Final Jeopardy: 19th Century Notables (1-10-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (1/10/2022) in the category “19th Century Notables” was:
On his deathbed in France in 1890, he told his brother, “The sadness will last forever”
28x champ Amy Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, CA, is a Jeopardy! millionaire now, with winnings of $1,019,600. In Game 29, she is up against these two players: Jenni Govea, an operations generalist from Schaumburg, IL; and David Petersen, a boiler operator from Dunbarton, NH.
Round 1 Categories: Suburbs – The Hugo Awards – Next in Line… – New Chess Stratagems? – Celebrity Hobbies – Words from Arabic
David found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Next in Line” under the $800 clue on the 15th pick of the round. He was in third place with $1,000, $2,200 less than Amy in first place. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
In Ivy schools, alphabetically: Columbia, Cornell… show
Amy finished in the lead with $7,400. Jenni was second with $3,800 and David was last with $3,400. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: Bank Shots – Parts of a Poem – Whales – Some Travelin’ Music, Please – Between the World Wars – 3 Consecutive Vowels
David found the first Daily Double in “Whales” under the $1,600 clue on the 9th pick of the round. David was in second place with $5,400, he had $4,400 less than Amy in first place. David bet $4,000 and couldn’t come up with a response so he was WRONG.
As well as a type of flatworm, it’s something much larger, either of the flat lobes of a whale’s tail. show
Amy got the last Daily Double in “Parts of a Poem” under the $1,200 clue, with 13 clues left after it. In the lead with $16,200 now, she had $12,000 more than Jenni in second place. Amy bet $4,000 and she was RIGHT.
Also a punctuation mark, it’s an address to a personification of something; “Death, be not proud” is an example. show
Amy finished in the lead with a runaway $25,800. Jenni was second with $7,400 and David was last with $4,600. No clues went uncovered.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS VINCENT VAN GOGH?
Dutch artist, Vincent Van Gogh passed away on July 29, 1890 in Arles, France from a gunshot wound that is believed to have been self-inflicted two days earlier. His brother, Theo, was at his bedside. Theo was a successful art dealer who lent a great deal of emotional and financial support to Vincent. A week later, Theo wrote these words in a letter to his sister Lies (Elisabeth): “… when I sat at his bedside and said that we would try to get him better … he said, ‘La tristesse durera toujours’ [The sadness will last forever]. I understood what he wanted to say with those words.”
If you read the entire letter, you may agree Don McLean’s 1971 song “Vincent” evokes echoes of Theo Van Gogh’s 1890 letter, particularly in how misunderstood Vincent was in his own time, and how Vincent suffered and gave up hope. The 4-page handwritten lyrics to that song were put up for auction in July 2020 for a cool 1.5 million. Apparently, they are still available.
David thought it was Jean-Paul Sartre (who died in 1980). He lost his $4,599 bet and finished with one dollar.
Jenni went with Napoleon (who died in 1821). She lost $7,000 and finished with $4,000.
Amy came up with Alfred Dreyfus (who died in 1935). She lost 10 grand but won the game with the remaining $15,800. Amy’s 29-day total is $1,035,400.
3 triple stumpers from SOME TRAVELIN’ MUSIC, PLEASE:
($800) Here’s a traffic update from this icon: “The highway’s jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive”
($1200) This 3-word refrain is the title of the Carter Family tune remade as that “Cups” song– “& I’m leaving tomorrow, what do you say”
($2000) Though he sang “Climb on the back & we’ll go for a ride in the sky” in his 1974 hit “Jet”, the song was named for his dog, Jet
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “1960s Novels”
This book defines its own title as “concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers… was the process of a rational mind” show
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Don’t stop, Amy. Keep going.
I see the circus continues. 🤦
Who amongst us have not criticized contestant’s responses? Triple stumpers to what we perceive as so-called slam dunk clues? Contestants constantly buzzing and giving the wrong answer? Etc, etc, etc…
Moi, I think the FJ responses tonight were absurd. There—I said it. Van Gogh, his relationship with his brother, his death in Arles, France, all seem to be well known factoids, especially to people who study trivia. That’s my opinion and I’m sticking with it.
Besides, what’s the point of having a” comments” section if people cannot express their opinion? As long as they are not being disrespectful…
P.S. I have the right to remain silent and not reply if anyone feels inclined to want to engage in a heated argument. 🙂
Happy New Year, everyone!
Those were some lame responses to FJ. Maybe if I hadn’t seen the movie “Vincent and Theo” ages ago, it would have been more challenging.
Probably a sign of my age, but I thought it was sad that none of them recognized the lyrics to “Born to Run” or “Jet” that would have led them to the artists’ names. I consider BTR the most perfect rock song ever recorded.
First, circus and now this easy final that no one got. Surprised.
The clue in FJ was a dead giveaway; it could have been none other than Vincent Van Gogh.
Well, I think it would have been a dead giveaway if it said Arles instead of France. France is what obviously threw the contestants off
I came up with Van Gogh quick enough. I mean, the painter was in fact quite mad.
Haven’t seen the show yet but not surprised at a triple stumper on the fj clue. The category title unto itself was wide open to one’s own interpretation imo. Notable in what? France was interjected imo to lead the contestants to think the person was French. After all Van Gogh only spent a little over three years in France. Brother? Lots of people have brothers and certainly had them in 1890.. I’m not a clairvoyant like some people who post here. I thought perhaps Amy might get the clue and that was about it because she may have known the details and could extrapolate from notables the area of notoriety. I think verbally attacking the contestants is way out of line. It may give some people joy to “bully” the contestants here but it leaves a sour taste in my mouth.
What am I missing here? I’m not seeing any verbal attacks on the contestants. If it is my remark about the song, I meant that in a joking way and not as a slam against any of the contestants.
VJ, you posted no comments regarding the fj clue. I was not referring to you. There is an individual who posts on here and has every right to do so who consistently sounds condescending regarding fj triple stumpers by the contestants. It’s getting old because most times the person confuses facts. Some people try to come off as if they are smarter than the contestants but are not. I had to vent because it’s not fair. I generalized my comments.
Btw, I’ve now seen the show. Tough board in some categories imo.
thanks, Jacob, I just wasn’t sure if it was something I said because I pretty much ignore that issue. As you know, I tried mightily in the past to shed some self-awareness on those contradictions to no avail.
And now, here are some $2,000 clues I DIDN’T get:
Bank Shots – energy from the subsoil (huh?)
Poetry – the Hail! pun and I didn’t get the DD that Amy got either (Yikes!),
3 Vowels – I can never remember the name of that land mass and even if I could, I wouldn’t buzz in for fear of mispronouncing it.
Tough final as we begin the week with a triple stumper.
@Rhonda, I know you will be more shocked than I was at that $800 Travelin’ Music “broken heroes” triple stumper!
I was really surprised at that New Jersey suburb clue but not that it was a triple stumper. I can’t imagine them thinking anyone other than North Jersey contestants would know that. I worked for a bank president and a top tax attorney who lived there. I even know the zip code (07078). 🤣 I read online somewhere that Buzzy Cohen grew up there so maybe that was some kind of shoutout to Buzzy.
I heard about that broken heroes music before VJ but even I am shocked at that triple stumper. But more so the van gogh triple stumper shouldn’t have been that tough. I remember seeing a couple of paintings like starry night in Moma several years ago. That clue about the nj suburb was a great shoutout to buzzy.
I couldn’t believe that no one knew it, VJ! Sheesh.
I was beyond flummoxed that there were, what, 4 triple stumpers in the “Travelin’ Music”. I mean, I got all of them.
But, really what got under my skin were the beyond bad FJ answers. I’m not debating difficult or not, but, all were, how do I say it, uninspired. I wonder if they wrote their responses just to not leave it blank. But, the last thing that people at home see of them is really bad. At least Amy gets to come back.
@Jason, there were 3 stumpers in the Travelin’ Music category. As for FJ, it was kind of the opposite of last Friday’s. France in the clue made everyone think of Frenchmen. Norwegian was in Friday’s clue and the answers were Norwegian, English, American.