Final Jeopardy: Artists (3-19-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/19/2021) in the category “Artists” was:
The February 17, 1901 death of his friend Carles Casagemas made this grief-stricken artist change his color palette.
2x champ Morgan Briles, a librarian from Nacogdoches, TX has now won $37,200. In Game 3, she is up against: Jilana Rose-Silverberg, a data analyst from Madison, WI; and Nick Cascone, an orthopedic physician assistant orig. from Queens, NY.
Round 1 Categories: Jobs In The Bible – Pirate Flags – American History – Get ‘Em While They’re Cold – Does That Ring A Bell? – On His Baseball Hall Of Fame Plaque
Nick found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “American History” under the $1,000 clue on the 12th pick of the round. He was tied for the lead with Morgan. They both had $1,600, $600 more than Jilana in second place. He made it a true Daily Double and guessed Martin Van Buren. That was WRONG.
In 1840, this former president went to St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans to honor an event that occurred 25 years earlier. show
Nick finished in the lead with $4,600. Jilana was second with $3,400 and Morgan was last with $2,200. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: An Honorary Knight To Remember – The Human Body – Ends In A Female First Name – Lakes – Play “In” – Game
Nick found the first Daily Double in “Human Body” under the $1,600 clue on the 4th pick. He was in the lead with $7,400 now, $400 more than Jilana in second place. Undaunted, he bet it all again. This time, he was RIGHT.
These endocrine glands secrete the hormones epinephrine and cortisol. show
Nick also got the last Daily Double in “Play ‘In'” under the $1,600 clue, on the 9th pick of the round. In the lead with $18,800, he had $14,200 more than Morgan in second place. He bet $8,000 and got an incomplete guess in. Unfortunately, that was after the buzzer and it was WRONG.
Can’t find your way? This Neil Simon title mentions a city on the Hudson north of the Bronx. show
Nick finished in the lead with $15,200. Jilana was next with $13,400 and Morgan was in third place with $11,800. No clues went uncovered.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS PABLO PICASSO?
From PabloPicasso.org: “‘The Death of Casagemas’ is one of several memorials Picasso dedicated to the young painter who had shot himself in Paris on 17 February 1901. The immediate cause of the suicide was Casagemas’s failed love affair with Germaine Gargallo, whom he had met on his first visit to Paris in October 1900…. Picasso was in Madrid at the time of the disaster and it was only after the pressure to produce for his exhibition had lifted that he began to deal with it in his work. The fact that he moved into the very studio on boulevard de Clichy Casagemas was renting at the time of his death intensified his obsession, and he must have chosen Van Gogh as the intermediary for the votive panel because he saw so many parallels between the two men’s tragic lives and violent deaths. Possibly he had heard about, or even seen, Dr Gachet’s touching little drawing of Van Gogh on his deathbed, for it too concentrates on the head, showing it from almost the same angle.”
Morgan bet $10,000 and finished with $21,800.
Jilana bet $11,801, bringing her up to $25,201.
Nick bet $11,601 and won the game with $26,801. Nick Cascone is the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
ON HIS BASEBALL HALL OF FAME PLAQUE ($1000) “Greatest drawing card in history of baseball”
AN HONORARY KNIGHT TO REMEMBER ($2000) In 2004 this tireless tracker of Nazi war criminals was honored by the Queen
12 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Gods of Ancient Egypt”
Appropriately, the center of cult worship for this ancient Egyptian god was in Cynopolis, “City of the Dog” show
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This episode was terrible because Morgan lost and I wanted her to become a streaker and instead she took home $1000.
VJ, Morgan’s 2 Day total is $37,200, not $32,700.
I missed the show, but based on the listed wagers and final totals, Morgan could not have entered Final Jeopardy with $15200.
I’d have loved a shot at some of those stumpers: the Hall of Fame stumper in Game, the Honorary Knight, Nimrod and the 2 Daily Doubles
Yeah, she had $11,800 ($15,200 was Nick’s score)
I did not think Morgan would last long due to her youth. Being in your mid 50s can be a big advantage in certain games.
Still, we must give credit where credit is due. She won $37K+ by knowing two things her opponents in 2 games did not know. Then she fell victim to the 2-Game Curse.
At this point, I think we should be making promises to the Jeopardy! gods. Here’s mine — If the next person to win 2 games wins the third game, I won’t post any 🤣🤣🤣 smileys for a week.
Full disclosure: I was rooting for Nick to win today. 🤣🤣🤣
VJ, on a different note—this morning, coincidentally, I was listening to the song Mr. Jones and, for the first time, I noticed the lyrics mention Picasso.
that rocks, Cece (pun intended). Imagine if they also had a Bob Dylan clue 😀
That song sure rocks; it never gets old for me. I would probably have missed the Dylan clue. I always do. 🙂
Thanks so much for posting the youtube video, VJ. Quite interesting and I enjoyed it very much.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it, Rhonda. I liked it, too though I usually don’t put up videos that long — that is what the internet has done to my attention span!
I know, my attention span is usually just horrible, too.
Well despite two of the daily doubles not working in Nick’s favor he still had a good score. In fact congrats to everyone getting the triple solve today. We still haven’t had a streaker yet but hopefully Nick can try to break the spell. It’s kind of hard to get a streaker in this month especially with the pandemic.
The P word has not been kind to anybody who wanted to win 3, 4, 5, or more games. Hopefully, that’ll end soon, and the Tournament of Champions Material can go faster, or else, G-d will be forced to tell us when it’s over.