Final Jeopardy: Foreign Leaders (2-26-15)
The Final Jeopardy question (2/26/2015), in the category “Foreign Leaders” was:
On Feb. 25, 1956, he gave a speech “on the personality cult and its consequences”, seen as an attack on his predecessor.
New champ Laura Gallo won $8,799 in yesterday’s game. Today she is up against these two contenders: Jose Garriga, from Washington, DC; and Lily Foss, from Manchester, NH.
Round 1: Jose got the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “At This Stage” under the $1,000 clue and it was the very last clue of the round. He was in the lead with $4,800, $200 more than Laura in second place. He bet $1,200 and could not come up with a guess so he was WRONG.
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Laura finished in the lead with $4,600. Jose was second with $3,600 and Lily was last with $1,000.
Round 2: Jose found the first Daily Double in “Drama Mamas” under the $1,600 clue. It was the 4th clue chosen and he was back in the lead with $4,800, and still $200 ahead of Laura in second place. He bet $1,200 again and this time, he was RIGHT.
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Laura found the last Daily Double in “Geographic Saints” under the $1,200 clue. She was in second place with $5,000, and still trailing Jose’s lead by $200. She bet $2,000 and guessed Santo Domingo. That was WRONG.
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Jose finished in the lead with $12,000. Laura was next with $8,200 and Lily was in third place with $2,600.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
From HistoryToday.com: “The twentieth congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union assembled in Moscow in the Great Hall of the Kremlin on February 14th, 1956. It was the first since the death of Josef Stalin in 1953, but almost nothing was said about the dead leader until, in closed session on the 25th, 1,500 delegates and many invited visitors listened to an amazing speech by Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the party, on ‘The Personality Cult and its Consequences’. Khrushchev denounced Stalin, the cult of personality he had fostered and the crimes he had perpetrated, including the execution, torture and imprisonment of loyal party members on false charges….” Here’s a link to the full speech.
Lily wrote down Gorbachev. She lost her $2,000 bet and finished with $600.
Laura got it right, minus the second “h” which did not affect the pronunciation. She added $5,000 to her score to finish with $13,200.
Jose got it right, too, minus the same “h”. His $4,401 bet brought him up to today’s winning total of $16,401.
Jose Garriga is a communications specialist. During the chat, he talked about a very close encounter with a gecko in Thailand.
2 years ago:: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Business History”
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I’m now joining the millions of people who would like to see an end to the interview segment. Today’s story about the gecko crawling up the guy’s pants was too long, too anticlimactic and way too boring. I have stranger things than that happen to me every couple of days, you know?
And since I’m in an incredibly lousy mood today, because it’s getting to me that we live in a world that contains beings of my own species who think a god created this huge universe and now his big interest is that he wants them to spend their time cutting off peoples’ heads, I’ll come right out and say what I’m really thinking:
I just don’t care enough about Jeopardy contestants to listen to their anecdotes. If the idea is that we’re supposed to “get to know them,” for a great percentage of them, I’m only going to see them for the thirty minutes minus commercials (which comes to what? eighteen minutes?) that they’re on the show their one and only time, so I’m not really that interested.
But maybe I’m missing some point to it. So I’ll ask. Why do the Jeopardy producers think we needed or wanted to hear about the guy’s gecko up his leg?
I don’t know why anyone even complains about it. You don’t really have to listen to it if you don’t want to. Sometimes there is something funny or nice. Michael’s story yesterday about his mom dancing with Larry Fine was cute. The wedding stories have gotten really old though.
Sorry you are in such a bad mood. How about watching a good comedy? You know what they say, laughter is the best medicine.
Congrats to Jose and also to Laura on getting FJ. Khrushchev was quite a character. Here’s a link to a youtube of him giving Tricky Dick the business, boasting that the Soviet Union will surpass the USA in 7 years: “As we pass you by, we’ll wave ‘hi’ to you.”
I know in Russia his name sounds normal for a man, but to me it sounds very girlish, specially for a man of his size. 🙂
Yes, now it does — but at least to me when I first heard it as a kid, it seemed normal enough for a Russian guy. I lived in a multi-ethnic city, and you heard lots of foreign names. One kid in my algebra class was named Pasquale and Gaston was a kid in my homeroom. But this was the first Nikita I had ever heard of.
If you look up Nikita in English wikipedia, they claim Elton John’s song led to the name becoming popular for girls in France.
French wikipedia just says the name is mistaken for a girl’s name outside of Slavic countries.
It always sounded to me like a delicate, diminutive of a girl’s name (Spanish). Now, Pasquale & Gaston to me just sound like French names (though I don’t know how someone would name a cute little baby Gaston). 🙂
And an Italian male name I have a problem with is Andrea. There are lots of girls in Brazil named Andrea. I could never call a man Andrea — I’ll just give him a nickname if I ever meet one.
in russia, ukraine, belarus etc, you often have names that are used for boys and girls. one example is “sasha”, which is a “pet” name for either aleksander or aleksandra
the first name of one of my friend’s son is “nikki”.and he is austrian. “john” is “ivan” in russian, but pronounced “EEVAN”, not “EIVAN” and so on…. it’s quite funny sometimes when a russian etc, tries to pronounce a letter or sound that does not exist in his alphabet/language.
your name,cece, would be pronounced “sese” in russia, since our “C” is their “S”. the “e” is the same…
Pasquale is Italian though. Pascal is the French form. There were some Italian boys where I grew up who went by the nickname Pat, even Patsy, if that was their given name. In mob movies, sometimes the guy’s name is Salvatore and they call him Sally, and Sally is totally cool with it. LOL. I can’t imagine anyone ever calling Lucky Luciano Sally-boy.
I dated a guy in high school named Cosimo and later, another one named Casimir. LOL! What’s in a name — they were both very handsome :):):)
In Russia, they have so many football players named Artyom, they could make at least 10 teams and call it the Artyom League.
The coach would yell out Artyom!! and be knocked out in an Artyom Stampede.
VJ- right, the spelling is different in French and Italian — I know 2 French women named Pascale, and my boyfriend’s cousin’s name is Pascal (They’re French).
You picked boyfriends in HS with strange names… :):)
well i’ll be……
maybe the worst is over.but the total of 22.800 before fj (including a 2K net loss from the dd clues) is even worse than yesterday’s total of 26.600. can’t wait to see where the “blanks” were today. and santo domingo in the south atlantic? YGBKM!! not to mention that santo domingo is a city, the capital of the dominican republic.
st. helena is famous for napoleon’s second exile and of importance for historians and britain as a major supply point for the east indian convoys, between india and england/great britain/the u.k., also in colonial times.