Final Jeopardy: Museums
The Final Jeopardy question (5/15/2012) in the category “Museums” was:
Completed in 1959, it’s been variously described as a snail, a concrete tornado, even a giant wedding cake.
Power Players week continues in Washington, D.C. with three more celebrities playing for charity: David Faber, CNBC financial journalist and market news analyst; Dana Perino, Fox News political commentator and former White House Secretary for George W. Bush; and 7′ 2″ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer and U.S. Cultural Ambassador, giving us quite a visual imbalance every time they showed all 3 contestants at the same time.
No one found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in the first round. Incredibly, an entire category (Fine Food) went uncovered, as well as 6 other clues.
David finished in the lead with $2,800. Dana was second with $2,400 and Kareem was last with $1,200.
Kareem found the first Double Jeopardy Daily Double in “Best Sellers.” He was still in third place, only now he had $2,000, $8,800 less than David who still had the lead. He bet it all and totally blanked out, so he was WRONG.
The Da Vinci Code was actually the second book to feature symbologist Robert Langdon: this book was first. show
The last Daily Double also went uncovered. It was either under the $1,600 or $2,000 clue in Science.
David finished in the lead with $14,400. Dana was next with $3,200 and Kareem was in third place with $2,400.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
“The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum … is a well-known art museum located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is the permanent home of a renowned and continuously expanding collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions throughout the year. The museum was established by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1939 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, under the guidance of its first director, the artist Hilla von Rebay. It adopted its current name after the death of its founder, Solomon R. Guggenheim, in 1952.” (wikipedia)
Kareem got it and bet it all. He finished with $4,800.
Dana also bet it all, but didn’t even take a guess so she finished with a big goose egg.
David got it, adding $7,000 to his score, so he wound up with $21,400 and $50,000 for his charity, NEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Kareem played for Skyhook Foundation and Dana played for Pets2Vets (P2V). Their charities will each receive $10,000.
Wish we knew why the Power Players keep missing the Daily Doubles but here’s a bonus question on us. We bet only one of today’s Power Players knew the answer.
What first name was Kareem Adbul Jabbar given in 1947? show
