Final Jeopardy: World Leaders (10-16-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/16/2019) in the category “World Leaders” was:
This man who ruled from 1949 to 1976 was sometimes called “the Red Sun”
New champ Ed Condon, a retired business intelligence manager from Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, won $31,000 yesterday. In Game 2, he is up against: John Hancock, an opera singer from Tenafly, NJ; and Jackie Schulte, a teacher from Scranton, PA.
Round 1 Categories: What Prez Preceded… – Rainy Day Gear – Her Story – Old School Movies – It’s Crunch Time – Work Those “Abs”
Ed found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “What Prez Preceded” under the $800 clue on the 9th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $3,800. Actually, he was the only one with any money. Ed said he was a history teacher so he made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
Martin Van Buren & you can take that to the bank. show
Ed finished in the lead with $9,800. John was second with $3,800 and Jackie was last with $2,200.
Round 2 Categories: Flower Power – So Long – TV Pets – Geographical Nicknames – Ship of the Line -& Sometimes Y
Jackie found the first Daily Double in “Geographical Nicknames” under the $2,000 clue on the 5th pick. She was in third place with $4,600 at this point, $5,600 behind Ed’s lead. She bet $3,000 and guessed Belgium. That was WRONG.
This country that’s famous for its cheese & butter is nicknamed “The Dairy of Northern Europe” show
John found the last Daily Double in “TV Pets” under the $800 clue on the 15th pick. In second place with $5,800, he had $9,600 less than Ed’s lead. He bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.
On “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” her talking black cat had this name, also a historic New England village. show
Ed finished in the lead with $22,600. John was next with $18,600 and Jackie was in third place with $4,000.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Mao Zedong (aka Mao Tse Tung, Chairman Mao or just Mao) founded the People’s Republic of China in 1949 and more or less ruled the country until his death in 1976. Particularly during the Cultural Revolution launched by Mao in 1966, “Cult of Mao” propaganda poured forth through “the fanaticism of the Red Guards, pro-Mao propaganda and the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) control of information.” Posters, songs, books and far more proclaimed him to be “an ideological visionary, a political genius, a guardian of his people and a kindly and benevolent leader,” often calling him “the red sun in our hearts.”
From 2000: CHINA ($300) His second name is Zedong in the Pinyin Romanization System, Tse-tung according to the older Wade-Giles
Jackie got it right. Her $3,999 bet brought her up to $7,999.
John thought it was Khrushchev (died in 1971). He bet and lost it all.
Ed also got it right. He bet a big $20,000 and won the game with $42,600. Nice going, Ed!
A triple stumper from each round:
OLD SCHOOL MOVIES ($400) We sing the praises of Barden University & the Bellas from this 2012 film
SHIP OF THE LINE ($800) “They say I got away in a boat / and humbled me at the inquiry”, begins Derek Mahon’s “After” this, about a haunted survivor
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Historic Connections”
A 1796 medical experiment with an English farm girl ultimately led to this breakthrough announced in Geneva May 8, 1980. show
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We’re only 2 episodes in Ed Condon’s run, and I already don’t think anybody’s gonna take him down, yet.
We’ve got a librarian coming up tomorrow
How many clues were uncovered today?
Only two, and they’re worth $2,600.
Very rarely is a daily double placed in a category such that a player could be 100% sure they will know the correct answer before seeing the clue. I would be confident enough in my ability to sing through the song I learned in grade school of the presidents in chronological order quickly enough that I would risk the max no matter what.
The only other time I’ve seen a similar scenario in j-archive was a daily double in “name the Bible book before…”.
Okay, JP, get your timer out and see if you can do it with
“A very surprised Calvin Coolidge”
You chose my favorite president, so I didn’t even need to sing the song to get to the president with one of the most unusual middle names!
Cool, JP. Then you were lucky like Ed was lucky today that the DD wasn’t under the clue for the president before Franklin Pierce. 😀
I thought John did a spectacular job catching up to Ed today. I mean, halfway through the last round, he was almost $10K behind Ed. As for Ed, he’s cleaning up. $73K+ in 2 games 👍👍
LINK: 9 more clues from the game
Congratulations to ed and Jackie in getting this right. Mao was responsible for the great leap forward during the 1950s. I’m not sure if you ever heard of that before VJ? If I am right mao met Khrushchev and they had a disagreement with the sino soviet split thing and he accused the soviet leader of breaking up soviet relations with China. If ed keeps winning like this, he could be a contender for the next toc