Mali! w00t!

Whew! The Final Jeopardy answer was "It's a landlocked country in West Africa, and its name is "locked" within the name of a country on Africa's east coast." None of them got it (Guinea, Gambia, and Lesotho were their guesses - only one is landlocked, and it's not in the west), but I did. Not because I have the West African countries memorized - in fact, I had to look at a map to verify that Gambia isn't landlocked - but because the East African coast is much easier to remember.

I just started at the bottom and said "South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia - Mali! It has to be!"

It's all in the strategizing!