Final Jeopardy: Countries of the World (5-17-16)

The Final Jeopardy question (5/17/2016) in the category “Countries of the World” was:

This country’s 2 main ethnic groups are Punjabi (who are also found in india) & Pashtun (also living in Afghanistan).

Today’s Power Players are CNN’s Anderson Cooper, playing for Spike’s K9 Fund; CBS correspondent, Lara Logan, playing for Committee To Protect Journalists; and political analyst Michael Steele, playing for Catholic Charities Mona Center.

Round 1 Categories: Men of Steel – The CDC Says – Just the Facts – Presidential Music? – Around the World – Words from the Portuguese

Anderson found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Words from Portuguese” under the $600 clue. He was in the lead with $3,400, $2,200 more than Lara in second place. He bet $1,000 and couldn’t come up with a guess so he was WRONG.

Its original Portuguese name literally means “snake with a hood”.  show

WHAT IS COBRA?

Anderson finished in the lead with $2,600. Michael was second with $1,600 and Lara was last with $1,200.

Round 2 Categories: The Reagan White House – People in History – Movie Quotes – Nonfiction – I Need – Your Vote

Lara found the first Daily Double in “Your Vote” under the $800 clue on the 15th pick. She was in the lead with $6,800, double what Anderson had in second place. She bet $1,000 but got all flustered and couldn’t come up with it so she was WRONG.

The scarecrow knows about this kind of unofficial vote held as a gauge of opinion. show

WHAT IS A STRAW POLL?

Anderson found the last Daily Double in “The Reagan White House” under the $2,000 clue. There were 10 clues after it but you already knew we weren’t going to get to all of them even before Alex said “We’re almost out of time.” At $3,000, Anderson was in second place with $2,800 less than Lara’s lead. He bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.

In 1983 this wife of a U.S. Senator became the first female head of the Department of Transportation. show

WHO IS ELIZABETH DOLE?

Lara finished in the lead with $5,800. Anderson was next with $4,000 and Michael was in third place with $1,600.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS PAKISTAN?

Ethnicity in Pakistan is a blog that gives a breakdown of the nation’s ethic groups: “The province Punjab, also known as the land of five rivers constitutes various ethnic groups. Arabs, Afghani’s, Persians and Turks ruled the land mainly. Even though all these empires gradually disappeared from Punjab, but their culture and language became a part of people’s lives. Punjabi language has different dialects and there are almost 63 dialects of Punjabi are spoken throughout the province of Punjab. Pushtuns [aka Pashtuns], generally referred to as Pathans, are the natives of West Indus River. They are the second largest ethnic group in Pakistan. Their majority population lives in Karachi and then in Peshawar. Their unique code of conduct is based on tribal structure and referred to as Pushtunwali…” The article continues with the other groups and has a visual breakdown on a map.

For Students: National Geographic has a downloadable map as well as study questions and vocabulary

Michael wrote down “What is a place far far away.” He lost his $1,000 bet and finished with $600.

Anderson got it right. His $3,998 bet brought him up to $7,998.

Lara also got it. She bet $4,000 making today’s winning total $9,800. Her charity wins $50,000.

These two triple stumpers were both in non-fiction:

($1200) A recent bestseller tells of “The Immortal Life of” this woman & how her HeLA cells became invaluable to medicine

($2000) His “A Brief History of Time” was subtitled “From the Big Bang to Black Holes”

2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “British Novels”

Stephen King borrowed the name of his fictional town Castle Rock from this 1950s novel that greatly influenced him. show

WHAT IS “LORD OF THE FLIES”?

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