Final Jeopardy: The 18th Century (10-21-14)
The Final Jeopardy question (10/21/2014), in the category “The 18th Century” was:
Losses in this event included 12 chests of Souchong.
2x champ Alexander Persaud has won $26,000 so far. His challengers today are: Elizabeth Webster, from East Lansing, MI; and Deb Williams, from Hudson, OH.
Round 1: Alexander found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Libros en Espanol” under the $600 clue before the first break. He was in the lead with $3,000, $1,800 more than Deb in second place. He bet $1,800 and he was RIGHT.
The first in a series: “El Leon, La Bruja y El Ropera” show
Alexander finished in the lead with $8,600. Elizabeth was second with $2,800 and Deb was last with $1,400.
Round 2: Alexander found the first Daily Double in “The Last King of Scotland” under the $1,600 clue. He had a splendid lead with $11,000, $9,400 more than Elizabeth in second place. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
The last king of Scotland of this house was David II, son of Robert. show
Elizabeth found the last Daily Double in “Initially Medical” under the $1,200 clue. In second place with $4,400, she had $13,800 less than Alexander’s lead. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
For a cardiologist or a DJ: BPM show
Alexander finished in the lead with $27,800, his second runaway. Elizabeth was next with $8,800 and Deb was in third place with $3,000.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
“Contrary to popular belief, the British East India Company tea the Beaver, Dartmouth, and Eleanor transported to Boston was not from India. The tea the Sons of Liberty dumped into Boston Harbor was in fact from China. In addition to India, the British East India Company had extensive dealings in China because of the lucrative opium trade. The tea destroyed during the Boston Tea Party was described as “Bohea” type. In the 18th century tea trade, black tea was referred to as “Bohea.” … The shipment of British East India Company tea the three ships delivered to Boston consisted of 240 chests of Bohea, 60 chests of Singlo, 15 chests of Congou, 15 chests of Hyson, and 10 chests of Souchong. (Boston Tea Party Facts under Where Did the Tea Come From?)
Yes, there is a little discrepancy between the clue and the Fact Page of the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum site, but it’s only 2 chests.
Deb bet it all and finished with $6,000.
Elizabeth also bet everything she had, finishing with $17,600.
Alexander bet $7,200 so he won the match with $35,000 and brought his 3-day total up to $61,000.
During the chat, Alexander shared his nickname from when he was in college doing mock trial. He was known as “Crazy Eyes”.
2 years ago:: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Children’s Rhymes”
Oddly, this mammalian character with a rhyming name suffers from alopecia. show
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nice wager by alexander, i was afraid he would go for 30 K, an even amount like yesterday and only bet 2.200. nice haul so far and maybe HE will string a series of wins together, reaching 10 or more???
I wouldn’t bet on him lasting 10 games. Today, he had a couple of categories pretty much all to himself, an MLB one and Libros en Espanol. The Libros clues weren’t that hard to figure out if you didn’t know Spanish, but it sure looked like it’s a second language for him. If he wins a game where the categories line up more evenly or if he wins a game where a couple of categories fall in someone else’s wheelhouse, then I might bet on it. LOL!
coming back to the tea party, back then even things like that were done in a civilized manner. they cleaned everything up after they dumped the tea. and the ships were not even british, maybe that’s why. just the tea belonged to the “Honourable British East India Company”….had the ships been british too, who knows?
i agree, though he seems to have a broad variety of categories he’s good at. yesterday the balkans (except the 1st clue), today 2 (and he got the hang of ringing in by now it seems), so if there is just 1 category (leave alone 2 ) where he is good at AND gets a dd in one of them, he just might pull it off. we shall see.
one thing is for sure: he seems very controlled and confident, but not to the point of OVERconfident. i kind of like his style. we shall see how far he can go, won’t we??
yes, we will see. The low DD bets don’t favor him either though. He was very confident in the Libros category, it was early in the round, but he only bet $1,800. Don’t think his second DD bet was too little, though — he may have been wary of a curveball. I agree that he makes a good champ, just think he’s had some good luck with the categories on his side.
yeah, he was lucky too. but there is a saying, sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good. 🙂
Well done ELizabeth for deciding to potentially throw $1K away and not wagering to guarantee second place.