Final Jeopardy: Literary Quotes (4-26-16)
The Final Jeopardy question (4/26/2016) in the category “Literary Quotes” was:
More than once this 1897 novel quotes from Deuteronomy, “The blood is the life”.
New champ Buzzy Cohen won $33,601 yesterday. Today his challengers are: Jerry Vinokurov, from Pittsburgh, PA; and Stephanie Hunt, from Highland Park, NJ.
Before kicking off the first round, Alex Trebek announced that the Teachers Tournament will begin next week, with the second week at DAR Constitution Hall.
Round 1 Categories: Ankara Babies – Words In Charles Dickens Novel Titles – Just Deal! – Rhyme Here – My Country – ‘Tis “of the” Movie
Buzzy found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Just Deal!” under the $800 clue. There were 5 clues left after it. He was in third place with $1,800, $3,000 less than Jerry’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
Originating in Uruguay, this rummy-like card game means “basket” in Spanish. show
Jerry finished in the lead with $4,800. Stephanie was second with $3,400 and Buzzy was last with $2,600.
Round 2 Categories: The Broad – U.S. Geography – Governmental Last Name’s The Same – Comics’ Books – World War II – “Lip” Service
Buzzy found the first Daily Double in “U.S. Geography” under the $800 clue on the 7th pick of the round. In second place with $5,800, he now had $1,000 less than Jerry’s lead. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
This river & its tributaries flow through 3 major deserts: the Great Basin, the Sonoran & the Mojave. show
Jerry found the last Daily Double in “Governmental Last Name’s the Same” under the $1,600 clue, with about 15 clues still to go. He was in the lead with $6,400 now, $1,400 ahead of Stephanie in second place. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
A current Massachusetts senator & the 14th Chief Justice. show
Jerry finished in the lead with $16,400. Buzzy was next with $9,400 and Stephanie was in third place with $5,000.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
PBA Dracula points out: ” Since vampires are usually referred to as creatures that drink blood, it is also not surprising that blood is a central metaphor in the book. Renfield cries out, quoting Scripture (Deut. 12:23), “The blood is the life” (Ch. 11, p. 181). Blood symbolizes the very life force, the essence, of a human being in Dracula. Since the title character is no longer human (but an “un-dead” animalistic creature), he must obtain the life-force of others to continue his existence. ”
Bookrags has 35 quotes from “Dracula.” “The blood is the life” is No. 19.
Stephanie got it right. Her $4,995 bet brought her up to $9,995.
Buzzy also knew it. He bet $7,001, finishing with $16,401.
Jerry was writing down “Germinal” but didn’t get it completed. He knew it was wrong anyway when Alex gave the quote in his Dracula voice. Jerry lost his $2,499 bet and was left with $13,999. That made Buzzy a 2-day champ with $50,002. Go, Buzzy!
Here are 2 triple stumpers from the match, one from each round:
‘TIS “OF THE” MOVIE ($400) Ready yourselves for my best Daniel Day-Lewis in this film— “Stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you!” (“Obviously, my Daniel Day-Lewis needs some work,” Alex said after supplying the answer).
COMICS’ BOOKS ($800) From his “Brain Droppings”: “There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage and Grief?”
More triple stumpers on Page 2
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “U.S. History”
Messrs. Gusenberg, Gusenberg, May, Weinshank, Clark, Heyer & Schwimmer famously died on this day in 1929. show
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Round 1 Categories: Ankara Babies – Words In Charles Dickens Novel Titles – Just Deal! – Rhyme Here – My Country – ‘Tis “of the” Movie
Now, we know there’s “poetic license”–plays on words, etc.– at work in naming the Jeopardy categories. And we’re not “hysterical” about this: But somebody tell us, was “Ankara Babies” the Jeopardy writers’ predilection to inject those ever subtle “questions” that seem to have some nexus to current, controversial “things political”? After all, would we be that off in making the connection that “Ankara Babies” was their cutesy allusion to “Anchor Babies”?
I never really thought of that connection. What I was shaking my head about in that category was Alex reading that lullaby clue in what sounded like a Russian accent to me, and I also thought some might be offended by the “go to sleep or I’ll kill you” sentiment.
Yes, I was also taken aback by the words to the lullaby. I didn’t find it amusing.
Since they attached a nationality to the category, I thought it was pretty harsh and esp using the word “kill” directed at a baby. Bad joke.
But it’s not like we don’t have some lullabies and nursery rhymes that involve physical harm. Rock-a-Bye Baby, Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home and Piggy on the Railway come to mind. We go with Brahms and 1-2-3-4-5, Once I Caught a Fish Alive.
And let’s not forget Three Blind Mice
This conversation makes me smile, thinking of a similar discussion I had with VJ a while ago, when I mentioned the mean French song Alouette. 🙂
I remember that, Cece. LOL. We were also talking some other gory folk songs that evolved into children’s song
@Cece, the twins were here today. They really like this particular Bunny Foo Foo video where the good fairy is a man with a gruff voice.
Hare today, Goon tomorrow. LOL. Whoever thought this up?
The words are a little different than the way I first learned it though. It was —
Little Foo Foo Rabbit, I don’t like your attitude
Scooping up the field mice and bopping them on the head.
42/58 here.
Jerry had a bit of a hard time concealing his frustration today, didn’t he? — particularly, in that WW2 category when Stephanie was beating him to the buzzer. He slapped the podium loud enough to hear it, then she got it wrong. He got it right and the next clue he chose was his DD.
I was torn between not wanting Jerry to get that Daily Double wrong because he bet it all and wanting him to get it wrong to see his reaction. After Trebek did the Dracula impression, he had a little hissy, In any event, he had to know he was wrong even before the impression. He didn’t have a complete answer