Final Jeopardy: 20th Century European Leaders (2-12-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (2/12/2020) in the category “20th Century European Leaders” was:

In a 1930s broadcast, this man spoke of “a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing”

New champ Danyelle Long-Hyland, a scientist from Ranson, West VA, won $13,412 yesterday. In Game 2, she takes on these two players: Josh Gruenberg, a software engineer from Rochester, NY; and Jamie Wylie, a writer from No. Hollywood, CA.

Round 1 Categories: My Job in the Movie – Snakes! – Political Memoirs & Biographies – A Menu of Restaurants – From the Latin – Daytona 500 Grand Marshals

Jamie found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Snakes” under the $1,000 clue on the last pick of the round. She was in the lead with $7,800, $2,000 more than Josh in second place. She bet $500 and tried boa constrictor. That was WRONG.

The yellow type of this South American snake can reach 15 feet long; its green cousin can reach 30. show

WHAT IS AN ANACONDA?

Jamie finished in the lead with $7,300. Josh was second with $5,800 and Danyelle was last with at negative $1,000.

Round 2 Categories: Water Under the Bridge – Rapper’s Delight – Redundant Phrases That Are Also Repetitive Too – 21st Century Japan – Walking – A Fine Line

Jamie found the first Daily Double in “Water Under the Bridge” under the $1,200 clue on the 11th pick. She was in the lead with $8,500 now, $700 more than Josh in second place. She bet $1,200 and tried the Nile. That was WRONG.

Beneath the Ponte San Angelo, commissioned by Hadrian. show

WHAT IS THE TIBER?

Josh got the last Daily Double in “Walking” under the $1,200 clue, with 7 clues left after it. In the lead with $10,600. Jamie was in second place with $7,300 when he found it, but her score was lowered to $5,700 on a reversal (see below). Josh bet $3,000 and tried “cross the Red Sea.” That was WRONG.

In 1974 Dave Kunst became the first person verified to have done this (minus water)– a distance of 14,450 miles show

WHAT IS WALK AROUND THE EARTH?

Josh finished in the lead with $8,000. Jamie was next with $7,300 and Danyelle was in third place with $5,400.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN?

The quote comes from then British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s 9/27/1938 radio address: “How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is, that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.” The “faraway country” was Czechoslovakia. On 9/30/1938, Chamberlain and Édouard Daladier, the French Prime Minister, traveled to Germany for peace talks with Hitler and Mussolini. They signed the Munich Agreement, ordering Czechoslovakia to hand over one third of her territory to Germany. Read more about it on Radio Prague International.

An old clue from 2013: BREAKING BAD ($800) Germany broke the Munich Agreement of 1938 in March of 1939 by seizing the rest of this country that no longer exists.

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Danyelle thought it was Churchill. She lost her $3,600 bet and finished with $1,800.

Jamie went with Churchill, too. She lost $700, leaving her with $6,600.

Josh got it right. He bet $6,601 and won the game with $14,601. Josh Gruenberg is the new Jeopardy! champ.

Reversal: FINE LINE ($800) Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” says this grim spot is “a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace” – Jamie had to give $1,600 back because she said “graveyard.” The word in the poem is “grave.” (If it ever comes up, Australian poet A.D. Hope wrote an answer poem called “His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell” that has some fine lines in, too.)

A triple stumper from each round:

POLITICAL MEMOIRS & BIOGRAPHIES ($400) Emmeline Pankhurst’s 1914 autobiography has appeared under this title, the type of activist she was

RAPPER’S DELIGHT Rapper Danny Boy O’Connor loved the Tulsa house used in the film version of this author’s “The Outsiders”, so he restored it

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Hit Songs of the ’90s”

The title of this dance hit, no. 1 for 14 weeks in the ’90s, can refer to a Seville, Spain neighborhood or a woman from there. show

WHAT IS THE “MACARENA”?

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