Final Jeopardy: Biographies
The Final Jeopardy question (5/24/2012) in the category “Biographies” was:
The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century” is a biography of this scientist, born in the Balkans.
Today 3-day champ Joel Pool, will try for a 4th win and some more money to tack on to his $69,900 total so far. His opponents are: Julie Zukowski, from Crystal Lake, IL and Ursula Rodgers, from Denver, CO.
There was no Daily Double in the Jeopardy! round because they ran out of time.
Ursula finished this round in the lead with $6,400. Joel was second with $3,400 and Julie was last with $2,400.
Joel found the first Double Jeopardy Daily Double in “Roman the Roads.” He had $9,000, $200 less than Ursula who still had the lead. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
These stones bearing a dedication to the Emperor were set every 1,000 paces along Roman roads. show
Ursula found the last Daily Double in “Opera Characters.” She had $10,400, $3,600 less than Joel who had the lead now. She bet $2,000, and could not come up with a guess so she was WRONG.
In a Franz Lehar opera, Hanna Glawari, who recently lost her banker-husband, is this title character. show
Joel finished in the lead with $14,000. Ursula was still in second place with $8,400 and Julie was in third place with $5,200.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
“Robert Lomas is the author of this biography of Tesla and this is from a review on his website: “Everybody knows that Thomas Edison devised electric light and domestic electricity supplies, that Guglielmo Marconi thought up radio and George Westinghouse built the world’s first hydro-electric power station. Everybody knows these ‘facts’ but they are wrong. The man who dreamt up these things also invented, inter alia, the flourescent light, seismology, a worldwide data communcations network and a mechanical laxative. His name was Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-American scientist, and his is without doubt this century’s greatest unsung scientific hero.”
Lomas also has a powerpoint slideshow on his site that he used for a 2001 lecture at Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education. As a subtitle, it notes that Tesla: “… forgot to collect the cheque.”
Julie got it right. She bet $5,100 and finished with $10,300.
Ursula did not even take a guess. She lost her $3,800 bet, finishing with $4,600.
Joel got it right and bet $3,000 so he ended up winning with $17,000 and his 4-day total is $86,600.
Joel’s on a roll and we’re looking forward to seeing him tomorrow.
