Final Jeopardy: Opera Title Names (12-4-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (12/4/2019) in the category “Opera Title Names” was:
Before being consumed in flames, he flirts with a bride on her wedding day & a list of his amorous conquests is sung
New champ Stephanie Sumulong, a middle school social studies teacher from Fort Collins, CO, won $12,399 yesterday. In Game 2, she takes on these two players: Davita Curtis, a retired court clerk from Salem, OR; and Jennifer Quail, a wine-tasting consultant from Dowagiac, MI.
Round 1 Categories: You Can Take That to the Bank! – Trios – In the National Toy Hall of Fame – The Song (by Parenthetical Title) – Bengal -Tiger Talk
Jennifer found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Bengal” under the $800 clue, with 6 clues left after it. She was in the lead with $8,000, $5,200 ahead of Stephanie in second place. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
This capital of the state of West Bengal is spelled with 2 Ks: it used to be spelled using 2 Cs. show
Jennifer finished in the lead with $9.400. Davita and Stephanie were tied in second place at $2,400.
Round 2 Categories: Let’s Science the Heck Out of This – Oscar One of a Kinds – Historic Names – Literary Passings – Modern Activism – Ends With 2 Vowels
Jennifer found the first Daily Double in “Historic Names” under the $1,600 clue on the 4th pick. She was in the lead with $11,400 now, $8,600 more than Stephanie in second place. She bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
In 1609 he published “New Astronomy”, containing his first 2 laws of planetary motion. show
3 clues later, Jennifer landed on the last Daily Double in “Literary Passings” under the $800 clue. In the lead with $16,800, she had $14,000 more than Stephanie in second place. She bet $4,000 and she was RIGHT.
This nemesis perishes when he plunges off Switzerland’s Reinback Falls with the hero. show
Jennifer finished in the lead with a runaway $35,200. Davita was next with $6,000 and Stephanie was in third place with $4,400.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
“Don Giovanni” is one of three operas that Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte collaborated on. The other two are “Così fan tutte” and “Le nozze di Figaro”. The Royal Opera House highlights all three in “Mozart’s Da Ponte operas in 5 minutes” and says this about “Don Giovanni”: “A serial seducer gets his just desserts in Don Giovanni, a tale of murder, the supernatural and redemption. The work features a rich mix of humour, drama and thrills as well as some of the most disarming arias ever composed – all framed within a white-knuckle ride to the Don’s damnation.”
The Arizona Opera House has a list of fast facts about “Don Giovanni”
Stephanie thought it was “Icarus”. She lost her $2,000 bet and finished with $2,400.
Davita went with “The Barber of Seville”. She lost $2,800, dropping her down to $3,200.
Jennifer got it right. She added $10,000 to her coffers and won the game with $45,200. Great game, Jennifer!
A triple stumper from each round:
BENGAL ($1000) Our favorite Rabindranath is this poet-seer whose Bengali verse collections were hailed by Yeats
LITERARY PASSINGS ($1200) Old Yeller saves the family from a rabid one of these beasts, but he’s bitten & young Travis must put him out of his misery
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Reference Books”
This manual resulted from a military engineer’s attendance at an unruly 1860s church meeting. show
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I know next to nothing about opera, but “Don Giovanni” came to mind first. But I changed it to “Don Juan” because of the flames reference. I thought that might have been acceptable, except “Don Juan in Hell” wasn’t an opera and therefore didn’t fit the category Opera Title Names.
There was clue on X-Rated movie, which reminds me of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Cynthia Rowley saying that incorrect answer of the 5 movie ratings.
It may still be on YouTube.
Trebek was rude and disrespectful when he pointed out that the other two were blown out or blown away. We already know that. That is why I will NOT miss Trebek when there is a new host.
An interesting take to be sure.
What Alex said was “My gosh! Look at your score– $35,200! I mean, it is one thing to turn the game into a runaway. It is another thing to blow away your opponents. Most impressive.”
Everybody has different levels of sensitivities, I know, but I don’t think that hurt the other players’ feelings. They were good sports and you don’t know what they said to each other about the game afterwards. I know I would have said something like, wow, you sure kicked my butt six ways to Sunday!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Jennifer dominated the whole game today and is pretty quick on the buzzer. I think she could be our next streaker if this keeps up. At least the triple stumper in final jeopardy has been broken. Though I would love to see a triple solve tomorrow hopefully, VJ. And I hope Jen can break the curse.
Yup, that was a most impressive first game for Jennifer. Nice to see the dramatic drop in triple stumpers, too.
LINK: more clues from the game