Final Jeopardy: World Capitals (12-9-16)
The Final Jeopardy question (12/9/2016) in the category “World Capitals” was:
Ruled at times by Persians, Mongols & Russians, Baku is the only capital that borders this body of water.
5x champ Tim Aten is now up to $79,299 in winnings. He’s been with us all week and will be back on Monday if he can defeat the last challengers of the week: Lara Croft, from Orlando, FL; and Jim Yulman, from Philadelphia, PA.
You knew Tomb Raider was coming up in the chat, right? Lara said she gets that a lot but she was actually named for Lara in “Dr. Zhivago” because her father thought that Julie Christie was amazing.
Round 1 Categories: Palmistry – TV Taglines – The Bible – It Borders Both – H.P. – Love Craft
Jim found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “It Borders Both” under the $1,000 clue with 2 full categories still to go. He was in the second place with $1,800, $4,000 less than Tim’s lead. He said he never wanted to say true Daily Double but he had some digging to do so he went all in and he was RIGHT.
Missouri & Louisiana. show
Tim finished in the lead with $7,600. Jim was second with $4,200 and Lara was last with $2,800.
Round 2 Categories: Documentaries – Eponyms – You Mad, Bro? – Ballet Up to the Barre – Civil War Literature – The “N”Imal Kingdom
Tim found the first Daily Double in “You Mad, Bro?” under the $1,200 clue on the 12th pick. He was in the lead with $12,000 at this point, twice as much as Lara in second place. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
Henry I eased onto England’s throne in 1100 because his brother Robert Curthose was away fighting in the first of these. show
3 clues later, Tim found the last Daily Double in “Eponyms” under the $1,200 clue. In the lead with $14,800, he now had $9,600 more than Lara in second place. He bet $1,200 and he was RIGHT.
This above-ground burial chamber was named for an ancient Greek leader whose tomb was an Ancient Wonder. show
Tim finished in the lead with a runaway $17,600. Lara was next with $5,600 and Jim was in third place with $4,600.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS THE CASPIAN SEA?
The Caspian Sea is bordered by Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan. World Port Source has a map of seaport and harbors on the Caspian Sea. Baku, Azerbaijan is the only one that is a country’s capital city.
Jim got it right. His $400 bet brought him up to $5,000.
Lara came up with Lake Baikal. She lost her $3,610 bet, leaving her with $1,990.
Tim also got it right. He bet $5,000 and brought his already winning total up to $22,600. Tim scores again. His 6-day total is $101,899.
A triple stumper from each round:
TV TAGLINES ($600) The U.S. version of this PBS show was hyped as “part adventure, part history lesson and part treasure hunt”
CIVIL WAR LITERATURE ($2000) A Union officer is killed but not in warfare in “Murder at” this Virginia town, name of the war’s first major battle.
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Literary Travel”
The romantic balcony seen here is one of the most popular tourist attractions in this Italian city. show
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Congratulations Tim. As a yoga instructor I want to encourage Tim to put his head on straight. I don’t know his politics but he definitely leans right.
Tim Aten now plays like Buzzy Cohen and not Tim Kutz anymore.
Well congrats to tim on his sixth game win. I am hoping to see him surpass pranjals total later on. VJ do you remember much about the baku metro train fire? It was in azerbaijan but was it close to the location of the caspian sea?
@Lou – I don’t know anything about the Baku Metro System but I do remember there were a couple of tragedies connected to it in the 90s
@Dalton – I’m beginning to think maybe Tim is not going to be that timid with his DD bets in the ToC. It will be interesting to see who he plays against in his quarter-final
LINK: 13 more clues from this match.
Tim just keeps winning. Good for him (omg, I sound like Alex).
For some reason, this game seemed to have more TS’s than yesterday’s; but that’s not the case.
Ballet clue—Alex: look at the birds in the back. Contestants: we got nothing.
Probably seemed that way because they didn’t get any of the Civil War clues today and yesterday, they got one in the Billboard category.
Yeah, you do sound like Alex. LOL!! It seemed like he said that a lot this week. Maybe not once a game but close. It’s funny to me because “good for you” is not an expression anyone I know uses unless someone is bragging and then it sounds straight up snotty and sarcastic.
We should come up with a list of alternate expressions he could use, like That’s great! Super! Fantastic! Or if he is feeling very French, fantastique!
Did you laugh when Lara gave the Pepe Le Pew answer, and Alex said “you are right, my beauty”
I guess the same expressions just comes to him, over and over; like the other ones I’ve pointed out before.
“You are right, my beauty?” No, he didn’t! I missed that one; that’s totally hilarious! I’ve heard the name Pepe Le Pew and know he’s some old cartoon character, so I’m guessing PLP used to say that?
What made me laugh was the missed ballet clue. He was certain the picture of the birds would help.
I guess Pepe said that or something similar. I remember him mainly calling the cat that was the object of his affections ma cherie and my darling. Good thing Alex didn’t say either of those. LOL!
For some reason, I associate the song Aupres de Ma Blonde with Pepe. So I looked that up and came across some French flashcards that say Pepe Le Pew was based on “Yves montard.” That is so funny. Imagine a bunch of students who never heard of Yves Montand thinking his name was Montard now! It’s actually the French version, Pepe le Putois, that was based on Montand.