Final Jeopardy: Countries of Africa (4-19-22)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 4/19/2022 Jeopardy! game. Please don’t put the answers to these clues in the comments so people who missed the game can have a chance to answer them. It is okay to refer to them by category and clue value or by part of the clue.
RHYME TIME ($1000) A verified fact from a private detective
I SEE YOU THERE! ($800) It’s dark, but I’m pretty sure that’s you inside one of these naturally occurring volcanic tubes
RELIGION IN THE 13th CENTURY ($800) Europe’s oldest active one of these places of worship, the Altneuschul, was built in Prague
($1200) Thomas Aquinas, who summed things up in his “Summa Theologica”, was in this religious order that founded Aquinas College
($1600) The 1212 crusade known by this youthful name lacked official sanction & ended in failure
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($400) Rachel Chu Nick Young, dealing with a wealth of problems in multiple novels
($800) The Republic of Gilead; “Hag-Seed”, a re-telling of “The Tempest”
($1200) The world of T.S. Garp; an orphanage in St. Cloud’s
($1600) The short fiction collection “Unaccustomed Earth”; the Das family, vacationing in India
($2000) Colonel Aureliano Buendia; a book about the last days of Simon Bolivar
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Well, (don’t) go me! I’m not still fluent in French, but passable, but I didn’t know this one. I said “Algeria”, because, notwithstanding VJ’s statement above, I can’t picture 125k square miles. Maybe Mattea was giving a call out to Jeopardy! with “Mali”. Someone on the writing crew loves that country, and, like Tina and “could George Washington be the response?”, if it’s an African country, Mali is always on the table as a guess.
Something that bugged me was Josh just giving up on the first DD. Just something about the way he “surrendered” rubbed me the wrong way.
But, no chatter today! Except from Ken.
Well, at least for future reference, let’s say that Mali is a lot bigger than Texas. Cote d’Ivoire is about the size of New Mexico.
Thank you for that. I don’t know if you are familiar with the “CIA World Factbook”; unfortunately, it is exclusively online only now (and not classified). But, it being the US govt, each country listed is compared to a US state in size, for reference!
There’s another site that JP recommended a while back that I can’t remember the name of right now.
Maybe I can find it tomorrow (I’m falling asleep!) or maybe JP will remind us later
Here’s the site that JP recommended: The True Size of There’s a little video on there to show how it works. He also mentioned WolframAlpha “for getting a quick mathematical comparison between country sizes”
Yeah, Algeria was indeed my guess; I just didn’t want to post it.
I’m still fairly fluent in French, but couldn’t make the transition from “Les Dents” to “Cote d’Ivoire.”
Sudan wasn’t a half-bad try.
Poor Josh couldn’t get any traction thanks to those pesky DDs. The legal brief DD wasn’t tough, but it’s not the kind of term you could guess if you don’t know it.
The stumpers were mostly too much for me, but I did guess the Altenscheul one and the name of the Crusade.
Same here. I certainly knew the French word for teeth, but I just couldn’t connect it with a particular African country.
Howard, Sudan and Mali were terrible answers. Both of those countries are in Africa’s Top 10 in area and the size of the country was the only other thing in the clue to help with a guess if you had no idea what teeth was supposed to point at.
Wow, a tough finale, and the clue really wasn’t much help unless one was at least vaguely aware of the alternative name for Cote D’Ivoire.
Now I might not know much about African geography but cote d’dent could have also been an acceptable response though. Maybe Tina could be back for the second chance tournament. Not surprised no one knew this one.
I don’t think Côte d’dent would be accepted, because that’s not the nation’s current name. Like, if they were looking for “Thailand”, and you gave “Siam”, that wouldn’t be taken.
I didn’t know that factoid about the name only in French, and not translated. Coincidentally, when I looked for Côte D’Ivoire on Wikipedia, the page was “Ivory Coast”!
Here’s a separate image of the 1707 French map for anyone who wants to zoom in on it. The names are easier to read.
That was a tough final as we got a triple stumper. I am sure that Richard Corliss and William Weyser would say darn those daily doubles, Josh.
On the plus side, Mattea made a good Daily Double wager, got it right, and made the game a runaway right there.