Final Jeopardy: European History (6-1-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/29/2020) in the category “European History” was:

Once Europe’s leading military power & later the largest state in Germany, it was abolished by the Allies in 1947

In the first semi-final match of the 2020 Teachers Tournament, the players are: Jong Ho Kim, a H.S. math teacher from Lombard, IL; Will Satterwhite, an 8th-12th grade band & choir teacher from Vinton, VA; and Katie LaBarge, a high school science teacher from Cambridge, MA.

Round 1 Categories: Kinder Garden – Generations of Little Women – Constellations – Homophonic Pairs – Check Your Calendar – In the Year 2000

Jong Ho found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Constellations” under the $800 clue on the 4th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $800, $400 more than Katie in second place. He bet the $1,000 allowance and tried Leo. That was WRONG.

Lepus, “The Hare”, is the quarry of this nearby constellation. show

WHAT IS ORION?

Will finished in the lead with $4,600. Katie was second with $4,400 and Jong Ho was last with $2,000.

Round 2 Categories: U.S. Government – The A.V. Club – Pop Music – A Container Full of Words – 19th Century English Literature – Nations’ Second-Largest Cities

Will found the first Daily Double in “A.V. Club” under the $1,200 clue on the 6th pick. He was in the lead with $6,200, $600 more than Jong Ho and Katie, tied in second place. He bet $3,800 and he was RIGHT.

Almost 500 concerti from this Venetian survive today. show

WHO IS ANTONIO VIVALDI?

Will got the last Daily Double in “U.S. Government” under the $1,600 clue on the 17th pick. In the lead with $14,800, he had $4,400 more than Jong Ho in second place. He bet $5,630 and came up with the SEC (Securities & Exchange Commission) That was WRONG.

One task of this Government commission opened in 1915 is to protect consumers from con games. show

WHAT IS THE FTC (Federal Trade Commission)?

Will finished in the lead with $13,170. Katie was next with $11,600 and Jong Ho was in third place with $11,200.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS PRUSSIA?

France had been the leading military power on the European continent until her 1871 defeat by Prussia. When German unification followed, military mastermind Otto von Bismarck became united Germany’s first chancellor. From Encyclopedia Britannica: “Germany’s defeat at the end of World War I and the overthrow of the empire and the Prussian monarchy also ended Prussia’s supremacy. Prussia…became a Land under the Weimar Republic, with more-restricted powers than before and with little influence on the government of the Reich. After the rise to power of Adolf Hitler in 1933, the Prussian constitution was set aside and the legislature abolished, though Prussia remained a unit for administrative purposes.”

After Germany’s 1945 defeat in World War II, “Northern East Prussia was annexed by the Soviet Union; the rest of the Land east of the Oder-Neisse Line was transferred to Poland; and the remainder was divided between the Soviet, British, and French zones of occupation. One of the few acts of the Allied Control Council was the formal abolition of Prussia on February 25, 1947.”

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Jong Ho got it right. He bet $8,000 and finished with $19,200.

Katie wrote down Bavaria. That cost her $10,801 and left her with $799.

Will also got it right. He bet $10,301 and won the game with $23,201. Will Satterwhite is the first finalist.

2 triple stumpers from 19th CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE

($800) The painting seen here (image), depicts a scene from this Charles Dickens novel

($2000) The title gem in this Wilkie Collins novel was originally stolen from an Indian shrine

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “American Quotes”

In a 1789 letter, Benjamin Franklin relates the durability of the new Constitution to these 2 things show

WHAT ARE DEATH & TAXES?

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