Final Jeopardy: Familiar Phrases (1-14-19)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (1/14/2019) in the category “Familiar Phrases” was:

Originally a folk term for a chronic rash, this phrase got a new meaning as a title for a 1952 stage comedy & later a movie.

2x champ Anneke Garcia, won $37,701 last week. In Game 3, her opponents are: Charlie Jensen, a program director from Los Angeles, CA; and Suzy Langevin, a social worker from Framingham, MA.

Round 1 Categories: Exotic Wildlife – Olympians – Connectiquette – “T…Y” Very Much – Windmills – Found in Translation

Charlie found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Connectiquette” under the $400 clue on the 12th pick of the round. He and Suzy were tied for the lead at $1,600, $600 more than Anneke. He bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.

As a new student at Yale Med School, you’ll have this garment placed on you by a senior faculty member. show

WHAT IS A LAB COAT?

Anneke finished in the lead with $5,800. Suzy was second with $5,400 and Charlie was last with $4,600.

Round 2 Categories: Euro Coins – Terms of Endurement – The Story of My Life – In the Cloud – Dressed Alike – They Got the Memo

Suzy found the first Daily Double in “Terms of Endurement” under the $800 clue on the 7th pick. She was in third place with $4,600 now, $3,600 less than Anneke’s lead. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.

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WHAT IS FORTITUDE?

Anneke found the last Daily Double in “Story of My Life” under the $1,600 clue on the 14th pick. In second place with $9,400, she had $2,800 less than Suzy’s lead. She bet $3,000 and thought it was Strauss. That was WRONG.

This bandmaster composed the 1928 autobiography “Marching Along” show

WHO IS JOHN PHILIP SOUSA?

Anneke finished in the lead with $16,800. Suzy was next with $13,400 and Charlie was in third place with $9,000.

ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH?

Back in 1812, there was such a clamor to find the parasite causing the “seven year itch” (aka scabies) that the Academy of Science in Paris offered a $1,500 prize to anyone who could prove its existence. The amusing anecdote of how they were duped with a cheese mite is on Google Books.

In 1952, George Axelrod’s 3-act play, “The Seven Year Itch” was brought to the stage, starring Tom Ewell as Richard Sherman and Vanessa Brown as The Girl. This is when the term came to mean a mid-life crisis causing a wandering eye after being married for about 7 years. Marilyn Monroe was famously cast as The Girl in the 1955 film version.

From 2014: REMEMBER THE ALIMONY ($800) Connecticut will grant a divorce if one spouse has been absent & out of touch for this “itchy” length of time

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Charlie bet $8,900, bringing him up to $17,900.

Suzy bet $13,000, for a $26,401 finish.

Anneke bet $10,001, winning the match with $26,801. Her 3-day total is $64,502. Go, Anneke!

These triple stumpers were in FOUND IN TRANSLATION:

($400) Jean-Paul Sartre’s “L’Être et le Néant”

($600) Ovid’s “Ars Amatoria”

($1000) Franz Lehar’s operetta “Die Lustige Witwe”

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “20th Century History”

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