Final Jeopardy: World Elections (4-22-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/22/2020) in the category “World Elections” was:

In 2014 this democratic nation broke the record for total turnout in a single election with more than 500 million voters

New champ Gary Patent, a screenwriter & actor from Los Angeles, CA, won $22,801 yesterday. In Game 2, he takes on these two players: Michael Torman, a funeral director from Paw Paw, IL; and Sharon Lawson, an administrative assistant from Lethbridge, Alberta.

Round 1 Categories: A Marriage Made in Literature – Adjectives – Earth Day at 50 – Episodes of the Sitcom – The Crime of the Decade – What Sort of Establishment is This?

Gary found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Crime of the Decade” under the $1,000 clue on the very first pick of the round. He bet the $1,000 allowance and said the 1920s. That was WRONG.

The kidnapping of Charles & Anne Lindbergh’s baby show

WHAT ARE THE 1930s?

Gary finished in the lead with $4,200. Michael was second with $3,000 and Sharon was last with $1,800.

Round 2 Categories: Other British Isles – You Know the Drill – Musicians’ Nicknames – At Rest in Washington, D.C. – Phenomena – “Dee” Dee, Dee-Dee-Dee

Sharon found the first Daily Double in “You Know the Drill” under the $800 clue on the 17th pick. She was in the lead with $13,800 now, $5,200 more than Michael’s lead. She bet $2,200 and she was RIGHT.

Archaeologists in Pakistan found Neolithic bodies showing that drills were used to fix these more than 7,000 years ago. show

WHAT ARE TEETH?

Gary got the last Daily Double in “At Rest in Washington, D.C.” under the $1,200 clue, with 8 clues left after it. In third place with $5,000, he had $11,400 less than Sharon’s lead. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.

At the Glenwood Cemetery, Emanuel Leutze, who famously painted “(George) Washington” doing this. show

WHAT IS CROSSING THE DELAWARE?

Sharon finished in the lead with $15,200. Michael was next with $9,800 and Gary was in third place with $8,800.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS INDIA?

This is from Quartz (qz.com): “Voting closed May 12 [2014] in India’s massive general election, with 540 million voters– 66.4% of those eligible—- going to the polls, according to the
Election Commission. This was a new record for India, and up from 58% in 2009. The impressive turnout handily beat the previous high in the 1984 election after prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated. Her son Rajiv was elected with 64% of voters going to the polls.” The article compares India’s voter turnout in that year to elections in other countries.

Sporcle Challenge: Name the world’s most populous countries from A to Z when shown their locations on a map

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Gary went with Russia, his native land. He lost his $8,599 bet and finished with $201.

Michael got it right. He added $7,801 to his score for a $17,601 finish.

Sharon got it right, too. She bet $4,401 and won the game with $19,601. Sharon Lawson is the new Jeopardy! champ.

A triple stumper from each round:

A MARRIAGE MADE IN LITERATURE ($1000) This 1966 novel is about the first marriage of the character Mr. Rochester from “Jane Eyre”

PHENOMENA ($2000) These creatures started mysteriously falling from the sky in Dubuque, Iowa on June 16, 1882

More clues on Page 2

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

In 1871 the official addition of this as a province gave Canada coasts on both the Atlantic & the Pacific Oceans show

WHAT IS BRITISH COLUMBIA?

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