Final Jeopardy: U.S. Demographics (7-14-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question in the category “U.S. Demographics” was:

In 2018 Forbes said this “Belt’s Demographic Delight is” this other “Belt’s Demographic Dilemma”

Today’s players: James Holzhauer from Las Vegas,, NV, Steven Grade from Atlanta, GA, and Rachel Lindgren from Bend, OR

This is a rerun from 11/12/2019. The full recap is over here

Here are two categories from the second semi-final of the 2017 Tournament of Champions (with Buzzy Cohen, Jason Sterlacci, Lisa Schitt):

POETS & POETRY ($200) This Scot’s first poetry collection included “To a Mouse” & “To a Louse”

($400) “Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?” asks T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of” him

($600) This poem about a prince & a monster is preserved in a single manuscript from about 1000 A.D.

($800): One of Australia’s most beloved poems is Banjo Paterson’s “The Man from” this river

($1000) This Matthew Arnold poem begins, “The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair”

PRECIOUS TIME ($400) “Listen, my children, and you shall hear of” this “ride of Paul Revere”

($800) A nursery rhyme begins, “A diller, a dollar, a ten o’clock” this person

($1200) This 4-letter word is defined as “the dark part of twilight”

($1600) 6 of these in the forenoon watch is 11 A.M. to you, ya scurvy landlubber

($2000) “You expired, Jesus, but the source of life gushed forth”, begins a prayer to divine mercy named for this P.M. hour