Final Jeopardy: State Birds (11-7-16)
The Final Jeopardy question (11/7/2016) in the category “State Birds” was:
Oddly, the California gull is the state bird of this landlocked state.
New champ Chuck Dunn won $22,400 last Friday. Today he goes for a second win as he takes on these two players: Kat Lewin, from Irvine, CA; and Georjean McKeeman, from Prescott, AZ.
Round 1 Categories: What’s Your Movie Occupation? – Bestsellers by Author – Party Time! – That’s Oxymoronic – Toys & Games – USNS Comfort
Kat found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Party Time!” under the $800 clue on the 12th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $2,200, $1,000 more than Georjean in second place. She bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.
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Kat finished in the lead with $7,200. Chuck was second with $3,200 and Georjean was last with $1,600.
Round 2 Categories: Art & Artists – City by the Sea – The 2016 Summer Olympics – For Your Reference – 21st Century News – A Change Is Coming
Chuck found the first Daily Double in “City by the Sea” under the $600 clue on the 3rd pick. He held second place with $4,400 at this point, $2,000 more than Kat in second place. He bet $2,400 and he was RIGHT.
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Kat found the last Daily Double in “For Your Reference” under the $1,200 clue on the 11th pick. In second place with $8,400, she had $1,600 less than Chuck’s lead. She bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
On his 1914-16 expedition to the South Pole, Ernest Shackleton carried 2 sets of the 11th edition of this multi-volume work. show
Chuck finished in the lead with $16,400. Kat was next with $14,200 and Georjean was in third place with $8,000.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS UTAH?
The California sea gull became the state bird of Utah by virtue of a traditional Mormon account called “The Miracle of the Seagulls,” (or just Miracle of the Gulls, sometimes). How the gulls saved Mormon pioneer crops in 1848 is recounted in this video and on BYU’s Harold B. Lee Library. Wikipedia’s article on it and a critical analysis claiming that the event was not even called a “Miracle” until “up to 30 years after it occurred.” is presented on MormonThink.com
Georjean got it right. She bet $7,990, bringing her up to $15,990.
Kat thought it was Nevada. She lost her $6,199 bet and had $8,001 left.
Chuck had the same response as Kat. He lost $12,001, finishing with $4,399. That made Georjean the new Jeopardy! champ. It was all the more inspiring because Georjean lost her $1600 from the first round on the 4th clue of the second round and had to start all over. Never give up!
A triple stumper from each round:
BESTSELLERS BY AUTHOR ($1000) The Aquitaine Progression (1984)
FOR YOUR REFERENCE ($2000) An alphabetical index of the principal words of a book; Strong’s is a well-known one of the Bible.
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “State Holidays”
This is the only state that honors a former U.S. Secretary of State with his own legal holiday. show
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Congrats Georjean. You showed it pays to travel a lot on that fj clue.
VJ, what did I say about stay at home moms? 🙂
Never will forget the “retired homemaker” contestant. That was funny. She was serious about it too.
Jeopardy hasn’t come on for me yet, but on Friday my area got a repeat of the Thursday episodes. Seems like someone is mixing tapes around.
I am so confused! First, Alex saying today’s Election Day, and then I really thought I was losing it when I didn’t recognize Georjean.
Wow. I guess a lot of people will complain to the station and they will run tonight’s game at another time. In the meantime, the prayers of people who didn’t want to get preempted on Election Day were answered, even if by mistake.
Yes, I should call the station tomorrow to complain and see if they have any answers about when/if tonight’s game will be shown.
We had a totally different game here, and Alex said that he hoped everyone voted today. I don’t understand what happened? The FJ was Commonwealth Countries.
Did Alex say who won the election?
We all lost
Spudemon agrees.
That name was fun, but doesn’t suit you. You are Yellow Blossom to me.
No, but he said that he voted already.
NBC is doing an hour long NBC nightly news tonight, so J! and/or WOF will be preempted on the East Coast on NBC stations where it airs at 7PM EST if the NBC station chooses to air the full hour. Don’t know if CBS or ABC has hour long nightly news on some stations as the local station here chose not to air the full hour.
Wow, I thought it was preempted here tonight but it turns out Jeopardy! was on.
Congratulations, Georjean!
Well, those were the 2 states I came up with this morning, only like Kat and Chuck, I went with Nevada. Congrats to Georjean.
I was just looking up types of gulls since it can’t be a California Gull (larus californicus) that stole my cheesesteak on an NJ beach one summer. I found out that they have a Bonaparte Gull (larus philadelphia) that was named after a nephew of Napoleon. It can’t be that one though.
Maybe it was the Laughing Gull (larus atricilla). It wasn’t funny, you big thief.
I went with Nevada, too, VJ.
I guess the gulls flew right over Nevada because they knew the insects were tastier over in Utah, Rhonda. LOL
I’ve got 11 clues from this match up now, including the “Movie Occupation” category LINK