Final Jeopardy: Sports Geography (7-22-13)
The Final Jeopardy question (7/22/2013) in the category “Sports Geography” was:
Though they live elsewhere, Alan Page & Dan Dierdorf will both always be in this Ohio city where they were born.
New champ Alan Baltis, from Lakewood, OH, returns today to try to augment his winnings of $2,199 in Friday’s game. He is competing against these two new players: Mary Nadal from Las Vegas, NV; and Patrick Geary from Sheridan, WY.
Patrick found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “60s Speeches.” He was in second place with $3,800, $400 behind Alan’s lead when he found it. But then Alan got dinged for a prior answer that he blew in the same category* by adding in some unnecessary info. So now Patrick and Alan were in a tie with $3,800 each and Mary was in second place with $3,000. Patrick bet $1,200 and he was RIGHT. (Don’t know if Trebek’s Russian voice impression was any help).
“The aircraft of… the United States of America treacherously invaded the air space of the Soviet Union.”
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*The clue in 60s speech that Alan elaborated on had the Promised Land quote from Martin Luther King’s “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” Speech. All Alan had to get was the speaker and he did, but for some reason he said it was from the “I Have a Dream” speech.
Patrick finished in the lead with $5,000. Alan and Mary were now tied in second place with $3,800 each.
Alan found the first Double Jeopardy Daily Double in “Word & Phrase Origins.” He was in second place with $4,200, $800 less than Patrick’s lead. He boldly made it a true Daily Double but could not come up with a guess so he was WRONG. (Maybe a George Clooney impression would have helped).
A weather event off Cape Ann Oct. 30, 1991 popularized this phrase for when a lot of bad things happen at once.
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Patrick found the last Daily Double in “Historical Novels.” In second place with $6,600, he was $1,600 behind Mary’s lead. He bet $3,400, and he was RIGHT.
Steven Pressfield’s “Gates of Fire” is an epic novel about this battle lost by the Spartans in 480 B.C.
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Patrick finished in the lead with $12,800. Mary was close behind with $11,800 and Alan was in third place with $8,000.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Alan Page, who played for the Minnesota Vikings and Chicago Bears, was born in Canton on 8/7/1945. He is an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court and he lives in that state. Dan Diedorf, who played for the St. Louis Cardinals, was born in Canton on 6/29/1945. He is currently a TV sportscaster who lives and works in St. Louis, Mo.
Both men are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame located in Canton. In fact, Alan Page helped lay the groundwork for the building back in the day, not knowing he would one day be in it. Apparently, the “both will always be” part of the clue was supposed to make you realize it could only be Canton, but that didn’t help us out or two of the contestants either.
Alan thought it was Cleveland. He lost his $6,000 bet and finished with $2,000.
Mary picked Ohio’s capital, Columbus, but she didn’t bet anything, so she remained at $11,800. She must have thought Patrick would be wrong for sure, because she was positively beaming!
Patrick wrote down Cleveland but crossed it out and wrote down the right answer. He bet $11,000 so he won the match with $23,800. Great work, Patrick!
Mary would have won on a triple stumper with the wagering.
no redemption for alan, but that was more like it than friday’s game! dierdorf>football>canton should have been easier than it obviously was…….