Final Jeopardy: World Geography (7-5-21)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/5/2021) in the category “World Geography” was:

On either side of Indochina are these 2 gulfs that start with the same letter

5x champ Courtney Shah, a community college instructor from Portland, OR won $79,258 last week. In Game 6, she takes on these two players: Mark Lucas, a corporate and career strategist from Redondo Beach, CA; and Rebecca Gould, an ESL paraeducator from Columbia, MA.

Round 1 Categories: Bordering the USA – Disney Movies by Songs – This & That – Animals – 4-Letter Words – They Don’t Live on Sesame Street

Courtney found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “4-Letter Words” under the $400 clue with 2 clues left after it. She was in third place with $2,000, $3,200 less than Rebecca in the lead. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.

This monarchical title was relinquished for good in 1917 show

WHAT IS CZAR?

Mark finished in the lead with $6,200. Rebecca was second with $5,200 and Courtney was last with $4,000. No clues went uncovered.

Round 2 Categories: Kabul Stones – Literature – Starts & Ends with “T” – Put in Oscillation – Doctored Television – Drunk History

Mark found the first Daily Double in “Drunk History” under the $1,600 clue on the 6th pick. He was in the lead with $7,400 now, $2,200 more than Courtney and Rebecca tied for second. He bet $3,400 and he went with 1923. That was WRONG.

Year in which the photo here was taken. show

WHAT IS 1933?

Mark also got the last Daily Double in “Put in Oscillation” under the $2,000 clue, with 7 clues left after it. In second place with $6,800, he had $800 less than Rebecca’s lead. He bet $2,800 and he took a shot at it with Tesla coil. That was WRONG.

In 1851 this 2-word object bearing the name of its inventor started having a ball (weighing 62 pounds) swinging in Paris’ Panthéon show

WHAT IS THE FOUCAULT PENDULUM?

Courtney finished in the lead with $9,600. Rebecca was next with $8,800 and Mark was in third place with $7,200. No clues went uncovered.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT ARE THAILAND & TONKIN?

Indochina was a term originally coined in the early 1800s to refer to the peninsula east of India and south of China and the historical and cultural effects those 2 countries had on the area’s inhabitants. When the French began to colonize the area, the term was restricted to the area they controlled (which did not include the Kingdom of Thailand). Today, the entire peninsula still gets called Indochina although it is more proper to call it Mainland Southeast Asia.

The countries situated on Mainland Southeast Asia are Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar (Burma), Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. The Gulf of Tonkin lies at the northwestern part of the South China Sea, off the coasts of Vietnam and South China. The Gulf of Thailand is located in the southwestern South China Sea, between the southwestern shores of the Indochinese Peninsula and the northern half of the Malay Peninsula.

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Mark got it right. He bet $2,402 and finished with $9,602.

Rebecca just had question marks. She lost her $6,200 bet and was left with $2,600.

Courtney got it, too. She bet $8,100 and won the game with $17,700. Courtney Shah’s 6-day total is $96,958.

A triple stumper from each round:

LITERATURE ($1200) The chapter titles in this Henry Fielding novel include “A Little Chapter, in Which Is Contained a Little Incident”

($2000) In this A.S. Byatt novel, a scholar (Aaron Eckhart in the movie) finds letters in a book owned by a long-dead poet

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “On the Map”

9-letter name for an area of 10 million square miles–4/5 the size of Africa–but only about 120,000 square miles of it is dry land show

WHAT IS POLYNESIA?

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