Final Jeopardy: Constitutions of the World (1-10-20)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (1/10/2020) in the category “Constitutions of the World” was:
This country’s 1979 constitution forbids amendments altering its official ideology or religion
New champ Katie Needle, a retail supervisor from Brooklyn, NY, won $36,001 yesterday. In Game 2, she is up against: Alek Van Houghton, an environmental consultant from Los Angeles, CA; and Jack McGuire, a travel & tourism consultant from San Antonio, TX.
Round 1 Categories: Science Around Us – Where’s That Church? – Toys – Skating Into the NHL – # – “F”our-letter Words
Katie found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Toys” under the $600 clue on the 15th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $3,800, $2,000 more than Alek in second place. She bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.
This brand of toy trucks began in Minnesota in the late 1940s. show
Katie finished in the lead with $4,600. Alek was second with $4,400 and Jack was last with $2,200.
Round 2 Categories: American History – The Irishman – Book Marks – Musical Instruments – Numerical Characters – Before & After
Katie found the first Daily Double in “American History” under the $800 clue on the 16th pick. She was in second place with $7,600 at this point, $800 less than Alek’s lead. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
On Oct. 8, 1871 a fire started on DeKoven Street destroying more than 17,000 of this city’s buildings. show
4 clues later, Jack got the last Daily Double in “Book Marks” under the $800 clue. In third place with $5,000, he had $4,600 less than Katie’s lead. He bet $2,000 and tried “The Sun Also Rises.” He knew that was WRONG.
In this novel, Mark Watney says, “I didn’t die on Sol 6. Certainly the rest of the crew thought I did” show
Katie finished in the lead with $12,400. Alek was next with $8,800 and Jack was in third place with $5,800.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
With the overthrow of the last Shah (Mohammad Reza Pahlavi), Iran’s monarchy and its 1906 Constitution were abolished in Feb. 1979. A new Constitution was adopted in Oct. 1979 and has been in force since Dec. 3, 1979. The country became an Islamic theocracy. Article 4 spelled out that “All civil, penal, financial, economic, administrative, cultural, military, political, and other laws and regulations must be based on Islamic criteria” and Article 170 instructed judges that they “are obliged to refrain from executing statutes and regulations of the government that are in conflict with the laws or the norms of Islam.” Click here for an overview of Iran’s constitution here.
Ruhollah Khomeini (aka Ayatollah Khomeini) became the country’s supreme leader, making him the highest-ranking political and religious authority of the nation. He died on June 3, 1989 and was succeeded by Ali Khamenei the next day.
Jack got it right. He bet $5,200 and finished with $11,000.
Alek thought it was China. That cost him $3,000, leaving him with $5,800.
Katie got it, too. She added $5,201 to win with $17,601 today. Her 2-day total is $53,602.
Reversal: SKATING INTO THE NHL ($1000) A 1990 Oilers-Kings game saw 356 of these doled out, with Marty McSorley getting 37–that’d be more than half the game! — Alex had to reverse his approval of Jack’s “penalties” response because it should have been “penalty minutes”. Jack got docked for $2,000.
2 triple stumpers from American History:
($1200) This 3-named leader of the Free Silver Movement served as Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson
($2000) This powerful union of the 1880s, KOL for short, began as a secret society modeled on the Masons
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “African Countries”
With more than 90 million people it’s Africa’s third most populous country, though it’s more than 90% desert. show
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Jack’s sister’s name is Cate Hollenbeck who appeared on January 30, 2015.
Can you give the text of the last question in the Numerical Designation category, about ST Voyager and Jeri Ryan? Many thanks.
Here it is, Laura —
NUMERICAL CHARACTERS ($2000) On “Star Trek: Voyager” this techno-species designated Jeri Ryan’s character Seven of Nine & it sorta stuck
Thank you. I was only half paying attention when the Barbara Feldon clue was given. I shoulda seen Seven of Nine coming for miles, given that category. Numerical Characters, I meant to type.
Why was $2,000 take from Jack’s score when it was decided he had answered the hockey question incorrectly? It was only a $1,000 question?
@Val14, because he was awarded $1,000 when Alex accepted his answer. So they took that away, and then took another $1,000 away for the wrong answer
It’s a shame that our young people don’t know Jesus was born in Israel. I bet that a few years ago Kate would have known where The church of the nativity was. Today, the anti-Israel groups are trying to claim the land and actually say Jesus was a Palistinian. And Muslim. Our kids seem confused by the propaganda. SMH.
Jan 10, 2020. The question on the NHL record of 387 of these in a game was answered “penalties” and accepted. I suspect the answer should have been “penalty minutes”.
@Keith, Jack got a reversal on that penalties response — look under the final scores image
What’s Jack’s sister’s name?
Well another successful performance by Katie and congrats to jack on getting final. But honestly China? Really? The last time I checked, China only had the great leap forward, may fourth movement, cultural revolution, gang of four and so forth but it does not say anything about forbidding religion and that country did not have a shah. so alek thought China had an Islamic theocracy? What was he really thinking with that response, VJ? I mean ayatollah Khomeini would not travel to China to start his theocracy there right?
Wow, Lou, I bet it took you longer to type all that than Alek had to solve the clue and he didn’t have any of the info in the clue that you are faulting him for.
He just didn’t know the answer and had to venture a guess.
It was a desperate guess, but the clue mentioned only ideology and religion, and there was no mention of Islam or a shah. “1979” was a dead giveaway for me.