Final Jeopardy: U.S. Places (9-17-13)
The Final Jeopardy question (9/17/2013) in the category “U.S. Places” was:
A logo on this town’s website includes its incorporation date, 1981, as well as the historic date December 17, 1903.
Current champ Jared Hall now has a 3-day total of $88,401. Today he takes on these two players: Tova Meyer, from Princeton, NJ and Melissa Jurgens, from Arlington, VA.
Jared found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Islands” before the first break. He was in third place with $600, $2,000 less than Melissa’s lead. He bet the $1,000 allowance and he was RIGHT.
A poet described this divided island as a ‘golden-green leaf thrown into’ the Mediterranean Sea. show
Jared finished in the lead with $6,000. Tova was second with $5,400 and Melissa was last with $4,600.
Jared found the first Double Jeopardy Daily Double in “Anatomy.” He was in the lead with $10,400, $1,000 ahead of Melissa in second place. He bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.
Ligaments connect one bone to another. Muscle is connected to a bone by one of these, which pulls the bone when a muscle contracts. show
Jared found the last Daily Double in “Americana.” He had a big lead now with $20,200, $10,800 more than Melissa in second place. He bet $5,000 again, and he was RIGHT again.
When this stone split asunder in 1774, it was said to be an omen of America’s split from the British Empire. show
Jared finished in the lead with a stupendous runaway: $32,000. Tova was next with $9,400 and Melissa was in third place with $8,200. But after the commercial break, Melissa got dinged for leaving off the ‘s’ off Hans in “Hans Christian Andersen” on a clue in “Ballet Dancers in the Cinema”, and she went into FJ with $6,600.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS KITTY HAWK, NC?
“Kitty Hawk became famous after the Wright brothers of Dayton, Ohio, made the first controlled powered airplane flights at the Kill Devil Hills, four miles (6 km) south of the town, on December 17, 1903. After the flights, the brothers walked back to Kitty Hawk, where they sent a telegram from the Weather Bureau office to their father informing him of their success. Kitty Hawk is often mistakenly credited as the site of the powered flights.” (wikipedia)
Melissa did not know. She lost her bet of $6,599 and finished with $1.00.
Tova didn’t have any idea either. She lost $3,900, finishing with $5,500.
Jared got it right and bet $10,000 so he won a whopping $42,000 today. Talk about taking a giant step — Jared’s 4 day total is now $130,401.
Random notes: Can you believe none of the contestants could come up with Robert Louis Stevenson on the Dr. Henry Jekyll clue in “I Made Up Your Mind” in Double Jeopardy?
