Final Jeopardy: International Friendship (11-30-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/30/2021) in the category “International Friendship” was:
The organization these International was founded in 1956; they’re Partnerstädte in Germany & Villes jumelées in France
9x champ Amy Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, CA won $342,200 so far. In Game 10, today’s opponents are: Pam Schoenberg, a dentist and entrepreneur from South Salem, NY; and Krys Fischer, a retired substitute teacher from Mendota Heights, MN.
Round 1 Categories: A Sweet Read – Fill in the Phrase – Sounds Serious – Johnny Gilbert Is the Action Movie Character – Splitting Hairs – “Black” on the Map
Pam got the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Sweet Read” under the $1,000 clue on the 9th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $2,600, $1,600 more than Krys in second place. She bet “everything” and she was RIGHT.
Roald Dahl imagined the cherries in his Buckinghamshire orchard getting bigger & bigger, inspiring this 1961 novel. show
Pam finished in the lead with $11,200. Amy was second with $3,800 and Krys was last with $2,600. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: Award-Winning Women – TV – Science: Odd but True – The Civil War – Roman Mythology – Ends in “Ex”
Amy found the first Daily Double in “The Civil War” under the $800 clue on the 7th pick. She was in second place with $7,400 now, $6,600 less than Pam’s lead. She bet $6,000 and she was RIGHT.
It was the largest & westernmost of the 11 Confederate states. show
6 clues later, Pam found the last Daily Double in “Ends in ‘EX'” under the $1,600 clue. In the lead with $15,000, she had $1,000 more than Amy in second place. She bet $3,000 and could only get one of them before her time ran out so she was WRONG.
In math, these 2 words are often used interchangeably for the top point of a figure like a cone. show
Amy finished in the lead with $25,000. (Her second non-runaway game). Pam was next with $16,600 and Krys was in third place with $5,400. No clues went uncovered.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS SISTER CITIES?
On its website, Sister Cities International says, since 1956, it has worked to create global relationships “based on cultural, educational, information and trade exchanges”, and affirms that its mission is as strong as it was decades ago when President Eisenhower first established the People-to-People program.
Over the years, there have been a lot of clues on Sister Cities. This year alone, there were 3. I put them on Page 2, along with 2 prior Final Jeopardy! clues.
Krys got it right. She bet $3,000 and finished with $8,400.
Pam drew a blank. That only cost her $300. She finished with $16,300.
Amy also got it right. She bet $13,000 to win the game with $38,000. Her 10-day total is $380,200.
A triple stumper from each round:
JOHNNY GILBERT IS THE ACTION MOVIE CHARACTER ($600) “No retreat. no surrender. That is Spartan law & by Spartan law we will stand & fight & die”
($2000) “Servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius… husband to a murdered wife, & I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next”
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Political Phrases”
Speechwriter Samuel Rosenman said FDR “attached no importance to” this phrase, “two monosyllables” in a 1932 speech show
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GO, AMY!!! WHOO!!!! YOU CAN DO IT!!!
I thought that it was a tough finale, but two contestants managed to get it right. Actually, I never heard of Sister Cities International before.
I had noted some months ago that Strasbourg, France (where my 96-year-old jazz musician maternal Uncle Donald now lives), and Boston MA USA are sister/sibling cities (in part based on music culture shared), in one of the chapters of my in-progress bio book on ace teen eco champion Greta Thunberg. I was not fully certain on this FJ but was fairly sure it was What are Sister Cities?
Pam was playing pretty well today despite getting tripped up over that second daily double. Still though I thought she would have won today if Amy got this wrong. Although I think this clue was a bit poorly worded in final today. Overall i think Amy surpassed Jonathan Fisher in total winnings but she will be tied with him tomorrow hopefully.
I didn’t see anything confusing about the way the FJ! clue was worded myself. Perhaps they could have put quotes around “these” to indicate that was the part to replace. Some might have still found that confusing if they didn’t make it “these two words” lol. 2 players got it so it couldn’t have been that bad anyhow.
As I mentioned this morning, in the content section of many major cities on wikipedia, they will have a link to Sister Cities. Today I learned that the cities actually enter into formal agreements when I looked up Washington, D.C. (because it’s featured in the video). D.C. has 15 at this time.