people’s lives. Punjabi language has different dialects and there are almost 63 dialects of Punjabi are spoken throughout the province of Punjab. Pushtuns [aka Pashtuns], generally referred to as Pathans, are the natives of West Indus River. They are the second largest ethnic group in Pakistan. Their majority population lives in Karachi and then in Peshawar. Their unique code of conduct is based on tribal structure and referred to as Pushtunwali…” The article continues with the other groups and has a visual breakdown on a map.

For Students: National Geographic has a downloadable map as well as study questions and vocabulary



Michael wrote down “What is a place far far away.” He lost his $1,000 bet and finished with $600.

Anderson got it right. His $3,998 bet brought him up to $7,998.

Lara also got it. She bet $4,000 making today’s winning total $9,800. Her charity wins $50,000.

Final Jeopardy results for Tuesday, May 17, 2016

These two triple stumpers were both in non-fiction:

($1200) A recent bestseller tells of “The Immortal Life of” this woman & how her HeLA cells became invaluable to medicine

($2000) His “A Brief History of Time” was subtitled “From the Big Bang to Black Holes”

2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “British Novels”

Stephen King borrowed the name of his fictional town Castle Rock from this 1950s novel that greatly influenced him. show

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28 Responses

  1. Robert Anderson says:

    Shows how little media “talking heads” actually know. Where’s the power?

  2. Robert Anderson says:

    This tournament should be called Media Players, not Power Players. They are sadly lacking in general knowledge. They are media “talking heads”

  3. VJ says:

    Anderson Cooper kicked in an extra $40K to his charity to make up for not winning

  4. JEOPARDY says:

    Easy fj today……… If you’ve been following……

  5. aaaa says:

    THe interview segment seemed to be quite long, with Alex saying LTAM after the first clue after the interview segment

    • VJ says:

      The interview segment from today on my recording went from 8.15 to 11.44 (that is when Alex said “you are in command of the board”).

      Yesterday it was 8.26 to 11.00, so today did go longer but I think all those missed clues made a big contribution, not to mention slow picking of the next clue .

      Yesterday, they were moving it right along and only had 4 triple stumpers.

    • rhonda says:

      What is LTAM?

  6. jacob ska says:

    Given that these celebrities tonight took time to play for charity makes me enjoy them and their antics. Lara raising her hand was something I had never seen on Jeopardy before and was comical imo.

    • jacob ska says:

      When Lara said “we don’t do sports” and Alex said Cam Newton they all knew who he was. lol

      The fact that clues were left on the board was due to their antics. Btw, I could swear I heard Alex say “Hawkins” on that last clue instead of “Hawking.” The closed caption on my tv had “Hawkins” also.

      • rhonda says:

        I knew Cam Newton, too, once Alex said his name lol.

        • jacob ska says:

          @Rhonda, I guess it’s misleading that everyone watches the Super Bowl. Cam Newton, QB Carolina Panthers, played in the Super Bowl this year.

        • rhonda says:

          Thanks, Jacob, I know next to nothing about football!

    • VJ says:

      How about that Sir Paul McCartney clue. That was in the second round and apparently, Trebek didn’t hear Anderson say “Who is” and actually supplied it for him. LOL!! WTH?

      PS Maybe I got the edited version because on mine, Trebek clearly says Hawking with no “S” at the end and the cc says Hawking.

    • rhonda says:

      So funny when she raised her hand. And when Anderson got so annoyed with himself for saying a wrong answer.

    • mimsy says:

      I appreciate the celebrities taking the time to play for charity, too, but I could have done without Anderson Cooper hollering “of course” every time Alex gave an answer.

      I also appreciate the link for students in the recap. Very thoughtful.

  7. VJ says:

    My hopes that they would finish a round were certainly dashed today. But at least they found all the Daily Doubles

    I counted 12 more triple stumpers. They are over here