Final Jeopardy: World Rivers (9-28-22)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (9/28/2022) in the category “World Rivers” was:

These 2 rivers share the names of countries, end with the same 4 letters & both join up with the Parana River

2x champ David Sibley, an Episcopal Priest from Walla Walla, WA, won $44,200 this week. In Game 3, he takes on these two players: Sam Wang, a statistics professor from Ithaca, NY; and Emily Hackbarth, a middle school counselor from Ames, IA.

Round 1 Categories: Off to New England – Hatchet Man – History – One-Named Rock Stars – Material – I Long for Long “U”

Emily found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Material” under the $800 clue just before the break. She was in the lead with $3,000, $2,000 more than Sam in second place. Emily bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.

Portugal is the world’s leading producer of this material that makes a whopper of a stopper show

WHAT IS CORK?

Emily finished in the lead with $7,600. Sam was in second place with $2,600. David was last with $2,200. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: Cliff Notes – A Letter, Then A Word – The Right Brothers – The Actor’s Studio – Naturalists – And the State Goes to…

David found the first Daily Double in “Actor Studios” under the $2,000 clue on the 10th pick of the round. He was in second place with $7,000, $1,400 less than Emily’s lead. David bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.

Charlie Chaplin banded together with 3 other moviemakers to found this studio in 1919 show

WHAT IS UNITED ARTISTS?

David got the last Daily Double in “Cliff Notes” under the $800 clue with 2 clues left after it. In the lead with $12,600, he had $3,800 more than Emily in second place. David bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.

Alice Duer Miller’s “The White Cliffs”, a prose poem about WWI & WWII, mentions this town in its third line show

WHAT IS DOVER?

David finished in the lead with $14,600. Emily was in second place with $8,800 and Sam was last with $7,800. One $400 clue in Naturalists was not shown.

NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT ARE THE PARAGUAY & URUGUAY RIVERS?

Here’s an excerpt from Social Studies for Kids that mentions the two South American rivers referred to in the clue: “The Parana is the 14th-longest river in the world, flowing 2,485 miles across southeastern South America. It begins at the junction of the Paranaiba and the Rio Grande rivers, flows southwest to the Paraguay River, then south and east through Argentina to the Uruguay River and the Rio de la Plata.”

Storyteller.com has a list of the 12 longest rivers in South America. At 3,030 miles (4,880 km), the Paraná is the second longest (after the Amazon, of course). The Paraguay River, at 1,675 miles (2,695 km), comes in at No. 6. At 1,142 miles (1,838 km), the Uruguay is No. 12.

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Sam thought it was the Congo & Zimbabwe. He lost his $7,700 bet and finished with $100.

Emily only got as far as Panama. That cost her $6,000 and left her with $2,800.

David wrote down Peru & Ecuador. He lost his $3,001 bet but won the game with the $11,599 he had left. David Sibley’s 3-day total is $55,799.

2 triple stumpers from THE RIGHT BROTHERS:

($1600) After the death of 5 brothers of this last name in WWII, the U.S. instituted the sole survivor policy to prevent a repeat

($2000) These brothers made their first public hot air balloon demonstration in southern France in 1783 (image)

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “On the Old Map”

On the U.N. website’s map of the world in 1945, these 2 initials of a member state appear 13 times on continental Africa show

WHAT IS U.K.?

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