Final Jeopardy: Geography (4-25-18)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/25/2018) in the category “Geography” was:
In 1871 the official addition of this as a province gave Canada coasts on both the Atlantic & the Pacific Oceans
New champ Randy Mathews, won $20,000 yesterday. In his second game, he is up against these two players: Krishna Veeraraghavan, from Seattle, WA; and Jen Regan, from North Bergen, NJ.
Round 1 Categories: The Fast & The Fastidious – State Capital Facts – Crossover TV – On the Big Money – Damon Runyonesque Gangster Lingo – What’s Your Spirit Animal?
Krishna found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “On the Big Money” under the $800 clue, with 11 clues remaining after it. He was in the lead with $3,600, $800 more than Jen in second place. He said he always wanted to put all his eggs in one basket and make it a true Daily Double. He did and thought it was James Garfield. That was WRONG.
We’d take a couple of $1,000 bills from 1928 featuring this President, even if they were in nonconsecutive order. show
Jen finished in the lead with $4,200. Randy was second with $2,400 and Krishna was last with $1,800.
Round 2 Categories: Planet Earth – Emotion – You’re in Dutch Now – Singers – Ball – Chain
Krishna found the first Daily Double in “Planet Earth” under the $1,200 clue on the 3rd pick. He was in third place with $2,600 now, $1,600 less than Jen’s lead. He bet $2,000 of his “eggs” this time and he was RIGHT.
Striations are the scratches these large masses leave behind as they travel for thousands of years. show
Randy found the last Daily Double in “Ball” under the $1,600 clue on the 15th pick. In second place with $4,400, he had $1,400 less than Jen’s lead. He bet $1,600 and didn’t have a guess so he was WRONG.
One chapter of this tome includes “The Ball at Count Bennigsen’s” & “Alexander’s Letter to Napoleon” show
Randy finished in the lead with $7,600 with Jen a very close second at $7,400. Krishna was out of the game, $4,200 in the red.
Only ONE of the contestants left in Final Jeopardy! got it right.
WHAT IS BRITISH COLUMBIA?
In 1867, Canada became the Dominion of Canada, with four provinces: Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with its only ocean border being the Atlantic. In 1870, Manitoba became a province and the Northwest Territories were added. British Columbia came next in 1871, bringing the border out to the Pacific Ocean. Check out this 1871 map of Canada. Manitoba was way smaller back then (that’s also shown in the video).
The Parliament of Canada has a chronological list of Canada’s provinces and territories, along with other interesting items.
Jen got it right. She bet $7,380, bringing her up to $14,780.
Randy came up with Saskatchewan. He lost his $7,401 bet, leaving him with $199. That made Jen Regan the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
STATE CAPITAL FACTS ($400) The first of its defining insurance policies was issued in 1794
BALL ($1200) May Welland’s engagement to Newland Archer is announced at a ball early in this novel by Edith Wharton
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “American History”
A stimulus to the courageous, the $25,000 Orteig prize offer of 1919 resulted in his success 8 years later. show
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I am sad he did not win. Saskatchewan is not right. The answer is British Columbia. He would’ve won $15,201 if he added his $7401 bet.
I’m glad Randy is out. His long drawn-out histrionics and his long requests (I’ll have ____ for $x please, Alex) kept the board unfinished two days in a row. So annoying when players do that.
On the other hand, Jen and Krishna were both polite and soft-spoken. Hope Jen gets on a streak.
Randy was trying to be a female version of Austin Rogers. IMO, it is ok to be funny/silly/quirky during the interview with Trebek, but chewing scenery during the actual game is annoying, and sometimes borders on the obnoxious.
This game is so mean to those contestants.
I thought Randy had potential to win again but I was sorely mistaken. Sorry to see krishna having a rough game but still though VJ, we have druhv added into the toc but will we see one of the regular.contestants join him in the ranks at the start of may before the teacher’s tournament begin? I thought Randy knew a thing or two about Canada provinces. But still I got to give Jen credit for getting this right.
@Lou, Yes, I was also sad to see that. I was hoping Krishna got his first DD. It was cute the way he said he always wanted to say true Daily Double. idk, I was happy to see Jen win (Jersey girl!) but I liked Randy’s spirit a lot. The way he answered that dying frog clue… LOL! Too funny. ROFL.
@Richard, I know you do but you probably wouldn’t if you were the one who had to do the extra work.
LINK: 13 more clues from the match
I still think it would be better if you cut the picture on the right.