Final Jeopardy: Asian Geography (2-3-20)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (2/3/2020) in the category “Asian Geography” was:
This 150- by 2.5-mile area created in 1953 is now home to more than 100 endangered & protected species
2x champ Michelle Paul, a managing director from Newark, DE, won
$30,122 last week. In Game 3, she is up against: Stephen Jackson, an emergency medicine physician from Atlanta, GA; and Travis Gaylord, a management consultant from Wynnewood, PA.
Round 1 Categories: Writer’s Toolbox – State of the Estate – Number Your Response – “P”otpourri – Heaven & Paradise – African-american Athletes
Michelle found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “State of the Estate” under the $600 clue on the 16th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $2,800, $200 more than Travis in second place. She bet $1,800 and guessed Michigan. That was WRONG.
The Pabst Mansion. show
Travis finished in the lead with $2,600. Stephen was second with $2,000 and Michelle was last with $1,600.
Round 2 Categories: The Thirty Years’ War – TV News Shows – Science – Unfilmed Novels – Compound Words – You Can’t Take It With You
Stephen found the first Daily Double in “Science” under the $1,600 clue on the third pick. He was in second place with $2,800, $200 less than Travis in the lead. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
An atom or molecule that has an unpaired electron is called by this “liberated” name & can damage your cells. show
Stephen found the last Daily Double in “The Thirty Years’ War” under the $2,000 clue, with 7 clues left after it. In the lead with $15,600, he had $4,600 more than Travis in second place. He bet $2,000 and took a shot with Iceland. That was WRONG.
The 1648 Peace deal had Spain recognize the independence of this North Sea nation, ending both the Thirty & the Eighty Years’ Wars. show
Stephen finished in the lead with $14,800. Travis was next with $11,000 and Michelle was in third place with $4,400.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS THE DMZ?
The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is a region on the Korean peninsula that was established by the 1953 Korean Armistice Agreement that ended the 3-year Korean War. It is the de facto border between North and South Korea. Reuters has a Factbox on it if you want to bone up on the history of the DMZ.
Business Insider has an article that wonders if peace between the 2 Koreas would be a threat to the wildlife that has taken up residence there: “Over 91 endangered species have called this unique biome home. You can find everything there from wild cats to Siberian tigers, black bears to red-crowned cranes. This is partly because the DMZ runs across a wide ranges of habitats, which includes mountains, marshes, swamps, and prairies.”
Michelle came up with Coral Reef Reserve. She lost her $3,300 and finished with $1,100.
Travis got it right. He bet $3,801, bringing him up to $14,801.
Stephen went with the Great Barrier Reef. He lost $7,201 for a $7,599 finish. That made Travis Gaylord the new Jeopardy! champ.
2 triple stumpers from the last round:
THE THIRTY YEARS’ WAR ($1200) This French cleric & politician got France into the war, in part to prevent Habsburg dominance (image)
TV NEWS SHOWS ($800) Since 2013 weekday afternoons have featured “The Lead” with this man (image)
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Cable TV History”
“You need us…for everything you do” was a slogan used by this channel, one of the first to customize content by location. show
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I also appreciated TRAVIS humor.
Obviously enjoying playing.
I was hoping he would win so we can see him again.
At least, Travis made up for that miss about the clue of Pennsylvania by winning tonight’s game, but it happens when there’s something about your home state that you didn’t know about.
I liked Travis’ sense of humor about that and the clue about alcohol 🤣
It’s too bad that michelle couldn’t build up on her win as the guys were just too quick for her to catch up. But seriously, I thought stephen might have a lock on the game and yet he went too far south. I mean the great barrier reef is in Australia and has nothing to do with the DMZ or the korean war in general. What was he really thinking there VJ? But still though I really hoped that we could have had another triple solve here.
Well, I don’t know what he was thinking but it seems pretty obvious that the clue made both Michelle and Stephen think of coral reefs.
idk, I thought the clue was too easy this morning — narrow strip of land,, 1953 — but maybe that is because my brother and I are the reasons my father didn’t have to serve in that war. At least that’s what I was told.