Final Jeopardy: International Airports (4-3-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/3/2019) in the category “International Airports” was:
From the name of the world capital it serves, DEL is the 3-letter code for the Asian airport named for her
5x champ Steven Grade, a sports industry consultant, has now won $115,501. In Game 6, he goes up against: Rose Curtin, an editor & yarn shop clerk from Newport, KY; and Alex Koral, a regulatory researcher from Boulder, CO.
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Round 1 Categories: The Sweet Science of Boxing – ____ of ____ – A Very Versatile Tool Word – Dumplings by Any Other Name – Habitats – For Humanity
Rose found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “____ of ____” under the $600 clue on the 4th pick of the round. She was in a tie with Alex. They had $400 each and Steven had not buzzed in yet. She bet the $1,000 allowance and she was RIGHT.
For the last 500 years, British coronations have taken place at Westminster Abbey, conducted by this person. show
Alex finished in the lead with $7,200. Steven was second with $5,600 and Rose was last with $4,800.
Round 2 Categories: May the Schwartz Be With You – Cities on the Mississippi – Old Times – The Shared Nickname – Quotes From Shakespeare – “AD”-jectives
Steven found the first Daily Double in “Quotes from Shakespeare” under the $1,600 clue on the 9th pick. He was in the lead with $10,400 now, $1,200 more than Rose in second place. He bet $3,800 and thought “a dagger” made sense. It does but it was still WRONG.
King Lear complained “How sharper than” this “it is to have a thankless child” show
3 clues later, Alex landed on the last Daily Double in “Cities on the Mississippi” under the $1,200 clue. In second place with $6,000, he had $2,400 less than Rose’s lead. He bet $2,500 and he was RIGHT.
It’s the northernmost state capital on the Mississippi. show
Alex finished in the lead with $20,500. Rose was next with $12,800 and Steven was in third place with $5,400. After the break, a reversal (see below) changed Alex’ score to $18,900.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Indira Gandhi International Airport, outside of the Indian capital, New Delhi, was originally called Palam Airport. The name was changed two years after Indira Gandhi’s 10/31/1984 assassination. According to this 2017 article in Financial Express, the Modi government plans on changing the airport’s name, as well as others. It has not happened but, apparently, it’s a hot button topic as noted in this earlier Times of India article, “Why is Everything in the Country Named after Rajiv or Indira Gandhi…” Rajiv Gandhi (Indira’s son) was assassinated in 1991.
While we’re on the airport topic: Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto Airport was shut down in April 2018.
Steven didn’t have a response. He lost $5,399 and had a dollar left.
Rose got it right. She bet $12,799 and finished with $25,599.
Alex got it, too. He bet $7,100. That brought him up to today’s winning total– $26,000 even. Alex Koral is the new Jeopardy! champ.
Reversal: QUOTES FROM SHAKESPEARE ($800) In Richard III”, “Now is” this 5-word season “made glorious summer by this sun of York” – Alex was dinged for $1600 for saying “A winter of our discontent” instead of “THE winter…”
A triple stumper from each round:
DUMPLINGS BY ANY OTHER NAME ($800) Knaidlach are matzo balls & these similarly named items are Jewish noodle dumplings
MAY THE SCHWARTZ BE WITH YOU ($800) The line for Schwartz’s Deli in this Canadian city may be long, but the smoked meat is worth it
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Sports Mascots”
The animal on this NBA team’s primary logo peaked about 75 million years ago. show
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Interesting that Steven was the only one to get the last clue in the last two games and, in this one, he was the only one not to get it.
Nice recap! Thanks.
Thanks for the compliment, Kassidy. I appreciate it.
An answer today was ‘adept’. Would they have accepted ‘adroit’?
I don’t see why not, Albert. Adroit is a synonym for adept and the clue did not specify the length of the word —
“AD”JECTIVES ($800) You’re very skilled my young helper, you’re this
They would have accepted “A Winter of our Discontent” if they asked for the book title instead of the quotation from Shakespeare.
Well, it seemed like that missed Shakespeare DD took the wind out of Steven’s sails. When I saw it, I sent my son a text that he had to watch the show today because he will totally nail that DD. I had that quote on the fridge a long time when my kids were growing up to remind them to be grateful for whatever they got.
Congrats to Alex on his victory and props to Rose. She played a great game, too.
LINK: 7 more clues from the game
Another coincidence: I have been listening to Tony Curtis’ autobiography “American Prince” on and off here since I got it as an audio book last weekend. Today, they had this $2000 clue in the Schwartz category: “Anthony Adverse” & a family named inspired actor Bernard Schwartz to take this stage nmae & use it in “Some Like It Hot”
Tony wrote about it in the book. He said “Anthony Adverse” was the only book he read in the Navy but a casting director told him there was another actor using the name, so he went with a version of a relative named Janush Kertiz. I wonder if he made all that up because there is no actor named Anthony Adverse on IMDB, but there is a 1936 “Anthony Adverse” movie and the director was Michael Curtiz. Whatever, Bernie Schwartz started out with Anthony Curtis and switched to Tony Curtis almost a decade before “Some Like It Hot”
Well, Steven played well with five games. He is already in the toc. So i am happy with that. Time to see how well Alex can do. Also VJ, how many other airports that you know of are named after famous people besides John F Kennedy and Indira Gandhi? Also congratulations to Alex on his splendid play today.
@Lou
BEN GURION, (Tel Aviv, well, close). Named after the 1st Israeli PM. e.g. I’m sure there are more..San Diego Airport was known as Lindbergh Field, but I’m sure there a hundreds of airports around the world named after people.Leonardo da Vinci in Rome, Charles de Gaulle in Paris (now the biggest AP in France and second biggest in Europe…etc etc) Orly was the biggest AP in France before Charles de Gaulle opened in 1974…and so on.
@Lou, there a ton of airports named after people. Here’s an article that tells you some of them that you would probably never even think an airport would be named after, like John Lennon and Cristiano Ronaldo
So we have the next great champion in Steven Grade. Although he lost today, he still won 5 games, broke the four-day curse, and won over $100,000.
And we’ll see him in the Tournament Of Champions.
We hope Rachel will be in too we’ll never know.
Rachel Lindgren is in the Tournament Of Champions, guaranteed. She won 5 games, and a grand total of $75,999, which is $1 shy of $76,000.
I hope they get some females in the Tournament of Champions.
I am a little bit surprised that Steven didn’t get it. I thought if anyone then HE and somebody else would know the answer. Well, we have a 5 game champ and I wouldn’t be surprised, if we would get a few more in a relative short time now. Congratulations to Alex, let’s see what he can do now. Maybe the “drought” is over.
It is now.
I take that back. One day a contestant will be next great champion. See you later, Steven.