Final Jeopardy: Asia (5-25-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/25/2023) in the category “Asia” was:
Trained as an engineer, Premier Li Peng championed this in 1992; it would ultimately displace over a million people
New champ Ed Petersen, a planning technician from Orlando, FL, won $7,999 yesterday. In Game 2, his opponents are: Jesse Chin, an accounting director from Bayside, NY; and Megan Braught, a library assistant from Mechanicsburg, PA.
Round 1 Categories: Coastal Waters – Flag Terminology – Up In The Airline – Numerical Words & Phrases – Our Returning Champion – A Doctor From Chicago, Illinois
Jesse found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Our Returning Champion” under the $1,000 clue on the 13th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $2,600, $600 more than Ed in second place. Jesse bet $1,000 and said Buzz Aldrin. That was WRONG.
This man had the astronomical luck of being honored twice with a New York ticker tape parade, in 1962 & 1998 show
Ed finished in the lead with $5,600. Megan was second with $3,000. Jesse was last with $2,800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Galactic Vacations – Shakespeare & His World – Euro Coins – Music Of The Month – Politicians – Crossword Clues “V”
Megan found the first Daily Double in “Shakespeare & His World” under the $2,000 clue on the 12th pick of the round. She was in last place with $3,400 now, $5,800 less than Ed’s lead. Megan bet $2,000 and came up with “the dirt something.” She knew that was WRONG.
If you were part of this “earthy” group taking in a play at the Globe Theatre, you paid the lowest amount to stand in the pit & watch show
Jesse got the last Daily Double in “Politicians” under the $2,000 clue on the 17th pick of the round. He was in second place with $5,600 now, $3,800 less than Ed’s lead. Jesse bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.
He talked about being a Vietnam vet, 5-term Senator & Secretary of State in the memoir “Every Day is Extra” show
Jesse finished in the lead with $14,800. Ed was second with $12,400 and Megan was last with $6,200. All clues were shown.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
https://youtu.be/5OWNN2e2jKc
WHAT IS THE THREE GORGES DAM?
yangtzeriver.org has a page on the history of Three Gorges Dam that includes Mao Zedong’s 1956 poem “Swimming” (in case you’re wondering what that is when you open the page). The initial idea for the dam can be traced back to Sun Yat-sen in 1919. On again-off again plans dogged the project for decades until 1992 when the National People’s Congress approved the dam…. It began construction on the 14th of December 1994 with the intention of it being fully operational in 2009.” However, it took another 3 years for that.
Although the above video is outdated, many of the same concerns about the Three Gorges Dam continue in the present.
Megan bet $1,200 and finished with $7,400.
Ed bet $2,401 and finished with $14,801.
Jesse bet $10,001 and won the game with $24,801. Jesse Chin is the new Jeopardy! champ.
2 triple stumpers from the last round:
SHAKESPEARE & HIS WORLD ($1600) This 3-word nickname for Shakespeare is based in part on his place of birth in 1564
EURO COINS ($1600) Luxembourg’s euro coins bear the image of Henri, its reigning monarch with this 2-word title
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Eastern Geography”
Of the 6 countries that border the Red Sea, it’s last alphabetically show
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This panel of players didn’t strike me as typically “Jeopardy bright”. Maybe Megan, but, the $1000 V clue should have been gotten by someone. Then again, maybe it’s just that they’re not that charismatic.
Unusually, I got more than half of the TS, along with all DD, and final. As far as final goes, my thought was “what else could it be?”
And, the wagering strategy for Megan and Ed was wanting.
I actually saw the FJ wagers as intelligent. Ed’s $2401 wager insured he’d beat Jesse by $1 in case Jesse bet $0, as unlikely as that was. Jesse was more likely to bet $10001, which he did. If both got FJ wrong, then Ed could win with $9999, depending on Megan’s success or failure.. Megan’s $1200 wager was correct. She had to figure Ed would bet it all, Jesse would bet $10001, and hope both would miss. And if she missed too, she’d have $5K, which would be enough to win since Jesse would sink to $4799 and Ed to $0. So I’m OK with all 3 wagers. (Although as it might have played out, a larger wager by Megan would have put her past Ed if he’d gone down to $9999 with a wrong response and a right one by her.)
Boy howdy, now I look like a simpleton! I didn’t EVEN see that! Thank you!
Must confess that they all got FJ and I didn’t. But the IRS needs to investigate all 3 of them because it appears they’ve never filed an income tax return. Good grief!
Lots of gettable stumpers: the astronaut who went into space 35 years apart (DD); the earthy group at the Globe (DD) (got this only because I knew it as the famous improv group that spawned a number of actors/comedians and not as a Shakespearean audience); 3-word name for Shakespeare; Luxembourg’s monarch (anyone remember Peter Sellers in “The Mouse that Roared”?); Don Adams agent # (“Missed it by THIS MUCH”); Heifetz/Midori.
Guess I’m happy for Jesse because he’s from Bayside, Queens, NYC, where my uncle/aunt/cousins lived, about 5 miles from where we did.
That tax form snafu was comical, Howard. Ed obviously thought the clue meant the form you get from an employer. Then Megan mixed it up even more. For $200, Jesse didn’t even want to get involved.
On the very slight chance you don’t know the origin of the word snafu, look it up. It’s somewhat amusing but not really repeatable in a G-rated publication/site.
Howard, What baffled me on the IRS triple stumper is that one of the contestants was an accountant. 🤔 I’m assuming that an Accounting Director would be an Accountant.
Good catch. Yes, one would think so. W-4 and W-2 made me cringe. Jesse’s in the Facebook contestants group, so I may throw him some shade about that one.
The FJ was a dead give away this time around. Actually, the way the FJs were going lately, I would have to readily admit that I expected another triple stumper, and then some.