Final Jeopardy: U.S. Cities (10-21-19)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/21/2019) in the category “U.S. Cities” was:

Named for the ore once mined there, this city at an altitude of 10,152 feet is home to the National Mining Hall of Fame & Museum

2x champ Daryn Firicano, a clinical representative from Las Vegas, NV, has now won $21,799. In Game 3, he is up against: Mononita Nur, an aerospace engineer from Huntsville, AL; and Ryan Bradley, a TV animation marketing exec. from West Hollywood, CA.

Round 1 Categories: Musical Legends – Starts & Ends With “P” – Quotable Notables – Canadian National Stuff, Eh? – Our Home – & Native Land

Daryn found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Quotable Notables” under the $1,600 clue on the 6th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $1,600, $600 more than Ryan in second place. He bet it all and guessed “Pinter.” That was WRONG.

In the 1940s this British novelist said, “The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world” show

WHO IS GEORGE ORWELL?

Ryan finished in the lead with $5,800. Daryn was second with $4,200 and Mononita was last with $200.

Round 2 Categories: Ban That Book! – Accents – Game of Clones – American History – The Gender-free Option – “T” Birds

Mononita found the first Daily Double in “Ban That Book!” under the $1,200 clue on the third pick. She was in third place with $1,400 now, $4,400 less than Ryan’s lead. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.

Forget the love story– Pasternak’s “Dr. Zhivago” was banned in the USSR until 1987 because of its portrayal of this Commie faction. show

WHO ARE THE BOLSHEVIKS?

Daryn found the last Daily Double in “American History” under the $1,200 clue on the 9th pick. In second place with $6,600, he had $1,200 less than Ryan’s lead. He bet $5,000 and went with the 1940s. That was WRONG.

Woeful economic conditions helped reduce immigration from 4.2 million the decade before to less than 700,000 in this decade. show

WHAT ARE THE 1930s?

Ryan finished in the lead with $14,200. Daryn was next with $9,600 and Mononita was in third place with $7,200.

NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS LEADVILLE (COLORADO)?

Around 1873 or 1874, a settlement called Slabtown emerged not far from Oro City, where gold strikes had become hard to find. Miners in this area still had to deal with the problem of heavy black sand that was hard to separate from the placer gold. In 1875, a few enterprising miners found through testing that the black sands contained carbonate of lead with high silver content. Slabtown was renamed Leadville in 1877 and became a silver mining boomtown. In its heyday, it attracted the likes of Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Soapy Smith, Frank and Jesse James, The Dalton Gang, Poker Alice, Texas Jack, Unsinkable Molly Brown, Oscar Wilde, and ex-president Ulysses S. Grant. Read Leadville’s fascinating story on Western Mining History.

A 2011 clue: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ($400) Leadville in the Rockies in this state is the USA’s highest incorporated city. –It was put a different way for this FJ clue in 1986: Geographic distinction of the city of Leadville, Colorado

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Mononita wrote down “Red Rocks.” She lost her $7,001 bet and finished with $199.

Daryn had Golden, Co. “Good for beer,” Alex said. That cost Daryn $4,801 and left him with $4,799.

Ryan had Golden, too. He lost $5,001 but won the game with the $9,199 he hung onto. Ryan Bradley is the new Jeopardy! champion.

A triple stumper from each round:

MUSICAL LEGENDS ($800) This country crossover star’s Top 40 hits included “Rhinestone Cowboy” & “Wichita Lineman”

BAN THAT BOOK! ($1000) The 1722 novel “Moll Flanders” by this author has been taken off shelves for lewdness

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “English Literature”

Much of this novel takes place on the Island of Despair, off the coast of South America, from 1659 to 1686. show

WHAT IS “ROBINSON CRUSOE”?

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