Final Jeopardy: Poets (1-27-20)
Here are 9 more triple stumpers from the 1/27/2020 Jeopardy! game:
BUDDHIST TEMPLES ($400) In 1968, the Byodo-In Temple was built without nails in Valley of the Temples Memorial Park in this U.S. state
($800) A temple in India has a tree descended from this 5-letter tree important in the life of Buddha
PHRASE HISTORY ($400) A 1918 song title said this “is Hard To Find”
PUBLIC TELEVISION ($1000) The CBC’s “Road to Avonlea” made a star of this actress named Sarah who played young Sara Stanley
INSPIRING WOMEN ($600) Pioneering environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas is known as the woman who saved this Florida “River of Grass”
THE 2019 FORBES GLOBAL 2,000 ($200) With $4 trillion in total assets, the ICBC, the Industrial & Commercial Bank of this country, tops the list
($1000) Jamie Dimon is head of this financial services company, the largest in the United States
DANGEROUS COLORS ($1600) Leonardo da Vinci used a black powder made from carcinogenic sources like coal tar & named for this element
“M____T” PROMISES ($2000) From the French for “clumsy”, it means unskillful
Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — AROUND THE WORLD:
($400) Not only is it the world’s small ocean, it’s also the shallowest
($800) In 2019 this airline used employees as guinea pigs on a 19-hour flight direct from London to Sydney
($1200) A specialty of Goa, India is feni, a potent liquor made from the fruit of the tree that produces these kidney-shaped nuts
($1600) The name of this people of Kenya precedes “Mara” in the name of a national reserve loaded with lions
($2000) “B” aware that this 19-mile-long strait splits Turkey into western & eastern portions
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My favorite line from the late Robert Frost has to be “Good fences make good neighbors” from “Mending Wall” (1914). Many-a-time I recall Dad walking the boundary lines of our New Hampshire farm, repairing the stone walls every spring and mending the gaps with other material. We never had any problems with the neighboring farmers, because we shared the same interest in maintaining our mutual borders.
I watched the inauguration in 1961 of Kennedy (for whom I voted) and remember Frost reciting a poem. It wasn’t until just a few years ago that I learned that because of the glare of the sun, he couldn’t read his poem “Dedication” written for the occasion, instead reciting from memory his “The Gift Outright” from 1942. Good quick thinking. Frost was considered rather a liberal for his time, although I don’t think he is so considered now. Much the same thing with Carl Sandburg. Although Sandburg was actually born in the same state he is most identified with.
I don’t see the connection with 1933-1955?
@Mike, it also tells you that he was a prominent 20th century poet
Here’s something else you may find interesting:
Why Do Colleges Hand Out Honorary Degrees
As VJ alluded to, Dartmouth points to New Hampshire, which points to New England. The years 1933-1955 point (obviously) to the early to mid 20th century. So the clue can be read “Which early to mid 20th century poet is closely associated with New England?”. A very prototypical FJ clue where two or three facts are presented, requiring a couple more facts for the contestants to deduce immediately, and then a good educated guess, knowing the writers are trying their best to make the answer as easy as possible (if you know the facts).
What was the connection between the years 1933/1955 given in FJ and Frost?
@Akosua, Dartmouth College awarded him the honorary degrees. That’s in New Hampshire, a state that Frost is closely associated with
What is the earliest broadcast time for Jeopardy. It comes on at 7:30 EST.
@Scott, in Houston (where I live) it comes on at 11:30 a.m. CST
The earliest time I know of before that is 9:30 a.m. in Montgomery, Alabama, also CST
I had no idea on either Double Jeopardy Round Daily Doubles.
Poetry, along with musical theater, seems to be one of those categories contestants continually struggle with in FJ.
Heather had a good head start but Sarah was pretty quick on the buzzer today. One of my favorite poems from frost was the road not taken. Congrats to Sarah on her win. I hope she could build up a run of her own to end January. By the way VJ, what was your favorite poet that grew on you?
Yes, congrats to Sarah on the big DD bet and getting Final right, too.
As for poets, idk, Lou, I’d say the poets I have a big soft spot for are the ones who wrote for children, like RLS, Edward Lear, Hilaire Belloc and Eugene Field. I like a lot of poems by so many different poets though. Sometimes, they aren’t even the ones the poet is most famous for — my favorite Poe poem is “El Dorado”
Me too, Lou. I like Sarah, and the looks of her.
For a good part of the show, I could see Sarah clicking frantically and repeatedly, often a split-second too late. (I know that feeling all too well.) But she got the hang of it and took the lead late. She nearly made a possibly fatal error on the last DJ clue by betting 4K, which would have put her in 2nd place had she been wrong.
Why the two ladies answered Thoreau and Whitman is beyond me. Both lived in the 19th century and would not have rec’d degrees in 1933 and 1955. I read about Frost dropping out of college very recently, which turned my likely guess into a sure thing.
@Howard, my theory on why the ladies picked Whitman and Thoreau is because they are the other likely suspects for lit and/or poetry clues, having popped up ad nauseam in the past. 🤣🤣
That being said, most folks don’t think of Thoreau as a poet. He did write poetry though but, in my humble opinion, it’s pretty awful.
The last Monday three females competed on the show (overall) was on November 19, 2018 (that was the Teen Tournament finals in which Claire Sattler won). The last Monday three females competed on the show (regular play) was on December 31, 2012. The last Monday three females competed on the show in the month of January (regular play) was on January 22, 2007.