Final Jeopardy: African Surnames (4-26-22)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/26/2022) in the category “African Surnames” was:

Adetokunbo, “the crown has returned from overseas”, is fitting for the Adetokunbo family who left Nigeria for this country in 1991

15x champ Mattea Roach, a tutor from Toronto, Ontario has now won $352,781. In Game 16, she is up against: Nicky Smith, a debate instructor from San Francisco, CA; and Reya Sehgal, a cultural strategist & performer from Brooklyn, NY.

Round 1 Categories: General Knowledge – The Middle Ages – I Learned It in the Comic Books – Italian Cuisine – Let’s Talk Science – Mini-“Me”

Mattea found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “The Middle Ages” under the $400 clue on the second pick of the round. She had $200 from the first clue in the same category. She bet the $1,000 allowance and she was RIGHT.

Now known to historians as the Migration Period, the early Middle Ages were long known by this name implying ignorance. show

WHAT ARE THE DARK AGES?

Mattea finished in the lead with $8,000. Reya was second with $3,800 and Nicky was last at negative $400. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: Colonel Knowledge – TV Shows by Setting – On the Mediterranean – One Big Family – 1870s Literature – ____, ____ & ____

Mattea found the first Daily Double in the “3 blanks” category under the $1,600 clue on the 15th pick. She was in the lead with $18,800 now, $14,600 more than Reya in second place. She bet $4,000 and launched into a description of an incense censer. That was WRONG even if she could have remembered the name.

These items were tolled, closed & extinguished in an old Catholic ceremony. show

WHAT ARE BELL, BOOK & CANDLE?

Mattea got the last Daily Double in “One Big Family” under the $1,200 clue, with 5 clues left after it. In the lead with $21,200, she had $20,700 more than Reya in second place. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.

This performing family toured the United States in the 1940s, then settled on a Vermont farm. show

WHO ARE THE VON TRAPPS?

Mattea finished in the lead with a runaway $23,200 and Reya was next with $5,000. At negative $800, it was the end of the line for Nicky. All clues were shown.

Only ONE of the two contestants left in Final Jeopardy! got it right.

WHAT IS GREECE?

According to his Wikipedia page, Giannis Antetokounmpo is a professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks whose nickname is “Greek Freak”. Knowing that seems to be the key to getting this Final Jeopardy! clue right. Giannis was born in Athens in 1994, three years after his Nigerian parents moved to Greece.

Giannis and two of his brothers, although born and raised in Greece, did not automatically qualify for Greek citizenship and were unable to obtain it until 2013, when Giannis was 19. His surname was changed on his Greek passport to Antetokounmpo. The Wikipedia article says he got the “Greek Freak” nickname because “many could not pronounce his surname”. It seems more likely that it was meant in a complimentary way based on his athletic talents, as well as his 6′ 11″ height. The average height of basketball players in 2021, according to mytopsportsbook.com was 6’4.7. If Giannis had been nicknamed by the tallest NBA players on their list, it might have been the Greek Shrimp. 🤣🤣🤣

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Reya got it right. With a $4,900 bet, Reya finished with $9,900.

Mattea went with the United Kingdom. That cost her $7,000 but she won the game with the remaining $16,200. Her 16-day total is $368,981

2 triple stumpers from 1870s LITERATURE:

($1200) His rags-to-riches tales included “Paul the Peddler”, the adventures of a young street merchant

($2000) A baker, a banker & a butcher are all on the lookout for this creature in Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem “The Hunting of” this

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Contemporary Authors”

Publishers Weekly has dubbed this former middle school English teacher turned bestselling author “storyteller of the gods” show

WHO IS RICK RIORDAN?

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