Final Jeopardy: Geogra-flee (11-14-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/14/2022) in the category “Geogra-flee” was:
In July 2022 the ousted president of this country fled west across the Indian Ocean to the Maldives
In the first final match of the 2022 Tournament of Champions, The three finalists are: Amy Schneider, a writer from Oakland, CA; Andrew He, a software developer from San Francisco, CA; and Sam Buttrey, an associate professor of operations research from Pacific Grove, CA.
Got tournament fatigue? The good news is we’re in the home stretch of the 2022 Tournament of Champions. The first finalist to win three games will win this tournament. In the meantime, the next match in the Celebrity Jeopardy! tournament will be next year, on January 5, 2023.
Round 1 Categories: At the Mall of America – The Southern Hemisphere – Top of the Morning! – Shark Tank – Streakers – From “D” to “O”
Andrew found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “The Southern Hemisphere” under the $800 clue on the 13th pick of the round. He was in second place with $1,800, $1,200 less than Sam’s lead. Andrew bet it all and he was RIGHT.
You can go from “A” to “Z” crossing the 660-mile border between these 2 southern African countries. show
Amy finished in the lead with $5,000. Sam was next with $4,800 and Andrew was in third place with $4,200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Your U.S. History Test – Primed for Prime Numbers – Poetry – Foreign Words & Phrases – We’re In It – The Long Haul
Andrew found the first Daily Double in “Poetry” under the $800 clue on the 13th pick. He was in second place with $7,800 now, $4,200 less than Sam’s lead. As you may have expected, he bet it all and he was RIGHT.
Thou “singest of summer in full-throated ease”, Keats wrote in “Ode to” this creature . show
3 clues later, Sam landed on the last Daily Double in “Foreign Words & Phrases” under the $1,600 clue. In second place with $13,200, he had $3,600 less than Andrew’s lead. Sam bet $6,000 and couldn’t quite nail down the phrase so that was counted WRONG.
A criminal who is caught red-handed is caught this way, “while the crime is blazing” show
Andrew finished in the lead with $18,800. Amy was next with $14,600 and Sam was in third place with $12,000. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS SRI LANKA?
In July 2022, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, then president of Sri Lanka, fled the Indian Ocean island country amid massive protests against his administration that were becoming violent. He went to the Maldives, another Indian Ocean island nation which lies about 600 miles to the southwest of Sri Lanka, as the crow flies. Rajapaksa then went east to Singapore and resigned his presidency from there. He spent a few weeks in Thailand and returned to Sri Lanka in September. According to Al Jazeera, a protest leader stated that Rajapaksa’s return would not be a problem “as long as he is held accountable” and stays out of politics.
Besides the Maldives and Sri Lanka, there are 4 other island nations in the Indian Ocean
Sam got it right but he didn’t bet a rupee so he stayed at $12,000.
Amy went with Indonesia, which is east of Sri Lanka and the Maldives. She lost her $10,000 bet and finished with $4,600.
Andrew also got it right. He bet $10,401 and won the game with $29,201.
2022 ToC Finalists at the Finish Line in Game 1:
Amy 0 Andrew 1 Sam 0
The winner of the entire tournament will be the first finalist to win 3 games, just like in the GOAT tournament. As you may recall, it only took Ken Jennings 4 games to win the entire shebang.
A triple stumper from each round:
AT THE MALL OF AMERICA ($800) Fabletics, co-founded by this actress
PRIMED FOR PRIME NUMBERS ($1600) This man, who served 37th president, Richard Nixon, later wrote a biography of 29th president, Warren G. Harding
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Word Origins”
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I guessed at FJ, and got it right. So, I’ll take that. I don’t know about Sam’s strategy of a zero wager. Each game is a standalone “first past the post”. It was interesting to see Andrew use his DD strategy, at least early. Of course, this makes him the favorite right now to win, as he is ahead. That’s not a lock – ere we wouldn’t need the rest of the tourney! I do look forward to the rest of it. Notably, I am not looking at the listings on the DVR. Unlike sports games, with “as needed”, for future games, the number is already known, and I don’t want to accidentally find out how many are left (such as, if there was two, then I would know it was Andrew).
An article today on TVInsider said something similar, asking whether producers inadvertantly revealed who wins.
Kudos to Andrew for playing an excellent game tonight. Yeah, I do recall the Sri Lanka president fleeing the country amid the violent protests, but I just didn’t remember the name of the country in FJ.
Andrew played well for today’s game, but I am hoping either Amy or Sam will win their first game tomorrow and praying that they get a final right.
It was ironic that Amy gave a wrong answer of Maldives to the $1000 clue in The Southern Hemisphere category (This republic of 115 islands northeast of Madagascar was uninhabited until its 18th century settlement by the French), and then Maldives turned up in the FJ! clue.