Apple Bonkers' Journal

Final Jeopardy Confused Me!
So, if you are flying due south from Miami, what two South American countries will you fly across? For the Final Jeopardy "question," you had to provide one or two of them. Like two of the three contestants, I guessed Venezuela, which is way off. Mr. Trebek noted that people have a tendency not to think of South America as being quite east of North America, which of course is clear if you look at a world map. But yeah, if I were drawing a map, say, in Pictionary, I would draw the continents one on top of the other. Of course, the 60-second timer does not encourage geographic accuracy.

Anyway, turns out the two countries you would fly across are Ecuador and Peru. And that confused me because I looked at a bunch of world maps and to me it totally, totally, looked like you would fly across Colombia, but may or not hit Ecuador. I guess it's (almost) the opposite, though. I went on the Jeopardy.com discussion board, and was quite pleased to discover I wasn't the only one who was thinking "No way! Alex is wrong!" (of course deep down I knew that Jeopardy could never be wrong and I had to be the one who was wrong).

According to a poster,

"Miami is at 80 degrees 13 minutes W. Columbia's westernmost point is at roughly 79 degrees 8 minutes W. It's certainly close though."

Certainly close, indeed.

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