Final Jeopardy: Poets (4-27-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/27/2022) in the category “Poets” was:
In 1939 he was buried near his last residence in France, but his body arrived in Galway en route to his final burial on Sept. 17, 1948
16x champ Mattea Roach, a tutor from Toronto, Ontario, won $368,981 so far. In Game 17, she takes on these two players: Ben Hsia, a R & D Engineer from Fremont, CA; and Christina Clark, a elementary music teacher from De Pere, WI.
Round 1 Categories: A Novel Look at the Novel – Finish the Old Proverb – The League MVP’s Team – Getting a “Ba” in Botany – Which Comes First – The Chicken or the Egg
Mattea found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Which Comes First” under the $1,000 clue on the last clue of the round. She was in the lead with $8,000, twice as much as Christina in second place. Mattea bet $2,000, and came up with the Law of Conservation of Mass. That was WRONG.
The first law of this says that the total energy of a system plus its surroundings is conserved show
Mattea finished in the lead with $6,000. Christina was second with $4,000. Ben was last with $2,400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Architects – Mountains & Hills – Miscellany – Celebrity Memoirs – The Ancient World – An Anatomy of Words
Ben found the first Daily Double in “Mountains & Hills” under the $1,200 clue on the 5th clue of the round. He was in the lead with $8,800, $2,800 more than Mattea in second place. Ben bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.
Mountain ranges with this “snowy” name can be found both in California & southeastern Spain show
Mattea landed on the last Daily Double in “An Anatomy of Words” under the $1,600 clue with 6 clues left after it. She had the lead with $15,600 now, $1,200 more than Ben in second place. Mattea bet a big $8,000 and she was RIGHT.
To gently tease another person show
Mattea finished in the lead with $27,200. Ben was second with $13,600, half of that. Christina was last with $8,400. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS?
William Butler Yeats was a much loved Irish poet and dramatist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. Born in County Sligo in 1865, Yeats died at the age of 73 in Roquebrune, France on 1/28/1939. Per his last wishes, he was buried in the Roquebrune churchyard. He further told his wife Georgie “in a year’s time when the newspapers have forgotten me, dig me up and plant me in Sligo.” However, reburial was delayed by World War II. In 1947, when the task was finally taken up, it was discovered that Yeats’ bones had already been disinterred and mixed up with others in an ossuary. Great efforts were made to establish which bones belonged to the Irish poet and in September 1948, remains purporting to be Yeats were sent to Ireland for reburial in Drumcliffe churchyard “Under Ben Bulben” (a mountain and title of one of his poems).
Whether or not the bones really belonged to Yeats was long debated. In 2015, the Irish Times reported that “Recently discovered French documents have driven the last nail into the coffin. They constitute compelling evidence that the bones gathered in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin … were little more than a haphazard assemblage.”
Christina thought it was Keats. That cost her $5,300 and left her with $3,100.
Ben got it right. He bet the farm and doubled his score to $27,200.
Mattea also got it right. She bet $1.00 (same bet as her 7th game when Adam Wallick had half her score). Mattea won this game with $27,201 as she hangs in there with a 17-day total of $396,182.
2 triple stumpers from CELEBRITY MEMOIRS
($800) This member of Buffalo Springfield reminisces about his Canadian boyhood in “Special Deluxe”
($1600) “Brat” is the aptly titled memoir of this member of the ’80s Brat Pack seen here (image)
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “World Elections”
In 2014 this democratic nation broke the record for total turnout in a single election with more than 500 million voters show
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So why is nobody mentioning how silly it was for her to just bet $1? If she was going to bet anything, then she might as well have bet it all. Everybody knew Ben was going to bet it all…so the safe bet for Mattea would have been to bet $0 and end with a tie. Betting $1 risked that if she got it wrong, she would have lost to Ben by that $1.
Very strong group tonight. Ben came from distant third to seize the lead, then got outbuzzed most of the rest of the game. FJ confounded me, as Keats, Yeats, Dylan Thomas, even Oscar Wilde danced through my head. But should have known that Yeats was the Irishman.
Game moves nicely when there aren’t a lot of stumpers. I got them on Bellinger’s team; the Barcelona architect; the Buffalo Springfield member; and Mattea’s missed DD (thermodynamics).
She’s eminently likable, but her in-game chatter is getting out of hand.
No longer watching. Have had it with her hand gestures and explaining things indicating others can’t understand. She is obviously been coached more than most contestants.
Mattea has said on Twitter that the producers encouraged her in-game chatter on the basis that it makes good TV. Easy for them to say 🤣🤣🤣 They’re not the ones being dragged over the coals for it.
I was one of the first to decry the chatter, as, to me, most frequently, it sounds like babbling. “Adds to the game” or “good TV”? My foot. Why this time, for the first time in recent memory (vice, who was it, Christine, who did it just a little bit?), would producers encourage it? The cynic in me thinks it’s because it’s something to add some color that is lacking in her gameplay.
It’s a shame she has to be pulled into a good game. Were all like this, 1. MUCH more interesting and 2. She wouldn’t have lasted this long.
I understand VJ’s sentiment that she may just be risk-averse, but, there has been very limited evolution of her game. Maybe she thinks, “not broke, don’t fix it”? She’s like the New Jersey Devils from 25 or so years ago, who did the “neutral zone trap”, which won games, but was deathly boring.
Still, I’m still watching. In my subconscious, Yeats was in there, but, not consciously, and I said “James Joyce”. Yes, I know, not poet, but still Irish! So, I fail, this day!
MATTEA IS YOUNG AND VERY BRIGHT. I WANT TO KNOW WHY ARE THEY PUTTING THESE “SMART” PEOPLE AGAINST HER WHEN THEY HAVE LET OTHERS EARN MUCH MORE MONEY AND THEY HAD THE DUMBST PEOPLE AGAINST THEM.
Your comment makes no sense. To try and get on the show you take a test online and then let the chips fall where they may. They don’t match up contestants with smart vs smart and what you call “dumb “ vs dumb. Try taking the test, it’s pretty difficult and it’s timed. Personally, I can’t wait for her to lose, she’s obnoxious.
Totally agree!
Mattea had given us quite a scare today but still congrats to her on making that bet. She and Ben were pretty much evenly matched today since they were quick on the buzzer. Very few triple stumpers today and a good group of players. I remember The Countess Cathleen is still one of his well known plays. But I highly recommend you guys read The Land of Heart’s Desire. One daily double miss isn’t going to hurt Mattea. For a poet like Yeats to live through 73 years he wasn’t that old. Also Jacob and Rhonda do you guys have some of Yeats poems on kindle?
Lou, No. I don’t even own a Kindle. Poems are not something I would collect. I learned about poets in high school, undergrad college, and grad school. At each level I only took one Literature course. I do recall having to differentiate that Keats was from UK & Yeats from Ireland. I was more interested in the math & science side of learning.
Here’s some other differences between Yeats and Keats
Keats died at age 25 in Rome, where he is really buried
Yeats died at age 73 in France, where is he really buried?
Keats was 6 years old in 1801 (19th century)
Yeats was 36 in 1901 (20th century)
Both of their epitaphs have been in Jeopardy! clues
Keats epitaph: “Here lies One whose Name was writ in Water”
Yeats epitaph: “Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!”