Final Jeopardy: North American Cities (7-8-19)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/8/2019) in the category “North American Cities” was:

In 2017 this city celebrated its 375th birthday & the 50th anniv. of an event that made it an international tourist destination

2x champ Ryan Bilger, a student from Macungie, PA, won $63,849 last week. In Game 3, he takes on these two players: Holly Ahronheim, a stay-at-home mom from Royal Palm Beach, FL; and Sarah Hoban, a freelance writer and editor from Barrington, IL.

Round 1 Categories: Every Pitcher Tells a Story – A La What? – A Past-iche – “J”-6 – On Weekends – Visit a National Park

Ryan found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “National Park” under the $800 clue, with 2 clues worth $400 left after it. He was in second place with $4,600, $200 less than Holly and Sarah, who were tied for the lead. As Alex pointed out, this category was right up Ryan’s alley. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.

In 2019 vandalism during the govt. shutdown damaged many of these trees in their Mojave National Park. show

WHAT ARE JOSHUA TREES?

The round ended there with Ryan in the lead with $9,200. Holly and Sarah both had $4,800.

Round 2 Categories: Actresses – Multi-Word Soundalikes – The Power of Three – Mammals – Augustus – Fictional Languages

Ryan found the first Daily Double in “Fictional Languages” under the $1,600 clue on the 10th pick. He was in the lead with $10,800 at this point, $5,200 more than Holly in second place. He bet $6,000 and he was RIGHT.

Mangani, language of the apes. show

WHO IS EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS?

Sarah found the last Daily Double in “Mammals” under the $1,600 clue, with 6 clues to go after it. In second place with $7,200, she had $18,000 less than Ryan’s lead. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT. That put the kibosh on Ryan’s runaway status.

More than half the tigers left in the world are this subspecies from India. show

WHAT IS BENGAL?

Ryan finished in the lead with $25,200. Sarah was next with $16,400 and Holly was in third place with $7,200.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS MONTREAL?

In 2017, Montreal celebrated the 375th anniversary of its founding on May 17, 1642 (by Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, and Jeanne Mance) with a whole year of festivities. CBC has a report on how successful that was.

During that time, the 50th anniversary of Expo ’67 was also celebrated. Here’s an article on PIMRC2017 that says in part: “Expo 67 was a Category One World’s Fair, the first to be called ‘Expo’ and became the most successful World’s Fair of the 20th century…. Today Expo 67 ranks as the fourth most popular world exposition of all time, after Shanghai, Osaka and Paris.

Holly thought it was Woodstock. She bet and lost it all.

Sarah got it right. She bet $16,000, bringing her up to $32,400.

Ryan got it right, too. He bet $7,601 and won the game with $32,801. His 3-day total is $96,650.

A triple stumper from each round:

A PAST-ICHE ($600) Want to see a passionate history professor? Watch this late comic work himself up to a scream in “Back to School”

THE POWER OF THREE ($2000) The Bill Evans Trio showed the power of jazz piano in albums like “Sunday at” this club named for its Greenwich Village location

2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “The Human Body”

Often considered appealing, these features are a genetic defect of the zygomaticus muscles of the face. show

WHAT ARE DIMPLES?

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