Final Jeopardy: Rivers (1-12-24)
The Final Jeopardy question (1/12/2024) in the category “Rivers” was:
A European capital got its name as a consequence of flooding on this river
Today is the first final match of the current Second Chance tournament. The finalists are: Roy Camara, a grocery specialist from Crawfordville, FL; Long Nguyen, a retired engineer from Las Vegas, NV; and Rotimi Kukoyi, a health policy & management student from Hoover, AL. As always, whatever they finish with today will carry over to Monday’s game.
Round 1 Categories: An “A” in Science – Double Talk Geography – A Fashionable Category – Television – Anagrams – UFOs
Roy found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “An ‘A’ in Science” under the $1,000 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. He was the only one on the board with $1,400. Roy bet it all and he was RIGHT.
This tiny unit of measurement is named for a Swedish physicist show
Roy finished in the lead with $5,400. Rotimi was in second place with $3,400. Long was last with $0. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Historic American Women – Book Titles – Flags – Podcasts – A Seasoned Film – We Have Oxy, Give us the Moron
Roy found the first Daily Double in “Historic American Women” under the $800 clue on the 13th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $10,600, $3,400 more than Long in second place. Roy bet it all and came up with Borden. That was WRONG. Ouch!
She was the star of a 1903 Vaudeville play titled “Hatchetation” show
Long got the last Daily Double in “Book Titles” under the $800 clue with 8 clues left after it. He was in the lead now with $9,200, $5,800 more than Rotimi in second place. Long bet everything and he was RIGHT.
You’ll find this Steinbeck title in Genesis 4:16 show
Long finished in the lead with a runaway $18,400. Rotimi was in second place with $4,600 and Roy was last with $1,600. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS THE AMSTEL?
The first fact on clinkhostels.com’s “14 Amsterdam Facts You Don’t Know Yet” tells us that Amsterdam was originally known as Amstrelredam: “The origins of the city’s name come from its location on the river Amstel. Formerly a small fishing village, the city was founded on a dam built to control the Amstel river’s flooding in the 13th century known as the Amstel dam. By 1300, the area gained official city status as ‘Amsterdam’.”
The Amstel tops Fikkle Fame’s list of World Capitals and Their Rivers because it begins with “A”, and not necessarily because it has the most Jeopardy! clues. However, there have been a lot of clues on Amstel, either the river or the beer. The last one similar to today’s FJ was a $2000 clue in a June 2008 game: Amsterdam’s name reflects the fact that the city grew up around a dam built on this river
Roy went with the Seine. He bet and lost his whole $1,600.
Rotimi thought it was the Volga. He bet and lost his whole $4,600.
Long got it right. He also bet it all but Long doubled his score to $36,800. Woo hoo! Anyway you look at it, that’s a tremendous advantage going into Monday’s game.
2 triple stumpers from A SEASONED FILM:
($1600) This Spike Lee film set in 1977 NYC has everything: a serial killer, Adrien Brody as a stripper, a talking dog, Reggie Jackson
($2000) Vanessa Hudgens & Selena Gomez are college girls headed to sunny Florida for a vacay in this 2013 film
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “20th Century Nonfiction”
“Norwegian Independence Day” & “a vast blue sea” are mentioned in Chapter 1 of a 1948 book by this man show
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Ken gets mondo props from me for using the Samoan dialect to pronounce “Pago Pago”. It is NOT “pay go pay go”. It is “Pongo Pongo”. The Samoans put an “N” sound before “G”s. To my knowledge, all G’s are hard in Samoan. There is a word spelled “pelagi”. This is pronounced “Peh-lon-gi”. This is a derogatory term for white people. Weirdly, Google translate says that the translation is “Belgium”.
I saw this one, and did very poorly on DDs and FJ. Only got one, the tiny unit of length. I thought “Grapes of Wrath” for the Steinbeck, and also said “Lizzie Borden”. For Final, I wasn’t paying attention, and I said a city, not the river. Regardless, because I was wrong. I said Lisbon.
So, all in all, not a good game for me! Long did MUCH better!
Oh, and, I forgot the obvious – Tua Tagovailoa! As you hear on TV, “Tungavailoa”!
When I clicked on “more clues on page 2,” it took me to Wednesday’s page 2.
I’m not a fan of those all-in DD bets, even in a 2-day competition. One worked out, one didn’t. Kudos to Long for coming from never-never land into a commanding lead after the first day. That was a killer Final.
My ears are still ringing from Roy’s butchered pronunciation of pret-a-porter. And surprised no one knew the tie knot or the feline-named heel.
Thanks, Howard, I fixed that.
Yes, Long’s journey from minus $2,200 to $36.800 was amazing. He was the only one to get Fj! in his semifinal game too.
Ken was absolutely right when he quipped that the FJ was a tough one. Well, I simply rolled the dice, and came up with the Rhine river. Oh well.
Wow, all three players bet the farm in FJ! Long has a big lead heading into Monday’s game. I wonder what will happen if all three players finished with 0 at the end of Game 1 in the finals.