Final Jeopardy: World War I (3-14-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/14/2022) in the category “World War I” was:
Suvla Bay & Cape Helles were major landing sites along this peninsula
New champ Matt Glassman, a bar owner from Los Angeles, CA won $8,900 last Friday. In Game 2, he takes on these two players: Susan Swan, an employment attorney from San Diego, Ca; and Amy Bekkerman, an academic copy editor from Durham, NH.
Round 1 Categories: A Few Moments with Millard Fillmore – Hobbies – I Love You 3,000 – Europe – ’70s Television – Words with Only One Consonant
Amy found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Europe” under the $400 clue on the 8th pick of the round. She was in second place with $1,000, $1,800 less than Matt’s lead. Amy made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
Rossini never visited this Spanish city where he set an 1816 opera show
Matt finished in the lead with $7,200. Amy was second with $4,400 and Susan was last with $2,400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: The New York Times Book Review – Tune River – Nuclear Physics – Rhyming with the Greek Gods – Libraries – “Sh”!
Amy found the first Daily Double in “Libraries” under the $1,600 clue on the 9th pick of the round. She was in second place with $5,200, $6,000 less than Matt’s lead. Amy bet $4,000, and ran out of time. She was WRONG.
The National Library of Medicine is maintained by the National Institutes of Health in this unincorporated Maryland community show
On the very next pick, Amy got the last Daily Double in “Nuclear Physics” under the $1,600 clue. She was in third place now with $1,200, $10,000 less than Matt’s lead. Amy bet it all and she was RIGHT.
From their position on the periodic table, elements with atomic numbers greater than 92 are labeled with this term show
Matt finished in the lead with $16,000. Amy was second with $9,600. Susan was last with $5,600. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS THE GALLIPOLI PENINSULA?
Suvla Bay and Cape Hellas are locations on the Gallipoli peninsula in present-day Turkey. Historically, the area has seen many military battles due to its strategic location (where East meets West). In 1914, British and French forces were sent to help defend Russia from the Central Powers in what became known as the Gallipoli Campaign. Per the Gallipoli Association’s website, the Gallipoli Campaign “was flawed from the very start and became a defeat for the Allies.” They have a detailed timeline over there.
Also, check out the maps on the U.K. National Archives: Europe 1914 shows which side each country was on and which countries were neutral.
Susan wrote down “Hellenic”. She bet nothing and remained at $5,600.
Amy got it right. She bet $6,500 and finished with $16,100.
Matt thought it was Danzig. He lost $3,201 and finished with $12,799. That made Amy Bekkerman the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
LIBRARIES ($1200) Mayor La Guardia named the 2 marble lions outside the NYPL this & Fortitude, qualities needed to survive the Depression
($2000) The archives of this “Father of Existentialism” are housed at the Royal Library in Copenhagen
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Religion”
These 2 countries that border each other are second & third in worldwide population of Muslims show
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Why didn’t Amy get credit for guessing “aerie” in the first half?
Ken said she ran out of time
What a fantastic comeback by Amy. It was looking like a runaway for Matt till her late rally.
Thought she was toast after that disastrous $4K loss on a very gettable DD (Maryland community) that sank her to $1200. (My niece lives in that town now.) That last DD about the elements and the final were too tough for me. Best I could come up with was “Aegean peninsula.”
Thought that $2K stumper about the Danish philosopher was a gimme. I bet our “4th podium” person got that one too.
A seemingly tough FJ to be sure, and I thought that I knew a little about WWI.
Well not a bad game today. I remember Mel Gibson in the Gallipoli movie many years ago.