Final Jeopardy: Writing Old & New (6-7-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/7/2022) in the category “Writing Old and New” was:
This 2013 bestseller shares its title with the first section of a poem from 7 centuries before
New champ Eric Ahasic, a meteorologist from Minneapolis, MN, won $18,401 yesterday. In Game 2, his/her challengers are: Michael Toughill, a senior marketing analyst from Seattle, WA; and Elaine Hesser, a features editor from Salinas, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Dear-Pourri – Spanning the Globe – Texting Abbrev. – The Cabinet – A Writer by Any Other Name… – From Farm to Table
Eric found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “The Cabinet” under the $1,000 clue on the 17th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $3,200, twice as much as Michael in second place. He made it a true Daily Double and came up with the Department of Health too late. That was WRONG anyway.
In 1849 Congress passed “an Act to establish the Home Department” creating this current cabinet department. show
Michael finished in the lead with $3,600. Eric was second with $3,400 and Elaine was last with $1,800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Deer-Pourri – Historic Names – 6-Letter Adjectives – On the State Flag – War Gods – They Played the Title Character
Eric found the first Daily Double in “On the State Flag” under the $1,600 clue on the 7th pick. He was in the lead with $7,400 now, $3,400 more than Michael in second place. He bet $3,400 and he was RIGHT.
A sun symbol sacred to the Zia people is the only image on this state’s flag. show
Eric got the last Daily Double in “They Played the Title Character” under the $1,200 clue, with 10 clues left after it. In the lead with $18,800, he had $12,600 more than Elaine in second place. He bet $3,800 and he was RIGHT.
A competitive ice skater who falls into disgrace after an attack on a rival. show
Eric finished in the lead with a runaway $25,800. Michael was next with $10,000 and Elaine was in third place with $7,400. All clues were shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS “INFERNO”?
Dante Alighieri, Italian poet and philosopher, completed his 3-part narrative poem “The Divine Comedy” 7 centuries ago in 1320. The 3 parts are Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. American author, Dan Brown, used “Inferno” for the title of his fourth novel in a series of novels featuring Harvard professor Robert Langdon. The novel was made into a movie starring Tom Hanks as Langdon and, as you will see in the above video, it doesn’t suffer from want of Dante references.
Elaine crossed out “Canterbury Tale” and went with “Handmaids Tale.” She lost $6,000 and finished with $1,400.
Michael wrote down “Twilight: New Moon.” That cost him $5,454 and left him with $4,546.
Eric also had “The Handmaid’s Tale”. He lost a mere $4,200 and won the game with the $21,600 he had left. Eric’s 2-day total is $$40,001.
A triple stumper from each round:
DEAR-POURRI ($800) Mia Farrow’s sister was the subject of this Beatles song that asks her “won’t you come out to play”
DEER-POURRI ($2000) A popular painting of the 19th century was Sir Edwin Landseer’s deer portrait, the “Monarch of” this, a narrow Scottish valley
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “American Firsts”
John Ledyard, sailing on Captain Cook’s last voyage in search of the NW Passage, was the 1st American to land at what are now these 2 states show
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Another killer FJ. I went with “Angels and Demons,” so at least I had the right author.
Those of us who were fortunate to attend a Beatles concert know all too well who Mia Farrow’s sister is. They all were disciples of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and several of the songs from the White Album were composed at his retreat.
Mia Farrow tells Letterman all about that in the video I linked to for that TS. I didn’t know that the sisters were already at the retreat before the Beatles got there.
Regarding FJ, I took a bad guess, and went with ‘Canterbury Tales’, but I knew that would never fly.
Tough final as we got a triple stumper.
As always, no one knows about 14th century world literature.
I thought literature was every one’s forte. I guess not. Still Eric played well today despite not getting the first daily double. Hope he can go on a streak.
Now THAT’S funny.
Since I didn’t get FJ, I was totally wrong. I said, “The Song of Roland”.
Eric seemed unsure of a lot of his responses. Hope he does a little better. Still, a runaway is always good!
And, def a good game. Competitors were competitive. No one seemed “totally outclassed”.