Final Jeopardy: World Geography (6-21-18)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/21/2018) in the category “World Geography” was:

Australia’s fourth-largest city, it’s at the southern end of the road called Indian Ocean Drive.

2x champ Ali Hasan, a secondary school teacher from Canada, had now won $46,802. In Game 3, he takes on: Justin Cosgrove, an asst. principal at a high school for the blind; and Deb Seltzer, a grants manager from Maryland.

Round 1 Categories: Yearly Beloved – Television – Math-Free Word Problems – Place It – Who Has My Letter? – The Male Man

Ali found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “The Male Man” under the $600 clue, with 6 clues to go after it. He was in the lead with $5,000, $1,200 more than Justin in second place. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.

In 2017 Alabama elected its first Democrat to the U.S. Senate since 1992– this man, who beat Roy Moore. show

WHO IS DOUG JONES?

Ali finished in the lead with $8,000. Deb was second with $4,400 and Justin was last with $4,000.

Round 2 Categories: Beautiful Haiti – Movies’ Opening Lines – Four Legs Good – Pin the Tale on the 19th Century Writer – Divinity – Can I Get an “Amen”?

Ali found the first Daily Double in “Divinity” under the $1,200 clue on the 18th pick. He was in the lead big time with $15,200, $9,200 more than Deb in second place. He bet $2,800 and he was RIGHT.

Born from a golden egg, this multi-faced god of creation in Hinduism mediates between Vishnu & Shiva. show

WHO IS BRAHMA?

Ali found the last Daily Double in “Four Legs Good” under the $1,600 clue on the very next pick. His lead over Deb had grown to $12,000 now. Not wishing to press his luck, he bet $500 and he was RIGHT.

This deer is the biggest animal followed by “hound” in the name of an AKC dog breed. show

WHAT IS AN ELK?

Ali finished in the lead with $21,700. Deb was next with $11,200 and Justin was in third place with $8,800.

NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS PERTH?

blog.id.com (“the population experts”) updated their list of the 50 largest Australian cities. It says on there that the two largest cities, Sidney (New South Wales) and Melbourne (Victoria), make up 40% of Australia’s entire population. Indeed, the population of No. 3, Brisbane (Queensland) and No. 4, Perth (Western Australia) combined is less than Melbourne’s. Adelaide (South Australia) rounds out the Top 5 with a population of roughly half of Brisbane.

Apparently, Indian Ocean Drive was supposed to lead the players to the right answer as Perth is the only Indian Ocean facing capital, but it’s a fairly new road that I never heard of. Have you?

Justin thought it was Adelaide. He lost his $8,000 bet to finish with $800.

Deb thought it was Brisbane. She lost everything but 2 dollars.

Ali came up with Darwin. He lost $701 but won the game with the $20,999 he had left. A 3-day winner at last. Ali has now amassed $67,801.

A triple stumper from each round:

TELEVISION ($600) I’m Iain Armitage. I played Ziggy, the son of Miss Shailene Woodley’s character, on this HBO miniseries that won 8 Emmy awards including 1 for Miss Nicole Kidman

BEAUTIFUL HAITI ($1600) The beaches of Île-à-Vache may have been enjoyed by this pirate who was knighted in 1674 and used the isle as a staging area

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Actresses”

She won a 2006 Oscar & a 2015 Tony for playing the same monarch, though in different productions. show

WHO IS HELEN MIRREN?

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