Final Jeopardy: European Cities (3-3-22)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/3/2022) in the category “European Cities” was:

Pizzo means protection money; the Addio Pizzo movement was founded in this city in 2004

2x champ Margaret Shelton, a homemaker from Pittsburgh, PA has won $41,000 so far this week. In Game 3, she is up against: Ryan Pressman, a musician from Canoga Park, CA; and Louis DellaPeruta, an EMT from Cranston, RI.

Round 1 Categories: Detroit: News Clues – 4-Syllable Words – Earth Science – Getting Down to Business – What’s My Name? – Beatles “Love” Songs

Ryan found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Earth Science” under the $600 clue on the 8th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $2,600, $2,200 more than Margaret in second place. Ryan bet $600. He didn’t come up with an answer so he was WRONG.

Icebergs & glaciers go through this “bovine” process in which large chunks dramatically break off show

WHAT IS CALVING?

Ryan finished in the lead with $5,200. Margaret was second with $4,600 and Louis was last with $3,800. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: 1972: 50 Years Ago – Esperanto Film Festival – Arts News – Fibers & Fabrics – Book Characters – Eponyms & Toponyms

Louis found the first Daily Double in “1972: 50 Years Ago” under the $2,000 clue on the 6th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $7,800, $2,200 more than Ryan in second place. Louis bet $2,000 and said Guadalcanal. That was WRONG.

The U.S. returned the Ryukyu Islands to Japan, including this largest one, site of a bloody World War II campaign show

WHAT IS OKINAWA?

Ryan got the last Daily Double in “Arts News” under the $1,200 clue with 3 clues left after it. He was in second place with $7,200, $1,400 less than Louis’s lead. Ryan bet it all and he was RIGHT.

In 2021 Gary Avis danced Virgil in a royal opera house production commemorating the 700th anniversary of this poet’s death show

WHO IS DANTE ALIGHIERI?

Ryan finished in the lead with $14,800. Margaret was second with $8,600 and Louis was last with $8,200. One clue worth $2,000 was not shown.

WHAT IS PALERMO?

Addiopizzo began in Palermo, Sicily in 2004. When a group of recent graduates were contemplating opening a pub business in Palermo, they had to take into account the possibility of being extorted by the local Mafia. The extortion money (“pizzo”) is usually referred to as “protection” money in Mafia-related TV shows and films in the United States. The graduates decided to take a stand against the Mafia and during the night of June 28-29, 2004, they posted over 100 stickers in the center of Palermo. The stickers proclaimed: “An entire population who pays pizzo is a population without dignity.”

You may be tempted to say “is that all it took?” to end decades of Mafia extortion, violence and murder. However, that was only the beginning of this movement to unite the Sicilian people and motivate them to protect themselves and each other from racketeers. Here’s a link to a 2017 article in Politico that talks about the progress the Addiopizzo movement has made since 2004.

Louis got it right. He bet $8,000 and that brought him up to $16,200.

Margaret got it, too. She bet it all to finish with $17,200.

Ryan appeared to be going for Milan but all he got out was “Mil”. He lost his $2,401 bet and landed in third place with $12,399. Margaret Shelton remains the Jeopardy champ with a 3-day total of $58,200.

2 triple stumpers from ESPERANTO FILM FESTIVAL:

($1200) “Dek du Jaroj Kiel Sklavo”

($2000) “Neniu Lando por Maljunaj Viroj”

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “18th Century America”

The first census, in 1790, listed 24 urban places; this port was the most populous one in the South show

WHAT IS CHARLESTON (SC)?

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