Final Jeopardy: Women Writers (1-30-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (1/30/2019) in the category “Women Writers” was:
One of her circle described her as “A lacy sleeve with a bottle of vitriol concealed in its folds”
2x champ Jill Regan, an auditor from Dedham, MA, has won $51,602 now. In Game 3, her challengers are: Sean Thompson, a library assistant from Quispamsis, New Brunswick; and Joan Dietrich, a Montessori teacher from Sammamish, WA.
Round 1 Categories: Hope You’ve Been Studying! – Brushed Up Your Shakespeare – Maybe Some Oscar Winners – Dictionary Definitions – The Presidents, Of Course – & Everything Else in the World
Sean found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Presidents” under the $800 clue, with 8 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $4,400, $400 ahead of Jill in second place. He bet $3,600 and he was RIGHT.
Ex-candy factory owner Petro Poroshenko leads this nation dealing with Russia & rebellion in its east. show
Sean finished in the lead with $11,000. Jill was second with $5,200 and Joan was last with $2,400.
Round 2 Categories: Recent TV – Valleys – Starts With 3 Consonants – French Music About Spain – Flying Cars? – Spellements
Sean found the first Daily Double in “Valleys” under the $2,000 clue on the 8th pick. He was in the lead with $13,800 now, $8,600 more than Jill in second place. He bet $3,800 and he was RIGHT.
Once part of Thebes, this valley was the burial site of many Egyptian pharaohs of the 18th, 19th & 20th dynasties. show
Jill found the last Daily Double in “French Music” under the $1,200 clue on the 18th pick. In second place with $6,800, she had $14,000 less than Sean’s lead. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
Maurice Ravel’s Basque mother gave him a fondness for Spain most famously expressed in this 1928 work. show
Sean finished in the lead with $21,200. Jill was next with $13,600 and Joan was in third place with $11,200.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Fellow Algonquin Round Table member Alexander Woollcott wrote the phrase in today’s clue in an 11-page profile of “Our Mrs. Parker” in his 1934 collection of essays “While Rome Burns.” He wrote “She is so odd a blend of Little Nell and Lady Macbeth. It is not so much the familiar phenomenon of a hand of steel in a velvet glove as a lacy sleeve with a bottle of vitriol concealed in its folds.” In another example of her contradictory nature, he said “She has the gentlest, most disarming demeanor of anyone I know…. But Mrs. Parker carries–as everyone is uneasily aware–a dirk which knows no brother and mighty few sisters.”
An example of Mrs. Parker’s sharp tongue was highlighted in this 2017 clue: HISTORIC INSULTS ($1200) Dorothy Parker once quipped that this multi-Oscar-winning actress’ work ran “the gamut of emotions from A to B”
Joan got it right. Her $10,100 bet brought her up $21,300.
Jill thought it was Virginia Woolf. She lost her $8,801 bet, leaving her $4,799.
Sean went with “Jane Austin.” He lost $6,001, landing in second place with $15,199. And voila! Joan Dietrich is the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
& EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD ($1000) Last name of Maria & Marjorie, sisters of Osage descent who danced in different Ballets Russes in 1946
RECENT TV ($1600) Disgraced L.A. lawyer Billy McBride has some “huge” issues to deal with on this Amazon show
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Dual-Use Terms”
In 1812 the U.S. endured a literal one of these 2-word terms & beginning in 1964 enjoyed a musical one. show
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Did anybody guess Gertrude Stein? That was my guess. Who is more prestigious, Gertrude Stein or Dorothy Parker?
@JP, I was surprised at the result. I would have bet $$ on Jill for that one. As was mentioned this morning, Parker comes up enough that the terms “circle”, “vicious”, “sharp wit”, etc should make her come quickly to mind.
To you and everyone affected by that horrid polar vortex, stay safe and as warm as you can!
Oops! Almost forgot to post the extra clues – LINK: 9 more
I was wrong about the timing – one more night hitting -30 F, but not nearly as windy.
To be honest, i think it is overblown. Just stay inside, and when going outside, put on an extra layer (which we have plenty of in MN), and don’t stay outside for long. The main concern is kids waiting at bus stops, which is why they cancel school.
I think of Yakutsk, the coldest city in the world (population 300,000) which averages less than -30F every day for 3 months every winter. I’m guessing they don’t cancel school for cold temperatures very often, or the schools would be empty…
Well Jill played well accumulating 50K but it’s a shame she didn’t get more. But congratulations to the teacher from Washington. Her guess of Virginia Woolf wasn’t bad but Jane austen? no not even close. Her works (Emma, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice) did not have vitriol. What genre is this book from John and VJ? I’ve never read it before but I sure would have loved to see Jill win again. And so the clock is reset again unless joan builds on her wins.
@Lou, Austen and the Bronte sisters are just…. well, let’s say I REALLY did not like any of their works. Mostly (wishful thinking) autobiographies. But a lot of people are addicted to that type of writing. For me the quality is more like the 10 cent romance stuff you found in booklets all over the place quite a while ago. Sorry if I offend anyone, but that’s just my opinion.
Claire the Teen champion from November is going to talk about the “dark side” of being a Jeopardy! champion tomorrow night at 6PM on WBBH NBC2 in SW FL
After hitting air temps of -30 F and windchills of -55 F this morning, it looks like the polar vortex is beginning to leave the Twin Cities.
With the subtlety of the hint(s) in the clue, I’m not surprised two contestants missed it. I thought the clue relied too much on the mythos created around her on the show.
Yikes! It must be nose freezing cold out there.
@Richard
I don’t want to rub it in, but the “winter” has finally arrived here too (2 months late…) It’s about 60 F/16 C at night,finally raining and the wind is about 25 mp/h = a little over 40 km/h. During the day if the sun breaks through, it’s going up to about 72F/22C. But it’s the first rain since beginning of Nov. and we really need it to prevent all the brush fires.
It was also raining uncontrollably in the whole Hampton Roads area in Virginia.