Final Jeopardy: Religion (11-1-19)
Here are 5 more triple stumpers from the 11-1-2019 Jeopardy! match.
A SHROOM WITH A VIEW ($600) They’re often used in Japanese dishes, such as kinoko gohan
FEEL THE BERN! ($2000) Renzo Piano designed the Bern museum here, dedicated to this painter, a local boy who taught at Bauhaus in the 1920s
AGRICULTURE ($800) A 138-pound cabbage set a world record for Scott Robb, a farmer in this state, benefiting from the above-average amount of sunlight
CONTRACTIONS ($1000) The poem “Home, Sweet Home” doesn’t begin, “‘Mong pleasures & palaces though we may roam”; the first word is this contraction
B.C. ($400) Starting around 600 B.C. many Jews were deported east from the kingdom of Judah in what’s known as the Babylonian this forced departure (Note: Alex Trebek indicated that “diaspora” would have been accepted, too)
The players got all the clues in THEIR MAIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT except the $800 one (*):
($200) Alicia Keys
($400) Kenny G
($600) Earl Scruggs
*($800) Rock Hall of Famer Hal Blaine
($1000) Sarah Chang & Midori
ANSWERS: show
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My biggest pet peeve of Jeopardy is when the 3rd place contestant doesn’t know how to bet properly in final jeopardy. Could have won by not betting a thing.
But by liking the category, and going all in, Jennifer throws a sizeable check, no matter how much money it would have been.
Pentecostal is not a denomination, but rather a group in many denominations, much like conservative, liberal, evangelical, fundamental. I think the question was a little misleading and all contestants should be brought back for another show.
Pentecostal is not a denomination. It is a branch of Christianity similar to Catholic or Protestant. A denomination, according to the dictionary, is “a recognized autonomous branch of the Christian church. There are dozens of different Pentecostal denominations just like there are dozens of Protestant denominations.
@Nancy, idk if you realize that you just wrote “There are a dozen different Pentecostal denominations” which contradicts saying it’s not a denomination.
Anyhow, wikipedia also has an article Christian Denominations and on the sidebar, they have Pentecostal listed under the “Denominations – groups” heading.
I’m pretty sure we could find contradictory statements on this point all over the web — even the article I linked to in the recap starts out calling Pentecostalism “one of the oft-talked about denominations and sometimes draws the most controversy, but Pentecostalism has a long history in Christianity.”
In any event, when the Holy Spirit descends on the apostles in Acts, it’s Pentecost.
I think the clue was fine. Like many words, denomination has a more general definition as well as a more specific definition.
The more specific definition refers to a religious sect that has a centralized governing body to which churches belong.
But any dictionary will give the more general definition of a particular religious group with beliefs distinguishing them from another group in the same religion, without reference to an organizing body. Pentecostalism clearly fits this definition.
I’d say the more specific definition is what most people think of, so I can understand why people might be confused. But as you pointed out, the descent of the Holy Spirit as attested in Acts points so strongly to Pentecost that claims of unfairness seem unwarranted.
For the past 4 Fridays in a row, except for last week, because it was a Triple Solve, it seems like Fridays love Triple Stumpers…, BUT I DON’T!
Nobody likes triple stumpers.
My answer was the same thing. The actual answer never crossed my mind because it wasn’t something I would hear in churches that often. But congratulations to Andrew on his win. Looking forward to seeing how this tournament of champions plays out soon
My answer was the same as the contestants when I reached the first comma, but I came to the correct answer after finishing the clue, with the only question being which suffixes would be accepted.
Similar to my line of thinking, JP, except I never thought of the Adventists.
I loved Andrew’s expression after he gave the right response to that $1600 Bern clue: Any pirate could tell you that Bern lies along this river with a double “A” rating that rises in the Alps
LINK: 10 more clues from the game
I thought the “Home Sweet Home” clue was horrible!
VJ, instead of the “Home Sweet Home” answer, Alaska is repeated by mistake. It really was an awful clue, I agree.
Thanks, Rhonda. I fixed it. I did like that cabbage clue 😀
Rhonda, This is crazy but I woke up at 6 in the morning. My TV was still on the Movies channel and Laurel and Hardy’s “Saps at Sea” was playing. Ollie has “hornophobia” in it and when they get in trouble with an escaped convict, Stan plays “Home Sweet Home” on the slide trombone so Ollie will go berserk and beat up the convict. omg!
That’s really crazy, VJ, and funny at the same time, What are the chances of that happening?
Very slim, Rhonda. It’s very unusual for me to wake up at 6 a.m. in the first place!
LOL VJ, same here with waking up at 6!
On the weekly recap for March 18th to 22nd, someone mentioned today’s date: November 1st.
Well, isn’t that something that you remember that! I said it and I didn’t remember. Didn’t hear anything about Arbor Day and I don’t see anything about it in today’s Houston Chronicle either