Final Jeopardy: World of Water (6-21-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/21/2023) in the category “World of Water” was:
The Bass Strait divides Tasmania & mainland Australia & hydrographers have disputed which of these 2 larger bodies it’s part of
3x champBen Goldstein, a content marketing strategist from Dexter, MI, has now won $21,293. In Game 4, he takes on these two players: Nabeela Rahman, a co-operative education coordinator from Mississauga, Ontario; and Lee Papa, a professor from Bloomfield, NJ.
Round 1 Categories: Collect ‘Em All! – -Ologies – Misheard Lyrics – Official Nicknames – Nevada – The “Silver” State
Ben found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Official Nicknames” under the $800 clue on the 20th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $4,400, $1,600 more than Nabeela in second place. Ben bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
For 2020, the centennial year of American women getting to vote, Philadelphia got this altered nickname show
Ben finished in the lead with $7,400. Nabeela was second with $3,400 and Lee was last with $1,600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: The Plot Thickens – Alliteration – History Is Elemental – Celebs – Discovery & Invention – Shoe Gazing
Lee found the first Daily Double in “The Plot Thickens” under the $1,600 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. He was in last place with $1,600, $5,800 less than Ben’s lead. Lee bet $1,000 and thought it was the Trojan Women. That was WRONG.
A group of Trojan refugees reach Latium at the mouth of the Tiber River show
Ben got the last Daily Double in “Alliteration” under the $1,200 clue on the 7th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $8,600 now, $6,400 more than Nabeela in second place. Ben bet $1,400 and had no response so he was WRONG.
In 2022 getting a chance to see Taylor Swift in concert was the definition of this challenging phrase show
Ben finished in the lead with a runaway $15,200. Nabeela was second with $6,200 and Lee was last with $4,600. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT ARE THE INDIAN & PACIFIC OCEANS?
Most sites with facts about smaller bodies of water start out by indicating which larger body of water they are part of. Evidently, that’s not so with the Bass Strait because of the lack of agreement. As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, so I’m going to link to the list of Major Straits of the World on lotusaris.com where the Bass Strait is No. 12. They have a nice big map over there that shows the bodies of water surrounding the Bass Strait. The bodies of water in the largest print are the Indian and Pacific Oceans. However, based on the map, you can be the judge of whether they should have accepted the Indian Ocean and the Tasman Sea if that was your guess. Personally, I can’t see why they couldn’t.
Softschools.com has an interesting list of Bass Strait facts, from a 1978 UFO sighting to monster crayfish!
Lee thought it was the Atlantic & Pacific. He lost $1,401 and finished with $3,199.
Nabeela got it right. She bet $6,000 and finished with $12,200.
Ben got it right, too. He bet $800 and won the game with $16,000 even. His 4-day total is $37,293.
3 triple stumpers from THE PLOT THICKENS:
($800) George Shelby arrives too late to save the life of the title character & resolves to dedicate his life to abolition
($1200) An American fighting in the International Brigade enlists a band of guerrillas in a plot to blow up a bridge near Segovia
($2000) An Irish orphan living among the locals in India is trained to be a spy for the British Secret Service
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Movie Character”
A character who was going to be called Lunar Larry became him, inspired by the name of a real person show
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So, what kind of professor is Lee? I mean, Pacific and Atlantic? Really? I got Final easily, at least.
The Asian Steppe nation, my voice was rising with each answer.
Ok, anyone who reads what I write (I think that’s about 1.5 of y’all) knows I’m not a fan of Mayim, but, that cetology clue, that one, Alex, definitely, would have said, “More specific”, she just gave away. It asked for the largest. Whale is not enough.
Touché, Jason — Ken would have said “close enough” 🤣🤣🤣
Geography can be tough for me, but Indian Ocean and Tasman sea were all I could come up with, even though Tasmania was in the clue.
Nabeela was right there in DJ but imploded near the end, and Ben sealed the deal.
There were a few I thought someone might know: George Shelby/abolition book; the folk art waterfowl; residency time in Nevada; Hiram Bingham; and the Spanish shoe designer. And of course the study of words, which isn’t identified as a stumper in the recap, and the Hebrew documents. The book about the Irish orphan/spy we read in 8th grade nearly 60 years ago, but I didn’t remember anything about it.
Back in the 50s and 60s, if a woman wanted a quickie divorce, she’d move to Reno and establish residency for 6 or so weeks. Mary Rockefeller did that when she divorced governor Nelson. He was quite the randy politician.
@Howard, the study of words TS is checked off (*) in the Sneak Peek answers on Page 2.
I never read the Kipling book with the Irish orphan, but I saw the 1950 movie with Dean Stockwell in the title role and Errol Flynn as Mahbub Ali, the Red Beard.
I don’t think literature is a strong category for Ben. If he makes the ToC, he’ll need to study up on that or he’ll get creamed. Suresh, too. Remember his $5.00 DD bet in a Novel category in his 5th game?
OK, now I see it. Neglected to click on the answers. It’s not a super-common word, but certainly 1 of 3 at least should have known it. A good vocabulary is valuable in so many ways. It was drummed into us as early as grade school. Our class subscribed to Reader’s Digest, and we always did the multiple choice Word Power quiz.
I also credit Word Power for my vocabulary as well as my mother. My grandparents had a ton of RDs .
VJ, I’m rather curious about the FJ answer today. When I look at the Bass Strait on your link, (to me) it appears obvious it touches the Indian Ocean and the Tasman Sea. The question (again, to me) is not phrased to favor the Pacific Ocean. As two of the contestants got it right, I wonder what I’m missing? I checked other maps and quite often the Tasman Sea is shown in the same place as the Pacific Ocean, usually one name on top of the other.. Thanks for agreeing with me that either Tasman Sea or Pacific Ocean could be correct.
Sam, the Tasman Sea is one of many seas that are considered divisions of the Pacific Ocean. So if the Bass Strait waters mingle with the Tasman Sea, I don’t think it’s wrong to say either one for this clue. After all, the Tasman Sea is larger than the Bass Strait.
Funny– if they only wanted oceans, they could have specified that and got the same responses.
That’s what I thought. The phrasing seemed to indicate the Tasman Sea rather than Pacific Ocean but I’m easily confused these days. Thanks again for all you do. This site ROCKS!
Thanks to a fourth win by Ben Goldstein, he is now eligible for the Tournament of Champions. Now we have two Bens in the same tournament. I wonder what will happen if two Bens play on the same match. We never had two players with the same name compete against each other.
Yes, there have been. The person at the right most podium some time late in Alex’s time went by “Rock”, because his name was the same as the champ. IIRC, Rock was bald. Alex made mention that both players had the same name, so, the challenger used his nickname.