Final Jeopardy: The Western Hemisphere (7-13-16)

The Final Jeopardy question (7/13/2016) in the category “The Western Hemisphere” was:

Discovered in 1535, this island group on the equator got perhaps its most famous visitor exactly 300 years later.

2x champ Jason George scored big yesterday, bringing his 2-day winnings up to $53,600. Today he takes on these two players: Benn Millman, from Vancouver, BC, Canada; and Sue Baker, from Madison, WI.

Round 1 Categories: Places, Everyone – Sitcom Last Names – Tequila – “Log” Jam – Before They Were First Ladies – Peter the Not Great

Sue found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “First Ladies” under the $600 clue. There were just 2 clues left after it. She was in third place with $2,000, $3,000 less than Benn’s lead. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.

In the fall of 1951 she got her first job as the “Inquiring Camera Girl” at the Washington Times-Herald.  show

WHO IS JACKIE KENNEDY?

Sue finished in the lead with $4,800. Benn was second with $4,200 and Jason was last with $4,000.

Round 2 Categories: Who’s Your Daddy? – Polysyllabic – Teasing – American Novelists – Foo Fighters – Learn To Fly

Jason found the first Daily Double in “Learn to Fly” under the $1,600 clue on the 2nd pick of the round. No one got the first clue, so he still had $4,000, $800 less than Sue’s lead. He bet everything and he was RIGHT.

In 1871 the first of these chambers was created, allowing wings to be tested in a stream of air. show

WHAT IS A WIND TUNNEL?

7 clues later, Jason found the last Daily Double in “Polysyllabic” under the $2,000 clue. He was in the lead with $8,000 now, $2,400 more than Sue in second place. He bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.

5 syllables: a 19th c. song said. “I am” this/ “then urge be not to pause / for joyfully do I enlist / in freedom’s sacred cause. show

WHAT IS AN ABOLITIONIST?

Jason finished in the lead with $13,600. Sue was next with $9,600 and Benn was in third place with $9,400.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT ARE THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS?

Fray Tomás de Berlanga, 4th Bishop of Panama, is credited with the discovery of the Galapagos Islands in 1535, in terms of putting it on the map. Sailing from Panama to Peru, the bishop’s ship went off its course. For lack of water, they were forced to go ashore when land was sighted. The Bishop’s report of the episode eventually resulted in the islands’ inclusion on world maps as “Insulae de los Galopegos” (“Islands of the Tortoises”), after the giant tortoises seen there.

“Charles Darwin came to the Islands aboard the HMS Beagle, captained by Robert Fitzroy in 1835…. he made extensive collections of plants and animals, and recorded observations on their natural history which were later to form the foundation for his work ‘The Origin of Species’, published 24 years later – the rest is just history! (from Galapagos Discovery on ms-starship.com

Benn got it right. He bet $9,396 and finished with $18,796.

Sue also got it. Her $9,400 bet brought her up to $19,000.

Jason thought it was the Cook Islands. He lost his $5,601 bet, leaving him with $7,999. So Sue Baker won the match, much to her amazement. She is the new Jeopardy! champ.

These three triple stumpers are from the “American Novelists” category:

($400) Paul Gallico began as a sportswriter but is remembered for the “Adventure” of this capsized ocean liner

($800) This 19th century author of coming of age novels was featured on a 1940 postage stamp

($1600) This Nobel prize winner’s novel “Jazz” is her meditation of life in Harlem in the 1920s

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “20 Years Ago in Entertainment”

In 1994 this comedian starred in a No. 1 sitcom, the No. 1 Christmas movie & had a No. 1 non-fiction bestseller. show

WHO IS TIM ALLEN?

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