Final Jeopardy: Countries of the World (3-1-24)

The Final Jeopardy question (3/1/2024) in the category “Countries of the World” was:

Fearful of independence in 1975, around 120,000 of this country’s people, a third of the population, fled to the Netherlands

Today’s Tournament of Champions contestants are: Stephen Webb, a data scientist from Longmont, CO; Brian Henegar, a guest services agent from LaFollette,, TN; and Josh Saak, a traffic engineer from Boise, ID.

Round 1 Categories: Place Name Etymologies – Getting Seal-y – Food, Fast – Pop Culture Princesses – Decades – Rhymes With Rhyme

Stephen found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Place Name Etymologies” under the $600 clue on the 10th pick of the round. He was in last place with $400, $1,400 less than Brian’s lead. Stephen bet $1,000 and said Paraguay. That was WRONG.

A conquistador combined the name of a local people & the Spanish word for water to name this country show

WHAT IS NICARAGUA?

Josh finished in the lead with $5,600. Brian was in second place with $5,200. Stephen was last with negative $800. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: That’s a Long Story – Architecture – Cover Me – “N”owledge – Chemistry Class – Gendered Language

Stephen found the first Daily Double in “‘N’owledge” under the $2,000 clue on the 7th pick of the round. He was in last place with negative $3,600, $10,400 less than Josh’s lead. Stephen bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.

Henry Fonda played this admiral in the 1976 film “Midway” show

WHO IS NIMITZ?

Brian found the last Daily Double in “That’s a Long Story” under the $1,600 clue on the 15th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $10,800, $3,200 more than Josh in second place. Brian bet $3,200 and said “Les Miserables”. That was WRONG.

“Yes, I said yes I will yes” are the last of this 1922 story’s many, many words show

WHAT IS “ULYSSES”?

Brian finished in the lead with $12,800. Josh was in second place with $8,400. Stephen was last with negative $800 and out of the game at this point. All clues were shown.

NEITHER contestant left in Final Jeopardy! got it right.

WHAT IS SURINAME?

The former Dutch colony of Suriname became independent on 11/25/1975. From 1954 until that time, the Surinamese were Dutch citizens. Per a 2015 article on Statistics Netherlands: “Surinamese people were only allowed to keep Dutch nationality if they settled down in the Netherlands within a period of maximum five years following independence.” The population graph shows some 126K Surinamese emigrated to the Netherlands between 1975 and 1980. After 1980, fluency in the Dutch language was one advantage the Surinamese still had over other immigrant groups.

Moving out: Why people are leaving the Netherlands is a very interesting YouTube video presented by Josephine Ogugua, “A Naija (Nigerian) Babe living in the Netherlands.”

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Josh thought it was Papua New Guinea. He lost $4,405 and finished with $3,995

Brian went with Belgium. He lost $4,001 but won the game with the remaining $8,799.

We are now up to 6 semifinalists: Emily Sands, Jared Watson, David Sibley, Yogesh Raut, Luigi De Guzman and Brian Henegar. We have three more quarterfinal games next week before the semifinals begin.

2 triple stumpers from the first round:

THAT’S A LONG STORY ($2000) A Nobel Prize winner, in 1962 she published “The Golden Notebook”, which runs to nearly 700 masterful pages

ARCHITECTURE ($2000) An immigrant from Austria & from the “N”owledge category, he helped define mid-century California with modernist buildings

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Awards”

These awards have a retro version & winners include the novel “The Sword in the Stone” & “The War of the Worlds” radio broadcast show

WHO ARE THE HUGO AWARDS?

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