Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Sculpture (12-18-14)
The Final Jeopardy question (12/18/2014), in the category “20th Century Sculpture” was:
Its sculptor asked for prayer that this work would “endure until the wind and the rain alone shall wear them away.”
New champ Kurt Fritzsche won $13,201 yesterday by hanging on to the most money when no one knew Final Jeopardy. Today he takes on these two players: Kevin Hozey, from Jacksonville, FL; and David Emery-Peck, from Oberlin, OH.
Round 1: Kurt found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Do the Math” under the $800 clue before the first break. He was in the lead with $2,000, $1,600 more than Kevin in second place. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
The total surface area of a cube with each side 10 inches long is this. show
Kurt finished in the lead with $9,800. Kevin was second with $4,200 and David was last with $800.
Round 2: Kevin found the first Daily Double in “Countries by World Heritage Site” under the $600 clue. He was in second place with $13,400, only $400 behind Kurt’s lead. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
The Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve & the Prehistoric Caves of Yagul. show
Kevin found the last Daily Double in “Hear Me Roar” under the $1,600 clue. He was now in the lead with $20,000, $6,200 more than Kurt in second place. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
Akira Ifukube used a leather glove coated in pine-tar resin & double bass to create this character’s roar in 1954. show
Kevin finished in the lead with $25,000. Kurt was next with $13,800 and David was in third place with $5,600.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
“On October 4, 1927, Borglum set to work motivated by an almost spiritual drive to create what would one day be called a ‘Shrine of Democracy.’ ‘A monument’s dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated,’ he declared. ‘Let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can, the words of our leaders, their faces, to show posterity what matter of men they were. Then breathe a prayer that these records will endure until the wind and the rain alone shall wear them
away.” (A Pocketful of History)
David was going for the 9/11 memorial when he ran out of time. He lost his $5,000 bet and finished with $600.
Kurt thought it was the Vietnam Memorial. He lost $8,600, winding up with $5,200.
Kevin got it right. His $2,601 bet brought him up $27,601, today’s winning total and he is the new Jeopardy! champ.
Kevin Hozey is a history teacher. During the chat he talked about his huge collection of some 2,500 action figures that take up a whole room in his house and overlap to his office in school. His favorite is a toss-up between Batman and Captain America.
2 years ago:: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Dog Breeds”
Alphabetically, this breed is last on the recognized list of the American Kennel Club. show
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I just wanted to point out that the religious sculptor Borglum was an absolutely vile person — a vicious anti-Semite, a rabid racist and Ku Klux Klan member, and generally a hater of immigrants of all kinds except those from Northern Europe, of course. (He was of Danish ancestry.)
His parents were Mormons and his father was married to two sisters!
Whatever. The very mention of his name makes me puke, and he was ugly, too. He looked a little like me, so I’m being brutally honest here.
@ chaucerian
because the SoL is french. was sculpted there and given as a gift to the u.s.
so it’s not even an american work (of art).
although it was not mentioned verbatim, j was obviously looking for an american sculpture. i am pretty sure that otherwise the category would have been named ” worldwide 20th century sculptures” or “international….”that’s at least how i perceived it. normally when something/somebody outside the u.s. is asked for in fj, it is phrased in a way that you know you are or might be looking for somebody/something outside the u.s., invented outside the u.s. etc…
and that the SoL is a present by the french is a very well known fact.that’s why -at least for me- it would have been an even more embarrassing answer AND the century does not fit either. it’s a late 19th century piece of art.
here we go again….
i’m telling you jacob, there is a jinx on fj. they could ask “she is the girlfriend of donald duck” and somebody would get it wrong….
the only sensible bet (at least obvious) was by kevin (have not seen the show yet, but with his 25K before fj and getting both dd clues right he sounds very solid and might be somebody who will be around for a while ,breaking the spell of a new champ at almost every game) and with his 25K before fj: nice payday and deservedly so!!
Excuse me, but the 9/11 memorial in a 20th Century Sculpture category? What am I missing here? A time machine?
not you but david. or he did not remember the year when 9/11 happened. maybe he also thought that 2001 was still part of the 20 th century????? sometimes you get the most weird and obscure things in fj. the pressure/30 second brain freeze.according to vj’s recap he ran out of time before finishing his question, so he either drew a complete blank or 100 possibilities were competing in his thoughts. it’s amazing what pressure can do to the most intelligent ,smart and usually calm people.
during j and dj you may ring in or not, fj however: that’s it. you HAVE to answer AND you have 30 seconds to do it.
“p.s.
at least nobody said “statue of liberty”….”
Why?
The 9/11 answer was much worse. 9/11 was recent and everybody knows the year….even statue of liberty would be a better guess than that.
Come on people. How easier can a fj clue be phrased?
I give up. Predicted a triple solve for this CotD.
Was glad to see a math category though.
as i already said in the other post: verona last friday was not exactly tough either, yet….the jinx!! the horror,the horror! 🙂