Final Jeopardy: U.S. States (5-6-14)

The Final Jeopardy question (5/6/2014), in the category “U.S. States” was:

Between 2006 & 2013 it went from 39th to 6th in per capita income & its unemployment rate dropped to the nation’s lowest.

On Day 2 of the Battle of the Decades Quarter-Finals, the players and their decades are: Tom Nosek, (80s); Pam Mueller, (90s); and Russ Schumacher, (00s). Click on their names if you want to see who they beat to get in this game.

Round 1: Tom found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “The Missing Man” under the $400 clue. He was in the lead with $5,600, $600 ahead of Pam in second place. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.

Aboard Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin. show

WHO IS MICHAEL COLLINS?

Tom finished in the lead with $8,800. Pam was second with $5,400 and Russ was last with $2,600.

Round 2: Pam found the first Daily Double in “French Poets” under the $800 clue. She was in the lead with $8,200, $200 more than Tom in second place. She bet $5,000 and she was RIGHT.

Also a novelist, he began an 1839 poem “The church is vast; its towering pride, its steeples loom on high.” show

WHO IS VICTOR HUGO?

Pam found the last Daily Double in “Yucky History” under the $2,000 clue. In the lead with $15,600, she had $5,400 more than Russ in second place. She bet $3,000 and guessed “horses.” That was WRONG.

As in the western “Flesh & the Spur”, Indians used staking people to these as a torture– or at least white settlers said so. show

WHAT ARE ANT HILLS?

Pam finished in the lead with $17,400. Russ was next with $15,400 and Tom was in third place with $11,200.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS NORTH DAKOTA?

“The North Dakota oil boom is an ongoing period of rapidly expanding oil extraction from the Bakken formation in the state of North Dakota that followed the discovery of Parshall Oil Field in 2006, and is continuing as of 2013. Despite the 2008–2012 global financial crisis, the oil boom has resulted in enough jobs to give North Dakota the lowest unemployment rate in the United States. The boom has given the state of North Dakota, a state with a 2013 population of about 725,000, a billion-dollar budget surplus.” (wikipedia)

Tom wrote down Texas. He lost his $8,800 bet and finished with $2,400.

Russ got it right. He bet $1,300 and finished with $16,700.

Pam wrote down Arizona, crossed that out and wrote down Washington. She lost $2,602 so she ended up with $14,798.

So a very surprised Russ Schumacher advances to the semi-finals. Don’t know why he was so surprised though — he won his first match by default when no one knew FJ! He was in second place in that one and he bet nothing.

Pam Mueller joins Leszek Pawlowicz as a wild card contender.

2 years ago:: ALL of the Teen Tournament players got this FJ in “Ancient Landmarks”.

It’s believed that its nose was about 3 feet wide when it was first constructed around 2500 B.C. show

WHAT IS THE GREAT SPHINX OF GIZA?

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