Final Jeopardy: Composers (10-6-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/6/2023) in the category “Composers” was:
He was given piano lessons by Madame Mauté de Fleurville, the mother-in-law of Paul Verlaine, whose poetry he would later set to music
The Champions Wild Card quarter-finals continue today with these three champs: The Champions Wild Card quarter-finals continue today with these three champs: Daniel Nguyen, a high school math teacher & doctoral student from San Jose, CA, Matt Glassman, a bar owner from Los Angeles, CA, and Jamie Logan, a freelancer from Augusta, ME.
Round 1 Categories: Canadian Cities – The Gene Pool – Dead Scientists Society – Pick a Number between 5 & 477 – The Virtues – 2 Words in One
Daniel found the first Daily Double in “Dead Scientists Society” under the $600 clue on the 13th pick of the round. He was in second place with $1,000, $800 less than Matt’s lead. Daniel made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
This 19th century Italian physicist lends his name to a law & a number relating equal volumes of gases & molecules show
Matt finished in the lead with $5,600. Daniel was second with $4,600 and Jamie was last with $1,600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: The Crimean War – Literary Pop – This or That – Swords – If at First You Don’t Secede… – Try “Tri” Again
Daniel found the first Daily Double in “The Crimean War” under the $2,000 clue on the 5th pick of the round. He was in second place with $5,400, $600 less than Matt’s lead. Daniel made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
Star “sketches” that this Russian wrote from his experience in the war helped advance his literary career show
Matt got the last Daily Double in “If at First You Don’t Secede” under the $1,200 clue on the 8th pick of the round. He was in second place with $9,200, $1,600 less than David’s lead. Matt bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.
in 1965 this island city-state peacefully seceded from Malaysia show
Daniel finished in the lead with $20,800. Matt was second with $19,200 and Jamie was last with $9,200. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS CLAUDE DEBUSSY?
Claude Debussy took piano lessons from Paul Verlaine’s mother-in-law, Madame Mauté de Fleurville, when he was a youngster. She was also a friend of Debussy’s mother. At the time, Verlaine was already a recognized poet and, apparently, made a big impression on young Debussy. Debussy would go on to set 18 Verlaine poems to music, the most famous being “Clair de lune”. Learn more on Top List.
Jamie got it right. She bet it all and doubled her score to $18,400.
Matt thought it was Beethoven. That cost him $1,601 and left him with $17,599.
Daniel came up with Radu Toma. He didn’t bet a sou so he won the game with the $20,800 he started out with. Daniel Nguyen advances to the semi-finals. As Ken mentioned, there will be four more quarter-finals next week.
A triple stumper from each round:
DEAD SCIENTISTS SOCIETY ($400) Henri Becquerel shared the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics with these 2 other scientists
THE CRIMEAN WAR ($1600) Much of the war focused on an 11-month siege of this seaport that finally fell after the Russians retreated
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “American History”
The April 26,1906 edition of The Call, a newspaper in this city, reported on the heroic death of Hoseman James O’Neil show
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I also think that Jamie should have won and advance to the semifinals if Daniel loses a lot of money in Final Jeopardy! even if he wrote the incorrect response.
Second time this week a head-scratching $0 wager was made, but this one worked out. My very shaky knowledge of highbrow music gave me the only French composer who came to mind, the correct one.
Miserable start to this show. Numerous wrong responses gobbled up by others, and the stumpers. The Nobel Prize pair was a gimme; the Sunset Strip address was straight out of my distant past; Fredericton’s province was knowable; and Sri Lanka’s flag animal was tough but guessable.
They all rebounded well and made it anyone’s game. For a brief moment, I thought Jamie would be moving on. Tough break after that comeback.
Ah yes, the Sunset Strip show — I still remember some of the words to the theme song – “You meet the highbrow and the hipster … the most exciting people pass you by, including a private eye.”
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. was a suave gentleman (Trebek kinda reminded me of him sometimes).
There are two movies I have seen where “Clair de Lune” by Debussy stuck in my mind. More recently the multiple Academy Award winning movie “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” Jamie Lee Curtis was superb and definitely deserved her Oscar imo. The other movie, years ago, was “Ocean’s Eleven” in front of the Bellagio fountains in the Final scene. That was a cinema masterpiece finale imo.
The connection between “Verlaine” and Debussy has been a clue on Jeopardy several times over the years. As recent as 2021 it was a get.
I also went with Beethoven for FJ, but oh well.
Better than me, Rick. I couldn’t come up with anything! Rather embarrassing for me.