Final Jeopardy: Ranks & Titles (2-6-20)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (2/6/2020) in the category “Ranks & Titles” was:
Canada, Belgium & the U.S. are among nations that bestow this artistic title that dates to the Greeks & a tree sacred to Apollo
3x champ Travis Gaylord, a management consultant from Wynnewood, PA, has now won $37,203. In Game 4, his challengers are: Patrick Rice, a business development strategist from San Francisco, CA; and Cherisa Burk, a retired IT specialist from Haledon, NJ.
Round 1 Categories: Putting a “B” in Your Bonnet – The Weight of the Worlds – 1980s Pop Lyrics – The New School – Hyphenated Adjectives – First Name
Travis found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “The New School” under the $600 clue on the 13th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $3,200, $2,200 more than Cherisa in second place. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
Florida International U. was planned in an old air control tower now called this type of “tower”, a symbol of academic life. show
Travis finished in the lead with $7,600. Patrick was second with $6,000 and Cherisa was last with $1,800.
Round 2 Categories: It’s Not You, It’s Me – Best Director Twice – & Then There Were Nuns – Foreign-Language Mottoes – Shapely Book Titles – Suriname
Patrick found the first Daily Double in “It’s Me” under the $2,000 clue on the 6th pick. He was in the lead with $7,600 at this point, $800 more than Travis in second place. He bet $2,500 and he was RIGHT.
Only 1.17% of this new African country’s population voted to stay with the old country in 2011. show
Patrick found the last Daily Double in “Foreign Language Mottoes” under the $1,600 clue, with 9 clues left after it. In second place with $11,300, he had $1,100 less than Travis in the lead. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
The Greeks use the motto “Eleftheria i thanatos”, “Freedom or” this show
Patrick finished in the lead with $20,700. Travis was next with $14,800 and Cherisa was in third place with $4,600.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Per wikipedia,”laureate” signifies eminence and is used in relation to literary awards, military glory and peace prizes: “In ancient Greece, the laurel (Laurus nobilis) was sacred to Apollo and as such sprigs of it were fashioned into a crown or wreath of honor for poets and heroes.”
After some initial confusion on my part, I concluded that “poet laureate” was the actual answer they were looking for. The United States first established a poet laureate post in 1937 (officially “Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress”). Currently, Joy Harjo holds the post.
Canada created the post of Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate in 2002. George Bowering was the first laureate, followed by Pauline Michel. (They alternate between English and French laureates). Belgium appears to be the latest nation to appoint a national poet when it named Dutch poet Charles Ducal “Dichter des Vaderlands” in 2014.
Cherisa got it right. She bet $4,100 and finished with $8,700.
Travis came up with brigadier general. He lost his $5,901 bet, leaving him with $8,899.
Patrick got it right, too. He bet $11,499 and won the game with $32,199.
2 triple stumpers in BEST DIRECTOR TWICE:
($1200) “Gentleman’s Agreement” & “On the Waterfront”
($2000) “The Lost Weekend” & “The Apartment”
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Universities”
Famed for its health care system & medical school, it also sold 15 acres for $10 in 1947 to build CDC headquarters. show
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My husband agrees it is Poet Laureate. After looking it up I also agree. There is more laureate classes than the better known Poet.
Am I the only one who questions whether they should have accepted just “laureate” without “poet?” But he would still have won even if they ruled him incorrect.
Probably not, John. The way that went down I thought at first that just “laureate” was what they wanted. But when I saw that Belgium had created the position in 2014, I decided that was why they included that country and they were after “poet laureate.”
My guess is the judges felt they had to accept just laureate because the clue lacked a specific reference to a poet or poetry,
If you are remembering quotes from The Apartment, then you need to be on Jeopardy!
Cherisa was up and down in the game today it wasn’t her day. The boys took the game away from her.
Well, it’s unfortunate Travis didn’t win his fourth game but Patrick came out on top today. Congrats to him and Cherisa on getting final right.
I knew the directors because the movie Gentlemen’s Agreement was something I saw back in high school a long time ago. One of the quotes was “I called up my sister Jane and she squealed Kathy as if she had given up any hope of anyone ever asking me.” And “oh dave we couldn’t get married without you what happened?”
I hope Patrick can build up on his win VJ. What are some of the quotes you remember from The Apartment movie? Brigadier General is a military rank and not a artistic rank.
No problem, Lou — you shouldn’t put the answers to the triple stumpers in the comments anyhow — that way other people have a chance to see if they know it or not.
That article in wikipedia does say that “laureate” is applicable to military glory.
I don’t remember any quotes from The Apartment. I saw that so long ago, I barely remember anything about it except it starred Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine.