Final Jeopardy: Mediterranean Islands (6-11-15)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/11/2015), in the category “Mediterranean Islands” was:

A statue of St. Paul is located on this island where he took refuge after a shipwreck.
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New champ Darren Harris-Fain won $22,000 yesterday. Today he is up against two new challengers: Kathryn Tesar, from Austin, TX; and Kyle Stephens, originally from Milwaukee, WI.

Round 1: Darren found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Way Back in 2012” under the $800 clue. He was in the lead with $4,000, $3,200 more than Kyle in second place. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.

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Darren finished in the lead with $6,400. Kyle was second with $2,200 and Kathryn was last with $600.

Round 2: Darren found the first Daily Double in “A Novel Look” under the $800 clue on the third pick of the round. He was in the lead with $7,200, $5,000 ahead of Kyle in second place. He bet $2,800 and he was RIGHT.

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Darren found the last Daily Double in “Presidents” under the $1,600 clue. He had a runaway lead now with $16,400, $8,600 ahead of Kyle in second place. He bet $3,600 and he was RIGHT.

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Darren scored his second runaway with an amazing $30,400. Kyle was next with $9,000 and Kathryn was in third place with $600.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS MALTA?

St. Paul’s travels around the Mediterranean appear in Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament. The accounts of the shipwreck that occurred at Malta and Paul’s 3-month stay on the island are detailed in Chapter 27 and Chapter 28. St. Paul is the patron saint of Malta. The Feast of St. Paul’s Shipwreck is a national holiday in Malta, celebrated every February 10th and a statue of St. Paul accompanies the procession around Valletta.

The statue shown to the players is located at St. Paul’s Grotto in Rabat, where according to tradition, the Apostle took refuge in a cave. The Times of Malta very recently reported on the statue on St Paul’s Island where the shipwreck occurred. It is being repaired after getting rather weather-beaten itself over the past year.

Kathryn wrote down Tarsus (where Paul originally came from, not an island). She didn’t bet anything and remained at $600.

Kyle got it right. He risked $512 and finished with $9,512.

Darren wrote down Cyprus (Paul hung out there, too. Acts 13). He lost his $4,600 bet and won this match with $25,800. His 2-day total is $47,800.

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