Final Jeopardy: Landmarks (6-11-19)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/11/2019) in the category “Landmarks” was:

Poet Rabindranath Tagore compared this landmark to a teardrop glistening on the cheek of time

New champ Martin Kane, a high school teacher from Martin, TN, won $35,601 yesterday. In Game 2, he takes on these two players: Dan Martson, a forklift operator from Declo, ID; and Terri Evans, a writer & editor from Natick, MA.

Round 1 Categories: I’m on the Money – Keep Your Places Straight – Recent Cinema of the Past – Baby – Sharp – “Doo”, “Doo”, “Doo”, “Doo”, “Doo”, “Doo”

Terri found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Keep Your Places Straight” under the $800 clue on the 8th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $400 and actually the only one with any money. She bet $600 and took a guess with Tulane. That was WRONG.

“We are here” in this city– but the one with a U. of Louisiana campus, or the seat of Tippecanoe County, Indiana? show

WHAT IS LAFAYETTE?

Martin finished in the lead with $6,800. Terri was second with $2,600 and Dan was last with $2,200.

Round 2 Categories: Birthplaces – Business – Literary Green Thumb – What Happened? – Ferguson – From the German

Martin found the first Daily Double in “Literary Green Thumb” under the $1,200 clue on the 11th pick. He was in the lead with $10,800 now, $7,000 more than Dan in second place. He bet $4,200 and he was RIGHT.

In “Through the Looking-Glass”, Alice meets a talking one of these flowers, also a character’s name in “Peter Pan” show

WHAT IS TIGER LILY?

Dan got the last Daily Double in “Business” under the $800 clue, the very last clue of the round. In second place with $12,600, he had $7,600 less than Martin’s lead. Quite the stroke of luck, eh? Especially after Martin skipped over that clue on the way down. Dan couldn’t have looked any happier. He bet $8,000 and he was RIGHT.

Almost a decade after a big spill, it’s the biggest company by revenue that’s headquartered in England. show

WHAT IS B.P. (British Petroleum)?

That put Dan in the lead with $20,600. Martin was next with $20,200 and Terri was in third place with $5,000.

ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS THE TAJ MAHAL?

From the Taj Mahal’s website: “Taj Mahal stands on the bank of River Yamuna…. It was built by the fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan in 1631 in memory of his third but the most favourite wife, in fact a soul-mate Mumtaz Mahal, a Muslim Persian princess. She died while accompanying her husband in Burhanpur in a campaign to crush a rebellion after giving birth to their 13th child. The death so crushed the emperor that all his hair and beard were said to have grown snow white in a few months.”

More Famous Landmarks in India: Curiously, the Taj Mahal is No. 7 on this list.

Terri bet $4,900, bringing her up to $9,900.

Martin bet $401, finishing with $20,601.

Dan bet $20,000 and won the game with $40,600 and that makes him the new Jeopardy! champ.

A triple stumper from each round:

RECENT CINEMA OF THE PAST ($2000) Director Paul Greengrass dramatizes the 2011 attacks that killed 77 in this nation in “22 July”

BUSINESS ($2000) The Wallenberg family once controlled 40% of the value of this city’s stock market

2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “16th Century Names”

In his 1557 almanac this French doctor predicted, “Immortal I shall be in life, and in death even more so” show

WHO IS NOSTRADAMUS?

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