Final Jeopardy: World Leaders (2-29-16)
The Final Jeopardy question (2/29/2016) in the category “World Leaders” was:
In 2006 a former llama herder became President of this country.
New champ David Bradley won $27,000 last Friday, the biggest 1-day haul in a week where every game had a win over $20K. Today his challengers are: Brigid Hannahoe, from Buffalo, NY; and Tyler Shattuck, from Long Beach, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Leap Day – Furniture – Animated TV – Landmarks – Which Planet? – “RTH”
Brigid found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Landmarks” under the $1,000 clue on the 12th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $2,000, $600 more than Tyler in second place. She bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.
It served as the entrance gateway to the 1889 World’s Fair. show
Brigid finished in the lead with $8,600. David was second with $3,400 and Tyler was last with $1,400.
Round 2 Categories: The Quota System – Long 1-Syllable words – Nebraskans – Old Time Science – Urban Literature – “Butter” Me Up
David found the first Daily Double in “Urban Literature” under the $1,600 clue on the 9th pick of the round. In second place with $6,600, he had $2,400 less than Brigid’s lead. He bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.
He sought his fortune in U.S. gold prospecting, but made it big as the USA’s highest-paid writer. show
David found the last Daily Double in “Nebraskans” under the $1,600 clue, with 11 clues remaining after it. He was in the lead with $15,800 now, $4,800 more than Brigid in second place. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
Standing Bear of the Ponca Tribe won an 1879 court victory when a judge said that “an Indian is” indeed this 6-letter word. show
David finished in the lead with $25,000. Brigid was next with $13,800 and Tyler was in third place with $6,200.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS BOLIVIA?
“Evo Morales grew up in poverty on Bolivia’s high plains and was a llama herder, musician, footballer and coca grower before winning election as the country’s first indigenous president. … It is all a very long way from his childhood herding llamas and helping his parents in the fields in a small, arid village in western Bolivia’s Oruro department. ‘Until I was 14, I had no idea there was such a thing as underwear. I slept in my clothes…’ he said in a recent, highly candid autobiography.” (Malay Mail – Evo Morales: He came, he saw, he conquered Bolivia)
Morales is currently in the news due to a corruption probe involving his former girlfriend, Gabriela Zapata, and conflicting claims over whether a son they had in 2007 is alive.
Tyler got it right. He bet $6,157 and finished with $12,357.
Brigid thought it was Peru. She lost her $11,201 bet and was left with $2,599.
David also got it right. He bet $3,000 and won the match with $28,000. His 2-day total is $55,000.
The last triple stumpers in the Double Jeopardy round were both in the “Nebraskans” category:
$400 – This Vietnam Vet was elected a U.S. Senator for Nebraska in 1996 & made Secretary of Defense in 2013
$800 – The spot for Malcolm X was Omaha, where he was born in 1925 with this original last name.
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Presidents”
He is the only 19th century President to serve 2 complete terms with the same Vice President.. show
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Bolivia : one of two landlocked countries in this hemisphere.
Brigid was so fast on the buzzer and played so well and ended in 3rd. Too bad. But I like David and am glad he came alive in the 2nd round. Nice shirt color! Tyler looked 7′ tall.
ha ha – I was like oh, no-oooo in the first round after figuring David would hang in there for a few more games… then I saw that literature category and was like OH, YES-SSSS!
Anyhoo, there’s no denying there have been fierce competitors of late and Brigid was certainly one of them.
Yeah, what’s up with all these strong contestants just knocking one another out lately? I think it would be nice at this point to have a strong one matched with mildly good ones, so the fierce one could win many games. 🙂
If it’s not too much trouble VJ, what was the food clue and answer, right after “Cajun burger sings”?
It’s no trouble, but the Cajun burger sings clue was the $200 clue in Animated TV and finished that category, and the next one after that was the $200 clue in Landmarks chosen and answered by Brigid – Limestone structure, part man, part lion.
Maybe that was it (Limestone structure), ’cause I missed that one too. Sorry for the confusion. It’s very distracting when people keep talking to you during J!. Grrr
Thanks, VJ. Echoing Rhonda, you’re awesome. 🙂
thank you both 🙂
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My cable went out right near the end of double Jeopardy, when they showed the clue in quotas about the Bakke decision. Does anyone remember what the other clues were?
You didn’t miss much, Rhonda — here’s how that whole category went, showing who answered the clue:
The Quota System
$1200 – In 1905 this “revolving” service group set membership standards so that no one profession could dominate (David)
$1600 – China initiated this numeric quota of sorts in the ’70s to fight its growing population, but doubled it in 2015 (Brigid)
$800 In the 1978 Bakke case, the Supreme Court nixed racial quotas but said this alliterative system is constitutional (David)
$400 So populations of this mammal could recover, the IWC began using quotas in the 1940s & set commercial ones to 0 in 1982 (David)
Beep beep beep – they never got to the $2K clue. Brigid and David both could have picked it — wish I knew why they avoided it.
Thanks so much, VJ, glad that I only missed the one clue. I appreciate you so very much, you are awesome!