Final Jeopardy: Roman History (3-20-18)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/20/2018) in the category “Roman History” was:
Of this battle in 31 B.C., Virgil wrote, “Neptune’s fields grow red with fresh slaughter”
New champ Lisa Mueller, won $16,800 yesterday. In her second game, she is up against these two guys: John Bizal, from Scottsdale, AZ; and AJ Freeman, from Boise, ID.
Round 1 Categories: Geek Confusion – Brotherhoods – The Start of an “Art” – The Most Exciting Play – Inside the Park – Home Run
Lisa found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Inside the Park” under the $600 clue on the 11th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $2,800, $200 more than AJ in second place. She bet it all and she was RIGHT.
The Serpentine & Speakers’ Corner. show
Lisa finished in the lead with $8,200. AJ was second with $4,000 and John was last with $3,400.
Round 2 Categories: Matt Damon – Electoral College Silver Medalists – The Object of My Obsession – Books About Asia – Composers – Bodies of Water Words
John found the first Daily Double in “Books about Asia” under the $800 clue on the 2nd pick. The $400 clue stumped them so the scores were the same as above. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
An early 2000s bestseller was about a memoir about a secret book club in this city that discussed works like “Lolita” show
John found the last Daily Double in “Electoral College Silver Medalists” under the $1,600 clue on the 11th pick. In third place with $7,000, he had $3,200 less than Lisa’s lead. He bet $3,000, and he was RIGHT.
In 1864 Lincoln gave him a general beatdown. show
John finished in the lead with $22,400. Lisa was next with $14,200 and AJ was in third place with $8,000.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
From Live Science.com: The Battle of Actium in 31 B.C. was an epic showdown that pitted Mark Antony and Cleopatra against spurned former ally Octavian. When Octavian eventually reigned supreme in battle, it meant the end of the Roman Republic for good and the beginning of the Roman Empire, whose influences were ultimately felt throughout the world. Antony’s colossal defeat also led to his and Cleopatra’s Shakespearean double-suicide, providing plenty of movie fodder 2,000 years later.”
You will find the Virgil quote in the clue at Line 695 in this translation of the Aeneid on Hieronymus.us.com. It also has the Latin on the left.
AJ wrote down “Rome.” He lost his $7,000 bet, leaving him with $1,000.
Lisa got it right. Her $2,200 bet brought her up to $16,400.
John had Salerno. He lost $6,001 to finish with $16,399. So Lisa Mueller remained champ by a $1.00 margin. Her 2-day total is $33,200.
A triple stumper from each round:
GEEK CONFUSION ($400) Kardashians are reality TV stars; Cardassians are an alien culture in this sci-fi universe
BOOKS ABOUT ASIA ($400) Spending 7 years the hermit kingdom as a business executive helped Felix Abt write “A Capitalist in” this nation
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Classic Children’s Book Characters”
The name of this character who lives in a forest is a shortening of an Italian word for a newborn. show
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Lisa’s wager was possibly the most brilliant wager I have ever seen. She covered AJ if he doubles his money and wagers just enough to win if John gets it wrong.
unfortunately, it was purely lucky .. the only reason she won by a dollar is because John for unknown reasons chose to wager 6001. Pure luck. Had she stayed with hers, and he had chosen 5999 for instance, her wagering brilliance would be hard to find. So in the end, she was only brilliant enough to outpace AJ ( interestingly enough by an extra $400), and hope to hell John goes deep … John was smart enough to wager only enough to keep AJ out of play, but wound up coincidentally betting enough that Lisa’s guess was able to beat him in the end. If you really think Lisa was anything other than smart, focused even with Alex’s strange behavior, and eventually lucky with her wager … you need to rewatch and reassess.
Nope, not lucky. General rule for someone in the lead is “bet enough to beat the trailing contestant if he/she wagers everything.” Otherwise, as has happened in the past, you can have a lead going into DJ, get the right answer – and lose the game.
John’s reasons for 6001 were not unknown — that’s what he had to bet in order to cover Lisa if she doubled her score.
Lisa knew that, and also knew that her only hope was if John missed, since his best bet was to try for $1 more than her doubled score. would lose if both were right, would lose if only John was right, and would lose if both were wrong. She therefore had to bet just enough to cover his best bet if he were wrong, but she also had to retain enough to cover the third place player’s possible double.
Not lucky — very strategic.
I dunno, it seems to me that she needed John to be wrong in FJ to win more than anything else. She won by $1 when she could have won by much more. Sorry if I’m underwhelmed.
William, According to the article I read, she will appear on the April 4, 2018 show. Weird?
Becci, I did see that article for sure, but on the “This Week On JEOPARDY!” page for Wednesday, it showed Rebecca Zoshak. So, we’ll see if she returns tomorrow, or if she returns on April 4th.
I guess we would know for sure if they had the Howdies video up but they don’t yet
My understanding is that they had to reschedule air dates by a couple of weeks due to Alex Trebeck’s surgery, which changed the taping dates for a tournament. The usual games have a three-to-four month lag between taping and airing, but they try to cut that to just a week or two for tournaments. When the tournament taping schedule changed, it dominoed into changing air dates for regular games..
That was certainly a close call here. I thought lisa was a goner. But I wonder if this happened in one of Lisa Schlitt’s games or Tim Aten where they beat their opponents by a dollar margin, VJ?
I never heard of the battle of actium. Does anyone have a history textbook that explains how long this war lasted in Roman times?
Just google it, Lou. There’s a lot of info. Or try youtube. There’s a documentary.
LINK: 9 more clues from the match
Of course and thank you. Also were you surprised by today’s game? I was shocked that Lisa won with the amount she had. I thought that she was going to be going home with that amount but I guess luck was on her side. In your opinion, how did you feel about today’s match?
Well, I’m not surprised that only one person knew it because that was my prediction, but I thought it would be John . Kudos to Lisa for getting it and on her second win. I was surprised she didn’t bet more, that’s all.
I thought we were gonna have a second tie breaker.
Not today.
But tomorrow is the return of Rebecca Zoshak.