Final Jeopardy: States’ Governors (7-19-19)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/19/2019) in the category “States’ Governors” was:

It’s the only state to have had 4 female governors, 3 of whom served consecutively between 1997 & 2015

New champ Nathan Kaplan, a math professor from Los Angeles, CA., won $19,600 yesterday. In Game 2, he is up against: Kathleen O’Shea, a PR content manager from Chicago, IL; and Jason Zuffranieri, a math teacher from Albuquerque, NM.

Round 1 Categories: If I Were a Tibetan Man – Pop Culture Decades – Mom & Dad Confuse Me – That’s Hot Stuff – “BB” in the Middle – The Apollo Missions

Nathan found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “The Apollo Missions” under the $1,000 clue, with 6 clues left after it. He was in second place with $2,200, $4,400 less than Jason’s lead. He bet it all and took a guess with magnetite. That was WRONG.

The Apollo missions brought back more than 800 pounds of moon rocks and showed that the dark, flat lunar areas known as seas are not water, but this common volcanic rock that also makes up most of the oceanic crust here on Earth. show

WHAT IS BASALT?

Jason finished in the lead with $6,800. Nathan was second with $800 and Kathleen was last with $200.

Round 2 Categories: Entrance Music – New Words in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary – The Real Movie Person – Lands O’ Lakes – African-american Authors – Computer “D”S

Jason found the first Daily Double in “Entrance Music” under the $1,600 clue on the 3rd pick. He was in the lead with $8,400 now, $7,600 more than Nathan in second place. He bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.

An authentic Japanese song was adapted into “Miya Sama”, sung at the entrance of this Gilbert & Sullivan title character. show

WHO IS MIKADO?

Jason found the last Daily Double in “NEW WORDS IN M-W” under the $800 clue, with 10 clues left after it. In the lead with $21,200, he had $14,800 more than Nathan in second place. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.

Digital finance can be confusing, hence the addition of this word for bitcoin & the like. show

WHAT IS CRYPTOCURRENCY?

Jason finished in the lead with a runaway $25,600. Nathan was next with $9,600. At negative $1,000, Kathleen was out of the game.

Only ONE of two contestants left got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS ARIZONA?

Arizona has had the most female governors as of this date, namely these four: Rose Mofford, Jane Dee Hull, Janet Napolitano and Jan Brewer. If you sort Wikipedia’s list of female governors by state, you will find that Kansas is next with three. Texas had a female governor three times, but that is because Ma Ferguson served two non-consecutive terms.

There was a whole category on female governors in the 5/28/2018 game called ” The State She Governed,” including a Daily Double.

Nathan came up with Washington. He lost his $3,264 bet, leaving him with $6,336.

Jason got it right. He added $1,000 to win the game with $26,600. He is the new Jeopardy! champ. We’ll be seeing him at the first podium on Monday.

2 triple stumpers from “ENTRANCE MUSIC”

($800) Heard here is the arrival of the Queen of Sheba in Handel’s work about this Old Testament king

($2000) Bellini wrote a dramatic march for the entrance of this opera title character, a Druid priestess

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

This official U.S. government song traces its roots to a song about Roderick Dhu, the leader of a Highland clan. show

WHAT IS “HAIL TO THE CHIEF”?

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