Final Jeopardy: Mountain Ranges (10-1-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/1/2019) in the category “Mountain Ranges” was:
A chain of volcanoes is named for this mountain range where the continental USA’s deadliest eruption took place
2x champ Laurel Lathrop, a graduate student from Tallahassee, FL, brought her winnings up to $64,002 yesterday. In Game 3, her challengers are: Abby Grubbs, a study abroad advisor from Hillsborough, NC; and Kevin Boettcher, a university administrator from Binghamton, NY.
Round 1 Categories: Clues Across America – Jump Around! – Not-So-Secret Service Code Names – Hodgepodge – What’s That Award for? – Chip & Dale
Kevin found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Not-So-Secret Service Code Names” under the $1,000 clue on the 11th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $2,800, $1,800 more than Laurel in second place. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
Referring to a geographical location in the state she governed, “Denali” was code for her. show
Kevin finished in the lead with $10,000. Laurel was second with $3,400 and Abby was last with $1,800.
Round 2 Categories: Literary Narrators – Ends in “X” – Ind-icc-ted! – The Insect World – Film Directors – Chippendale
Kevin found the first Daily Double in “Ind-icc-ted” under the $1,600 clue on the 16th pick. He was in the lead with $17,200 at this point, $11,000 more than Laurel in second place. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
Ousted as this country’s president in April 2019, Omar al-Bashir is charged with crimes in Darfur. show
Kevin found the last Daily Double in “The Insect World” under the $1,600 clue, with 9 clues left after it. In the lead with $23,400, he had $17,200 more than Laurel in second place. This time, he bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT again.
This bee named for its habit of tunneling into wood looks like a big, less hairy bumblebee. show
Kevin finished in the lead with $26,000. Laurel was next with $8,600 and Abby was in third place with $5,000.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Mount St. Helens, in Washington State, is part of the Cascades Range and Cascade Volcanoes. The eruption of Mount St. Helens in May of 1980 is considered the most disastrous volcanic eruption ever in the continental USA. The death toll of 57 included a man named Harry R. Truman, who refused to leave the area. A song was written about him.
Wikipedia has a list of all Cascade volcanoes from British Columbia, Canada to California. Also, Wired.com has an interesting article that says Oregon can claim the record for the area in the Cascade Range (Santiam Pass and McKenzie Pass) that has spewed the most lava and ash out over the past 5,000 years.
Abby got it right. She bet everything she had and finished with $10,000.
Laurel wrote down “the Olympian” (referring to the Olympic Mountains, we presume). She lost everything but a dollar.
Kevin had the Coastal Mountains. He only lost $3,000 and won the game with the remaining $23,000. Kevin Boettcher is the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
CHIP & DALE ($600) On a 1950s TV show, Roy Rogers rode Trigger & this “Queen of the West” rode Buttermilk
FILM DIRECTORS ($2000) Known for classic westerns like “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon”, he also gave us “Mister Roberts” & “The Quiet Man”
2 years ago: Only ONE of the two players left in FJ! got this one in “20th Century World Leaders”
He said, “never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another” show
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I live in Oregon, and would have guessed Cascades even though I’ve never heard the chain of volcanoes specifically referred to by the same name.
Loved that clue on “Wild Thing, you make my heart sing, you make everything… groovy” LOL!! That was my favorite song in 1966. One of my high school friends still calls me Wild Thing.
I wonder if anyone still remembers the song “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon” – she wore it in the springtime and in the month of May (hey! hey!)
LINK: 9 more clues from the game
I loved that song VJ. It was my all time favorite when I was younger and I used to play it on my electronic keyboard all the time. The song brings back great memories.
So Lady VJ… you were a “Wild Thing” in high school, ay?! Pray tell, your loyal FF flock is curious to hear more. How and/or why were you dubbed with that moniker? 😎
LOL, JJ. Sorry to disappoint you but there are no wild stories connected with that — just that one friend called me that (and still does) because I liked that song so much.
Such a great song, I love it, too! Who knew you were such a “Wild Thing” in high school, VJ lol.
I was relieved to get through that Film Director category, yikes.
@Rhonda, I just realized they could have got me in that directors category. The director of “North to Alaska” has had exactly two clues, and John Ford turned up in both of them (he was one of the wrong answers to the second one).
1998 THE MOVIES ($1000) This 1962 Cinerama epic had segments directed by George Marshall, Henry Hathaway & John Ford (What is “How The West Was Won”?)
1987 DIRECTORS ($1000) Few knew that this director of westerns who died in 1985 was born Henri de Fiennes, a Belgian marquis (Who is Henry Hathaway?)
Strange that he is not that well-known — one of the tidbits on his IMDB bio is that he directed the Duke in 6 films: True Grit (1969), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), Circus World (1964), How the West Was Won (1962), North to Alaska (1960) and Legend of the Lost (1957).
You’re better off that you didn’t realize it during the game, VJ!
I too was in HS in 1966. I much prefer the flip side, “With a Girl Like You.”
Find it on youtube if it’s not familiar.
Cool, Howard. I heard it back then — we had the 45. I went and found a great youtube of it anyhow, accompanied by images of many famous ’60s beauties. The person who made it appears to have had a crush on Sylvie Vartan.
I hope you can drop by Spoiler Talk on Friday when I have a Mystery Song Clip (from various decades).
Laurel: Darn Those Daily Doubles, Kevin!
Congratulations to kevin on his win and he was pretty quick on the buzzer today. The Olympic mountain is in Washington state but I think Laura misread the clue here since she thought that mountain has a volcano but I didn’t see any. I was hoping for a triple solve today VJ, you remember the eruption of mount saint helens right? It was so big in the news and yet two people does not remember it.
I think Emma and Kevin are related as there was also a last name called Boettcher, who defeated James Holzhauer on June 3.
I don’t know about that.
There is some discussion about that on the Jeopardy contestants page on FB, but no one has verified it yet. Someone posted a side-by-side picture of each of them with Alex.
I missed the show tonight, but I’m semi-shocked no one knew Dale Evans or John Ford.