Final Jeopardy: Poets (2-19-15)

The Final Jeopardy question (2/19/2015), in the category “Poets” was:

On completing the “Deathbed” edition of his great work, he wrote, “L.ofG. at last complete– after 33 y’rs of hackling at it.”

New champ Christina McTighe won $21,600 in yesterday’s game, when she was the only player to get Final Jeopardy! She goes for a second win today against: Diana Zinser, from Berwyn, PA; and Sam Osborne, from Lake City, FL.

Round 1: Sam found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Nice Beard” under the $800 clue before the first break. It was the 5th clue chosen and he was in the lead with $1,000, $800 ahead of Diana in second place. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.

This playwright would have needed a major barbering to get rid of that beard. show

WHO IS GEORGE BERNARD SHAW?

Christina finished in the lead with $4,800. Diana was second with $4,400 and Sam was last with $4,200.

Round 2: Sam found the first Daily Double in “‘W’orld Cities” under the $1,600 clue. He was in the lead with $8,600, $3,000 more than Diana in second place. He bet $2,000 and guessed Watertown. That was WRONG.

This Irish City on the Suir River is an export center for fruit, meat &, of course, fine crystal. show

WHAT IS WATERFORD?

Sam found the last Daily Double in “Revolutionary War Figures” under the $2,000 clue. In the lead with $9,400, he was $2,200 ahead of Diana in second place. He bet $2,200, and he was RIGHT.

In March 1775 he told the Second Va. Convention “We have done everything that could be done to avert the storm.” show

WHO IS PATRICK HENRY?

Sam finished in the lead with $13,200. Christina was next with $7,600 and Diana was in third place with $7,200.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS WALT WHITMAN?

In a letter written several month before his death to his friend and later biographer, Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke, Whitman said: “L. of G. at last complete– after 33 y’rs of hackling at it, all times & moods of my life, fair weather & foul, all parts of the land, and peace & war, young & old– the wonder to me that I have carried it on to accomplish as essentially as it is, tho’ I see well enough its numerous deficiencies & faults”

From Selected Criticism: Walt Whitman Archives: “Copyrighted in 1891, published in 1892, the 1891–1892 so-called Deathbed edition of Leaves of Grass… was the ninth published during Whitman’s lifetime to be entitled Leaves of Grass, and is therefore sometimes referred to as the ninth edition… the 1881 Leaves of Grass established the order, arrangement, and essential texts of the poems, the Deathbed edition was not, as is sometimes stated, simply a reprinting, with additional materials, of the 1881 Leaves, since Whitman later made a number of revisions to that volume—minor, to be sure, but revisions nonetheless.”

Diana got it right and doubled her score to $14,400.

Christina got it right, too. She doubled her score to $15,200.

Sam wrote down “Life of,” evidently going for a title. He lost his $2,500 bet and finished with $10,700. So Christina McTighe retains her title and now has a 2-day total of $36,800.

During the chat, Christina talked about being grounded as a child and forbidden to read a book for an entire summer. Alex found that to be a strange punishment but Christina explained that she was a nerd back then. She borrowed books from friends and read them under the covers with a flashlight. “A sneaky nerd,” Alex observed.

2 years ago:: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Italy”

The Italian word for “shadow” is used as a local variation on the name of this region midway between Rome & Florence. show

WHAT IS UMBRIA?

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