Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Leaders (9-25-14)

The Final Jeopardy question (9/25/2014), in the category “20th Century Leaders” was:

In May 1980, over 200 leaders from more than 120 countries attended his funeral in Belgrade.

2-day champ Catherine Hardee has won $28,000 so far. Let’s see how she makes out against these two ladies today: Joann Taylor, from Portland, OR; and Dolly Moehrle, from Ventura, CA.

Round 1: Catherine found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Eat Your Veggies” under the $800 clue before the first break. She was in second place with $2,200, only $200 behind Joann’s lead. She made it a true Daily Double but thought it was a beet so she was WRONG.

Unlike the familiar small red globe variety of this root vegetable, the Daikon type is carrot-shaped & can be 18″ long. show

WHAT IS A RADISH?

Joann finished in the lead with $6,000. Catherine rebounded nicely and finished second with $5,200 and Dolly was last with $2,600.

Round 2: Catherine found the first Daily Double in “Americana” under the $2,000 clue. She was now in the lead with $15,200, a $5,200 lead over Joann in second place. She bet $4,000 and she was RIGHT.

Since 1938 this Southern city has been deemed “the city that care forgot”. show

WHAT IS NEW ORLEANS?

Dolly found the last Daily Double in “Hold Your Horses” under the $2,000 clue. She was in third place with $4,600, $17,400 behind Catherine’s lead. She bet $3,000 and thought it was a Shetland. That was WRONG.

This small breed usually has 23 vertebrae instead of most horses’ 24; the Najd region has a major stud farm. show

WHAT IS THE ARABIAN?

Catherine finished in the lead with $23,200. Joann was next with $15,600 and Dolly had zero so she was out of the game.

Only ONE of the remaining contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS JOSIP BROZ TITO?

“On May 4, 1980 at exactly 3:05 PM (Josip Broz) Tito died in hospital center in Ljubljana after a long battle with his deteriorating health. He was buried in Belgrade in The House of Flowers and at his funeral there were 209 delegates from 127 different world nations, making it the largest funeral of any political figure in the 20th century. The funeral procession attendees included Margaret Thatcher, Yasser Arafat, Saddam Hussein and Leonid Brezhnev among others.” (Nova Online: Tito)

Other attendees included: (USA) Vice-President Walter Mondale, President Carter’s mother, Lillian; (China) President Hua Guofeng; (India) PM Indira Gandhi; (Jordan) King Hussein; (Libya) Muammar al-Gaddafi; (North Korea) President Kim Il-Sung; (Romania) Nicolae Ceaușescu; (West Germany) President Karl Carstens, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt;

Joann wrote down Milosovich. (Assuming she meant Slobodan Milošević, he had an entirely different type of funeral in 2006). She lost her $15,000 bet and finished with $600.

Catherine got it right. Her $7,601 bet brought her up to a winning total of $30,801. Her 3-day total is $58,801.

In today’s chat, Catherine talked about her experience as a hotel desk clerk and the time she had to remove a spider from a very big buff man’s room. She thought he may have felt a bit foolish when she was the one who showed up to take out the spider but she was perfectly polite about it.

2 years ago:: ONE of the two players left to play FJ got this one in “Phrase Origins”

On February 22, 1918 Warren Harding said it is good to drink “at the fountains of wisdom inherited from” this alliterative group. show

WHO ARE THE FOUNDING FATHERS?

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