Final Jeopardy: International Disputes (11-15-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/15/2019) in the category “International Disputes” was:
A dispute over Etorofu, Habomai, Kunashiri & Shikotan has kept these 2 countries from ever signing a WWII peace treaty
It’s the final showdown in Jeopardy!’s 2019 Tournament of Champion. These champs continue the competition today: Francois Barcomb, ($1,800); James Holzhauer, ($49,326); and Emma Boettcher, ($26,400).
The scores after each player’s name is what they made in the 11/14/2019 game. Whatever they finish with today will be added to that to determine the $250,000 grand prize winner. Second place wins $100,000. Third place: $50,000 (minimums).
Round 1 Categories: The Nifty ’50s – Mountains of Asia – What’s Being Measured? – Snails – Sitcoms – All “Star”s
James found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “The Nifty 50s” under the $1,000 clue on the 8th pick of the round, after he went to the $800 and $600 clues first. He was in the lead with $2,600, $400 more than Emma in second place. He bet “all the chips” and he was RIGHT.
Eating out became easier with the introduction of this first multipurpose charge card in 1950. show
James finished in the lead with $8,800. Emma was second with $6,600 and Francois was last with $1,200.
Round 2 Categories: Female Firsts – Jim Class – Classic American Plays – Before, During & After – “R”chitecture – Movie Foreign Cities
Emma found the first Daily Double in “Female Firsts” under the $800 clue on the 9th pick, eliciting groans and chuckles. She was in second place with $8,600 at this point, $7,400 less than James in the lead. She bet it all and she was RIGHT.
Kathryn Bigelow became Oscar’s first female Best Director for this film with only one named female character. show
5 clues later, James found the last Daily Double in “‘R’chitecture” under the $1,600 clue. In second place with $19,200, he had $400 less than Emma’s lead. He bet $8,615 and, forgetting the category specification, went with “Georgian.” That was WRONG.
As a style, it was early 19th century British; as a building, it’s the Atlanta Hyatt that began the hotel atrium era. show
Emma finished in the lead with $21,600. James was next with $17,785 and Francois was in third place with $1,600.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT ARE JAPAN & RUSSIA?
According to an 1/22/2019 article in the South China Morning Post, the islands in the clue are called the Kurils by Russia and the Northern Territories by Japan. They were seized by the Soviet army in the final days of World War II. They “are located to the southeast of the Russian island of Sakhalin and are administratively part of the same region, although Tokyo considers them part of its Hokkaido prefecture and ‘illegally occupied by Russia’.” This dispute prevented the two countries from entering into a formal World War II peace treaty. All prior attempts to resolve the matter have failed, including the January 2019 talks between Vladimir Putin, Russia’s President, and Shinzo Abe, Japan’s Prime Minister.
According to a 1/24/2019 Moscow Times article, the main issue “is not one of different approaches to preparing and signing a peace treaty, but a deeper, more existential question.” Japan needs Russia to make a territorial concession while Russia views that as a “capitulation” that would undermine its status.
Francois doubled today’s score to $3,200. With his $1,800 from yesterday, he finished with $5,000.
James bet $9,812, bringing him up to $27,597 today. With yesterday’s $49,326 added in, he finished with $76,923.
Emma bet $17,000, finishing with $38,600 today. Adding her $26,400 brought her up to a $65,000 finish.
That made James the $250,000 winner of the 2019 Tournament of Champions. Emma won $100,000 and Francois won $50,000.
A triple stumper from each round:
SNAILS ($1000) Tasmania produces around 25% of the world’s wild caught supply of this large edible sea snail, mainly the black lip variety
MOVIE FOREIGN CITIES ($2000) 1959: “___, My Love” or “Mon Amour”, if you prefer
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “State Capitals” in the last match of the 2017 Tournament of Champions.
A state capital since 1805, its name begins with the last 4 letters of the state’s name. show
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Vindication. Now pit James vs. Ken vs. Brad in a winningest champions invitational.
Yes!
Brad would win. Brad is strong in ALL areas, while James has a few weaknesses, just a few.
My prediction from July has worked.
Congratulations to James on winning the big one and to emma and francois for an exciting match. This was fun. But I really hoped emma would have defeated James. The daily doubles were tougher than yesterday but still it was a great competition.
Well at least the last daily double was more difficult today, and almost affected the result with it putting James on his heels.
@JP, I didn’t think that DD was that hard. I just thought James lost his focus like he did on that “Jesus of” movie — otherwise, why did he say Nazareth when the clue said “not in the Holy Land”?
Anyhow, now James and Emma are 1-1 and I bet they are already planning the rubber match. lol. I would rather see James face off against Alex Jacob and another gambler in the Battle of the Gamblers. And I’d like to see Emma in a Battle of the Librarians. I’m thinking of Margaret Miles. Anyone remember her 2016 game that Andrew Pau won and all the players finished with over $30K
LINK: 12 more clues from the game
I couldn’t come up with ‘regency’ either. Definitely not super difficult, but more difficult than yesterday’s DD clues in my opinion. I think James, like me, may have been focusing on the ‘architecture’ part of the clue in stead of the hotel/building part. I had no idea the world had an architectural meaning, so I just spun my wheels trying to find a connection.
Do you know how “Rug-cutting” and Bruce Springsteen hints at “Dancing in the Dark”? A quick Google search shows neither “rug” nor “cut” in the song lyrics, and my 28-year-old ignorance cannot find a connection.
JP, when Bruce performs that song in one of his concerts, he always brings someone up on the stage to dance with him during part of the song. It’s Courtney Cox’s earliest claim to fame.
Just look up “cut the rug” — that will explain it
Thanks. I honestly do not recall ever hearing the phrase “cut the rug” in my life.
You’re welcome. idk what generation it really comes from but I heard it from my parents, who probably heard it from their parents. My parents used to always talk and explain things in expressions and riddles and when I was little, I really didn’t know what they meant half the time. lol. Then I went to Catholic school and everything was a parable. OMG! 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, it’s even before our time, right, VJ lol!
Sorry, JP, I should have realized that’s what you were asking.
Well maybe I’ll start hearing it a lot now. I think it’s a well known phenomenon in psychology.
I remember in high school, one time a teacher said he had something “on his person”. The entire class looked at him like he was crazy – we had not heard that phrase before. I think I’ve heard it hundreds of times since.
I don’t doubt it. That happened to me and Rhonda with a Sporcle quiz where the one who made the quiz referred to nations as “polities.” Remember, Rhonda? We never heard that one before and all of a sudden, it began popping up all over the place!
Oh, yes, VJ, I remember polities, and thinking it was a typo for politics lol.
OH! Emma was so close to being the fourth woman to win the Tournament of Champions.
Almost $12000 less is close ???
I don’t know.