Final Jeopardy: The History of France (10-24-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/24/2019) in the category “The History of France” was:
This modern regime that lasted 4 years changed the national motto to “Travail, Famille, Patrie”–“Work, Family, Fatherland”
New champ Allyson Samiljan, a communications special events director, won $9,500 yesterday. In Game 2, she is up against: Jamie Tyrrell, a test prep instructor from Rochester, NY; and Mushtaq Gunja, a lawyer from Silver Spring, MD.
Round 1 Categories: What’s Your Address? – Vehicular Activity – 20th Century Names – Celebrity-Inspired Products – Dance at the Wedding – Have an Aguila!
Mushtaq found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Vehicular Activity” under the $600 clue on the 14th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $2,400, $600 more than Allyson in second place. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
Nautical idiom meaning to complain when people wish you’d keep quiet & not make waves. show
Mushtaq finished in the lead with $7,400. Allyson was second with $4,600 and Jamie was last with $4,000.
Round 2 Categories: Shake Hands With Shakespeare – Younger Than the Simpsons – Behind the Musical Title – Where Do You Stan? – Gods Inside You – Save “It” for Later
Mushtaq found the first Daily Double in “Shakespeare” under the $1,600 clue on the second pick. He was in the lead with $9,400 now, $4,800 more than Allyson in second place. He bet $100 and guessed Henry VIII. That was WRONG.
“Take me by the hand, and say “Harry of England, I am thine” is how this title king proposes to Katherine show
Mushtaq found the last Daily Double in “Where Do You Stan” under the $800 clue on the 16th pick. In second place with $11,300, he had $2,700 less than Jamie in second place. He bet $6,000 this time and he was RIGHT.
Kazakhstan has 1,200 miles of coastline along this large inland body of water. show
Mushtaq finished in the lead with $21,700. Jamie was next with $17,200 and Allyson was in third place with $12,200.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
In French, it is “Régime de Vichy”, variously translated in English as Vichy France, Vichy Regime, the Vichy State, the Vichy government, so it’s safe to assume just Vichy or Vichy anything else would have been fine, except, of course, Vichyssoise!
From the Jewish Virtual Library: “Vichy France was established after France surrendered to Germany on June 22, 1940, and took its name from the government’s administrative center in Vichy, southeast of Paris. Paris remained the official capital…. While officially neutral in the war, Vichy actively collaborated with the Nazis, including, to some degree, with their racial policies.” The Vichy regime collapsed following the Allied invasion in June 1944. However, it was still acknowledged as the official government of France by the USA and other countries until August 1945.
Allyson had no response. She lost her $4,800 bet and finished with $7,400.
Jamie came up with “the patriarchy.” That cost her $7,201 and left her with $9,999.
Mushtaq had “the third regime.” He lost $12,714 and finished with $8,986. That made Jamie the new Jeopardy! champ. That was one great surprise she’ll never forget.
A triple stumper from each round:
HAVE AN AGUILA! ($800) Mr. Águila is a famed luchador, one of these entertaining athletes
YOUNGER THAN THE SIMPSONS ($1600) Rumbacise was the original name of this exercise program introduced in the 1990s by Colombian dancer Beto Pérez
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Board Games”
An early edition of this game that debuted in 1949 says that it’s “the great new Sherlock Holmes game” show
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I didn’t have a chance to make the prediction this morning, but I would have predicted another triple stumper. When I think of ‘Vichy’, the words ‘modern’ and ‘regime’ do not come to mind.
Another triple stumper. Had Jamie bet nothing at all she would still win. Furthermore, I thought everyone has heard of vichy. Allyson’s incomplete response is not going to work all the time. By the way, are there any tourist sites in Vichy that you know of VJ? I might visit France in about five years from now with my family.
Jamie sure was shocked: 😮.
She sure was.
Oh, by the way, anyone who watches Ray Donovan would have known that luchador clue from when Bunchy Donovan was “El Trebol” (the Shamrock because he’s Irish).
LINK: 8 more clues from the game
Yet again a third place finisher, after doing the math, and knowing they can’t win unless the other two get FJ wrong, and all this person needs is to stay put and pin her hopes on fate, decides to wager and of course loses.
I despair x2
It’s interesting though that they had that Gertrude Stein clue last week and a Josephine Baker clue yesterday. Both of their lives were touched by the Vichy regime. Stein admired Petain. Baker worked with the Resistance.
So an FJ that I get right at 4am while 98% asleep and no one on the game gets it.
I despair!