Final Jeopardy: 2-Word World Capitals (12-10-18)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (12/10/2018) in the category “2-Word World Capitals” was:
From 1936 to 1941 this city was the capital of Italian East Africa
New champ Staci Huffman, a CPA from Nine Mile Falls, WA, won $29,201 last Friday. In her second game, she is up against: Swetha Dravida, an MD-PhD student from New Haven, CT; and Francesco Caporusso, a technical support analyst from Lititz, PA.
Round 1 Categories: I’m Not Retiring! – Eponyms – Describing the Best Picture Oscar Winner – Hope – Springs – Eternal
Staci found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Best Picture Oscar” under the $1,000 clue on the 5th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $1,200, twice as much as Swetha in second place. She made it a true Daily Double and thought it was “Shakespeare in Love.” That was WRONG.
1996: What they didn’t realize is that Ralph Fiennes’ character is really Hungarian. show
Francesco finished in the lead with $5,000. Staci was second with $3,600 and Swetha was last with $1,000.
Round 2 Categories: All Kinds of Books – The Bank of the United States – I Wanna Sax You Up – Unusual-Looking Animals – Will & Grace – Before Sunrise
Swetha found the first Daily Double in “Bank of the United States” under the $800 clue on the 18th pick. She was in second place with $8,200 at this point, $800 behind Francesco’s lead. She bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.
Jeffersonians killed the first bank but it returned 4 years later after this war wrecked U.S. finances. show
Swetha found the last Daily Double in “Unusual-Looking Animals” under the $2,000 clue, with just 2 clues left after it. In third place with $10,400, she had $4,200 less than Francesco’s lead. She bet $4,000 but did not know so she was WRONG.
Yes yes, this nocturnal lemur seen here uses an elongated finger to pry insects from trees.
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Francesco finished in the lead with $14,600. Staci was next with $12,400 and Swetha was in third place with $7,200.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
From wikipedia: “The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, was a colonial war fought from 3 October 1935 until 19 February 1937, although Addis Ababa was captured on 5 May 1936. The war was fought between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy and those of the Ethiopian Empire (also known as Abyssinia).” The Italians made Addis Ababa their seat of government. Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie had fled to England and Italy’s king, Victor Emmanuel III, took the title of Emperor of Ethiopia.
Back in 2009, a player made $9,000 on this Daily Double: KINGS – A busy guy, he was King of Italy (1900 to 1946), Emperor of Ethiopia (1936 to 1941) & King of Albania (1939 to 1943)
Swetha got it right. Her $3,000 bet brought her up to $10,200.
Staci just had a big question mark. She lost her $7,900 bet, leaving her with $4,500.
Francesco also got it. He bet $10,201 so he won the game with $24,801. Francesco is the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
HOPE ($800) “All hope abandon, ye who enter here” is a line from this 14th century poem
I WANNA SAX YOU UP ($800) In the ’40s this “Yardbird” & sax genius formed a quintet with some okay players like Max Roach & Miles Davis
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Scientists”
In a 1694 Royal Society lecture, he suggested an astronomical cause for the biblical flood in Genesis. show
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Francesco Caporusso looked like Alex Jacob in a half-decent disguise.
Alex Jacob is a gambler. Gamblers are LOSERS in my book.
I have noticed over the years that CPAs never last very long. Just an observation.
He misspelled the final answer! He also said clintoned.
@Rhonda Powell
They usually do not punish you for misspelling, as long as it does not change the pronunciation. So whether you write Addis Ababa with 1 or 2 “b”s e.g. would not matter, but if you write down TOMBSTEIN instead of TOMBSTONE then you would get dinged.
I guess you could even write TEKSAS instead of TEXAS since you would pronounce both the same way. Yet “corpAration” instead of “corporation” – since you pronounce it differently would be a no-no. In borderline cases the judges decide and sometimes they make a mistake (because in another dictionary another spelling , expression or pronunciation is found) they might bring a player back who was initially ruled against.
How did you know all of this already? The show in Canada just came on at 7:30pm….did you get the episode earlier then us?
@ Beth
Different time zones and air times. In Hawai’i J airs at 4:30 PM, which is already 9:30 PM in New York and vice versa. Also you didn’t say which part of Canada, you have different time zones as well and I would guess different air times.
When you are asleep then you are in MORPHEUS’ arms. How could “morphine” be a TS???
Well, it just goes to show you that no one knows everything. What’s common knowledge to one, another may have never heard of. Staci might have thought of Addis Ababa if she started from A in her mind, but maybe was afraid it wasn’t right.
Oh, and on that Best Picture DD, it was Ralph Fiennes brother, Joseph, who was in “Shakespeare in Love”
LINK: 10 more clues from the game
@VJ
We have now 6 games in a row with 2 correct. Friday (it could have been taped the same day) had “barbarous Ethiopians” in the clue….go figure yet again…
In the “before sunrise” category: how does SONG dynasty fit in? Everything else started with SUN-…??Sunburn, Sunni etc….
@John, I am pretty sure that Francesco said “Sung” though the closed caption said “Sun.” Brittanica has it as Song aka Sung
Easy FJ! if you know more about history, particularly this clue which refers to how Mussolini captured and became Italian East Africa. Anyway, Staci’s giant killing ways last Friday wasn’t enough, making Francesco the new Jeopardy! champion. Lou said that he reminded him of Justin Vossler, who had a 5-game run, but you’ll never know what will happen.
That’s not a bad reason.
Well like you said John, this was very easy of a final jeopardy. Though not sure why staci didn’t get it is a big mystery. Congrats to Francesco. He reminded me of Justin vossler during his five game run. And staci making a true daily double in the first round didn’t pay off. Addis abbaba isn’t that hard to miss. Oh well. I.guess staci just didn’t have her A game don’t you agree VJ?
OK, gotta get past the first eight words.
Unbelievable! Staci did not even have a guess. Fortunately Francesco got it right anyway, so it did not matter in the end.Not that her bet made any sense to begin with….
Obviously a generation thing after all. The war between Ethiopia and Eritrea fighting for independence lasted 30 YEARS(!) Emperor Haile Selassie was strangled/murdered in his hospital bed in 1975 and how many capitals in Africa are there with 2 words in its name and its country had been occupied by Italy? Ironically she got “Aida” right on Friday, set pretty much in the same area.
CONGRATULATIONS TO FRANCESCO !!!! I hope that HE will create another string!