Final Jeopardy: Printing (12/8/16)
The Final Jeopardy question (12/8/2016) in the category “Printing” was:
The 3 major western typefaces are Gothic, Roman & this one first used in an entire book in 1501 for a work by Virgil.
4x champ Tim Aten has now won $71,300. Today he is going for that elusive 5th win as he takes on these two players: Anton Deljaj, from the Bronx, NY; and Stephanie Snyder, from Silver Springs, MD.
Round 1 Categories: Henrik Ibsen or Henry Gibson – That’s Cold, Man – Whose Billboard Hit? – Anatomical Etymology – Let’s Visit the South – Sweet “T”
Anton found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Anatomical Etymology” under the $1,000 clue with 2 categories still to go after it. He was in second place with $2,200, $1,200 less than Stephanie’s lead. He bet $800 and he was RIGHT.
This small gland in the brain is named for its resemblance to a conifer’s cone. show
Tim finished in the lead with $3,600. Stephanie and Anton were tied in second place at $2,600.
Round 2 Categories: Big Screen Cops – Philosophy – Historic Americans – Potent Quotables – Bridge-pourri – Throwing the “Book” at You
Tim found the first Daily Double in “Historic Americans” under the $1,200 clue on the 8th pick. He was in the lead with $4,400 at this point, $200 more than Stephanie in second place. He bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
Harry Truman appointed her a delegate to the U.N., where she chaired the Human Rights Commission from 1946 to 1951. show
Tim found the last Daily Double in “Philosophy” under the $1,200 clue, with 2 clues remaining after it. In the lead with $14,600, he had $5,600 more than Anton in second place. He bet $1,600 but could not come up with a guess so he was WRONG.
A Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry written by Thaddeus Metz, or a movie co-written by John Cleese. show
Tim finished in the lead with $13,000. Anton was next with $9,000 and Stephanie was in third place with $3,000.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS ITALICS?
In its entry for “italic,” Etymology Online notes that the word is from Latin italicus. “So called because it was introduced in 1501 by Aldus Manutius, printer of Venice (who also gave his name to Aldine), and first used in his edition of Virgil, which was dedicated to Italy.” They also note that “italic printing sometimes in English was called cursive (and also Aldine).”
Evidently, there are still rare (and no doubt very costly) editions of “the Aldine Virgil.” One was just listed on Forum Auctions this past September.
Stephanie wrote down Helvetica. She lost her $2,400 bet, leaving her with $600.
Anton came up with Times New Roman. He lost $2,990, finishing with $6,001.
Tim thought it was Ionian. That cost him $5,001. He finished with $7,999 and that was today’s winning total. All right! As Alex Trebek said, Tim is hanging in. His 5-day total is $79,299.
A triple stumper from each round:
HENRIK IBSEN OR HENRY GIBSON ($600) Henrik Ibsen got a-hedda the game with this play about a bored, cynical woman
BRIDGE-POURRI ($1,200) In the first sentence of a 1927 novel, this “finest Bridge in all Peru,” fatally collapses
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “The Bible”
The first birthday celebration mentioned in the Bible takes place in Genesis 40 & is in honor of this ruler. show
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Anton would have won if he wagered $1K or less in FJ! on the Triple Stumper. He didn’t, and Tim goes to the TofC. 47/60
To an eventual slaughter
Seriously though, how likely is a zero bet (effectively) by the player in 2nd? When you figure that it is likely the case that for the player in second to “usually” win, they have to get FJ right, while the leader has to miss. But in this case, for Anton to wager enough to cover the amount by Tim, he would put himself in jeopardy to a double-up with Stephanie. Of course, if we start seeing zero (ish) bets by those in second, we may see more zero bets from the leaders. Some of this may depend upon the category and the smaller bets could lead to smaller payoffs.
The beginning of this game had me concerned. Tim picking the “Billboard” category 3 times and a ts for each clue had me whispering “go to another category this one isn’t working for any of you.” Finally he moved to another category and we had a game.
Had to laugh when he didn’t get the first Rich Girl, then the next one he picked was Rich Girl, too. LOL. I liked the Hall & Oates song, but I was not fond of the Gwen Stefani hip hop take on “Fiddler on the Roof” at all
Italics is not a typeface!!!
Ray’s right! Italic is a type “style” not a typeface. Gothic and Roman both have italic versions. They need to give all three payers credit for a correct answer. The question was misleading.
Agree, Ray is correct. I yelled that out when I saw the the ‘answer’ that it is really a style. My words exactly. Try printing in “Italics” without selecting a typeface.
I guess Italic would not have been considered a correct answer?
Gee, I don’t know, Rhonda. I was thinking from that etymology online explanation that they would have had to accept the singular, and also cursive and Aldine.
LINK: I have 13 more clues up from this match now.
I’m pretty sure not everyone looks at those so I’m repeating the $400 one from “Potent Quotables” here: “William Lampton described this state as “Where the corn is full of kernels and the colonels full of corn”
I thought it was interesting because the Oxford Dictionary of Quotes (2006) has it as part of what sounds like a toast. From their footnote, it sounds like Lampton was actually quoting Chief Justice John Marshall. (It’s at the bottom of the page).
Anyway, Trebek acted like the players should have just known that “corn” in the clue was short for “corn whiskey”
Argh! Got in a ‘font-y’ mental loop and could not find my way out. Italic never crossed my mind, as I didn’t think of it as a font, but rather a style. But I got the annoying “Try” (Pink). Whatever.
Yeah, the game starting out with 3 TS’s in a row was kinda funny. VJ, I think Alex taught the Kentucky clue was so clever and seemed frustrated that the players didn’t get the cleverness. Maybe he wrote that clue, lol.
Curdle/congeal—IIRC, a few months ago they had it in reverse—a clue with the word congeal, in which the answer (question) was curdle.
This Tim guy…strange run so far. Like the battery bunny.
Apparently, that Kentucky clue was a repeat from a 1986 game in a category with the same name. One of the players got it then. I got it today because my mind zoomed in on colonel and I thought of Colonel Sanders but the quote was around before either him or Lampton were born.
They also had the “lips that touch liquor” clue in the 1986 game
Not complaining – I never heard of Lampton before and it turns out that he was a poet and first cousin of Mark Twain. His stuff is in the public domain and I can read it on google books 🙂
Pink — ha ha — that was the only one I didn’t get. I only know a couple of her songs– the first one – “There you go, looking pitiful…” and the one that says “you better get this party started”
Interesting bit about Lampton. I find all her songs annoying. 🙂
Right, I think Alex expected them also to zoom in on “colonel”.
Congrats to tim on his 5th win. But this shouldn’t have been a very tough final since we all use microsoft word and the various types of fonts. VJ, do you ever use microsoft office word versions from 1997, 2003, 2007, or any of the later versions in your field of work and what font type do you use?
well, actually, Lou, that is what made it tough — because they are talking about typefaces. They didn’t have fonts back in 1501 and the answer is now thought of as a font style.
To answer your question, yes, I worked with all the versions of Word that you mentioned and later versions, and WordPerfect as well, but these days I hardly use them. For a while I was into finding cool fonts and as a result, I have a ton of fonts.
Very interesting, thanks for the information. Back in the years of the 90s I used mostly microsoft word for windows xp and 2000 but after that I switched over to the later versions.
Nowadays when I type novels or any other things, I like to use either verdana or courier new because those are my favorites. you know vj, when I was younger, I did a lot of cursive writing and to these days its been a habit of mine.
Tim, congrats 5-day champ.
Surprised fj was a ts. Virgil isn’t taught in school anymore?
Btw, since Tim is an editor I can see him thinking of Ionian.
Tim Kutz has still currently won more money than Tim Aten. Good luck Tims if I see you both in the Tournament of Champions.
Tim Aten should’ve had a 4 or 5-day total over the $100,000 mark since he won $35,000 back in his 1st game (Like Tim Kutz’s huge $46,599 win which brought his 4-day total of $107,000). Tim Aten actually made up for the loss of Tim Kutz’s fifth game (which I hope we’ll still see Tim Kutz in the Tournament of Champions). We could have two Tims in the Tournament of Champions this season, which I hope is in late January/Early February or May 2017.