Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Poem Endings (10-3-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/3/2022) in the category “20th Century Poem Endings” was:
These 5 words that end a poem are also a proverb; one citation across the centuries includes a reminder not to make the wall too high
New champ Cris Pannullo, a customer success operations manager from Ocean City, NJ, won $29,579 last Friday. In Game 2, he is up against: J.Scott Gabrysiak, a paralegal from North Mankato, MN; and Jenny Millat, an artist & thrifter orig. from Canton, OH.
Round 1 Categories: What’s in the Box? – 20th Century Pop Music – Plane Talk – Medical Specialties – Chapter – “Verse”
Cris found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Plane Talk” under the $800 clue just before the commercial break. He was in the lead with $3,000, $800 more than Scott in second place. Cris bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
Great flying weather with no major clouds or haze is CAVU, “ceiling and” this “unlimited” show
Cris finished in the lead with $9,400. Scott was in second place with $4,000. Jenny was last with $800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: When Polk Was President – Geography – The Titans – A Common Category – Film Noir – Alliteration
Cris found the first Daily Double in “Geography” under the $1,600 clue on the 4th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $11,200, $6,400 more than Scott in second place. Cris bet $4,800 and he was RIGHT.
Of the 3 longest rivers in Africa, the 2 that begin with the same 2 letters show
Cris got the last Daily Double in “The Titans” under the $800 clue on the 20th pick of the round. In first place with $28,800, he had $22,000 more than Jenny in second place. Cris bet $400 and he was RIGHT.
Led by Zeus, this group named for their lofty home overthrew the Titans show
Cris finished in the lead with a runaway $30,800. Jenny was in second place with $8,800. Scott was last with $4,400. The $400 clues in Geography and The Titans were not shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS “GOOD FENCES MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS”?
Robert Frost’s 1914 poem “Mending Wall” questions the importance of this 5-word handed-down wisdom. The traditionalist neighbor in the poem believes a wall on his property line is important because his father said so. The narrator says: “Before I built a wall I’d ask to know / What I was walling in or walling out”. Listen to “Mending Wall” here.
Interesting Literature’s website reports that this fence belief has been around for centuries, pointing to this sentence in a 17th century letter “A good fence helpeth to keepe peace between neighbours; but let vs take heed that we make not a high stone wall, to keepe vs from meeting.” I figure Frost must have known about this because the narrator in the poem is actually helping the neighbor repair the fence. It’s made of stone and they are able to speak to each other over it. In any event, Frost loved saying that people misunderstood the meaning in his poems. Whatever this one was, he took it to the grave.
Scott couldn’t finish his response. So for the want of a couple of letters, he lost his all in bet and finished with $0.
Jenny got it right. She also bet it all and doubled her score to $17,600.
Cris got it right, too. He bet $3,000 and won the game with $33,800. Cris’s 2-day total is $63,379.
A triple stumper from each round:
WHAT’S IN THE BOX? ($1000) A guide & a saw, because it’s this type of box
($2000) These coral islands southwest of Sri Lanka make up Asia’s smallest independent country
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “On the Old Map”
On the U.N. website’s map of the world in 1945, these 2 initials of a member state appear 13 times on continental Africa show
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This episode is supposed to be all of the contestants got Final Jeopardy right, but Scott does not accept his response because he mistakenly did not put the -rs at the end of the word “neighbors”.
Scott’s written response was, “What is Good Fences make great neighbo”.
Collin, if Scott’s answer included the word “great”, it would have been wrong because of that.
It’s funny how the clues are overlapping with Celebrity Jeopardy! DeGaulle showed up in regular J! first. That Herman Melville novel showed up in Celebrity J! first.
Congrats to Cris and Jenny getting today’s fj correct.