Final Jeopardy: Poets (5-6-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/6/2019) in the category “Poets” was:
A poem by him includes, “it was grassy and wanted wear;/ Though…The passing there/ Had worn them really about the same”
The 2019 Teachers Tournament starts today. Here to kick it off with the first quarter-final match are these three educators: Mariah Minges Klusman, an English language arts teacher from Wyncote, PA, Joe Rengstorf, a special education teacher from Poulsbo, WA; and Julia Rosinski Bailey, a chemistry teacher from Austin, TX.
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Round 1 Categories: Parenthetical Songs – Occupations – Geography – Initially Yours – Classic Novels – Cliches
Joe found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Classic Novels” under the $800 clue on the 10th pick of the round. He was in second place with $1,200, $200 less than Julia’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
This Tolstoy title lady has a young son named Sergei. show
Joe finished in the lead with $9,800. Mariah was second with $2,400 and Julia was last with $1,400.
Round 2 Categories: Iowa in Entertainment – The Planets – Archaeology Balloons – Those Who Ignore History – Doomed to Repeat “It”
Joe found the first Daily Double in “The Planets” under the $1,600 clue on the 4th pick. He was in the lead with $10,600 now, $9,000 more than Mariah in second place. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
Some have more than 60, but these 2 planets have no known moons. show
4 clues later, Joe landed on the last Daily Double in “Archaeology” under the $1,200 clue. In the lead with $14,800, he had $12,200 more than Julia in second place. He bet $5,200 and he was RIGHT.
In 2018 it was announced that the world’s oldest intact shipwreck was found off the coast of Bulgaria, at the bottom of this sea. show
Joe finished in the lead with $16,000. Julia was next with $10,200 and Mariah was in third place with $2,400.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Robert Frost published “The Road Not Taken” in 1916 in his “Mountain Interval” poetry collection. An analysis of the poem by Andrew Spacey on Owlcation notes that Frost’s inspiration for the poem was a peculiar habit of Edward Thomas, an English-Welsh poet he would accompany on walks through the English countryside. Thomas often expressed regret at not having chosen another path and Frost was in fact making fun of that. “So,” Spacey says, “it’s ironic that Frost meant the poem to be light-hearted, but…. People take it very seriously.”
Surely, Alex was talking about this line in a 1989 Daily Double when he said a more famous line would have made it too easy: POETRY ($1,000): The man who wrote, “I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference”
Mariah bet $2,395, bringing her up to $4,795.
Julia bet $5,000 even and finished with $15,200.
Joe bet $4,401 and won the first semi-final spot with $20,401.
A triple stumper from each round:
INITIALLY YOURS ($400) In 1879 he founded his first 5-cent stores in Utica, New York & Lancaster, Penn.; the price ceiling was later raised to a dime
IOWA IN ENTERTAINMENT ($800) This brotherly duo of “Bye Bye Love” fame got their start singing on Iowa radio stations
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “A Year of Firsts”
Year in which the Dept. of Energy was created, the Indy 500 had its first female driver & the 1st Pres. was sworn in under a nickname. show
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would brad rutter be as famous if he hadn’t been forced to leave and then got to come back in later competitions?just thinking he would have fatigued or would he have gone for 80 days? nobody knows wish it had happened though
Wow. The first match in the J! Teachers Tournament was a Triple Solve and Mariah almost being knocked out but that $2,000 clue prevented her from leaving at the negative zone. Well, Julia could technically hand the wild card spot, but it’s too early yet. We still have four matches to decide who get what and in the middle of it, the winner of the Ateneo-FEU match will face UST in the UAAP Women’s Volleyball Finals. James Holzhauer, if you are watching right now, America and the whole world would love to see you back on May 21, but we will be very patient.
Congratulations to Joe and now that James is not playing we have a lot more TSs….
Kind of a softball for teachers . Still, a win is a win, I am sure it will be tougher FJ in the semis.
Well glad this week started off with a triple solve of Robert Frost. Sad that Mariah couldn’t get any rhythm going and still great play today. John and VJ, do you guys know if frost and Dickenson ever collaborated poems together during their time?
@Lou, Frost was only about 12 when Emily Dickinson died.
LINK: 10 more clues from the game
Orange River forming SW border of Orange Free State would also work as an answer for Geography TS
@Viking, my apologies for not getting back to you on this sooner.
That was a video clue and had a map. Generally, I don’t put up the image if I don’t think it was helpful in getting the clue, but without that map, your answer could be right so it was necessary.
On that “Bye Bye Love” clue in the Iowa category, they also had an image of the two brothers but my thinking was if they didn’t know it just from “Bye Bye Love”, a picture of Don and Phil wasn’t going to help.
I hope This tournament isn’t considered boring.
I hope it’s better than last year’s Teachers Tournament.
I hope so too.
Mariah could not get rolling, Joe and Julia were a tiny bit faster even though Joe was dominant.
Semifinalists:
Joe Rengstorf: $20,401
Wild Cards:
Julia Rosinski Bailey: $15,200
Mariah Minges Klusman: $4,795
One thing still hasn’t changed in this Teachers Tournament, is that every winner of this tournament has never been in the wild cards spots.