Final Jeopardy: International Organizations (6-27-19)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/27/2019) in the category “International Organizations” was:

The first time this organization invoked Article 5 was on September 12, 2001

The finals of the 2019 Teen Tournament are upon us. Competing in this 2-part affair are: Avi Gupta, a senior from Portland, OR; Lucas Miner, a junior from Miami, FL; and Ryan Presler, an 8th grader from Sioux Falls, SD. Whatever they finish with today will be added to tomorrow’s scores to determine the $100,000 winner.

Round 1 Categories: In & Around the State Capital – Business Pairs – Masks – On YouTube – The 1600s – That’s So Cliche

Avi found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “The 1600s” under the $400 clue on the 11th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $3,800, $3,400 more than Lucas in second place. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.

Her marriage to John Rolfe was the Virginia social event of 1614. show

WHO IS POCAHONTAS?

Avi finished in the lead with $10,800. Lucas was second with $4,000 and Ryan was last with $3,800.

Round 2 Categories: Women Soldiers – A Bit of Lit – First Names With Double Letters – Space Science – From the Greek – A Gem of a Tale

Ryan found the first Daily Double in “A Bit of Lit” under the $1,600 clue on the 9th pick. He was in second place with $6,200 now, $3,800 less than Avi’s lead. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.

In “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, the mariner shoots this bird with his crossbow. show

WHAT IS THE ALBATROSS?

Lucas found the last Daily Double in “Space Science” under the $2,000 clue, with 11 clues left after it. In third place with $7,600, he had $6,000 less than Avi’s lead. He bet $1,400 and took a shot with a radius. That was WRONG.

This measure of distance in the universe is equal to 3.26 light years. show

WHAT IS A PARSEC?

Avi finished in the lead with $17,200. Ryan was next with $16,600 and Lucas was in third place with $7,400.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS NATO?

Article 5 of NATO’s Washington Treaty begins: “The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all….” In “Invoking Article 5,” Edgar Buckley, then Asst. Secretary General for Defense Planning and Operations, Edgar Buckley relates how NATO came to invoke Article 5 the day after the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S.A. On 10/2/2011, in this Statement to the Press, then NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson announced the specific measures that would be taken.

MilitaryTimes.com: “68 years of NATO: 10 things you might not know about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization”

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Lucas got it right. He bet the farm and doubled his score to $14,800.

Ryan thought it was the United Nations. That only cost him $601. He retained $15,999.

Avi got it right, too. He bet $7,000 and finished with $24,200.

These scores will be added to tomorrow’s scores. Stay tuned to find out who wins what! All 3 finalists will win tidy sums.

2 triple stumpers from A BIT OF LIT:

($1200) Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel about growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution is called this, like an ancient capital

($2000) A mom & daughter are forced to flee Mexico for a farm labor camp in California in this “hopeful” tale by Pam Muñoz Ryan

2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Nations of the World”

Its contiguous territory covers 36 degrees of latitude, the longest stretch of any country not in the top 10 in area. show

WHAT IS CHILE?

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