Final Jeopardy: U.S. Geography (4-24-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/24/2023) in the category “U.S. Geography” was:
Interstate 25 connects these 2 state capitals, 1st & 2nd in elevation, & in between runs through no. 3, Denver
2x champ Emma Hill Kepron, a librarian from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, won $26,000 last week. In Game 3, she is up against: Année Tousseau, an editor from Alameda, CA; and Dillon Hupp, a development director from North Little Rock, AR.
Round 1 Categories: African Geography – Synonyms & Antonyms – Non-Video Games – American Lit – That’s an Animal Sound – Beatles “S”ongs
Dillon found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Synonyms & Antonyms” under the $800 clue with 5 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $5,200, $3,800 more than Année in second place. Dillon bet $1,200 and he was RIGHT.
Soldier of fortune & venal are both synonyms for this word show
Dillon finished in the lead with $7,400. Emma was second with $1,800. Année was last with $1,200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Greek History – Y Is the Only Vowel – The United Nations – Wherefore Art, Thou – Local Boy – Made Good
Emma found the first Daily Double in “Wherefore Art, Thou” under the $1,200 clue on the 12th pick of the round. She was in second place with $3,400, $6,400 less than Dillon’s lead. Emma bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
The installation of 7,503 gates, each 16 feet tall & financed by Christo & Jeanne-Claude for this NYC area, was completed in 2005 show
Emma got the last Daily Double in “Made Good” under the $1,600 clue with 7 clues left after it. She was tied for the lead with Dillon at $12,600. They had $11,000 more than Année in last place. Emma bet $2,500 and she was RIGHT.
You’ve won big playing this game at the casino; now it’s time to buy one of the same-named crystal maker’s chandeliers show
Emma finished in the lead with $14,700. Dillon was second with $14,200 and Année was last with $3,200. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT ARE SANTA FE, NM & CHEYENNE, WY?
From Interstate-guide.com: “Joining the capital cities of Santa Fe, Denver and Cheyenne, Interstate 25 follows the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. I-25 also serves Albuquerque, New Mexico’s largest city and Pueblo and Colorado Springs in central Colorado. Suburban growth along the corridor nearly joins the Denver and Colorado Springs metropolitan areas.” In addition to a lot of photos, their page has a lot of info about I-25.
As for the elevation of the three capital cities, they are: Santa Fe 7,199 feet, Cheyenne 6,063 feet and Denver 5,280 feet. Click here for all 10 highest U.S. capitals.
Année wrote down Albany & Boston. She lost $3,199 and finished with $1.00.
Dillon got it right. He bet $7,799 and that brought him up to $21,999.
Emma had Cheyenne but was going for Salt Lake City for the second one. She lost $7,000 and finished with $7,700. That made Dillon Hupp the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
AMERICAN LIT ($1000) Born into it herself, Edith Wharton wrote about American high society of the 1870s in this Pulitzer-winning novel
WHEREFORE ART, THOU ($2000) Though called post-Impressionist, he had works like “House of the Hanged Man” in the first Impressionist show in 1874
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Paintings”
The New York Times noted “balls of orange-yellow light” & “the town off in the distance” from the artist’s window in this piece show
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You’ll notice that if Emma got it right, she would have lost to Dillon by $299.
Good point; I meant to mention that in my post last night.
Came in halfway through and saw Emma way behind. Great comeback. The two fairly easy DDs pushed her forward.
That was a good Final. I tried thinking of high-elevation capitals and came up with two that I thought might be the ones, and they were. Then I remembered that 10 summers ago, I participated in the AARP Senior Spelling Bee in Cheyenne. I flew to Denver, then high-tailed it to Cheyenne at 80+ mph in my little rental car on I-25 to try to get to the dinner reception on time. It was a 100+ mile drive.
Albany-Boston was a horrible guess, especially considering Denver lies in between the two correct ones.
OMG, those Beatles tunes were a pushover for this old fool. They were my very first concert, in 1964.
The Wharton novel was a pretty good movie; thought that would have been answered. The UN building clue was tricky because you had to know the name of the structure, not the person in charge. I’ve been there a couple of times, very long ago.
There actually is a little hamlet in New York State named Denver. lol
I visited the United Nations when I was 9 years old on a school trip. I was absolutely fascinated by the “translating” headphones. Until this show, however, I never knew that a building or administrative office is sometimes called a secretariat.
Surely you remember the great racehorse Secretariat. I was at Belmont the day he won the Triple Crown in 1973. He’s buried there now.
Yes Howard, I’ve heard of that horse, of course. A building, nein.
I’d always assumed the horse was named after the UN building, but never knew for sure. Wikipedia states the first set of names was rejected by the Jockey Club. The 2nd set submitted included Secretariat. It was suggested by the stud farm’s longtime secretary, who’d once worked for the secretariat at the League of Nations. Apparently the secretariat is the legislative arm of the UN, not just the name of the building. Always fun to learn new things.
A tough FJ to be sure. Actually, my older sister drove around quite a bit in those western states, and she did come up with Cheyenne (which was better than any of us could come up with). Kudos to my older sister for getting half the FJ right!