Final Jeopardy: Medieval Literature (1-28-15)
The Final Jeopardy question (1/28/2015) in the category “Medieval Literature” was:
Characters in this epic 4,002-line poem include Count Ogier, Duke Thierry and Archbishop Turpin of Reims.
2-day champ Christine Kim has won $41,401 so far. Today she goes for a third win against these two players: Andrew Smith, from Madison, AL; and Marissa Edelman, from Philadelphia, PA.
Round 1: Andrew found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Yes, Virginia” under the $800 clue. He was in the lead with $2,800, $1,600 more than Christine in second place. He bet $2,000 and thought it was Williamsburg. That was WRONG.
This World Heritage site just southeast of Charlottesville was built between 1768 & 1809. show
Marissa finished in the lead with $2,400. Christine was second with $1,400 and Andrew was last with $800.
Round 2: Marissa found the first Daily Double in “I Am a Man of Science” under the $1,600 clue. She was in the lead with $2,800 now, $600 more than Christine in second place. She bet $1,000 and only came up with the first name. Not only WRONG, appalling!
He didn’t carry a blue security blanket when he won a Chemistry Nobel for research on the nature of chemical bonds. show
Andrew found the last Daily Double in “80s Cinema” under the $1,600 clue with only seconds left in the round and one more clue after it. In the lead with $8,400, he had $1,000 more than Marissa in second place. Not feeling very confident, he only bet $400 but he was RIGHT.
For the funeral scene in this 1982 biopic, the production co. placed ads for 40,000 extra in Delhi newspapers. show
Andrew finished in the lead with $8,800. Marissa was next with $7,400 and Christine was in third place with $3,400.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS “THE SONG OF ROLAND”?
Ogier the Dane, Archbishop Turpin and Duke Thierry all figure in the epic poem on the side of the Frankish Emperor Charlemagne. The following excerpt comes from TVTropes.org’s page that outlines every element of the epic from the cool swords to the tragic bromance of Roland and Olivier.
“A relatively short epic poem, having 4,000 ten-syllable verses, Roland is the closest thing to a Christian Iliad. Like the Greek epic, it was only one, though almost certainly the greatest one, of a large body of now mostly forgotten works, called in this case the Chansons de Geste or “Songs of Deeds…. The plot is a wildly fictionalized version of the Battle of Roncevalles or Roncevaux Pass that was fought as Charlemagne’s army left Muslim-controlled Spain in 778.”
Christine wrote down “The Canterbury Tales”. She lost everything but $1.00.
Marissa got it right. Her $2,000 bet brought her up to $9,400.
Andrew had the same answer as Christine. He lost $6,001 and landed in second place with $2,799. That made Marissa Edelman the new champ and she will be back tomorrow.
Marissa is an attorney who was laid off from her job the week of her Jeopardy! try-outs and had no way to get out to L.A. When her friends and relatives didn’t help her out, Arthur Chu and Julia Collins came through for her on Twitter to help raise her trip cost.
2 years ago:: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Historic Quotes”
In April 1865 he said, “Go home, all you boys who fought with me, and help to build up the shattered fortunes of our old state.” show
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what is the lake question for which the answer is minnesota?
“Lake Wobegon Days”
What an annoying game.
Even Alex said “low scores today.” His polite way of getting a dig in.
Yeah. He was probably thinking “You guys are killing me!”
OK, the game today brought out all my negativity. There were so many guesses that had me howling and groaning. The Carnegie Hall guesses were so far off, Alex expressed surprise. Lincoln Center?! The Radio City Music Hall?!!
They don’t make Jeopardy contestants the way they used to.
agree. said already marissa will be history tomorrow. how she came up with the correct fj today, god only knows. sometimes you hear or see something by accident and it sticks. she did not strike me exactly as an expert in (french) medieval literature/history…
Maybe she learned it in high school. There are a number of high school projects on youtube acting out the Song of Roland for English class.
The one where Brad Pitt is cast as Charlemagne is a hoot. (LINK)
Alex Trebek made the statement during the game “low scores today” and he wasn’t kidding.
triple stumpers:
1) Carnegie Hall – photo
2) Online Poker
3) Color Purple – filmed in GA
4) Hadrian’s Wall
5) Nero
6) Trajan
no surprise then. maybe i’ll read a book instead of watching. nah, have too. need to evaluate marissa for tomorrow’s prediction.
You will want to watch. Trust me.
for entertaining purposes, so i feel good to know more than a j contestant?
yeah, and i struck out with my runaway.
disappointed though by “canterbury tales. wrong language, partly wrong country, written 200 years later than TSOR and the battle of roncevaux was fought some 600 years +/- than the hundred year’s war…
so a hiccup in literature AND history, surprisingly identical with both, christine and andrew. marissa was not too confident either it seems, based on her fj wager.not confident in anyone maybe, hoping that andrew would be wrong and he was. i don’t think marissa will last too long (linus…)!
AND we are staying on the low average side, now 3/9 in fj. i am curious – should there be only one solve tomorrow- if they make the friday clue easier again…. (does not mean that it will work though..:):) )
Congrats John! I had no clue on this fj. Surprised the Scientist didn’t perform better in the Science category. But Andrew came back from being in the red several times. Good effort.
This game was not as exciting as previous games this week. Good performance in fj Marissa. Congrats on your win.
haven’t seen it yet, but the numbers are not very impressive, even though nobody lost a bundle on a dd.(wrong/no answers??) marissa will be history tomorrow even though she was right in fj today. the others were off quite a bit, like the meteorologists with the snowstorm…by 200 miles, boston instead nyc) and 200 years between writing TSOR and the 100 year’s war. never mind that the battle of roncevaux was off by +/- 600 years.
was i able to get you to Charlemagne , Carolus Magnus resp. Karl der Grosse with my nebulous hints in the CotD talk?
Congrats, John, you were right. Only one and you were right that I was looking at it through my “literature glass”
Oh well, at least half my prediction came true. Alex said the title in French.
And he also pronounced Roland “Ro-lahn” when he said it in English. Très pretentious, Alex.
i think he will always be canadian at heart and showing it whenever he can. his being “american”, at least by passport is more dictated by business reasons i think.not that he doesn’t like the u.s., but you know: home is where the heart is. son coeur est au canada, toujours, je pense.