Final Jeopardy: The World of Today (6-27-22)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/27/2022) in the category “The World of Today” was:

Partly because it was a monosyllable, this word was chosen as “a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission”

New champ Joe Feldmann, a technology professional from Bethesda, MD, won $22,900 last Friday. In Game 2, he is up against: Armand Sanchez, a high school teacher from San Jose, CA; and Emma Henke, a writer from Madison, WI.

Round 1 Categories: F1 Grand Prix Sites – I Speak for the Trees – Business Names – Summer’s Here – More than One Meaning – Feeling Science-“E”

Armand found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Feeling Science-‘E’” under the $800 clue on the 11th pick of the round. He was in second place with $2,000, $200 less than Emma‘s lead. Armand made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.

These hormones relieve pain but probably don’t give the runner’s high as once thought show

WHAT ARE ENDORPHINS?

Joe finished in the lead with $6,600. Armand was second with $6,000. Emma was last with $4,600. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: Art Lovers – Southern Capitals – The National League – Female Founders – Books & Their Movies – Ends in “S-T-Y”

Emma found the first Daily Double in “Books & Their Movies” under the $2,000 clue on the 5th pick of the round. She was in second place with $6,600, $2,000 less than Joe’s lead. Emma bet $3,000, and couldn’t come up with a response so she was WRONG.

The title of this 2007 film adapted from a novel comes from a Yeats poem that says, “an aged man is but a paltry thing” show

WHAT IS “NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN”?

3 clues later, Emma got the last Daily Double in “Art Lovers” under the $1,200 clue. She was in second place with $4,800, $3,000 less than Joe’s lead. Emma bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.

Jean-Antoine Watteau’s “The Perfect Accord” has also been translated as “Perfect” this musical term. show

WHAT IS “HARMONY”?

Joe finished in the lead $11,800. Emma was second with $11,000. Armand was last with $6,800. All clues were shown.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS A MEME?

The word “meme” was coined by Richard Dawkins, a noted British evolutionary biologist, in his 1976 bestselling book “The Selfish Gene”. From the book: “We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. ‘Mimeme’ comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like ‘gene’. I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme. If it is any consolation, it could alternatively be thought of as being related to ‘memory’, or to the French word même. It should be pronounced to rhyme with ‘cream’.” Wouldn’t it have been simpler to name the darn thing “meem”?

So Dawkins was thinking of the French word même, which generally means “same”, although there are other meanings. When it means “same”, it has a circumflex over the first e. The French word for Dawkins’ meme has an accent grave over the first e.

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Armand’s response was “um.” He lost $5,000 and finished with $1,800.

Emma came up with “thought.” That cost her $4,000 and left her with $7,000.

Joe got it right. He bet $10,300 and won the game with $22,100. Joe Feldmann remains champ with a 2-day total is $45,000.

A triple stumper from each round:

ART LOVERS ($2000) “Love Among the Ruins” by Edward Coley Burne-Jones is an example of the works of this 19th century brotherhood

SOUTHERN CAPITALS ($400) For info on this capital, check out the Redstick blog

More clues on Page 2

4 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “20th Century Novels”

“I’ve killed my brother” is said near the end of this 1952 book with a biblical title & a plot echoing a biblical story show

WHAT IS “EAST OF EDEN”?

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