Final Jeopardy: Olympics History
The Final Jeopardy question (5/10/2012) in the category “Olympics History” was:
Besides Antarctica, the 2 continents that have never hosted the Summer or Winter Olympic Games.
The two-match Teen Tournament final begins at last today and our 3 finalists are: Elyse Mancuso, a junior from Omaha, NE; Catherine Briley, , a senior from Grand Prairie, LA; and Rose Schaefer, a junior from Portland, OR. One of these young ladies will take home $75,000, but not today.
Elyse found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in the category “Dinosaurs.” It was the 4th clue picked after she had answered the first 3 in that category correctly. She was the only one with any money and that was $1,000. She made it a True Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
Tyrannosaurus Rex didn’t live during the Jurassic Period but rather in this one. show
Elyse finished in the lead with $7,400; Catherine was second with $4,200 and Rose had no money at all after losing all she had on a shade of grey.
Rose found the first Daily Double in the category “Completes the Poetic Line.” She now had $6,400, $3,000 less than Catherine and $5,400 less than Elyse who was in the lead. She bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
“For the children they mark, and the children, they know the place where the ________ ends.” show
Elyse found the last Daily Double (the very last clue that we thought we might not even get to see) in “Physics.” At $10,200, she only had an $800 lead over Rose, who was now in second place with $2,000 more than Catherine. She bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
This elementary particle that makes up light has no mass or electric charge. show
Elyse finished in the lead with $13,200. Rose had $9,400 and Catherine had $7,400.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Fact Monster has this Final Jeopardy! answer in its interesting list of facts about the Olympics. Another one is: “No country in the Southern Hemisphere has ever hosted a Winter Games.” Probably not cold enough, eh? The first Winter Olympic Games were held in Chamonix, France in 1924 and the first Summer Games were held in Athens, Greece in 1896.
Catherine bet $2,600 and finished with $10,000.
Rose bet $3,000. She finished with $12,400.
Elyse took a bit of a bigger risk with a nice $10,000 bet and it paid off. She finished with $23,200 to bring into tomorrow’s final match. Quite an advantage!
