Final Jeopardy: The Music Industry (3-19-14)
The Final Jeopardy question (3/19/2014), in the category “The Music Industry” was:
She beat out newcomers like Bieber & Gaga to top Forbes’ list of the highest-paid people in music for 2013.
New champ Nick Durazo won $20,401 yesterday. He’s our 5th new champ in a row after Arthur Chu’s 11-day streak. Today Nick will try to break that one-day champ thing when he takes on these two players: Susan Shikany, from Indian Trail, NC; and Gabor Revy, from West Chester, OH.
Round 1: Susan found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Legend” under the $800 clue. She was in the lead with $3,400, $1,200 more than Gabor in second place. She bet $1,000 but just drew a blank so she was WRONG.
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Gabor finished in the lead with $6,000. Nick was second with $4,800 and Susan was last with $3,600.
Round 2: Gabor found the first Daily Double in “Oxides” under the $800 clue. He was in the lead with $10,400, $2,800 ahead of Susan in second place. He bet $2,000 and thought it was helium. That was WRONG.
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Susan found the last Daily Double in “20th Century Americans” under the $1,200 clue. She was now in a tie for the lead with Gabor. They both had $8,400, $1,200 more than Nick in second place. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
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Gabor finished in the lead with $15,600. Susan was next with $12,400 and Nick was in third place with $11,600.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Madonna made the biggest haul on Forbes list of the music industry’s top earners, raking in $125 million buckaroos. Not exactly right on Madonna’s high heel sneakers, Lady Gaga came in second with $80 million. Justin Bieber came in seventh with $58 million. With Springsteen and Bon Jovi coming in ahead of Bieber, too, it will be interesting to look at these results in a few years. (Forbes Slideshow)
Nick got it right and bet $4,001. He finished with $15,601.
Susan thought it was Celine Dion. That cost her $10,000 and she finished with $2,400.
Gabor also got it and bet $9,201 so he won the game with $24,801 and, once again, we’ve got a new champ.
Alex thought that Nick had this one in the bag because Nick wrote his answer down quickly while Gabor took a bit longer. We don’t know why Nick only bet to beat Gabor, but ultimately it didn’t matter.
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strange bet by susan…if she needed/wanted to guard against nick her bet should have been 10.801…..?? if wrong-as she was- it would not have mattered. in the end gabor got it right anyway, so – as alex would say- no harm, no foul.
by betting to beat gabor, nick also HAD susan covered-he could not have overtaken her- had she been right and wagered all!nick had 1.00 more than gabor at first and also 3.201.00 more than susan. nick could only have beaten susan if he bet it all and if
1. she would have been wrong (which she was) or
2. she bet less than 10.800.00.he could not know she would bet only 10K (in that case he COULD have guarded against her, but he is no mind reader i guess..?)which makes susan’s bet even stranger. if you bet high and not just to cover the leader (in that case susan should have bet 3.201)
you might as well bet it all or at least enough to guard against #3.with the 10K she did NOT guard against nick and took an additional, awful risk. had nick gotten it right and gabor wrong, susan could have lost to nick (she did not know what HE would bet, she’s no mind reader either…) nick could have thrown everything in, as it so often happens.
am i wrong here???? nick had done almost all he could, with conventional bets actually ALL he could. as 3rd place he was in no position to overtake either one of his opponents unless they were wrong or made “inoptimal” wagers,no? or am i completely off here?
well, I was looking at it like if she had been right and Gabor had been wrong, Nick would have been sorry.
But since Gabor was right and Susan was wrong, his bet got him an extra grand, so I guess he’s happy.
yeah, well as i said…20/20.
missing chu?? at least you either loved him or hated him. he had a personality, however you judge it. for the vast majority ken had the perfect personality. wit, knowledge,strategies,class,looks, you name it. time that something exciting happens. chu “spoiled” us. everybody is emotionally “drained”. a shot of adrenalin is needed.
well, maybe since tomorrow (for me) spring begins, maybe that will be a shot in the arm.
happy springtime everybody.
and did you notice, how many more posts there were when chu was on???
No, I don’t miss Arthur Chu. Sometimes he came off as a wise guy, and I didn’t care much for that — but I guess he’s not like that all the time in real life. I did like the wager to tie scenario though.
As I’ve said, I basically don’t care what the players do, jump around the board or what have you. I mainly like to see all the DDs and find out more about the final clue.
In this game, if I was Nick, though, I would have just bet it all. No math wiz, me, but I wouldn’t just bet to beat the leader. I would have bet it all and finished with $23,200. So if Gabor was right, I still would have lost and got $2K. But if Gabor and Susan were both wrong (and Susan made the bet she did), Nick would have won with $15,601 if he bet what he did or he would have won with a lot more if he bet it all. Did that make any sense?
Well, I guess if there’s a ruling folks don’t like or a spelling mistake that gets accepted or a spelling mistake that doesn’t get accepted, there will be more comments. 🙂
I was rooting for Susan.