Final Jeopardy: Nonfiction (3-2-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/2/2023) in the category “Nonfiction” was:
It has the line, “The discovery of America…opened up fresh ground for the rising bourgeoisie”
In the 9th and last quarterfinal match of the 2023 High School Reunion Tournament, the contestants are: Hannah Nekritz, a senior at Brandeis University from Stamford, CT, Caleb Richmond, a sophomore at Georgetown University from Bedford, NH; and Maggie Brown, a sophomore at the University of West Florida from Pensacola, FL.
Round 1 Categories: Birds near Water – In the Sport – Course Descriptions – Random Stuff – U.S. History – That’s D-minus Work
Caleb found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “U.S. History” under the $600 clue just before the commercial break. He was in the lead with $5,200, $4,600 more than Hannah in second place. Caleb bet $5,018 and he was RIGHT.
Civil War generals issued a lot of general orders; this man’s No. 9 of April 1865 sent the army of Northern Virginia home show
Caleb finished in the lead with $12,418. Hannah was second with $1,400. Maggie was last with negative $400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: -Pol, -Poli, -Polis Cities – Hit Albums – Action & Adventure Novels – Transport over the Ages – Documentary Subjects – Odd Words
Caleb found the first Daily Double in “Transport Over the Ages” under the $2,000 clue on the 11th pick. He was in the lead with $20,818. Both of his challengers were in negative territory. Caleb bet $10,018 and he was RIGHT.
Merchants on this trade route with a fabric in its name used the bactrian camel to hump their goods along show
Caleb got the last Daily Double in “Documentary Subjects” under the $1,600 clue, with a dozen clues left after it. In the lead with $31,636, he had $25,836 more than Hannah in second place. Caleb bet $10,018 and guessed verbose. That was WRONG.
It means excessive talkativeness, it’s from the Greek for “word” & it wins Nupur Lala the National Spelling Bee in a classic doc show
Caleb finished in the lead with a runaway $23,618. Hannah was second with $9,000. Maggie was last with negative $1,600 and out of the game at this point. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants left in Final Jeopardy! got it right.
WHAT IS “THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO”?
The quote in today’s final clue comes from Chapter I. “Bourgeois and Proletarians” of “The Communist Manifesto” (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. You can read the whole chapter at Marxists.org if you have the time and inclination. If not, the full sentence is: “The discovery of America, the rounding of the Cape, opened up fresh ground for the rising bourgeoisie.” Marxists.org also has the original German over there. In that language, the quote reads: “Die Entdeckung Amerikas, die Umschiffung Afrikas schufen der aufkommenden Bourgeoisie ein neues Terrain.”
As for the chapter’s title, Footnote 1 provides these definitions:
“1. By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labour.
By proletariat, the class of modern wage labourers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labour power in order to live. [Engels, 1888 English edition]”
Hannah was not able to complete her response, even though she knew it. She bet and lost her whole $9,000.
Caleb got it right. He bet $5,617 and won the game with $29,235, and that completes the semifinals line-up. Tomorrow, the first semifinalists to compete will be Lucas Miner, Jackson Jones and Avi Gupta.
2 triple stumpers from ACTION & ADVENTURE NOVELS:
($1200) Craig Alanson created this series of novels, ExForce for short, as a “military space opera”
($2000) In 11 books by C.S. Forester, this intrepid sailor starts as a midshipman & ultimately becomes an admiral
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Landlocked Countries”
Losing its ocean access in 1993, this African Union member is the most populous landlocked nation, with 110 million people show
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Even though it wasn’t Maggie’s day, she still had a great time returning to the show. She also gave a thumbs up after Mayim told her she’s taking home $5,000.
Hannah ran out of time unfortunately.
Category “In The Sport” in Jeopardy Round has turned out to be a shutout. Everything is triple stumpers in that category.
First episode in the High School Reunion tournament with a contestant unable to compete in FJ!. At least, Caleb made this game a runaway.
An obvious choice for FJ, and quite unlike the ambiguous FJ of yesterday.
Wow. Maggie couldn’t get that signaling device working too well today. Caleb made it really tough for her and Hannah despite missing that last Daily Double.