Final Jeopardy: Colorful Geography (2-14-19)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (2/14/2019) in the category “Colorful Geography” was:

Named for a soldier killed in 1846 at the start of a war, it was in the news again as a port of entry to the U.S. In 2018

3x champ Eric R. Backes, an attorney from Round Rock, TX, is up to $91,201 now. In Game 4, his opponents are : Alex Miller Murphy, a public relations specialist from Washington, D.C.; and Mitch Rodricks, an attorney from Oakland, CA.

Round 1 Categories: The Top 25 Romantic Comedies – Quotes of Note – Brandimals – Mountains & Valleys – “Urry” Up – & Wait Tables

Mitch found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Quotes of Note” under the $800 clue on the 13th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $2,200, $1,000 less than Eric’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double and guessed the French Revolution. That was WRONG.

Napoleon was heard to say that this, which he was part of, is merely “a fable agreed upon” show

WHAT IS HISTORY?

Eric finished in the lead with $6,000. Mitch was second with $4,800 and Alex was last with $2,200.

Round 2 Categories: This Is 40: Literary Edition – 13-Letter Words – Space Science History – Kind-of-Person Magazine – Historic Supreme Court Cases – TV Rebooted

Eric found the first Daily Double in “Kind-of-Person Magazine” under the $1,200 clue on the 13th pick. He was in the lead with $9,200 now, $400 more than Mitch in second place. He bet $2,800 and mispronounced the right response so he was WRONG.

A coin collector is likely to also be a collector of this magazine dating back to 1888. show

WHAT IS THE NUMISMATIST?
Eric said Nu-mist-a-sist

Eric got the last Daily Double in “13-Letter Words” under the $2,000 clue on the very last clue of the round. In second place with $12,800, he had $1,600 less than Mitch’s lead. He bet $1,700 and took a shot with “ecclesiastically.” That had too many letters so he must have know it was WRONG.

Grandstanding verbally & dogmatically, almost as if you were the Pope. show

WHAT IS PONTIFICATION?
That’s what Alex said, but pontificating works too.

Mitch finished in the lead with $14,400. Eric was next with $11,100 and Alex was in third place with $2,600.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS BROWNSVILLE (TEXAS)?

In his 1885 memoirs, Ulysses S. Grant recalled the May 1846 siege of Fort Texas, the Battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma: “The siege had lasted a number of days, but the casualties were few in number. Major Jacob Brown, of the 7th infantry, the commanding officer [of Fort Texas], had been killed, and in his honor the fort was named. Since then a town of considerable importance had sprung up on the ground occupied by the fort and troops, which has also taken his name.” At the time, Grant was “a young second-lieutenant who had never heard a hostile gun before”.

Brownsville lies across the Rio Grande from Matamoros, Mexico. The cities are connected by four international bridges. Here is one article from the Associated Press on the situation there in Nov. 2018. Here is a 1/24/2019 Brownsville Herald article on the current situation.

Alex wrote down the Rio Grande. She lost her $600 bet and finished with $2,000.

Eric got it right. He bet $3,301, bringing him up to $14,401.

Mitch came up with Tijuana. That cost him $9,000 and left him with $5,400. That also gave Eric the game and a 4-day total of $105,602.

A triple stumper from each round:

THIS IS 40: LITERARY EDITION ($2000) Many Anne Tyler characters are restless in this city; 40-year-old Delia in “Ladder of Years” gets out

13-LETTER WORDS ($1200) A place to total up your money; “the king was” there in “Sing a Song of Sixpence”

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Writers”

A New Orleans literary festival in his honor includes various panels, a walking tour & a Stanley & Stella shouting contest. show

WHO IS TENNESSEE WILLIAMS?

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