Final Jeopardy: International Geographic (5-10-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/10/2023) in the category “International Geographic” was:
In 1901 6 colonies joined together to form this nation, today the sixth largest in area
5x champ Hannah Wilson, a data scientist from Chicago, IL, won $147,801 so far. In Game 6, she takes on these two players: Brad Davis, a talent acquisition writer from Kansas City, MO; and Hope Silberstein, an attorney from Penn Valley, PA.
Round 1 Categories: Welcome to the U.S. House! – Classic Movies – Here, There & Everywhere – Mission: Impassable – Way Back in the 1900s – After School
Brad found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Classic Movies” under the $1,000 clue on the third pick of the round. He was in the lead with $400, $200 more than Hannah in second place. Brad bet the $1,000 allowance and he was RIGHT.
An Alex Trebek movie trivia favorite: who are Janning, Hahn, Lampe & Hofstetter? (We’ll add they’re the German judges on trial in this movie) show
Hannah finished in the lead with $9,400. Brad was second with $1,800. Hope was last with $800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Better Tomes & Gardens – From the French – The Elements – New New Orleans Music – Believe It or Not… – Straight to Jail
Brad found the first Daily Double in “The Elements” under the $1,600 clue on the 5th pick of the round. He was in second place with $2,600, $6,400 less than Hannah’s lead. Brad made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
The name of this metal element also a deep blue pigment, comes from a German word for a goblin said to trouble its miners show
Hannah got the last Daily Double in “Straight to Jail” under the $1,200, with a dozen clues left after it. She was in the lead with $14,600 now, $10,600 more than Brad in second place. Hannah bet $4,000 and she was RIGHT.
In 1919 he came up with a scheme regarding postal reply coupons & would later offer investors 50% interest in 45 days show
Hannah finished in the lead with a runaway $23,000. Brad was second with $6,400. Hope was last with negative $800 and out of the game at this point. All clues were shown.
NEITHER contestant left in Final Jeopardy! got it right.
WHAT IS AUSTRALIA?
Before 1901, the 6 British colonies of Australia operated independently of each other. Convict transportation to Australia had ceased by 1868 and by the 1890s, most of the colonies’ population was Australian-born. A movement towards uniting the six colonies as a nation became a hot topic. To that end, each colony worked toward creating a national Constitution. After it was approved, “British Parliament passed a law—the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act. The 6 colonies became the 6 states of Australia and federal Parliament was created. This is known as Federation.” The Constitution was proclaimed on January 1, 1901. More on the Parliamentary Education Office website
Australian Timeline: Australia still did not become fully independent from the U.K. until 1986
Brad chose Kazakhstan, the 9th largest country by area. He lost $6,399 and was left with a dollar.
Hannah didn’t have a response. She lost $7,000 but won the game with the $16,000. Hannah’s 6-day total is $163,801.
2 triple stumpers from BETTER TOMES & GARDENS:
($800) The gamekeeper’s little garden in this D.H. Lawrence novel features “double daffodils” that “rose in Tufts”
($1600) After finding a key, Mary in this Frances Hodgson Burnett tale says, “Perhaps it has been buried for ten years”
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Classic Albums”
The title of this huge hit 1977 album was the idea of the bass player, who specified it should be spelled the British way show
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Oh, and, Madame Bovary? Really?
Although, where was it, Jeopardy! or Masters, where, recently, the nominal Lover was identified in a clue? That made it fresh in my mind.
That was the third clue on that D.H. Lawrence novel this season and the second one to have the word “gamekeeper” in it. Gamekeeper is the tipoff for this novel (or Mellors if they name him).
Hannah is no great shakes at literature and I wonder how that will affect her chances in the ToC. That doesn’t seem to matter much in these regular games so far, even though they regularly have lit categories, as opposed to Arthur Chu’s run where Sports was his weakness and they rarely had any sports clues!
GO, HANNAH!!!!!!! WHOO!!!!!!
I went with Brazil.
Got less than half the TS correct. However, my errors were largely in line with Hannah, like the substance used to treat syphilis. I also said mercury.
Brad seemed to be his own worst enemy today.
Out of desperation, I settled with Yugoslavia for FJ, but I knew that wasn’t going to gain any traction.
I thought the final was either between Australia, Brazil, or India.
That was a tough final as we got a double stumper.