Final Jeopardy: Brass Instruments (6-11-18)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/11/2018) in the category “Brass Instruments” was:
In playing this instrument whose early version was called a sackbut, it’s about 6″ from A to B, about 7″ from C to D
New champ David Kleinman, a student from Massachusetts, won $31,600 last Friday. In his second game, he is up against these 2 ladies: Tracey Lazareth, a teacher & librarian from Ontario; and Catherine Ono, a software developer from California.
Round 1 Categories: Around the U.S.A. – TV Quotes – Teddy Bears – Literary Sons & Daughters – The Italian Job – Monday Is Fun Day
David found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “TV Quotes” under the $600 clue on the very first pick of the round, with everyone at zero. He bet the $1,000 allowance, as anyone would, and he was RIGHT.
In Season 6 of “Game of Thrones”, a white raven brings this news, one word different from the show’s tagline. show
Catherine finished in the lead with $4,800. Tracey was second with $4,400 and David was last with $2,400.
Round 2 Categories: Instant Gratification – Best Song Oscars – Notable American Women – “C” It Now – Science & Technology Books – Oblast From the Past
Tracey found the first Daily Double in “Notable American Women” under the $2,000 clue on the 13th pick. She was in second place with $8,800 at this point, $2,400 less than Catherine’s lead. She bet $2,000 and took a guess with Dorothy Parker. That was WRONG.
She coined the term “Lost Generation” for expatriate writers like Ernest Hemingway. show
Catherine found the last Daily Double in “Science & Technology Books” under the $1,600 clue, with 6 clues left after it. In the lead with $13,200, she had $1,600 more than Tracey in second place. She bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
Recalibrating our emotions and restocking our immune systems are 2 good reasons “Why We” do this in a recent title. show
Catherine finished in the lead with $17,400. Tracey was next with $11,600 and David was in third place with $7,600.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
In Case Western’s Early Instrument Database, the sackbut is listed under Renaissance instruments and it says: “The Italian name for it from its first appearance in the mid-15th century was always trombone– we just tend to use sackbut today to distinguish it from its modern counterpart.” They have the trombone listed under Baroque instruments and this is apparently called a sackbut too, but neither are equivalent to modern trombones. If you’re a Jeopardy! hopeful, the Master List of instruments by time period on there might be very helpful.
As for the distances between notes, I can’t help with that because I don’t know what they are talking about.
David bet $7,598, bringing him up to $15,198.
Tracey didn’t bet anything so she remained at $11,600.
Catherine bet $5,801 bet so she won the match with $23,201. Catherine Ono is the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
LITERARY SONS & DAUGHTERS ($600) A post-Fleming tale features James Bond’s son James, from his hookup with Kissy Suzuki in this Japan-set novel
OBLAST FROM THE PAST ($1200) Part of the Sakhalin Oblast was acquired from this country in 1947
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Billboard Chart Toppers”
This singer’s first studio album came out in 1955, but a 2011 duets release was his first album to hit no. 1. show
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Just on the behalf of John Lennon, the Central Park circular emblem has nothing to do with Strawberry Fields. It is Imagine. In a circle. With check.
They mean how far the slide needs to move to go from one note to the next. Although I don’t agree with the distances given. The distance the slide needs to move also varies depending on the octave you’re playing in. However, A to B is never 6 inches; sometimes it’s two feet, sometimes it’s the some position. Perhaps they meant A to B-flat, that’s about 6 inches.
Thanks, Jeff. I just couldn’t make enough sense out of anything I looked at about that part of the clue to even attempt an explanation myself. 🙂
Congrats on a triple solve..Although I would love to see David win more, but I want to see somone getting a streak today. Hopefully Cathy can do it. Plus, VJ did your kids play any musical instruments like brass or woodwind and performed a concert for the audiences in grade school in the past?
@Lou, yeah, David was taking too many guesses today. I knew that Sakhalin clue from back in the day when Yul Brynner was claiming he was born there. As for my kids, my girls were into dancing in school and my son, singing. He took up guitar on his own though.
LINK: 9 more clues from this match
Nobody of us saw that coming! Congrats to the 3 players and especially to Catherine.
Kind of a strange bet by Tracey, fortunately it did not matter in the end.
Good thing to see a clean sweep. We had everything from zero to 2…. And now we have another new champion. The chances of one or more 3 game winners increases every time somebody does not win at least 4. And the summer break is looming.
Maybe Catherine can break the “jinx streak”?
I meant of course one or more 3 game winners in the ToC.
I don’t think Tracey’s wager is a bad wager. If you can do the math, you’ll notice that $11,600 over $17,400 reduces to 2 over 3. Tracey has exactly 2/3’s of Catherine’s score. Back in the ”Ties Allowed” era, Tracey would have 2 options: Tracey can hope that Catherine gets it wrong, and ties her, so she wager $0, or Tracey can hope that Catherine gets it right, so she should wager everything. There’s no in between, but with ties eliminated, things are a lot complicated for Catherine. Catherine could wager $5,800, and Tracey could wager everything, and if they both get it right, they’ll go into a tiebreaker, but if Catherine tacks on the extra dollar, which she did, and she did the right thing, and she gets it wrong, she’ll have $11,599, which is $1 less than Tracey. It worked out for Christine Kim, who made the right play on the Daily Double, and she doubled up to $14,000, which was exactly 2/3’s of Brian Quinn’s score. Both players missed, Christine wagered $0, while Brian tacked on the extra dollar wagered $7,001, and lost by $1 to Christine.