Final Jeopardy: World Capitals (9-14-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (9/14/2023) in the category “World Capitals” was:
In English, name of 1 of the two 4-letter capitals with the same first & last letter, one in the N. & one in the S. Hemisphere
In the first final match of the 2023 Second Chance Tournament, the contestants are: David Maybury, a magnetics engineer orig. from Richmond, VA, Jill Tucker, an operations manager from Mulino, OR; and Hari Parameswaran, a hardware engineer from Cupertino, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Reconstruction – Let’s See How You Do with American Football – The Ohio Universities – Biology – The 2023 Time 100 – Let’s “See”
Jill found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Ohio University” under the $800 clue on the 20th pick of the round. She was in last place with $1,000, $6,800 less than David’s lead. Jill made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
In 2012 this university opened its May 4 visitors center to place a 1970 event in historical, political & social context show
David finished in the lead with $9,400. Jill was second with $2,800 and Hari was last with $2,200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Reconstruction – Pop Culture – Alliterative Geography – Hip-Hop Literary References – Speechify”ing” – Such Colorful Language!
Hari found the first Daily Double in “Alliterative Geography” under the $1,600 clue on the second pick of the round. He was in last place with $2,200, $7,200 less than David’s lead. Hari made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
Called Stingray Harbour by James Cook in 1770, it was renamed for the abundance of new plants found there show
Jill got the last Daily Double in “Pop Culture” under the $2,000 clue on the 11th pick of the round. She was in last place with $4,800, $9,400 less than David’s lead. Jill bet it all and she was RIGHT.
John Ford directed the Oscar-winning 1942 documentary “Battle of” this locale at which Ford himself was wounded show
David finished in the lead with $17,000. Jill was second with $13,600 and Hari was last with $9,600. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS OSLO or APIA?
Apia, Samoa and Oslo, Norway are the only 4-letter world capitals that start and end with the same letters. There are all kinds of other ways to categorize 4-letter world capitals. Here’s some:
Oslo is the only one that ends in O. If they wanted alphabetically first, that’s Apia. Suva is last alphabetically. Six 4-letter capitals end with “A” (Apia, Doha, Juba, Lima, Riga, Suva). Three end in “E” (Lomé, Malé, Rome). Bern and Kiev are the only ones that end in a consonant. Baku is the only one ending in “U” and only Dili ends in “I”.
How many you can place on this Sporcle map?
Hari wrote down Doha (Qatar). He lost $8,000 and finished with $1,600.
Jill got it right with Oslo. She added $6,000 to her score and finished with $19,600.
David wrote down “Lisl”. He lost $10,272 and landed in second place with $6,728. So Jill wins this battle but the war is not over. These scores will be added to tomorrow’s totals to determine who wins this week’s Second Chance Tournament.
A triple stumper from each round:
RECONSTRUCTION ($1000) In 2023, USS Chancellorsville was renamed after this black Civil War hero & Reconstruction-era congressman
THE 2023 TIME 100 ($800) He “has been on the Supreme Court for 17 years. But in 2022, he cemented his legacy”
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Music and Geography” How about that for a coincidence?
In a British folk tune, the title lass Maggie May is sentenced to go way down south to this penal colony that rhymes with her name show
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Today’s Final Jeopardy question (9/14/2023) in the category “World Capitals” was:
In English, name of 1 of the two 4-letter capitals with the same first & last letter, one in the N. & one in the S. Hemisphere
In the first final match of the 2023 Second Chance Tournament, the contestants are: David Maybury, a magnetics engineer orig. from Richmond, VA, Jill Tucker, an operations manager from Mulino, OR; and Hari Parameswaran, a hardware engineer from Cupertino, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Reconstruction – Let’s See How You Do with American Football – The Ohio Universities – Biology – The 2023 Time 100 – Let’s “See”
Jill found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Ohio University” under the $800 clue on the 20th pick of the round. She was in last place with $1,000, $6,800 less than David’s lead. Jill made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
In 2012 this university opened its May 4 visitors center to place a 1970 event in historical, political & social context show
David finished in the lead with $9,400. Jill was second with $2,800 and Hari was last with $2,200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Reconstruction – Pop Culture – Alliterative Geography – Hip-Hop Literary References – Speechify”ing” – Such Colorful Language!
Hari found the first Daily Double in “Alliterative Geography” under the $1,600 clue on the second pick of the round. He was in last place with $2,200, $7,200 less than David’s lead. Hari made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
Called Stingray Harbour by James Cook in 1770, it was renamed for the abundance of new plants found there show
Jill got the last Daily Double in “Pop Culture” under the $2,000 clue on the 11th pick of the round. She was in last place with $4,800, $9,400 less than David’s lead. Jill bet it all and she was RIGHT.
John Ford directed the Oscar-winning 1942 documentary “Battle of” this locale at which Ford himself was wounded show
David finished in the lead with $17,000. Jill was second with $13,600 and Hari was last with $9,600. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS OSLO or APIA?
Apia, Samoa and Oslo, Norway are the only 4-letter world capitals that start and end with the same letters. There are all kinds of other ways to categorize 4-letter world capitals. Here’s some:
Oslo is the only one that ends in O. If they wanted alphabetically first, that’s Apia. Suva is last alphabetically. Six 4-letter capitals end with “A” (Apia, Doha, Juba, Lima, Riga, Suva). Three end in “E” (Lomé, Malé, Rome). Bern and Kiev are the only ones that end in a consonant. Baku is the only one ending in “U” and only Dili ends in “I”.
How many you can place on this Sporcle map?
Hari wrote down Doha (Qatar). He lost $8,000 and finished with $1,600.
Jill got it right with Oslo. She added $6,000 to her score and finished with $19,600.
David wrote down “Lisl”. He lost $10,272 and landed in second place with $6,728. So Jill wins this battle but the war is not over. These scores will be added to tomorrow’s totals to determine who wins this week’s Second Chance Tournament.
A triple stumper from each round:
RECONSTRUCTION ($1000) In 2023, USS Chancellorsville was renamed after this black Civil War hero & Reconstruction-era congressman
THE 2023 TIME 100 ($800) He “has been on the Supreme Court for 17 years. But in 2022, he cemented his legacy”
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Music and Geography” How about that for a coincidence?
In a British folk tune, the title lass Maggie May is sentenced to go way down south to this penal colony that rhymes with her name show
IF YOU HAVE SUGGESTIONS FOR CHANGES TO THE SHOW OR COMPLAINTS, PLEASE SEND YOUR FEEDBACK DIRECTLY TO JEOPARDY!
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Oslo came to me right away. I’ve seen Apia in crosswords, but never would have come up with it. If anyone were to ask me to name any 4-letter capital, Oslo would be the one.
My fellow Oregonian Jill is looking good in this final. She came from way behind today.
That sounds logical, VJ. Sometimes it’s really hard to know what contestants are thinking, based on some of the answers. My “favorite” mistake is misreading the question, which has produced some pretty awful answers. Still, I’m glad FJ only wanted ONE of the capitals – I had a hard time with Apia. Your hints were really helpful if that or similar categories come up in the future. LOVE this website and appreciate all your hard work.
Thanks, Sam, it’s good to know the info is helpful.
I completely agree about them only wanting one, but they must have felt it was fair (1 easy, 1 hard) just like David had to know Lisbon doesn’t have 4 letters 🤣
Ken indicated in Final Jeopardy that he thought David was going for Lisbon. I thought he just put an L on the end of Lis to match the beginning L 🤣
Maybe The Sound of Music was on his mind?