Final Jeopardy: Landmarks (7-22-19)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/22/2019) in the category “Landmarks” was:

David Livingstone wrote of this discovery of his, “scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight”

New champ Jason Zuffranieri, a math teacher from Albuquerque, NM, won $26,600 last Friday. In Game 2, he takes on these two players: James Pelayo, a tax professional from Torrance, CA; and Cristina Somolinos, a forensic scientist from Bordentown, NJ.

Happy, Happy Birthday to Alex Trebek, and may you have many more!

Round 1 Categories: Audible Summer Reading – At the Ballpark – What’d the Captain Say? – Anagrammed Hobbies – For Weddings – A Funeral Oration

James found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “A Funeral Oration” under the $1,000 clue on the 15th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $4,200, $600 more than Jason in second place. He bet $2,000 and had something similar but shorter so he was WRONG. (They really should have indicated it was 6 words.)

General Henry Lee’s funeral oration for George Washington contains the line, “first in war, first in peace and first” here show

WHAT IS “IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN”?
James said “What is first in our hearts”

James and Jason finished in a tie for the lead with $5,400 each. Cristina was next with $1,400.

Round 2 Categories: Let’s Talk About Flags – Historic Transports – Alliterative Actors & Actresses – Poetic Words – The Living World – From “C” to “X”

James found the first Daily Double in “Flags” under the $1,600 clue on the 13th pick. He was in the lead with $12,600 at this point, $2,400 more than Jason in second place. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.

Some have noted the often-seen mix-up of this nation’s flag with the Red Cross emblem. show

WHAT IS SWITZERLAND?

Jason found the last Daily Double in “Poetic Terms” under the $1,200 clue, with 5 clues worth $4,800 left after it. In the lead with $19,400, he had $1,800 more than James in second place. He bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.

Don’t hold back, name this repeated line in a poem, also a verb meaning to hold back. show

WHAT IS REFRAIN?

Jason finished in the lead with $27,600. James was next with $18,000 and Cristina was in third place with $7,000.

NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS VICTORIA FALLS?

In November 1855, Scottish physician and explorer David Livingstone became the first European to lay eyes on Victoria Falls, an event he recorded in his journal and later wrote about in “Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa” in 1857. The Livingstone Tourism Association website has an article on the topic that says the particular passage containing “scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in flight” is often mistakenly thought to refer to the Falls, but actually refers to stretches of the Zambezi River upstream.

From 2001: HISTORY FROM HOLLYWOOD $500: In 1939 Spencer Tracy searched for this African explorer, played by Cedric Hardwicke

Cristina thought it was Timbuktu. She lost her $6,789 bet and finished with $211.

James came up with Kilimanjaro. That cost him $17,990 and left him with $10.

Jason went with “the source of the Nile.” He lost $9,000 but won the game with the $18,600 he had left. His 2-day total is $45,200.

2 triple stumpers from the first round:

AUDIBLE SUMMER READING ($1000) James Franco gives voice to this absurdist novel by Kurt Vonnegut, “Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time”

WHAT’D THE CAPTAIN SAY? ($800) A bitt is a sturdy post in a deck for fastening cables and ropes, so when the captain says, “hold on to” this, it means to grab the last part of the line, not to hang on until no hope remains

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Colleges”

When this school opened in 1845, the curriculum for the class of 50 had math & navigation, chemistry & gunnery & steam. show

WHAT IS THE U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY?

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