The Final Jeopardy question (11/11/2011) in the category “Business” was:

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The contestants in the last semi-final match of the Jeopardy! tournament were champions, Roger Craig, Mark Runsvold and Joon Pahk.

Roger found the Daily Double in the Jeopardy! round in “Movie Sound Tracks” right after missing an answer on the $600 clue in the same category. Joon missed it too, so that’s why Roger still had the board. Roger had the lead and $1,800. He bet it all and he was RIGHT. Then he lost $1,000 on the next clue!

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WHAT IS AMADEUS?

Roger was lucky that he’s smart. He seemed to be buzzing in and then figuring out the answer A LOT. He finished this round in the lead with $5,000. Joon was next with $3,400 and Mark was last with $2,200.

In Double Jeopardy, Roger got the first Daily Double in “Terms of Art.” He had $7,400 at this point and was in third place (he got dinged on his ‘figure it out later’ technique a couple of times). Roger felt compelled to make it a true Daily Double. The smile on his face showed he knew the RIGHT answer. That gave him a $4,600 lead over Joon, his closest competitor.

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WHAT IS MANNERISM?

Still one Daily Double to go. Roger got that one too. (It’s weird how the same person gets all the Daily Doubles sometimes, isn’t it?) The clue was in “Ethics.” Roger didn’t make this one a true Daily Double, but he still picked up $10,000 more with the RIGHT response.

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WHAT IS HEDONISM?

Well, if you were expecting Joon to kick butt in this match, he didn’t. Roger finished first with a runaway $27,600. Mark played quite well in the Double Jeopardy round and came in second with $13,400. Joon was last with $11,800.

After the music ended. Alex Trebek said: “To succeed on this final, you had to think back to your math classes in high school.” Not one player looked like he thought he had it in the bag.

“WHAT IS PI?”

Joon wrote down “What is apple pie.” So close, Joon, yet so far. He only bet $138.00 so he ended up with $11,662.

Mark had the words “Toronto” and “search” down, and he crossed out Toronto, so we have no idea what he was thinking. But we do know he bet $12,345, leaving him with $1,055.

Roger wrote down “Yahoo.”

“No, I said you had to think back to math,” Alex said. Yeah, but you said that after, not before, they had to write down their answers, Monsieur Trebek. “Pi is 3.14159265 and that has to do with the number of shares,” he explained.

Roger didn’t bet a sou so his score remained the same. He will return on Monday to compete against the other finalists: Tom Nissley and Buddy Wright.