Final Jeopardy: U.S. Geography (12-3-14)
The Final Jeopardy question (12/3/2014), in the category “U.S. Geography” was:
This city of 650,000 people is the most populous U.S. city not found in a U.S. state.
In Match 3 of Kids Week, the players are: Jake McCrory, from Pueblo, CO; Gabby Fusco, from Maspeth, NY; and Grace Acton, from Harvard, MA. Both winners of Match 1 and Match 2 were at the third podium and exceeded the $15K minimum prize. Let’s see what happens today.
Round 1: Jake found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “The Bible” under the $1,000 clue. He was in the lead with $4,600, $3,800 more than Grace in second place. He bet $500 and thought it was hymns. That was WRONG.
The longest of these songs is Number 119 with 176 verses. show
Jake finished in the lead with $4,100. Grace was second with $2,800 and Gabby was last with $200.
Round 2: Grace found the first Daily Double in “Frozen” under the $1,600 clue. She was now in the lead with $7,600, $300 more than Jake in second place. She bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.
Made up of ice, dust & gas, these space objects are sometimes referred to as “dirty snowballs”. show
Grace found the last Daily Double in “Let It ‘Go'” under the $1,200 clue. She was now in second place with $7,400, $300 less than Jake’s lead. She bet $1,000 once again but didn’t know so she was WRONG.
A group of islands such as the Bismarck one in the Southwest Pacific. show
Grace finished in the lead with $11,600 and Jake was next with $9,700. Unfortunately, Gabby was in the hole for $1,400 so she was out of the game at this point.
NEITHER contestant got Final Jeopardy! right.
“After the US Constitution (1787) provided that a tract of land be reserved for the seat of the federal government, both Maryland and Virginia offered parcels for that purpose; on 16 July 1790, Congress authorized George Washington to choose a site not more than 10 mi (16 km) square along the Potomac River….
“Since the 1970s, many of Washington’s residents have supported statehood for the District of Columbia. A proposal for statehood won the majority of votes in a 1980 election, and the name “New Columbia” was approved by voters two years later. In 1992, the US House of Representatives passed a measure approving statehood for the capital, but the Senate refused to consider it.” (City Data: District of Columbia History)
In July 2014, President Barack Obama said he was in favor of D.C. statehood.
Jake thought it was San Juan, P.R. (approx pop. 395K). He lost his $5,101 bet and finished with $4,599.
Grace came up with the same thing. She lost $5,000 and finished with $6,600, but that was enough to get her the guaranteed $15,000 first place prize.
As you can see, Grace was at the first podium. Here is her Winner’s Circle video:
2 years ago:: TWO of the players got this FJ in “U.S. Presidents”
This man is the only U.S. president since Hoover not named Time magazine’s Man or Person of the Year. show
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first of all, strange bets.
secondly:so much for the triple solve
and finally: te lo dije! san juan. both of them!!!! i guess it paid off that i redeemed my crystal ball from the pawn shop….:):)
@John, you are correct. I am an optimist. I thought the fj would be a triple solve. Wrong again. I guess driving behind all of those cars in my state and on I-95 with the slogan on their license plate “taxation without representation” made me think Washington, D. C. on CotD. I think the wording of the clue led the contestants to San Juan, P. R. I guess they were thinking it could not be D. C. because that was too obvious.
Remember sometimes people in general over think things and disregard the obvious. These young people played a good game despite the outcome of final Jeopardy.
i have not seen the show yet, the numbers are not looking too bad for the 2 who were left. and the clue WAS awkwardly phrased to say the least, we talked about that before the game. still, one should think they would teach them early on what the difference between a state, a territory and possession is…those kids will be voting in a few years! but it WAS tempting (hawaii comparison) and they went for the “obvious”, hook, line and sinker.
at least they got the capital of p.r. right. i don’t know if they even got to think as far as d.c., timewise. san juan might have been such a perfect fit that they did not think any further. it would have been interesting to see if Gabby would also have picked s.j.
one thing is for sure: they now will remember washington,d.c. forever :):)