Final Jeopardy: World Cities (11-4-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/4/2022) in the category “World Cities” was:
The name of this city may come from “dur”, meaning water, a reference to the Helvetian people’s settlement on a lake
In the fifth quarterfinal match in the Tournament of Champions, the contestants are: Eric Ahasic, a meteorologist from Minneapolis, MN, Jaskaran Singh, a consultant from Plano, TX; and Jackie Kelly, a pension calculation developer from Cary, NC.
Round 1 Categories: Champions of Tournaments – South America – A Fashionable Category – Give Us Some Direction – Dinosaur Names – Homophones
Jackie found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Dinosaur Names” under the $800 clue on the 11th pick of the round. She was tied for the lead with Jaskaran at $3,000 now. They had $1,800 more than Eric in second place. Jackie bet it all and she was RIGHT.
Because of its longer front legs, this tall dinosaur was given a name meaning “arm lizard” show
Jackie finished in the lead with $6,000. Jaskaran was in second place with $5,800 and Eric was last with $2,600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: History – Triple Rhyme Time – Musical Instruments – The Tangled Web – On Broadway – The OED Quotes
Eric found the first Daily Double in “The “OED” Quotes” under the $1,200 clue on the 7th pick of the round. He was in second place with $5,800, $2,200 less than Jackie’s lead. Eric made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
You’ll find this 1719 work quoted under “goatskin”, “rescue” & “wreck” show
On the very next pick, Eric got the last Daily Double in “History” under the $800 clue. In the lead with $11,600, $3,600 more than Jackie in second place. Eric made it a true Daily Double again and he was RIGHT. Eric went from $5,800 to $23,200. Wow!
Post-WWII British foreign secretary Ernest Bevin said this Secretary of State threw “a lifeline to sinking men” show
Eric finished in the lead with $26,000. Jackie was in second place with $19,600 and Jaskaran was last with $11,000. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS ZURICH?
Today’s clue reminds me of a Final Jeopardy! clue about Figaro. As with this clue, the word “may” in that clue indicated there was more than one theory on how the name came about. First off, The Helvetii or Helvetians were a Celtic tribe that settled in and around Germany and Switzerland and were occupying most of the Swiss plateau when they were subjugated by the Romans in the 1st century BC. At that time, the city that came to be known as Zurich was named Turicum. If you search in Google Books on zurich Celtic word “dur” water britannica, you’ll find encyclopedia entries from the 19th century and 20th centuries attributing Zurich’s name to the Celtic “water” origin. Take brittannica out of the search, and there are numerous books with the same information.
Somewhere along the line, it was put forward that “Turicum” was actually a personal name. Wikipedia’s Zurich entry says “The earliest known form of the city’s name is Turicum, attested on a tombstone of the late 2nd century AD…. The name is interpreted as a derivation from a given name, possibly the Gaulish personal name Tūros….” However, if you read the Turicon article, it identifies Tūros as a Celtic name. So it appears that, just like Figaro, nobody really knows for sure.
Jaskaran got it right. He bet $2,201 and finished with $13,201.
Jackie went with Geneva. That cost her $6,401 and left her with $13,199.
Eric got it right, too. He bet $13,201 and won the game with $39,201. Eric Ahasic advances to the semi-finals. Jaskaran and Jackie each won $5,000.
A triple stumper from each round:
A FASHIONABLE CATEGORY ($400) Last name of Italian fashion designer Miuccia, who works for her family’s fashion house & founded its sister line Miu Miu
ON BROADWAY ($1600) Singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell wrote the book, music & lyrics for this 2019 musical named for the Greek underworld
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Phrases of the 1950s”
A 1954 book review said of this colorful 2-word term, also applied to the post-WWI era, “the underlying hysteria lives on” show
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I can name 5 cities in Switzerland, but, this day, what was the name I could not recall? Not Bern, not Geneva, not Lausanne, not Basel, but, of course, Zurich. I said Luzerne (because of the mention of the lake), but I don’t even know if that is a city. (And Professor Wikipedia tells me there is, but spelled “Lucerne”.)
Agree about Jackie – Eric seemed to lean back a bit, until he saw her catching up. This was a really good game – balanced, all smart people, not dumb ring ins.
I’m hoping for Zack on Monday, but, any of them could win it. I have a feeling that the Monday game will be another barn burner.
Jackie did an amazing job in preventing Eric from getting a runaway, when a lot of players would throw in the towel after seeing an opponent rack up over $17K on daily doubles. I do admire tenacity.
I agree, VJ. I was rooting for her.
I was about to say that DDs aside, Jackie was the strongest of 3 excellent players.
All 3 FJ wagers were very clever. Had Eric missed, they’d all have finished within $2.
After spending half of FJ remembering that Helvetia meant Switzerland, I went with Zurich over Bern and Geneva, but really didn’t know.
Well happy to see Jaskaran and Eric getting the final right. Congrats. Strong players today I must say.
And then there were 11.