Final Jeopardy: Middle Eastern Geography (9-1-21)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/19/2021) in the category “Middle Eastern Geography” was:

Of the 6 countries that border the Red Sea, it’s last alphabetically

Quarterfinal No. 3 of the 2021 Tournament of Champions features: 8x champ Jennifer Quail, a wine tasting consultant from Dowagiac, MI; 5x champ Paul Trifiletti, an attorney from Athens, GA; and 4x champ Ryan Hemmel, a legal technology professional from Los Angeles, CA.

Round 1 Categories: The Southern Hemisphere – Herbs – Under the USA – NFL Teams in Spanish – Between Hell & High… – Water

Jennifer found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Water” under the $600 clue on the 11th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $3,800, $2,400 more than Paul in second place. She bet $1,500 and she was RIGHT.

In ROWPU, a system that purifies any water source, the “R” stands for “reverse” and the “O” stands for this process show

WHAT IS OSMOSIS?

Jennifer finished in the lead with $5,100. Ryan was second with $3,600 and Paul was last with $2,200. No clues went uncovered.

Round 2 Categories: Names of World War II – Etymology – Literary Antagonists – -Ola – Awards & Honors – Mane’s the Same

Ryan found the first Daily Double in “Names of World War II” under the $1,600 clue on the 2nd pick. He was in second place with $4,800 now, $300 less than Jennifer’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.

In 1942 he combined 2 loves of his life –physics and New Mexico–in endorsing Los Alamos to be home of the Manhattan Project show

WO IS OPPENHEIMER?

Ryan got the last Daily Double in “Literary Antagonists” under the $1,600 clue on the very next pick. In the lead with $9,600, he had $4,500 more than Jennifer in second. He bet $3,000 and didn’t know so he was WRONG.

The blind monk Jorge of Burgos is the antagonist in this novel set in a Benedictine monastery show

WHAT IS “THE NAME OF THE ROSE”?

Jennifer finished in the lead with $17,900. Ryan was next with $10,200 and Paul was in third place with $5,800. No clues went uncovered.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS YEMEN?

Alphabetically, the 6 countries that border the Red Sea are Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen. Four of these countries are actually on the continent of Africa: Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Djibouti. Only two, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, are in Asia.

So why are the African countries included in the Middle East? Perhaps the above video will shed some light on that.

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Paul crossed out Yemen in favor of Saudi Arabia. That cost him $5,700 and left him with $100.

Ryan got it right. He bet $1,400 and finished with $11,600.

Jennifer got it, too. She bet $2,750 and won the game with $20,650. Jennifer Quail is the third ToC semifinalist. Who will win the fourth spot: MacKenzie Jones, Kevin Walsh or Ben Henri? Find out tomorrow!

A triple stumper from each round:

LITERARY ANTAGONISTS ($400) In this dystopian tale, the title narrator plays Scrabble with a commander whose name we can assume is Fred

AWARDS & HONORS ($1600) India’s 2005 Crossword Book Award for Fiction went to this novelist for “Shalimar the Clown”

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Russian Composers”

A 1913 piece by him was conceived of as the symphonic equivalent of a pagan ritual, to be titled “Great Sacrifice” show

WHO IS IGOR STRAVINSKY?

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