Final Jeopardy: World Geography (1-23-25)
The Final Jeopardy question (1/23/2025) in the category “World Geography” was:
In the Orenburg Oblast, a bridge over this 1,500-mile river has monuments labeled “Asia” & “Europe”
Today is the first of two final matches in the Champions Wildcard Tournament. The finalists are: Will Yancey, a lecturer of history from Banquete, TX; Drew Goins, a journalist from Honolulu, HI; and Mehal Shah, a software engineer from Seattle, WA.
As usual, in these 2-day final affairs, the scores at the end of today’s match will be added to the tomorrow’s results to determine the winner.
Round 1 Categories: Our Colorful World – For the “Gram” – From Page to Screen – The Night Sky – Curls – Just Wanna Have Fun
Will found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Our Colorful World” under the $1000 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. He was in the lead with $800, $200 more than Mehal in second place. Will bet the $1,000 allowance but adding an “s” to the end of his response made it WRONG.
This Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C. got its name from a stream lined with sparkling flecks of mica show
Mehal finished in the lead with $5,200. Will was second with $4,800 and Drew was last with $2,800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: History of Britain – Alliterative Lit – 9-letter Words – January Babies – News Personalities – This One Time, at Orchestra Camp
Will found the first Daily Double in “Alliterative Lit” under the $2,000 clue on the 13th pick. He was in last place with $7,600 now, $800 less than Drew’s lead. Will bet $3,800 and he was RIGHT.
Feeling familiar, Henry V says, “We few, we happy few, we” this group show
Will got the last Daily Double in “January Babies” under the $1,200 clue, with 9 clues left after it. In the lead with $13,400, he had $1,800 more than Mehal in second place. Will bet $3,000 and didn’t know so he was WRONG.
In 1929 at age 21 she finished second behind Jean-Paul Sartre in an advanced philosophy exam show
Mehal finished in the lead with $15,200. Will was next with $11,600 and Drew was in third place with $10,800. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS THE URAL RIVER?
In this video, you can see a monument that says Европа (EUROPE) on one side and Азия (ASIA) on the other. You’ll also hear a dog barking and see him running across the Orenburg pedestrian bridge over the Ural River.
The World Atlas has a list of Russia’s 10 longest rivers. The Ural comes in last.
Drew got it right. He bet $6,800 and finished with $17,600.
Will went with the Volga. That cost him $6,000 and left him with $5,600.
Mehal also got it. He bet a big $12,000 and finished with $27,200. So Mehal is the leader of the pack heading into tomorrow’s final game.
2 triple stumpers from the last round:
HISTORY OF BRITAIN ($1600) Triggered by an unpopular tax & led by Wat Tyler, the “Great Uprising” of 1381 is better known by this “low class” name
JANUARY BABIES ($2000) This author of “The Woman in White” & “The Moonstone” was born in London on January 8, 1824
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “HISTORY”
Returning home in 1493, Columbus stopped in the Azores at an island with this name, also something he’d lost off the Haiti coast show
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