Final Jeopardy: International Universities (11-21-24)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/21/2024) in the category “International Universities” was:
Following student unrest in 1968, in 1970 the university of this city was divided into 13 smaller ones
Mehal Shah, a software engineer from Seattle, WA, won $9,799 yesterday. In Game 2, his opponents are: Jack Altman, a law student from New York, NY; and Holly Luo, a product designer orig. from San Diego, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Leonardo Da Vinci – Nonfiction – Other Names for the City – Classic TV Theme Songs – Economics – Cohab Vocab
Mehal found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Nonfiction” under the $800 on the 7th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $2,200, $800 more than Jack in second place. Mehal made it a true Daily Double and said Amundsen. That was WRONG.
”Battle of Ink & Ice” details the legendary feud between Frederick Cook & this other explorer show
Mehal finished in the lead with $4,000. Holly was second with $3,000 and Jack was last with $2,200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Norse Myth – 21st Century Cinema – Silent P – A Little Math, A Little Science – Have Fun – Storming the Castle
Mehal found the first Daily Double in “Norse Myth” under the $1,600 clue on the 7th pick of the round. He was in second place with $5,600, $3,000 less than Holly’s lead. Mehal made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
The 9 realms include Alfheim, Home of the Light Elves, Nidavellir, Home of the Dwarves & this, home to us puny ol’ mortals show
3 clues later, Mehal landed on the last Daily Double in “Storming the Castle” under the $1,600 clue. He was in the lead with $13,200 now, $4,600 more than Holly in second place. Mehal boldly made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT. Woo hoo!
Now meaning to secretly weaken, it originally meant to tunnel below a fortification in order to collapse the walls show
Mehal finished in the lead with a runaway $37,600. Holly was next with $9,800 and Jack was in third place with $7,400. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS PARIS?
According to parisbyemy.com, May 1968 was not the only strike at the Sorbonne, but it was the biggest. It went on for 2 whole weeks, “starting at the Sorbonne students protests against capitalism, consumerism, American imperialism, traditional institutions, values and order.” Two years later, the French education system was restructured, with the University of Paris being split up into 13 autonomous universities. Also see The Fading Spirit of Paris May 1968.
Wikipedia has an article on the many protests around the world in 1968
Jack got it right. He bet $2,401 and finished with $9,801.
Holly went with Prague. That cost her $5,001 and left her with $4,799.
Mehal thought it was Beijing. He lost $1,337 but won the game with the remaining $36,263. Mehal’s 2-day total is $46,062.
2 triple stumpers from CLASSIC TV THEME SONGS. (Please don’t put the answers in the comments)
($800) “In your satin tights, fighting for your rights and the ol’ Red White and Blue”
($1000) “‘Cause I’m the unknown stuntman that made Redford such a star”
2 years ago: two of the players got this FJ in “SOUTHERN COLLEGES”
To aid transport in poorer nations, in the 1920s grads of this college built makeshift buggies celebrated in their fight song show
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Silly question. A better one would be to name the University itself.
Wow, those two all-in DD wagers were Holzhaueresque. I was pretty sure FJ was Prague, as I remembered the anti-communist demonstrations that year. That gave me a perfect 0 for 4 counting the DDs. I thought the champ would go big on FJ since he had so much distance. It worked out well, but how many times in life do you get a chance to win big bucks on one trivia clue?
Never saw the show, but figured out the unknown stuntman. Censorious phrase wasn’t too hard.
I bet that one clue in the Cohab category wouldn’t have been a stumper if they tied it to a line about a safety pin in the Cleveland Rocks theme song
Wow, Mehal led with such a huge runaway that he couldn’t possibly lose unless he bet the store in FJ. I did well in the Math/Science category as it was obviously a no brainer, but I performed somewhat below average in the game. As for FJ, I had to resort to taking a wild guess, and went with Oxford.
I guessed Tehran on the final, I was thinking of the hostage crisis but that really made no sense. That was pretty tough imo.
I’m happy for Mehal that his last 2 DDs paid off. Nice going! That brings his average up to $23K+
I hope his luck holds out if he decides to go for the gusto tomorrow.
Mehal shocked the audience by making both true daily doubles in the Double Jeopardy round and got them both correct making it really tough for the challengers. 37,600 is the highest score going into Final and 36,263 is the highest payout of the season.