Final Jeopardy: Catholicism (11-29-18)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/29/2018) in the category “Catholicism” was:
A liturgical year begins on the first Sunday of Advent, which is the Sunday closest to the feast day of this “first apostle”
New champ Adriana Ciccone, a data scientist from San Francisco, CA, won $30,401 yesterday. In Game 2, her challengers are : Chris Williams, a consultant from New York, NY; and Phil Tompkins, a portable restroom service technician from Hammond, IN.
Round 1 Categories: Let’s Put Rutherford B. Hayes in the Picture! – Hodgepodge – Global Monsters – The Movies – Cryptocurrencies – It’s a “Date”
Adriana found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Cryptocurrencies” under the $1,000 clue, with 3 clues worth $1,800 left after it. She was in the lead with $5,200, $2,400 more than Phil in second place. She bet $2,500 and she was RIGHT.
In 2018 this South American country launched the petro currency backed by oil reserves. show
Adriana finished in the lead with $8,300. Phil was second with $3,600 and Chris was last with $3,000.
Round 2 Categories: The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor – Elemental U.S. Places – People in Poems – How Many? – An Abbreviated Category – It’s a Date
Adriana found the first Daily Double in “Elemental” under the $3,500 clue on the second pick. She was in the lead with $8,700 now, $5,100 more than Phil in second place. She bet $3,500 and she was RIGHT.
The ghost town of Manganese is in this state with the same 2-letter abbreviation as manganese. show
Chris found the last Daily Double in “It’s a Date” under the $1,600 clue on the 14th pick. In third place with $3,400, he had $6,800 less than Adriana’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
April 12, 1861: shooting starts here. show
Phil finished in the lead with $14,000. Adriana was next with $12,200 and Chris was in third place with $11,200.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Back in 2006, Pope Benedict spoke about the apostles individually in a number of general audiences. He covered Andrew on June 14th, explaining why he is considered the first apostle. In the first chapter of the Gospel of John, Andrew heard John the Baptist proclaim Jesus as “the Lamb of God,” so he and another man followed Jesus. Andrew went and told his brother, Simon Peter, that they found the Messiah and brought Peter to Jesus. “Andrew, then, was the first of the Apostles to be called to follow Jesus,” Pope Benedict said, “Exactly for this reason the liturgy of the Byzantine Church honors him with the nickname: ‘Protokletos’, [protoclete] which means, precisely, ‘the first called’.”
Accounts in the other gospels make it seem like Andrew was already with his brother when they first encountered Jesus. This 11/8/2016 clue reflects that: GONE FISHING ($2000) When he first meets Jesus, this brother of Peter is fishing so today he’s the patron saint of it
Chris thought it was Paul. He lost his $11,198 bet and finished with two bucks.
Adriana went with Peter. That cost her $7,000 and left her with $5,200.
Phil thought it was Peter, too. He lost $10,401 dropping down to $3,599. Adriana Ciccone remained the champ with a 2-day total of $35,601.
A triple stumper from each round:
THE MOVIES ($1000) For “On the Waterfront”, Elia Kazan originally cast this singer who Kazan said “spoke perfect Hobokenese”
IT’S A DATE ($2000) May 26, 1868: a Senate vote goes in this man’s favor, barely
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “The Decorative Arts”
In the early 1700s in Dresden, King Augustus locked up a chemist until he found how to make this product dubbed “white gold”. show
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I am a “cradle Catholic” & attended Catholic school for 12 years. I did not know that Andrew was the first apostle called by Jesus. I had always thought that Andrew & Peter were called at the same time when they were fishing & Jesus said that they should follow him & he would make them fishers of men. I certainly never connected the feastday of St. Andrew with Advent. Advent simply has to have 4 Sundays before Christmas.
@Kathleen, apparently, from that 2016 clue I posted in the recap, that’s what Jeopardy thought, too 😀
I haven’t paid any attention to saints’ feast days in decades myself. My grandmother always had a Catholic calendar with all the saints on them, but I generally could only remember ones connected to family birthdays. When I was a teenager, I found out that the then pope moved my birthday saint’s feast day from July to February and I sort of lost interest after that
@VJ
I know about St. Martin’s Day that you are supposed to eat roasted goose (at least in Austria and Germany), something I L O V E D !!!!In Hi are no geese for sale, not even ducks. The omnipresent turkey…….
You are right about the day prior. Maybe intentionally? In Europe you celebrate your birthday e,g, the evening before the actual day. I always had my BD party on the evening before my BD and all my friends and family I still had then, as well.
$12,400 in Triple Stumpers here, enough to win the game with a wager of less than $7200 in FJ!
It would have been hilarious if a Catholic priest were on today’s show and got the Final wrong.
By the way, has a Catholic priest ever been on the show?
@Albert, yes, in June 2013 (link to game on J-Archive)
oh, by the way, I did look up how the liturgical calendar is connected to St. Andrew’s feast day (November 30), but I couldn’t find anything to say why it was that way. I did find an old rhyme they used to remind themselves about advent on on Google Books
“Saint Andrew the king
Three weeks and three days before Christmas comes in;
Three days after or three days before
Advent Sunday knocks at the door”
@VJ
The feast day is fixed with 11/30. Since the 4th Advent Sunday has to be BEFORE Christmas, the latest could be the 24th Dec., the earliest( first) Advent Sunday can be is Dec. 3rd. , if the 25th (Christmas) is on a Monday.Then you would have:
1st Advent Sunday : 3rd Dec.
2nd 10th Dec
3rd 17th Dec
4th 24th Dec
25th, Monay:Christmas.
If Christmas falls on a Saturday, then the Advent Sundays would be: on Nov 28th and Dec 5th,12th and 19th.
So the earliest Advent Sunday could be is Nov 28th, the latest Dec. 3rd. And starting Nov 28th to Dec 5th = SIX days. So the rhyme makes sense: 3 days in either direction.
And Xmas on Mon or Sat = also 6 days. Kennst Di aus?? (Viennese dialect, approx. “Know it now?”🎄🎄🎄)
That doesn’t explain WHY
Because the church says so. Liturgical law, but at random. According to science, the man who was Jesus was born most likely nowhere near December 25.
They are not even sure about the year. Some historians put Jesus’ birth all the way back to what would be 3 BC or BCE.(BCE because Christ cannot be born before Christ was born.)……
It’s church doctrine and that’s it. Whether it’s true or not. Still lost? ME TOO !!!!
I guess they had to come up with some rule(s) and ended up the way it is now and has been for quite a while.
I’ve given up on this. Judaism is much clearer about when and WHY their holidays are celebrated when they are.
@John, well, I would say tradition, not doctrine. I also saw some info that said before they went with a 4-week advent, they had a longer one starting 2 weeks earlier from the feast day of St. Martin, so it would seem that the saint days are just markers, so to speak
by the way, it seems like the J! themes and some clues are coming out a day earlier than they originally planned. Like the Thanksgiving category board was the day before Thanksgiving and this FJ, the day before the feast day
LINE # 3: should be Nov 28, NOT Dec 3.
To keep it simple: Earliest Advent Sun can be Nov 28, latest one Dec. 24, depending when Xmas is. but in any case BEFORE Xmas.
A Triple Stumper on a very TOUGH FJ! on Catholicism. Even I, a devout Catholic, have no idea, whatsoever. Anyway, she retained her championship because Phil risked too much. Besides, before FJ!, someone could wind up big, but that’s not the case this time.
Well, Phil bet what he had to in order to cover Adriana who in turn speculated apparently on a TS. As I said, as a leader you are in a dilemma with your bet. Had Phil stayed put and he and Adriana would have been right he would have bit himself. Adriana had the right hunch and was anticipating what happened. Smart bet on her part imo.
Well just like the expected results from a few days ago. I thought phil had locked this game preventing Adriana from winning but still though I don’t know if religion is in the contestants corner today. Congrats to Adriana hopefully she can turn things around tomorrow. By the way that hint Andrew the apostle should have been obvious, don’t you guys agree John and VJ? Still I wonder if the contestants were thinking of Peter Paul and mary instead of andrew
@Lou
Sorry, won’t see the show for a few more hours. What hint “Andrew the Apostle” are you referring to??
Funny that you mention “Peter,Paul and Mary” (I guess you were referring to Jesus’ mother). P,P&M was a folk/pop group from the early sixties and had a ton of hits, their most successful “Leaving on a Jet Plane”, written by John Denver, who ironically and tragically died when he crashed his own plane into the ocean. It wasn’t a jet though, but an experimental plane. Denver was an experienced pilot but…he died Oct. ’97, so over 21 years ago. Saw a concert of his here on Maui once.
So, anyway: WHAT HINT, please??
That name Andrew in the final jeopardy answer. The twelve apostles l. Have you heard of them? How many of those names do you remember and is Andrew one of the members of the apostle ?
@Lou
I am catholic and the “gymnasium” (that’s what they call a high school in Austria and Germany) I attended was run by Augustine priests in the district of Vienna I lived. Their monastery was founded in 1114 (!!) by Leopold III of Babenberg, the patron saint of Austria. The Babenberg family ruled what is approximately Austria and part of Germany today WAY before the Habsburgs, who ruled till 1918, end of WW I when Austria was forced to abolish the monarchy and became a republic. So yes, you bet I remember all of them and entire passages from the Bible. Religion was a mandatory class, nothing you could take or leave. Austria is still about 90% catholic, despite all the refugees from the Middle East. Besides, what you learn at an early age sticks with you.
Sorry, @Lou, but even though I’m Catholic, I have no idea.
This was a very tough FJ, Lou. A lot of churches have Bible Jeopardy! and I would not be the least surprised if someone answered Peter to that clue in a church game. Just because you go to church doesn’t mean you can remember which apostle did what off the top of your head. You have to be a student of the Bible to get this one.
As for getting it in regular Jeopardy!, I think the players would be inclined to think, well, they have to go with one of the well-known apostles and that would put them at a disadvantage right there since Andrew is not that well known. Peter is the most well-known, of course. If they rejected him as too easy, I don’t know who they’d pick after that. Maybe James? (There’s a song called “Gethsemane” in “Jesus Christ Superstar” where Jesus says “Will no one stay awake with me, Peter, John, James”?)
LINK: 13 more clues from the match
Well, pretty much the expected result and congratulations to Adriana. Obviously she played for a TS when she saw the category. Phil bet what he had to. That’s the leader’s curse. Sometimes you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t. Adriana got lucky with the DDs again (and was good, got them both today, so 5/6 in 2 days for 6K today and 15K for both days.) Would have been ironic if Peter would have come up three times , after all he denied three times to know Jesus before the rooster crowed….
Good overall scores before FJ, si I guess there were not many misses and/or TSs again.
Fourth tough FJ in the last 5 games. Just yesterday was a softy of sorts.
One friend complained that religion should not be a J, leave alone a FJ category. But in my opinion “Religion” is as much general knowledge as science, history, geography etc. You have Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism etc…some things that have to do with religion you just know (or should) whether you belong to a faith – any faith – or not