Final Jeopardy: Historic Sites (5-8-15)

The Final Jeopardy question (5/8/2015), in the category “Historic Sites” was:

On August 15, 1941, convicted Nazi spy Josef Jakobs became the last person to be put to death here.

New champ Andrew Haringer won $8,799 in yesterday’s match, when no one knew the FJ answer. In the last game of the week, he is up against these players: Louis Virtel, originally from Lemont, IL; and Mary Green, from Milton, GA.

Round 1: Andrew found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Fads & Fashions” under the $600 clue. He was in the lead with $6,800, $4,400 more than Louis in second place. He bet $3,200 and he was RIGHT.

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Andrew finished in the lead with $12,200. Louis was second with $4,400 and Mary was last with $800.

Round 2: Louis found the first Daily Double in “A. Miller’s Tale” under the $1,600 clue. He was in second place with $6,000, $6,200 less than Andrew’s lead. He bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.

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WHAT IS “THE CRUCIBLE”?

Louis found the last Daily Double in “What an Invention” under the $1,600 clue. He was now in the lead with $19,400, $6,000 ahead of Andrew in second place. He bet $5,000 again and thought it was LAN. That was WRONG.

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WHAT IS USB?

Louis finished in the lead with $16,000. Andrew was next with $15,400 and Mary was in third place with $10,000.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS THE TOWER OF LONDON?

Josef Jakobs “was an untrained, ill-equipped German spy who was parachuted into Britain in February 1941, apparently charged with sending details of London weather patterns back to the Fatherland. But he broke his ankle in a bungled leap from the plane…. The 43-year-old father of three was tried by a court martial, found guilty of treason and at 7.12am on 15 August 1941 was taken to the practice range at the Tower where, blindfolded and with a white marker over his heart, he was shot by eight soldiers from the Scots Guards.” A Bloody Tale from the Tower describes his granddaughter, Giselle’s efforts to learn more about Jakobs’ fate. “There is so much more to his story than just a trivia question,” she says.

Mary wrote down “the Ba.” She lost her $9,500 bet and finished with $500.

Andrew got it right. He bet it all and that brought him up to $30,800.

Louis wrote down “Auschwicz.” That cost him $14,801 bet so he wound up in second place with $1,199.

So Andrew remains the champ and he certainly made up for yesterday’s low win. His 2-day total is $39,599.

During the chat, Andrew talked about a recent course he taught on the history of the piano.

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