Final Jeopardy: Central America (3-7-22)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/7/2022) in the category “Central America” was:

A small river connects these 2 lakes that combined form close to 10% of their country’s area

4x champ Margaret Shelton, a homemaker from Pittsburgh, PA won $79,700 last week. In Game 5, she takes on these two players: Maureen O’Neil, an executive assistant from Rye Beach, NH; and Clay Cooper, an SAT and ACT tutor from Las Vegas, NV.

Round 1 Categories: Mountains – French Cooking Terms – 3-Letter Initialisms – Presidential Rhyme Time – From Book to TV – Phrase Farming

Clay found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “From Book to TV” under the $400 clue on the 12th pick of the round. He was in third place with negative $400, $3,400 less than Maureen‘s lead. Clay bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.

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Maureen finished in the lead with $6,600. Margaret was second with $3,200 and Clay was last with $2,600. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: The Ideas of March – Y Is the Second Letter – Biographies – Towers – Single-Named Celebrities – That’s Just Science, Man

Clay found the first Daily Double in “Y is the Second Letter” under the $1,200 clue on the very first pick of the round. He was in third place with $2,600, $4,000 less than Maureen’s lead. Clay made it a true Daily Double and said mica. That was WRONG.

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Margaret got the last Daily Double in “Science” under the $1,200 clue with 7 clues left after it. She was in second place with $6,800, $3,400 less than Maureen’s lead. Margaret bet $3,500 and she was RIGHT.

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Margaret finished in the lead with $12,300. Maureen was second with $10,200. Clay was last with negative $2,400 and out of the game at this point. 5 clues were not shown.

NEITHER contestant left in Final Jeopardy! got it right.

WHAT ARE LAKE NICARAGUA & LAKE MANAGUA?

Lake Nicaragua bears the name of Central America’s largest country and Lake Managua bears the name of its capital city. The Tipitapa is the “short river” that connects these two largest Central American lakes. The river is so tiny on a map that sometimes it is not even labeled and it can look like Lake Managua and Lake Nicaragua are one giant lake, as seen on this map where the label Lake Managua is set away from the lake.

There is also a city named Tipitapa in the area, a sister city with New York City. Since the formation of the non-profit organization Dos Pueblos in 1987, the New York-Tipitapa Sister City Project has worked with the people of Nicaragua to improve community development.

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Maureen decided to just throw Guata + Mala out there. She lost her $8,000 bet and finished with $2,200.

Margaret only had Lake Nicaragua. She bet and lost the whole $12,300. That made Maureen O’Neil the new Jeopardy! champion.

A triple stumper from each round:

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BIOGRAPHIES ($2000) William Feaver does some psychoanalyzing in his 2-volume “The Lives of” this British artist who died in 2011

More clues on Page 2

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