Final Jeopardy: Business & Industry (11-19-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/19/2019) in the category “Business & Industry” was:
Peaking at 9,000 locations in 2004, this chain of stores was down to one in 2019, located in Bend, Oregon
New champ Kevin Jones, a retired IT project manager from Galloway, OH, won $15,600 yesterday. In Game 2, his opponents are: Shannon Jamison, a technical product owner from Henrico, VA; and Sathvik Namburar, a medical student from Lebanon, NH.
Round 1 Categories: Fireboats of Boston – Authors’ Fictional Places – So Yummy They Named It Twice – “Vo”cabulary Test – Historical Hodgepodge – Basketball: Pic & Role
Shannon found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Historical Hodgepodge” under the $1,000 clue, with 9 clues left after it. She was in the lead with $3,000, $800 more than Kevin in second place. She bet $1,000 and guessed Communism. That was WRONG.
A 1945 telegram from Churchill to Truman mentioned Soviet power & “the descent of” this “between us and everything to the eastward” show
Shannon finished in the lead with $4,000. Kevin was second with $3,600 and Sathvik was last with $2,400.
Round 2 Categories: Characters in the “Aeneid” – Misleading Names – 11-Letter Words – Husbands & Wives – Hit Tunes – Islands in the “C”
Sathvik found the first Daily Double in “11-Letter Words” under the $1,600 clue, with 7 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $11,600 now, $400 more than Shannon in second place. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
Someone who dislikes people in general or the title subject of a 1666 play by Molière. show
Sathvik found the last Daily Double in “Characters in the ‘Aeneid'” under the $1,200 clue. There were 3 clues left after it. In the lead with $14,400, he had $2,400 more than Shannon in second place. He bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
Sinon is a Greek who persuades the Trojans to take this object into their city as an offering to the goddess Minerva. show
Sathvik finished in the lead with $15,400. Shannon was next with $13,600 and Kevin was in third place with $9,600.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
In its heyday in the 1990s to mid-2000s, Blockbuster dominated the home video rental industry. A combination of factors, including competing services like Netflix and Redbox, contributed to the company’s downfall. Without going into the entire history, the company eventually declared bankruptcy, closed its corporate stores and left independent franchisees to their own devices. The Bend, Oregon store became the last Blockbuster in the world when a Perth, Australia store shut down in March 2019. Read how the publicity benefited the owners of the “Last Blockbuster on the Planet”.
Also interesting: when Blockbuster passed up the chance to buy Netflix
Kevin got it right. He bet $9,000 and finished with $18,600.
Shannon went with Eddie Bauer. She lost her $5,601 bet, dropping her down to $7,999.
Sathvik got it, too. He bet $11,801 and won the game with $27,201. Sathvik Namburar is the new Jeopardy! champ
A triple stumper from each round:
HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE ($600) Lasting 40 minutes, an 1896 battle between Britain & this island, now part of Tanzania, is considered to be the shortest war
11-LETTERS WORDS ($2000) This type of makeup is a symbol of acting in the theater
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Classic Albums”
Hailed as the “Greatest Album of All Time”, in 2017 it returned to the top of the charts 50 years after its first release. show
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A good game so far. Although I do hope sathvik can build up on his win. Also, VJ when was the last time you rented or bought videos at blockbuster stores? That daily double about the iron curtain shouldn’t be that tough if the hint command and conquer red alert came to Shannon’s mind. The device has been used in the third red alert game as well.
Oh, idk, Lou. I’d say I went there 15-something years ago. There was a big one not far me. But I was never really that into renting videos or DVDs, mainly because of having to return them.
LINK: 14 more clues from the game