Final Jeopardy: Driving the USA (10-30-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/30/2023) in the category “Driving the USA” was:
It’s the state with the most miles of interstate highway, more than 3,200; one interstate accounts for 1/4 of that mileage
The Champions Wild Card quarter-finals continue today with these three champs: T.J. Tallie, an assoc. professor of African history from San Diego, CA; Sarah Reza, a museum program manager from Hyattsville, MD; and Jay Foster, an engineer from Rancho Palos Verdes, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Let’s Face It – It’s In Your Mind – Non-Naughty Words – The Jokers – Triangles – 5 Rhymes
T.J. found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Jokers” under the $1,000 clue on the 5th pick of the round. He was the only one on the board with $2,200. T.J. made it a true Daily Double and said Heath Ledger. That was WRONG.
A 2013 Oscar-winning actor: his surname is also the name of Apollo’s mother show
T.J. finished in the lead with $3,200. Sarah was in second place with $1,400. Jay was last with $1,200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Bring Out Your Fred – Shakespeare Rewrites The Beatles – Close Encounters Of The Third Kind – Found In ROY G. BIV – Organic Chemistry – Accenté
Sarah found the first Daily Double in “Found in ROY G. BIV” under the $1,600 clue on the 6th pick of the round. She was in second place with $2,200, $600 less than T.J.’s lead. Sarah made it a true Daily Double and said Gobi. That was WRONG.
The Sennar Dam in Sudan impounds the flow of this show
T.J. got the last Daily Double in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” under the $1,200 clue with 5 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $14,400, $9,200 more than Sarah in second place. T.J. bet $4,600 and he was RIGHT.
Waged from 149 to 146 B.C., the third Punic war resulted in the final destruction of this city & its people’s enslavement show
T.J. finished in the lead with a runaway $20,600. Sarah was second with $6,000 and Jay was last with $4,800. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS TEXAS?
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has a web page with “Interstate and U.S. Highway Facts” pertaining to the Lone Star State. Included in that list:
• There are 3,233 miles of the 45,000-mile Interstate Highway System in Texas.
• The longest Interstate Highway in Texas is IH 10, running for 878.7 miles between El Paso and Orange.
• The shortest Interstate Highway in Texas is IH 110, a length of 0.919 mile, in El Paso County.
The last one on the list says that U. S. 81 and U. S. 287 in Montague County are paved with gold. Seriously.
Jay thought it was California. He lost his $4,000 bet and finished with $800.
Sarah got it right. She didn’t bet a penny, standing pat on $6,000.
T.J. also went with California. He lost $600, winning the game and the semi-final sport with the remaining $20,000.
A triple stumper from each round:
IT’S IN YOUR MIND ($800) In 1907 this Swiss mister used the term “complex” to describe clusters of mental associations
FOUND IN ROY G. BIV ($2000) Frank Sinatra covered this “emotional” Duke Ellington composition in 1955
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Notable Women”
Of the 3 pioneering women in their field to be dubbed the “Trimates”, this one got her Ph.D from Cambridge in 1966 show
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Had to be Texas; it’s a wide state, whereas no part of California could have an 800-mile stretch of interstate. I drove thru TX twice, but it was the panhandle. Texas was the largest state in area till Alaska came along.
DDs crushed me, as did all the stumpers except carbolic ___ and the literary giants’ first name.
I was only 1/3 for DD, getting only the third one correct. I guessed at Texas, and stuck to it. I considered CA, but stood by my first choice.
TJ has an exuberance, but, I didn’t find it annoying. When he got the S African president correct, his reaction was worth it! Then, even more so with the Comintern!
My first thought was Texas for FJ, and then I changed it to California. Drat!
5 rhymes used on May 29, 2006