Final Jeopardy: Ancient Geography (11-2-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/2/2023) in the category “Ancient Geography” was:
Britain became an island less than 10,000 years ago, as warming weather & melting ice filled in this sea
The Champions Wild Card quarter-finals continue today with these three champs: Dave Rapp, a writer from Valley Village, CA; Emily Sands, a project manager from Chanhassen, MN; and Yoshie Hill, a program support specialist from Colma, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Mything in Action – Fiction-Ale – All the Presidents’ Children – Growing Pains – Wood – Completes the Proverb
Emily found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “All the Presidents’ Children” under the $800 clue on the 9th pick of the round. Emily was in the lead with $3,200, $600 more than Dave in second place. Emily made it a true Daily Double and thought it was Tyler’s kid. That was WRONG.
Last name of John who, before his death in 2013 at 91, was the oldest living child of a president. show
Emily finished in the lead with $4,600. Dave was in second place with $4,200. Yoshie was last with $1,200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Fun with the Periodic Table – Kennedy Center Honorees – Cliffs Notes:Drama – Soused – Misnomers – O-E-O-E
Emily found the first Daily Double in “Fun with the Periodic Table” under the $1,200 clue at the halfway point. She was in the lead with $11,000, $4,000 more than Dave in second place. Emily bet $6,000 and she was RIGHT.
1 of the only 2 letters not found in the abbreviations of elements with atomic numbers up to 100 show
Emily got the last Daily Double in “Cliff Notes: Drama” under the $1,200 clue with 7 clues left after it. She was in the lead with $18,600, $7,600 more than Dave in second place. Emily bet $4,000 and she was RIGHT.
Laura: “You broke my unicorn!” Gentleman Caller: “Whoops” show
Emily finished in the lead with a runaway $25,800. Dave was second with $11,800 and Yoshie was last with $9,200. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS THE NORTH SEA?
Back in the ancient day, Britain was a peninsula, connected to mainland Europe by “Doggerland”, a land bridge. Much of the area, including the North Sea, was covered with ice that melted and eventually completely eroded and submerged the land bridge, forming the English Channel and making Britain into an island.
Today, the bodies of water that surround Great Britain are the North Sea, Irish Sea, English Channel and Atlantic Ocean. If you at least knew that much, you stood a good chance of getting this FJ!
Yoshie got it right. She bet it all and doubled her score to $18,400.
Dave had no FJ! answer, giving a shoutout to his mom and kids instead. He didn’t lose a farthing, standing pat on $11,800.
Emily also got it right. Having already won the game with $25,800, she bet nothing. Emily Sands is the first finalist.
2 triple stumpers from SOUSED:
($800) Korbel Brut calls itself “America’s favorite California” this
($2000) A town in Italy’s Veneto region shares a name with this strong brandy made from the pomace of a wine press
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “World Cities”
From Sydney, Australia go 7,000 miles east & less than 1/2 degree of latitude north to this capital also near the Pacific show
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One of those rare nights when I hit all 3 DDs and FJ. The final category made me cringe, but it was pretty much a cinch. Ike was president when I was born, and I thought that picture of John resembled him quite a bit. Yoshie’s a fellow senior, and I thought she might nail that one.
Good game, considering it was a runaway. Those DDs were critical for Emily, although Dave whiffed on FJ, so she’d have won anyway without a lock game.
Shocked that no one knew the name of the California wine. Never understood how they’ve gotten away with that appellation, when the French are so protective of it. Figured out the Strauss waltz once two players blew it.
lol, Howard, I wasn’t looking at the TV when that Presidents’ Kid DD came up (kinda like you’re not noticing the category yesterday). I’m certainly old enough to have noticed the resemblance.
Re Yoshie: I like what she said about gleaning experiential knowledge as opposed to cramming. I brought a World Almanac down to LA and arrived a couple days early. I studied the usual stuff: presidents, capitals, royalty, none of which ever came up. what hurt the most was the almanac had a colorful section of world flags that I looked over. And then blew a question about how many red rectangles there are on the Canadian flag.
It’s not official, but I THINK my friend who was on in mid-July may have gotten a call for 2nd chance. She hinted at it last night on Facebook but would not divulge the source.
A slam dunk for FJ as it was only too obvious.
Like Emily, I said Tyler on that first DD, forgetting that was his grandkids.
John Tyler was very randy, baby! He had 15 kids (8 w/first wife, 7 w/second. His last child, Pearl, was born in 1860 when he was 70. She died in 1947, 100 years after his first daughter died.
I mean, I’m 53, and I recognized that guy from his pic. Looks just like his Dad!
I got all 3 DD, but, thought the writers were trying to be cute, and I said “English Channel” for Final
However, I DID say that Yoshie didn’t have it. Didn’t have Emily on my bingo card. But, there she is!