Final Jeopardy: North American Geography (4-14-16)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/14/2016) in the category “North American Geography” was:

Far from New England, it’s the state that has the shortest land border with Canada, only 45 miles.

2x champ Carter Spires has now won $31,200. In Game 3 he is up against these two ladies: Margaret Miles, from Wilmington, NC; and Hannah Gage, originally from Newport, OR.

Today is the 95th birthday of Alex Trebek’s mother, Lucille. As is his usual custom, her son gave her a Happy Birthday shoutout, and a very emotional one. His voice was almost breaking when he said “Way to go, Ma!” with a fist pump. Happy Birthday from all of us over here, Mrs. Trebek.

Round 1 Categories: History of the World, Part II – Cliches Made Fancy – Female Athletes – Pasta Glossary – Horns You Can’t Play – No-Fly Zones

Margaret found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “History of the World” under the $800 clue on the 14th pick of the round, right before the first break. She was in the lead with $4,600, $3,000 more than Carter in second place. She bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.

A play in 5 acts or a king in 2 years, 1483 to 1485.  show

WHAT IS RICHARD III?

Margaret finished in the lead with $13,000. Carter was second with $4,800 and Hannah was last, in the red for $200.

Round 2 Categories: Flags of Our Fathers – Elements of Song – 6 Characters in Search of Their Novels – The Wonderful World of Sydney – All You Can “Eat” – Ranching As It Was

Carter found the first Daily Double in “Flags of Our Fathers” under the $1,600 clue on the 4th pick of the round. In second place with $6,800, he now had $6,200 less than Margaret’s lead. He bet $3,200 and he was RIGHT.

Flags of the Revolutionary War included ones featuring a rattlesnake & this 4-word warning. show

WHAT IS “DON’T TREAD ON ME”?

5 clues later, Margaret found the last Daily Double in “6 Characters” under the $1,200 clue. She was in the lead with $13,800 now, $1,800 more than Carter in second place. She bet $3,800 and she was RIGHT.

Young Civil War soldier Henry Fleming. show

WHAT IS “THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE”?

Margaret finished in the lead with $32,000. Carter was next with $20,000 and Hannah was in third place with $5,400.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS IDAHO?

If “land border” wasn’t enough to make you rule out Pennsylvania, the far from New England part of the clue surely was. This list on wikipedia shows the States that border Canada from east to west and also shows Pennsylvania with a shorter Canadian border (42 miles) than Idaho (45 miles), The Keystone State’s border is on Lake Erie.

Hannah second-guessed her initial Michigan response but ran out of time to get in another complete response. She bet and lost it all.

Carter got it right. His $12,001 bet brought him up to $32,001.

Margaret also got it. She bet $8,100 so she won the match with $40,100 and she is the new Jeopardy! champ. Carter made a very valiant effort to keep up with Margaret, but she is one buzzing-in encyclopedia! If she got any answers wrong, we missed it.

There was only ONE triple stumper in this entire game:

HORNS YOU CAN’T PLAY ($600) It’s the most frequently caught fish in the Bighorn River

Favorite clue of the game: ALL YOU CAN “EAT” ($800) One ewe emission

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “19th Century Presidents”

Good looks weren’t enough as he became the only full-term president to be rejected in a bid for his party’s 2nd term nomination. show

WHO IS FRANKLIN PIERCE?

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