Final Jeopardy: Opera (11-14-14)
The Final Jeopardy question (11/14/2014), in the category “Opera” was:
In an 1893 opera that was its composer’s greatest success, Peter & Gertrud are the parents of these 2 characters.
And here we are at the end of the 2014 Tournament of Champions quarter-finals already. The last 3 champs competing for a semi-final spot or wild card are: Jared Hall (6x $181,001); Sandie Baker (6x $140,200); and Mark Japinga (4x $112,600).
Round 1: Jared found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “City of Birth” under the $1,000 clue. He was in second place with $2,200, $1,400 less than Mark’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
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Mark finished in the lead with $5,400. Jared was second with $5,000 and Sandie was last with $3,000.
Round 2: Mark found the first Daily Double in “From the…” under the $2,000 clue. He was in the lead with $9,000, $3,400 more than Jared in second place. He bet $2,500 and he was RIGHT.
German for “form” or shape”, it’s used to mean the overall mood or quality of something. show
Jared found the last Daily Double in “Shakespeare’s Fools” under the $2,000 clue. In second place with $9,800, he had $2,900 less than Mark’s lead. He bet $4,000 and thought it was “All’s Well that Ends Well”. That was WRONG.
“The more fool I” says Touchstone on arriving at his new forest home in this comedy. show
Mark finished in the lead with $13,900. Jared was next with $9,800 and Sandie was in third place with $9,000.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
“Hansel and Gretel (German: Hänsel und Gretel) is an opera by nineteenth-century composer Engelbert Humperdinck, who described it as a Märchenoper (fairy tale opera). The libretto was written by Humperdinck’s sister, Adelheid Wette, based on the Grimm brothers’ fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel”. It is much admired for its folk music-inspired themes, one of the most famous being the “Abendsegen” (“Evening Benediction”) from act 2.” (wikipedia)
Peter and Gertrud’s names appear in the score but their names are never said on stage– they are always referred to as “Father” and “Mother”, even when they speak to each other.
Sandie bet $6,500 and finished with $15,500.
Jared bet $7,000 and finished with $16,800.
Mark only bet $1,103 so he finished with $15,003.
So Jared goes on the Semi-Finalist list:
$21,000 Arthur Chu
$17,200 Terry O’Shea
$16,801 Ben Ingram
$16,800 Jared Hall
$16,206 Joshua Brakhage
Sandie and Mark both get Wild Cards, knocking Rani Peffer ($7,599)
and Jim Coury ($5,600) off the list.
$15,500 Sandie Baker
$15,003 Mark Japinga
$11,600 Rebecca Rider
$9,100 Julia Collins
All the players who were eliminated this week won $5,000.
The after-game chat: Trebek complains about board hopping:
2 years ago:: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “CLASSICAL MUSIC”
This 1890 piece was named for a Verlaine poem that begins, “Your soul is as a moonlit landscape fair” show
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and who is going to win it all? as much as it may pain some people, i think the road will go through arthur. not even knowing who his opponents will be i think he will win his semi, and once he is in the final 2 games it would take 2 fj categories where he is really weak….
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND EVERYBODY AND STAY SAFE !!!!
Why didn’t they bring back Jerry Slowik who was a five-day winner in January, 2014? Does anyone know?
yeah, he got arrested, Marilyn, and is currently due for a court hearing in Feb.
It is talked about on the 2014 TOC post
Thanks, VJ.
if jeopardy had insisted on the original pronunciation, the “umlaut”, the 2 dots over the “a” would meke it HENSL (as in TEXAS} and not HANSL (as in ALASKA,AFGHANISTAN). and the fairy tale as well as the opera ARE german and the boy’s name is pronounced HENSL.
in that case sandie would have finished with 2.500, jared with 2.800 and mark would have won with 12.797. jared and sandie would not have made the wild cards.
what is negative in j is the lack of consistency. either you penalize for an answer, where the spelling (in this case A instead “Umlaut A” did) changes the pronunciation or not.
that said, it was probably not the best idea to pick a clue that could pronounced the original or anglicized way. how often did j penalize in fj because the writing demanded a different pronunciation. what if one of the 3 would have used the “Umlaut A”??? would they have said – afterwards- we accept both pronunciations?? if you think i am splitting hairs, say so. but remember how often j penalized for lesser pronunciation reasons in fj before.
My buddy Jim Coury’s out! PACK RATS! Eventually, he’ll be back and I’m just having a bad night. Give me a break!!!
yeah, you’re splitting hairs over the umlaut, John. Perhaps a question of acceptance might have come up if somebody had spelled it HENSEL, idk. There’s a guy on youtube reading the Hansel and Gretel fairy tale (in German) and he says Hanzel (pronouncing the “a” as in “and”)
there are varieties, you can say hans, hansl, haensl, haenschen etc like betsy, sissi, liz, lis etc. but the original fairy tale by the grimms and the opera based upon it were “Hansel (UMLAUT “A”) und gretel and therefore pronounced “henzel and gretel + they got around the “und” as you pointed out by not asking for the title, because then they maybe would have had to insist on the “und”. i guess they were shooting for the anglicized version all along.
the whole thing just came to mind, because j so often penalized in fj because of pronunciation.
j penalizes if the spelling changes the pronunciation like adding or omitting a syllable. I do believe most Americans would still pronounce Hansel the same way, with or without an umlaut, at least I would, though the way I’ve always said it is with the ess sound, not the z.
I’m keeping a list on the spelling decisions now. I was hoping to get one out of Hokkaido yesterday but Terry not only knew it, she knew how to spell it. 🙂