Final Jeopardy: Composers’ Birthplaces (12-31-12)
The Final Jeopardy question (12/31/2012) in the category “Composers’ Birthplaces” was:
The town where he was born in 1811 is now in far Eastern Austria; when he was born there it belonged to another country.
New champ Paula Menasche has a one-day total of $17,200. She’s back today to compete against these two players: Sarah Shemkus, from Manchester, MA and Ana Peso, from Wheeling, IL.
Sarah found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “3-Syllable Words.” She was in the lead with $2,000, $1,600 more than Paula in second place. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
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Sarah finished in the lead with $7,400. Paula was second with $3,800 and Ana was last with $2,000.
Sarah found the first Double Jeopardy Daily Double in “Writers.” She had a big lead with $9,800 now, $6,000 more than Paula in second place. She risked $4,000, guessed “Robert Burns” and that was WRONG.
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Ana found the last Daily Double in “World War II.” She had $2,800, $3,400 less than Sarah’s lead. She bet $2,000, guessed “1942” and that was close, but WRONG.
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Paula finished in the lead with $11,000. Ana was next with $10,400 and Sarah was in third place with $8,600.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Franz Liszt was born in Doborján in the Kingdom of Hungary on October 22, 1811. Various sources say his father, Adam Liszt, was a descendant of Johannes Listzius, a regal chancellor of Hungary and bishop of Raab in the sixteenth century, and of pure Magyar birth and that Liszt was Hungarian for generations back, on his father’s side; various sources say his mother was Austrian and others say she was German. German was Liszt’s first language and he also learned French, but never learned Hungarian. Yet he regarded himself as a Hungarian and sometimes wore national garb when performing n Hungary.
Sarah thought it was Mozart (b. 1756 in Salzburg, then part of the Holy Roman Empire) She lost $3,000 and finished with $5,600.
Ana thought it was Richard Wagner (b. 1813 in Liepzig, then in the Kingdom of Saxony) She lost $5,000, finishing with $5,400.
Paula got it right. She did leave the ‘s’ out of Franz’s last name, but there is no penalty for misspelling. She gained $6,500 to win the game today with $17,500. Paula’s 2-day total is $34,700.
