Final Jeopardy: Literary Groups (5-30-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/30/2023) in the category “Literary Groups” was:
Windermere, Thirlmere, and Grasmere are three of the sites that helped give a 19th century literary group this name
2x champ Diandra D’Alessio, a technical writer from Montreal, Quebec, won $15,700 so far. In Game 3, her challengers are: Ilhana Redzovic, an investment associate from Chicago, IL; and Nathan Dennis from , a C-17 loadmaster from Charlotte, NC.
Round 1 Categories: Authors’ First Novels – The Year That Was – The Band’s Songs Tell a Story – Fruity Rhyme Time – “M.C.” – Hammer
Diandra found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “The Year That Was” under the $600 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. She was in the lead with $400, $200 more than Nathan in second place. Diandra made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
William Lloyd Garrison published the last issue of the liberator, saying his “vocation as an abolitionist is ended” show
Ilhana finished in the lead with $6,800. Nathan was in second place with $2,600 and Diandra was last with $2,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Mountains – Czech it Out! – Scientists – Cat Breeds – Disney Endings – Middle “G”
Nathan found the first Daily Double in “Cat Breeds” under the $1,200 clue on the 18th pick of the round. He was in second place with $7,400 now, $1,000 less than Ilhana’s lead. Nathan bet $1,356 and he was RIGHT.
This place associated with a tiger subspecies is also the name of a beautiful cat breed show
Ilhana got the last Daily Double in “Scientists” under the $1,600 clue with 4 clues left. She was in the lead with $15,600 now, $4,844 more than Nathan in second place. Ilhana bet $5,000 and she was RIGHT.
For his work on vibrations & sound, Ernst Chladni is known as the father of this science show
Ilhana finished in the lead with $21,000. Nathan was second with $10,756 and Diandra was last with $7,200. All clues were shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO ARE THE LAKE POETS?
The Lake Poets were that group of 19th century poets who resided in the English part of the Lake District, which extends into Scotland.The most well known of the group are William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge and Robert Southey. Wordsworth lived in Grasmere; Coleridge lived in nearby Keswick after a year and a half stay at Grasmere with Wordsworth and his family; and Southey also stayed with Wordsworth until Coleridge left Greta Hall. He stayed there until he died.
Other more or less relevant points:
• Wordsworth mentioned Windemere Lake in one of his very wordy works: Prelude, Part IV.
• Oscar Wilde worked on his first play “Lady Windemere’s Fan” when he visited the Lake District.
• Beatrix Potter also lived near Windemere
• The French word for “lake” is actually “lac”, but it also meant “sea”, among other things, in Old English
Diandra picked the Algonquin Round Table. She lost $7,199 and finished with $1.00.
Nathan went with Meadowmen. That cost him $3,745 and left him with $7,011.
Ilhana also had the Algonquin Round Table. She only lost $600 and won the game with $20,400.
DISNEY ENDINGS ($1600) In this 1986 classic Basil of Baker Street survives a fall from Big Ben, but the evil Ratigan is not so lucky
($2000) St. Jerome gets the credit for this translation of the Bible that he completed around 405
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Nobel-Winning Novelists”
Falsely accused of murder, a character in his 1948 novel becomes “tyrant over the whole county’s white conscience” show
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Algonquin Round Table? Those were Americans, notably including Dorothy Parker and probably Robert Benchley. I felt confident it was the Bloomsbury Group. Oops.
I was out of town and missed the show entirely. Thank goodness for this recap. Diandra was a lovely lady but somewhat of a sham champion. I thought the DDs were tough except for the 1865 one. At least I got a few stumpers. The Zach Taylor year; the “One of these Nights” band; the present tense verb; and the Jack Horner rhyme.
From what I can tell, a bit larger wager on that last DD likely would have cinched a runaway for Ilhana.
A propos the Cat Breeds: Here is a link to the Dec. 4, 2020 recap, where Nikki made a video with the twins, also starring our Russian boy Boris, to surprise me when I came home from the hospital. I cried when I first saw it.
P.S. If you watched that far, the dedication to my grandson Jax flew by fast. It said: “To Jax – for all your hard work and dedication! Despite the obstacles Jax has faced, he has worked so hard to progress his speech and I think this video speaks volumes.” Jax rarely talked in his first year and a half. He was found to have a hearing problem that required an operation. That was followed by speech therapy and now he talks up a storm, so a shoutout to his parents, the doctors and therapist for their work, too! (My part in that was finding out he could talk, copying simple sounds in some games we played)
I had NO idea on FJ. Never heard that once in my life. But, I find now that there is a Twitter thread full of gleeful people that knew Final because it was mentioned in a Taylor Swift song!
The only word I can use for Ilhana is “intense”. She was “dialed in” last night!
You have Diandra final score wrong. She ended up with $1.00 not bet $1.00.
Thanks, Kaye. I fixed it
You’re welcome.
Here we go again in FJ with these alternating slam dunks and triple stumpers.
That was a tough final as we got a triple stumper. We could get a Tuesday losing streak in the final.