Final Jeopardy: Presidential Geography (4-15-20)
Here are 4 more triple stumpers from the 4/15/2020 Jeopardy! game:
THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS ($200) The Rocky Mountains stretch for more than 3,000 miles from New Mexico north to the Brooks Range in this state
3-LETTER WORDS ($1000) Before it’s trimmed, this evergreen tree, popular in landscape gardening, has striking red decor
THE ELEMENTS WITH STYLE ($1200) Leading the pack, alphabetically at any rate, is this element, symbol Ac
“AD”JECTIVES ($1600) Meaning hardheaded about something, it also means a really hard type of rock
Funny coincidence: Alex talked to Nathaniel about his taking up curling during the chat and said “I love that sport.” This was the third clue chosen (by Marshall) after the chat but Xiaoke, not Nathaniel, rang in first!
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITES ($1000) How about trying this sport nicknamed “chess on ice” that uses 8 granite stones per team
Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — UNIQUE COLLEGE COURSES
($200) Sweet! Alfred University in New York offered a course on this pancake topper
($400) I scream, you scream, we all scream for the ice cream short course at this school, home of the Nittany Lions
($600) You can take a course on artificial intelligence at this school along the Charles River; go Engineers!
($800) History courses at Kent State include ones on espionage, the Holocaust & this Italian city, the birthplace of the Renaissance
($1000) One of the topics covered in a Major League baseball course at Arizona State is this player who broke the color barrier in 1947
ANSWERS: show
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We almost had 3 men in the finals
But congratulations to the lady
I did not want to spoil the winner today
My guess is the two gentlemen.
Is Ohio considered Mid West?
Hi, George — yes, Ohio is considered Midwest. I don’t think of it as Midwest myself, but it is. Here’s a link to a list of Midwestern cities by size on Wikipedia. In the Top 10, Columbus, Ohio is No. 3 and Cleveland is No. 10 (those are 2017 population figures).
USC is the only one that has won before. We’ll start finding out when Indiana or Minnesota make it this time.
On a couple of the clues:
Xiaoke might be in for a little ribbing on that Babe Ruth reply to the clue about the baseball player who broke the color barrier. In a weird coincidence, one of the clues on Spoiler Talk this morning was “He witnessed the ends of the Earth while accompanying seven expeditions to the Arctic” in a 20th Century History category — they showed Matthew Henson’s picture with the clue. Kara Spak (a 6x winner at that point and later ToC player) said Admiral Byrd, who is white.
Also, Marshall went straight for the poetry category and aced the DD so I thought he that category must be in his wheelhouse. Then on the next clue he said “Pound” (a man) for a clue asking for a female poet !
@VJ, just watched the game. Lmao on her response. She won’t live that down. However, I attribute some responses to nerves. Not sure her circle of friends will. She made up for it by making the finals. Good for her.
True, Jacob, she lucked out today for sure — with a minimum $15K increase no matter what happens.
Today is the last Semi-Final Game, and I was hoping that Marshall Comeaux would pull through, and possibly win the whole thing. Geez, I was doing so well, in terms of picking rooting interests that would win their games, for the 1st 3 Days, and then, after Thursday’s Quarter-Final Game, things went downhill, and I could never seem to recover.
Tough FJ today and as I said before nobody knows about geography.
I was hoping for an all male final but since xiaoke won, there is a possibility she could turn things around in the finals just like how lille qing did previously. They weren’t that far off but did the hint Grover Cleveland threw the players off track a little bit, VJ? I also got Lincoln as well.
I don’t think so, Lou. Tyler or Nibir will easily win on Friday because they’re a lot faster.
Read the clue again, Lou. There is no hint about Grover Cleveland in it. Lincoln is named after Abraham Lincoln, not a relative. This was just a difficult clue and, imo, certainly the hardest FJ in the tournament so far, unless you already knew that particular bit of trivia.
I think this would have been a triple stumper in normal play, and maybe even a ToC setting. I mentioned this morning that I got the correct answer, but probably taking too much time. It’s a lot to parse what the clue is even asking, and then you have to be lucky to stumble upon the correct answer in your mental search of cities.
I agree, JP. It would have been better if that clue was in one of the Final games, considering that the first two sets of semi-finalists got relatively easy FJs.
And at least it would not have aired on the date that Lincoln died!!
I wonder if Lebron James would have known the fj. Although he grew up in Akron states tend to focus on history indigenous to their region in high school. Anyone on this board from that area who knew the correct response from that difficult worded clue? Just curious.