Final Jeopardy: Statesmen (4-23-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/23/2020) in the category “Statesmen” was:

The first Asian to accept the Nobel Peace Prize was the PM of this country who in 1967 renounced use of nuclear weapons

New champ Sharon Lawson, an administrative assistant from Lethbridge, Alberta, won $19,601 yesterday. In Game 2, her challengers are: Molly Bierman, an engineering program manager from San Francisco, CA; and Tim Latham, an accountant from Boston, MA.

Round 1 Categories: Give Us a Date – Fictional TV Towns & Cities – Stock Symbols – Pennsylvania Geo – Hairstyles – Ends in “LL”

Sharon found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Fictional TV Towns & Cities” under the $2,000 clue on the 16th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $4,200, $800 more than Tim in second place. She bet $1,800 and said “I’m probably going to kick myself. I have no idea.” That, of course, was WRONG.

The Log Lady & the late Laura Palmer were residents of this Pacific Northwest community. show

WHAT IS TWIN PEAKS?

Tim finished in the lead with $7,400. Sharon was second with $2,800 and Molly was last with $2,600.

Round 2 Categories: Every Body – Characters in Beatles Songs – From the Sanskrit -Literature – Draw Me – Like One of Your French Girls

Molly found the first Daily Double in “Every Body” under the $1,200 clue on the 4th pick. She was in third place with $3,000 now, $4,800 less than Tim’s lead. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.

Bile aids digestion by breaking up large molecules of fat; it’s stored in the gallbladder but made by this organ. show

WHAT IS THE LIVER?

Sharon got the last Daily Double in “French Girls” under the $1,600 clue, with 11 clues to go after it. In third place with $6,000, she had $11,000 less than Tim’s lead. She bet $5,000 and thought it was Colette. That was WRONG

About this French novelist, Elizabeth Browning wrote, “True genius, but true woman!” show

WHO IS GEORGE SAND?

Tim finished in the lead with a runaway $20,200. Molly was next with $8,400 and Sharon was in third place with $3,400.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS JAPAN?

Eisaku Sato was Japan’s Prime Minister from 1964 to 1972 (during the U.S. presidencies of Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon). According to Nobel.org: “The reasons the Nobel Committee gave for awarding the Peace Prize to Eisaku Sato [in 1974] were that as Japanese Prime Minister he represented the will for peace of the Japanese people, and that he had signed the nuclear arms Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1970. In the Committee’s opinion, the award to Sato would encourage all those who were working to halt the spread of nuclear arms.”

Sato shared the prize with Irish politician Seán MacBride, who was rewarded “for his efforts on behalf of human rights, among other things as one of the founders of Amnesty International.”

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Sharon got it right. She bet $3,000, bringing her up to $6,400.

Molly wrote down Vietnam, crossed that out and went with South Korea. She didn’t bet a single yen so she stayed at $8,400.

Tim got it right, too. He bet $1,000 and won the game with $21,200. Tim Latham is the new Jeopardy! champ.

2 triple stumpers from LITERATURE:

($1200) Published in 1893, “Catriona”, also known as “David Balfour”, was Robert Louis Stevenson’s sequel to this novel

($2000) In 1930 this “Main Street” author became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature

More clues on Page 2

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

This athlete lost a 1931 lawsuit against the Curtiss Candy Company show

WHO IS BABE RUTH?

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