Final Jeopardy: World Cities (10-17-18)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/17/2018) in the category “World Cities” was:
The northernmost city with a pop. over 5 mil., it was founded in 1703 & its name was changed 3 times in the 20th century
3x champ Alan Dunn, a software development manager from Johns Creek, GA, is up to $70,801 now. In Game 4, his challengers are: Allison Stevens, a nurse practitioner from Philadelphia, PA; and Julie Holzmann, a proofreader & virtual assistant from Columbia, S.C.
Round 1 Categories: Starring With the Dances – Whose What? – Nuts About Doughnuts – The Folger Library – Foreign Words & Phrases – World War I
Julie found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “World War I” under the $800 clue, with 8 clues to go after it. She was in the lead with $4,000, $1,000 less than Julie in second place. She bet $2,000 and guessed Ireland. That was WRONG.
German forces gave units from this U.K land the nickname “The Ladies from Hell” for their fighting spirit & uniforms. show
The round ended in at 3-way tie. Each player had $3,000.
Round 2 Categories: Bali, Hi! – Life in Colonial America – Celebrity Politicians – I “NV” You – Nuclear Physics – Band Books
Alan found the first Daily Double in “Nuclear Physics” under the $2000 clue on the 5th pick. He was in the lead with $5,400 now, $2,400 ahead of both ladies, still tied. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
The sun is a fusion reactor; creating one on earth would require creating this very hot, ionized state of matter. show
Alan found the last Daily Double in “Colonial America” under the $800 clue on the 12th pick. In the lead with $10,400, he had $4,200 more than Julie in second place. He bet $3,000 again and he was RIGHT again.
Now the name of a Harvard theatrical club, it was a porridge of milk & flour or cornmeal. show
Alan finished in the lead with $13,800. Allison was next with $8,200 and Julie was in third place with $4,200.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
In an article on ThoughtCo.com, Matt Rosenberg relates How the Russians Renamed a City Three Times in a Century: “St. Petersburg is Russia’s second-largest city after Moscow, and throughout history, it has been known by a few different names. In the more than 300 years since it was established, St. Petersburg has also been known as Petrograd and Leningrad, though it’s also known as Sankt-Peterburg (in Russian), Petersburg, and just plain Peter.” The Petrograd change came in 1914; Leningrad in 1924, then it was back to St. Petersburg in 1991. Currently, the CIA Factbook lists the city’s population at 5.383 million.
A related clue from 2003: PUTIN ($200) It’s the city where Vladimir Putin was born in 1952; it changed its name in 1991
Julie must have ran out of time. She had “St. Petersb,” which was not acceptable. She lost her $4,199 bet and finished with $1.00.
Allison didn’t have a response. She lost her $5,601 bet, leaving her $2,599.
Alan got it right. He bet $2,601 so he won this game with $16,401. His 4-day total is $87,202.
A triple stumper from each round:
WORLD WAR I: ($1000) Not to be confused with the Ardennes, this French forest was the site of the biggest WWI battle fought by the AEF
BAND BOOKS: ($1200) Guitarist Joe Perry’s memoir is subtitled “My Life In and Out Of” this rock band
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “1960s Science Books ”
Keats’ line “The sedge is withered from the lake, and no birds sing” inspired the title of this ground-breaking book. show
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Would the FJ! answer “Leningrad” have been accepted (considering the phrasing of the clue)?
@PDB, I dunno, but considering how the clue says it was founded in 1703, I can’t see how that would apply to Petrograd or Leningrad
I think that Alan did not phrase one of his answers as a question in the Nuclear Physics category. Does anyone have this on tape/TIVO that can check on this?
@Sandy, I just checked my DVR with the close captions on — he answered the first 3 clues and said “what is” on each one. No one got the $1600 clue and he said “what is” on the last one, the Daily Double
Thank you for checking!
You’re welcome.
On the game the other day, is there any way of getting the ‘Star Wars’ category correct without actually seeing the movies? OR could a person only read IMDB and Wikipedia and answer the ‘Star Wars’ questions correctly? I’m just curious because I really hate Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, etc…
I don’t imagine you could remember what happened to who in what film or book unless you had a real interest in whatever it is just by reading IMDB or Wikipedia. They do have fan wikis for all kinds of shows and whatever, but who has time to go into depth if you’re not really into whatever it is?
Even with stuff you have seen, you forget characters and details after awhile — like the supporting cast posts I do on some shows. I will see an actor or actress that rings a bell in another show later but I can’t just come up with which episode I remember him or her from off the top of my head
@Albert
YES, I have not seen certain movies, but googled them and when you read wikipedia carefully, then certain things stick. Like did the movie get an oscar, who were the main characters etc. Depends on your memory. Some things you might forget, others not.
Now, Alan Dunn has a chance to do what the champion that he defeated: Alex Schmidt didn’t do, and that is win the 5th game. Well, only because Alex Schmidt was up against Alan Dunn in his 5th game, and lost to Alan.
Who selected first in Double Jeopardy when the contestants tied at $3,000?
@Richard, Alan went first
That’s because he was in third place at the end of the first half of the Jeopardy! round.
Well, he’s the ONLY one who got it right, although Allison went for that and ran out of time. Not only is the correct response important, but how long out of the 30 seconds you would write that response, and Alan, in the words of Alex Trebek, “wrote his response down very quickly”.
$11,800 in triple stumper cash(including $800 for the first round missed DD)
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It was the 800 clue at the first DD, but Julie bet and lost 2.000….what a bummer!
Julie’s response reminded me of Lisa schlitt’s response in one of her games though it was not complete. She won the game nonetheless. I thought the ladies would have at least some knowledge of European Geography. Furthermore VJ, how did Julie not know about kilts and Scotland? I was hoping for a triple solve but still I hope Alan will win game five and soon. What was your opinion of this game? The Kandinsky art collection is in the state Russian museum in st Petersburg if that helps.
@LOU
My sentiment exactly (kilts). See below.
And in case you missed it in the CotD talk (I posted it after the recap was on already: the players did not know that the city consisted of 2 words.: Sankt Peterburg (Russian, no “S” in Peterburg)/Saint Petersburg (anglicized), Sankt Petersburg (German)
Have a nice day!!
@Lou, I was watching this game under a lot of stress because I had some computer problems today and wasted 2 hours trying to fix them. Seemed like an up and down game for Alan. He was still at zero by the chat! I think he’s getting tired but I’m glad he won and I hope he wins tomorrow.
Julie’s chat with Trebek was very funny about the fireworks — they were a blast!
Trebek’s chat with Alan was also hilarious just for its outrageousness… Trebek was like, wow, you’re so smart for an old guy (even though Alan is at least 15 years his junior) — how’d you get that way?
LINK: 14 more clues from this match
I understand, and I had been struggling to get the internet back up and running last night after YouTube went down. I was getting a few computer games up and running on my gaming channel when the connection was lost. Like what the hell? Something is up with the network system these days, VJ. But still it took a couple of hours to get it up and running. I am laughing at the chat with Alex today. Furthermore I believe Alex Schmidt would have an everlasting friendship with Alan in the toc later on.
Yes, Lou, my daughter told me about that YouTube outage. She was trying to set up the channel on a TV last night and it wouldn’t work.
Congratulations to Alan, now #10 and pretty safe.
“Ladies from hell”….Scots wear SKIRTS aka as KILTS…..Julie, Julie….