Final Jeopardy: Flags of Our Hemisphere (11-30-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/30/2022) in the category “Flags of our Hemisphere” was:
The stars on this country’s flag represent states, 26 of them; unlike the USA’s, its “federal district” gets its own 27th star
17x champ Cris Pannullo, a customer success operations manager from Ocean City, NJ, is now up to $610,344 in winnings. In Game 18, he takes on these two players: Jeannette Bonjour, a retired English teacher from Kansas City, MO; and Randall Rayford, a solar project developer from Houston, TX.
Round 1 Categories: Our Divided Nation – Time for Some Food – Movie Title Fun – Foreign Words & Phrases – Elementary – My Dear Watson
Cris found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Our Divided Nation” under the $1,000 clue on the 2nd pick of the round. He was the only one on the board with $800. Cris bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
Dole Street separates the upper & lower campuses of this state university show
Cris finished in the lead with $8,400. Randall was second with $6,200 and Jeanette was last with $800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Declaration of Independence Signers – A Giant Category – Something to Read – Them’s Fightin’ Words – A Colorful Song Title – You Can Quote “Me”
Cris found the first Daily Double in “Independence of Declaration Signers” under the $1,600 clue on the 2nd pick. He was in the lead with $9,600, $3,400 more than Randall in second place. Cris bet $7,600 and he was RIGHT.
After losing 4 times running for governor of Massachusetts, he finally won, then got seriously into redistricting issues show
Cris got the last Daily Double in “You Can Quote ‘Me’” under the $1,200 clue on the 10th pick of the round. In the lead with $24,800, he had $17,000 more than Randall in second place. Cris bet $4,000 and guessed “mea culpa”. That was WRONG.
After hearing an orator speak in a foreign language, a Shakepeare character admits, “it was” these 3 words show
Cris finished in the lead with a runaway $28,800. Randall was in second place with $12,600 and Jeanette was last with $3,600. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS BRAZIL?
The above video explains the significance of all the elements of the Brazilian flag. Wikipedia’s article says “according to Brazilian Law, the flag must be updated in case of creation or extinction of a state.” In 1889, there were 21 stars and 27 by 1992.
According to World Population Review’s website, there are 14 countries that have administrative divisions called states. In the western hemisphere, they are: (North America) USA, Mexico; and (South America) Brazil.
In the eastern hemisphere, they are Australia; (Africa) Nigeria, South Sudan; (Asia) India, Malaysia, Myanmar; (Europe) Austria, Germany; (Oceania) Micronesia, New Zealand, Palau.
Jeanette got it right, after crossing out Mexico. She bet $3,000 and finished with $6,600.
Randall went with Venezuela (23 states). He didn’t lose a centavo, standing pat with $12,600.
Cris stuck with Mexico (31 states). He lost his $1,221 bet but won the game with $27,579. Cris Pannullo’s 18-day total is $637,923. Bravo on the runaway, Cris, despite that $4K hit!
A triple stumper from each round:
MY DEAR WATSON ($1000) Psychologist John B. Watson was a proponent of this -ism that focuses on human reactions to stimuli
SOMETHING TO READ ($1200) A teen discovers she can communicate via cell phone with her recently deceased boyfriend in Dustin Thao’s bestselling “You’ve Reached” him
2 years ago: ONE of the players got this FJ in “Singer/Actresses”
This California-born woman won a Best Leading Actress Academy Award in 1988, when she had 2 top 20 hit songs show
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Hmmmmm………A tough FJ to be sure. Well, my mother picked Mexico so she struck out, and so did I as I couldn’t even hazard a guess.
Happy to see Jeannette getting the final right but still I am glad that Cris prevailed on that runaway after missing out on that DD.
The “What is Brazil?” section above claims that the US is one of the countries whose administrative district is a state. Did I sleep through Washington, D.C. attaining statehood?
jk, it doesn’t say administrative “district” — it says administrative “divisions” called states
vj, I’m talking about this passage in the explanation under “What is Brazil” above. Citing the World Population Reviews website, It says:” there are 14 countries that have administrative divisions called states. In the western hemisphere, they are: (North America) USA, Mexico; and (South America) Brazil.” They list the US as a country that has an administrative division called a state. Washington DC doesn’t fit that, unless, as I said, I was sleeping when it did,
I’m sorry, jk, I just don’t see what is wrong with it. The sentence just says those countries have states, which is true.
Federal districts are not the topic of the sentence. Some of them have a federal district and some don’t.
Very confusing final. Did they mean Northern Hemisphere or Western Hemisphere?
The FJ category stated: “Flags In The Western Hemisphere”.
I don’t know where you saw that, Rick. On the show’s website and on my TV, it said “Our Hemisphere”.
Anyway, part of Brazil is in the western and the northern hemisphere. Another video I looked at earlier said that the star that is above the white band on the flag represents the Brazilian state that is above the equator.
Well excuse me VJ. Yes, the final category did indeed state: “Flags Of Our Hemisphere’, but this was understood to be the Western hemisphere. I mean, the show wasn’t taped in China.
So, in answer to Martha’s specific question, I correctly responded that it was the Western hemisphere.
Rick, I’m not trying to make you look wrong and I’m not going to argue the point with you. The way you wrote that made me think that the clue as shown on TV said “western hemisphere” and I didn’t notice it so I checked it out. That’s all.