Final Jeopardy: African Countries (2-27-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (2/27/2023) in the category “African Countries” was:
Once Africa’s largest country in area, it dropped to third in 2011 when a portion of it declared independence
In the 6th quarterfinal match of the High School Reunion tournament the contestants are: Rohan Kapileshwari, a senior at the University of Texas at Austin from Winston-Salem, NC, Claire Sattler, a senior at Yale University from Bonita Springs, FL; and Rhea Sinha, a Cornell University Graduate from Chatham, NJ.
Round 1 Categories: Home from College – What’s that Sci. Abbrev.? – Nonpotent Potables – Describing the Musical Instrument – Begins & Ends with “L” – Daniel Radcliffe on Harry Potter
Rohan found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Home from College” under the $800 clue on the 16th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $4,000, $800 more than Claire in second place. Rohan made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
Home in Jersey City, stroll with your high school crush in Liberty State Park on the banks of this river show
Rohan finished in the lead with $9,200. Claire was in second with $4,600 and Rhea was last with $3,800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: The Golden Age – Companies in History – Southerners – Pure Poetry – Social Science – Before & After
Rhea found the first Daily Double in “Social Science” under the $1,600 clue on the 11th pick of the round. She was in third place with $5,000, $3,600 less than Claire’s lead. Rhea bet $3,000 and said motivation. That was WRONG.
It’s a social ideal meant to motivate people toward success; a book by a N.Y. Times columnist is subtitled “Waking Up from” it show
Rohan got the last Daily Double in “Pure Poetry” under the $1,600 clue on the 19th pick of the round. In second place with $10,000, he had $1,400 less than Claire’s lead. Rohan bet $5 and he was RIGHT but he sure wasn’t happy about that low bet.
Namechecking herself, this Lesbos poet “asked myself what, (her), can you give one who has everything, like Aphrodite?” show
Claire finished in the lead with $11,400. Rohan was second with $9,205 and Rhea was last with $5,600. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS SUDAN?
Wikipedia’s table of African countries by area currently shows Algeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo at No. 1 and 2, respectively. Algeria’s area in square miles is 919,595. The area of the DCR is 905,355 square miles. The notes on Sudan say it covered 967,500 sq mi before Souuth Sudan declared its independence in 2011. After the split, 248,777 square miles went to South Sudan and Sudan’s area dropped to 718,723 square miles.
Coincidentally, in the first final match of the 2016 Teachers Tournament, the Final Jeopardy! clue wanted to know which African country became the largest country in Africa and only one of the teachers got it right.
Rhea went with the Republic of the Congo. She lost $3,606 and finished with $1,994.
Rohan got it right. He bet nothing, standing pat on his $9,205.
Claire got it right, too. She bet $7,011 and won the game with $18,411. She advances to the semi-finals.
A triple stumper from each round:
THE GOLDEN AGE ($1600) Born around 470 B.C., this figure from the Golden Age of Greek culture went around barefoot asking annoying questions
PURE POETRY ($2000) In 1950 “Bitter Strawberries” by this Boston-born woman became her 1st nationally published poem; not bad for a 17-year-old
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Music”
Just 24 notes, this piece is nicknamed “Butterfield’s Lullaby” for the U.S. Army general who arranged it show
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There was a weird glitch in my recording – right when Rhea was announced, it froze for about 20 seconds, and, when it resumed, it was already on one of the players responding to the first or second clue. The bar showed that only about 28 minutes recorded, and that the last part didn’t record. However, got the whole show. So, it’s like a section was excised, and the edges brought together.
In any case, I said the same thing as Rohan about the barefoot philosopher.
I knew the McCormick one, because there’s a statue of him on the Washington and Lee campus, right near the border with VMI, where I went. I don’t know if it’s still a tradition, but, we had one where, when returning from town, one had to “temporarily desecrate” the statue.
Rohan seemed, what’s the word, flippant, maybe, especially with that $5 wager. I thought he was going to take the whole thing.
FJ was simple, no question.
Hmmmm…….I picked the Democratic Republic of The Congo too for FJ, but perhaps I’ll get it straight next time.
This musical instrument clue was a hoot: “These have a tube called the chanter, an air reservoir controlled by arm pressure & an unequaled ability to clear a room”
Meantime, the Waffle House stumper made no sense to me. I didn’t see the image when they showed the clue but I don’t think it would have helped. Very few of the plethora of images they show do.
You’re certainly not alone VJ as I was puzzled with that Waffle House snafu too. Actually, I had no idea of what they were looking for.
Getting responses might earn you something, not cost you something.