Final Jeopardy: Historic Leaders (11-8-18)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/8/2018) in the category “Historic Leaders” was:
One of his many horses was named Roitelet & was ridden on the way home from Russia in 1812
In the second quarter-final match of the 2018 Teen Tournament, the players are: Rotimi Kukoyi, a freshman from Hoover, AL, Isabella Pagano, a freshman from Libertyville, IL; and Caleb Richmond, a sophomore from Bedford, NH.
Round 1 Categories: World Geography – Hashtags for Change – Describing the Traffic Sign – Proud to Be an American – Broadway Debuts – Double Talk
Caleb found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “World Geography” under the $800 clue on the second pick of the round. He had $200 from getting the first clue in that category right. He bet the $1,000 allowance and he was RIGHT.
On a map, New Zealand, Hawaii and Easter Island form the 3 corners of this roughly triangular region of Oceania. show
Caleb finished in the lead with $11,200. Isabella was second with $3,600 and Rotimi was last with $3,400.
Round 2 Categories: Women Authors – The TV Show’s Characters – Health & Medicine – Time to Take the S_A_T – Weight Listed – At My Safety School
Rotimi found the first Daily Double in “Health & Medicine” under the $1,600 clue on the 12th pick. Rotimi was in second place. There was a reversal (see below) that lowered Caleb’s score from $14,800 to $11,600, so Rotimi was only $7,000 behind him. He bet $1,400 and guessed mono. That was WRONG.
Another name for this bacterial disease is lockjaw, one of it symptoms. show
4 clues later, Caleb landed on the last Daily Double in “Safety School” under the $1,600 clue. In the lead with $13,600, he had $8,800 more than Isabella in second place. He bet $3,000 but drew a blank so he was WRONG.
A police training school is often called this: the LAPD one stresses firearm safety. show
Caleb finished in the lead with a runaway $20,200. Isabella was next with $8,000 and Rotimi was in third place with $7,600.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Roitelet means a king of a small country in French, one who is not very powerful. According to “Napoleon in Exile: Elba” (1914), Bonaparte’s Roitelet was a gift from his stepson and one of 8 horses he was permitted to take with him in exile on Elba. “During the retreat from Russia,” Napoleon “was glad to ride it as it did not slip on the ice like the other horses.”
However, Napoleon’s most famous horse was Marengo, the only one with his own wikipedia page and the only one to get a Jeopardy! clue before today: FAMOUS MOUNTS ($300) “Marengo & Copenhagen were their mounts at Waterloo.” Marengo didn’t make it to Elba. He was an English POW and his skeleton is now on display at the UK’s National Army Museum.
Rotimi wrote down Tolstoy. He lost everything but $1.00.
Isabella went with Czar Nicholas. She bet and lost it all.
Caleb got it right. He didn’t bet anything so he won the match and the second semi-final spot with $20,200.
Reversal: WOMEN AUTHORS ($1600) Astrid Lindgren created this redheaded girl with an odd fashion sense – Caleb said Pippa, rather than Pippi.
There were 2 triple stumpers in the same category:
($200) “How do I love thee? Let me count the way”, begins the 43rd of her “Sonnets from the Portuguese”
($2000) Rainbow Rowell writes about first love in the novel “Eleanor &” him
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Natural Wonders”
Roughly half the size of Texas, it’s the largest structure made by living creatures & can even be seen from space. show
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I graduated high school in 1985 and Napoleon, as well as the French Revolution, were never covered in high school or grammar school. Is that what most students experience in America? I only know about Napoleon through my own self-education after college.
Honestly, Albert, I don’t recall how much I actually learned about Napoleon in a classroom in grammar or high school. I would assume that they covered the Louisiana Purchase at the very minimum but don’t remember in what grade. However, reading biographies was a particular passion of mine, as well as asking my grandfather about whatever historical person I was curious about.
Also when I was a young’un, there were historical TV shows and songs. Just the other day, a country singer named Stonewall Jackson turned 85. He had a No. 1 hit in 1959 with the song “Waterloo,” and it is featured on the birthday list for Nov. 6 because it brings me back to the days when my brother and I would play it on diner jukeboxes and sing along.
@VJ
How about Abba? They won the 1974 Eurovision contest with that.
@VJ
Of course different lyrics and music, just the same title.
Well I am not talking about that type of song. I was over 20 when I heard that one and it didn’t teach me anything about Napoleon.
I was under 10 years old when I learned the Stonewall Jackson song and it taught me what meeting your Waterloo meant. And there were others I learned historical stuff from, like Johnny Horton’s “Sink the Bismarck” and “Comanche” about the horse that survived Little Big Horn etc.
@VJ
There was a group performing with Jackson, the Minute Men. A group with the same name came out in 1980… (Boon) if I remember that right. Waterloo (the Jackson version) was co-written by Loudermilk, who wrote a LOT of songs for JIM REEVES, my favorite C&W singer. Does that name ring a bell with you, VJ?? He was in the era of Patsy Cline with whom he record a number of songs.
Jim Reeves, what a voice and what a tragic end….He was extremely popular in Norway out of all places (he performed there a few times), for years being the most popular music artist in Norway. His albums spent years in the top 20 charts there. How did we get from Napoleon to Jim Reeves???????
“We” didn’t. “You” did. And yes,, I know some Jim Reeves songs but they are not the type I was originally talking about that had something to do with history
@Albert
Apparently. In Austria the Napoleonic wars were tops in history. Maybe because mostly Europe was affected. Only the financing touched American history through the Louisiana purchase.
Wild Cards:
Emma Arnold: $18,400
Anish Maddipoti: $3,600
Rotimi Kukoyi: $1
Isabella Pagano: $0
@Richard Corliss Emma secured her WC spot easily. Anish, Rotimi, and Isabella are OUT.
After the 4th quarterfinal, the first two wild card spots get locked in. So Emma will get locked in on Monday.
Semifinalists:
Maya Wright: $26,200
Caleb Richmond: $20,200
Wow, I can’t imagine how Caleb destroyed the competition and eliminated his opponents from contention. I think he could be a threat to the two young ladies who qualified yesterday.
@J C A
Quite possible. He knew about Napoleon. This is not only European history. N. financed his war(s) through the Louisiana purchase that took place in 1803. Caleb really WAS impressive.
@John B./I. From the way he played today, he’s more of Arthur Chu or Alex Jacob. He may be a sophomore, but he’s playing like a pro. I have a feeling he will be eliminated in his semifinal.
@J C A
We’ll see. We don’t know yet who will show up in the next 3 games. I just hope that they don’t have too many strong players , so that they have to have them play against each other in the semis. It’s only been 2 days and we have already 3 very impressive players, Maya, Emma and Caleb. I’m pretty sure Emma will get a WC for the semis.But it’s always refreshing to see good players, especially at this age. Sometimes in “regular” games it is a mystery how some contestants falter completely, not even making it to FJ, like Mon and Tue this week, 2 days in a row. After all, they have to go through several stages (INCLUDING test games). But I guess a test game and actually be on the air are 2 different things. Nerves can prove to be disastrous sometimes, no matter how smart or knowledgable you are. And if you run into opponents who have faster reflexes re: the buzzer, then it’s Aloha, even if you have an IQ like Einstein.
Congrats to Caleb. Nicholas II.? He would have been happy to get out of Russia…. Tolstoy? Hmmmm. Nicholas I. would have been somewhat close, his 20 year older brother Alexander I (and the Russian winter of 1812/1813) drove Napoleon out of Russia and more, the turning point of the war(s) and beginning of the end for N.). But for that age group a little bit of a tough FJ, don’t you think, y’all? In comparison yesterday’s was a lot easier for teenagers, though not for me. Today’s I knew right away, yesterday I had NOOOO clue whatsoever.. Today would be a FJ for a CT and there all should get it. After all, we are talking MAJOR history here. After 1815 Europe enjoyed almost half a century of peace, prosperity and the age of technology started .The Crimean war put an end to the peaceful decades, too many countries wanted to test new inventions….. Good for Caleb though, but the other 2 are out. Curious what we will see tomorrow?
And E. B.B. again….The writers must love her. She appears quite often…. a lot of people, even poets and writers consider her great but she is REALLY not my cup of tea. I wonder how much her opium and morphine addiction since an early age throughout her life influenced her work. Through history you have many great works of art in all areas that were created or influenced by drug use, especially in literature, also acting and later in films. A very delicate and tricky topic imo.
Emma’s chances (yesterday) start to look really good for a WC due to today’s result.
@John, that was my mistake — Isabella just had Czar Nicholas, no number
As for EBB, I think it’s more like she’s among the Women Poets that they expect players to know. I was surprised to see her turn up in the Women Authors category for the teens.
@VJ
No problem. I addressed both, N. I. and N.II in my post. N.I would have been closer, still a couple of decades off. When he was born, N.B. was already dead a few years.
Browning? I was surprised too, exactly as you said , showing up in a TT.
You are still getting soaked up there!!! PLEASE send some of the rain down here?? Pretty please??
Actually, we are not getting soaked. The forecasts called for rain for the the last 3 days but it’s only rained once and that was during the night.
🙂
My favorite clue today was in DOUBLE TALK ($200) It precedes “Who’s there”
In its honor, we asked Alexa to tell us a Knock Knock joke. She said:
Knock Knock
Who’s there?
Mary
Mary who?
Mariachi music. Let’s dance
(groan)
Leo Tolstoy is the author of War and Peace. I don’t know what Rotimi was thinking with that response in final.
I thought the two kids knew something about Bonaparte but still congratulations to Caleb on his win despite missing that simple daily double.
Well, as Alex noticed, there was a focus on Russia in the clue. Perhaps the freshmen have not gotten to this period of time in their history studies yet, but yeah, Tolstoy was a writer and not a leader and besides, he wasn’t born yet.
I fixed that thing for you Lou. And I have to fix where I wrote Nicholas II. Isabella did not write a number down. Anyhow, neither Nicholas I or II was Czar at the time — Alexander I was.
LINK: 10 more clues from the match
@Lou
AMEN. Good for Caleb. I still think that FJ was too difficult for a TT.