Danger! turned the spotlight on Ontario Monday night with a category entirely dedicated to the province.
“Ontario’s Worst Case” made its debut on the show with a single question that tripped up every contestant and proved that Canadian geography isn’t universal knowledge.
“If you’re not an Ontario resident, these are imaginary situations,” Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings said on the show.
Sam Meehan, a delivery dispatcher from Ludlow, Vermont, picked up the first track for Ontario for $1,000.
“Zombies (and not the slow ones) are making their way from Detroit to this city across the Ambassador Bridge,” the question read.
Meehan quickly caught the correct answer, knowing “Windsor” for the clue.
The next Ontario question tests contestants’ sports knowledge.
For $800, Jennings asked, “The intraprovincial rivalry between the Ottawa Senators from the national capital and these NHLers from the provincial capital has reached a fever pitch.”
Jake DeArruda, a Santa Cruz attorney, jumped at the chance.
“What are the Flames?” DeArruda said before Meehan chimed in with the correct answer, “What are the Toronto Maple Leafs?”
That streak continued when Meehan identified Toronto’s tallest landmark, winning $600 after correctly guessing this clue: “King Kong, he’s real and he’s climbing this 1,815-foot structure, his eye fills the revolving window restaurant.’
“What is the CN Tower?” Meehan said.
However, Meehan’s success collapsed when Canadian geography came front and center for $400.
“That province directly to the west has been making a series of nighttime cow raids, causing general mayhem,” Jennings said.
“What’s Saskatchewan?” DeArruda tried.
“What’s Alberta?” Meehan tried next.
“Sarah?” Jennings asked the final contestant, a PhD student from Durham, North Carolina. Her response: silence.
“Let me narrow it down for you. Manitoba — Jennings finally answered on his own.
For the second last question of the game, DeArruda had better luck with the provincial category.
“Worst case? Malevolent water creatures come out of that Great Lake that Thunder Bay sits on,” Jennings said.
“Superb,” DeArruda replied.
Earlier this month, Toronto-based scenic artist Ray Lalonde ended an impressive winning streak on Jeopardy!
Lalonde, who was hoping for his 14th win on the long-running trivia show, had amassed $386,400 in earnings entering his last show in early January.
Lalonde is among only 16 contestants in the show’s history with a winning streak of at least 10 games, according to Andy Saunders, the Guelph, Ont.-based blogger behind “The Jeopardy! Fan.”
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