Final Jeopardy: Paintings (11-3-21)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/3/2021) in the category “Paintings” was:

In 2021 experts in Oslo concluded that it was the artist who wrote on this painting, “could only have been painted by a madman”

5x champ Tyler Rhode, a healthcare data specialist from New York, NY has now won $105,901. In Game 6, he is up against: Tony Freitas, a project director from Los Angeles, CA; and Julian Huerta, a hotel senior sales manager from Thornton, CO.

Round 1 Categories: Color, My World – Planet Fill in – Movie Theater Gimmicks – “Love” – Honor – Chair-ish

Julian got the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Color, My World” under the $800 clue on the 17th pick. He was in the lead with $3,600 now, $600 more than Tony in second place. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.

It’s a city in New South Wales, a river in Southern Africa & a county in Southern California. show

WHAT IS ORANGE?

Julian finished in the lead with $7,200. Tony was second with $5,000 and Tyler was last with $3,200. No clues went uncovered.

Round 2 Categories: Historic Illinois – Shakespeare Play Settings – Physics – Coffee Is Life – 10-, 11- & 12-Letter Words – TV Theme Lyrics

Julian landed on the first Daily Double in “Physics” under the $1,600 clue on the 5th pick. He was in first place with $9,200, $4,400 more than Tyler in second place. He bet $3,000, and thought it was dark matter. That was WRONG.

General relativity meant there must be these waves, but they weren’t directly detected until 2015, by the LIGO Observatory. show

WHAT ARE GRAVITATIONAL WAVES?

On the next selection, Julian picked the last Daily Double in “Shakespeare Play Settings” under the $1,200 clue. He was still in first place with $6,200 and had $1,400 more than Tyler in second place. Julian bet $1,000 but he couldn’t come up with a response so he was WRONG.

Once more into this play whose centerpiece is a 1415 battle in France. show

WHAT IS “HENRY V”?

Tyler finished in the lead with $13,600. Tony was in second with $8,200 and Julian was last with $3,200. No clues went uncovered.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS “THE SCREAM”?

According to the National Museum of Norway, “could only have been painted by a madman!” was penciled over the painted sky in the original 1893 painting of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”, but went unnoticed until 1904. A Danish art critic attributed the scrawl to a hater taking a strong dislike to the painting to the extent of vandalizing it.

A deeper look into the “madman” notation was never taken until recently. The National Museum of Norway’s Edvard Munch collection is one of the much-anticipated highlights of the revamped museum’s reopening, now scheduled for 6/11/2022 and “The Scream” is one of several works to undergo closer inspection. An infrared camera was used to make the writing clearly stand out from the painted sky. The handwriting was compared extensively with Edvard Munch’s and it was conclusively determined that the artist wrote the phrase himself.

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Julian didn’t have a response. He bet and lost it all.

Tony got it right. He bet $8,000 and that brought him up to $16,200.

Tyler thought it was “The Garden of Earthly Delights”. He lost his $3,000 bet and finished with $10,600. That made Tony Freitas the new Jeopardy! champion. Congrats, Tony!

2 triple stumpers from SHAKESPEARE PLAY SETTINGS:

$1600) Arden, Shakespeare’s mother’s maiden name, is the name of the forest where this comedy is set

($2000) This princely play is the only one that has a scene in Lebanon

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “World Capitals”

In 1865 this city named for an early 19th century British hero became a British colonial capital show

WHAT IS WELLINGTON?

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