Final Jeopardy: Medieval Literature (3-26-18)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/26/2018) in the category “Medieval Literature” was:
The illustration seen here appeared in the second printed edition of this book, published in England in 1483
New champ Tristan Mohabir, won $15,200 last Friday. In his second game, he takes on these two players: Johnny Trutor, from Colchester, VT; and Vicki Cole, from Denver, CO.
Round 1 Categories: Airlines – Sounds Like Meat – Hide Away in a Book – My Country (of Birth) – Rite – Wrong
Johnny found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Sounds Like Meat” under the $1,000 clue, with 9 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $3,800, $400 more than Tristan in second place. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
A citizen of a town, whether it’s Calais or not. show
Johnny finished in the lead with $8,000. Tristan was second with $5,000 and Vicki was last with $3,200.
Round 2 Categories: The Rhyme of Sir Neville Marriner – O No! – Emmys for Comedy – Linguistics – American Political History – Geographic Spelling Bee
Tristan found the first Daily Double in “American Political History” under the $1,200 clue on the 4th pick. He was in second place with $6,200 now, $1,800 less than Johnny’s lead. He went for a true Daily Double and guessed 10. That was WRONG.
In 1999 the Senate voted 50-50 on the charge that Bill Clinton obstructed justice, this many votes shy of a conviction. show
Tristan found the last Daily Double in “O No!” under the $2,000 clue, with 8 clues left after it. In third place with $2,800, he had $9,200 less than Johnny’s lead. He went with another true Daily Double and drew a blank so he was WRONG.
Drop an “O” from the word represented on the left to get the person on the right. show
Johnny finished in the lead with a runaway $14,000. Vicki was next with $2,800 and Tristan, at $0, was out of the game.
Only ONE of the remaining contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Heritage Imaging Manchester has a slideshow featuring some of the images in the 2nd edition of Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” printed by William Caxton c. 1483, including “The Pilgrims at the Table” used in the clue. Caxton also printed the 1st edition in 1476. Up till then, the tales were on hand-written manuscripts. Chaucer died in 1400.
Try this Sporcle quiz: Match medieval titles with their authors and you’ll be ready if any of the others turn up in a clue!
Vicki thought it was “Beowulf.” She bet and lost it all.
Johnny got it right, after crossing out “Le Morte d’Arthur.” He didn’t bet anything so he remained at $14,000 and he is the new Jeopardy! champ.
Reversals: Vicki benefited from one reversal and got dinged on the other. The judges giveth and the judges taketh away…
RITE ($1000) This rite is a solo vigil by a plains Indian boy to see spiritual power & knowledge through an apparition – They wanted “vision quest” and later accepted “spirit quest”
THE RHYME OF SIR NEVILLE MARRINER ($2000) Fans of Sir Neville habitually hearten / to hear him with this band that mentions St. Martin – Vicki left the “s” off “St Martin in the Fields”
A triple stumper from each round:
HIDE AWAY IN A BOOK ($400) Claudia & her brother run away from home & hide in this NYC museum in “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”
LINGUISTICS ($2000) Among the Uralic languages are Finnish, Estonian & this main language of the Carpathian Basin
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Textiles”
In 1939 this new product was touted as being strong as steel, fine as a spider’s web & more elastic than natural fibers. show
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Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to watch the show. CBS glitched up pretty badly. Would’ve enjoyed seeing it.
I felt sorry for Tristan. He shoulda won just for wearing that shirt! But over the years I’ve noticed that rarely does someone who wins by means of the Final Jeopardy question win again….
Also, I thought that Google/Gogol question was too tricky. You don’t get “Gogol”, just by leaving an “O” out of “Google”….
@Susan, for that Daily Double, click on the “show” link and you’ll see the word for the left hand image is not spelled the same way as the name of search engine
Spelling is always tricky when it comes to translations. But so far as I can see “Го́голь” as it’s spelled in Russian and Ukrainian is never rendered into English as Gogle, and “Google” is not spelled “Googel”… so I think Tristan is owed another appearance, and I hope he wears another great shirt when that happens.
Or, having explored further,
I guess I should say that the spelling of the search engine has so swamped our sense of “Googol” as being the spelling for that word…
@Susan, yes, on wikipedia’s GOOGOL page, right under the title it says “not to be confused with Google or Nikolai Gogol” 🙂
Johnny could have gone for a big 20K win, but I hope he gets a,runaway game tomorrow, VJ. Have you noticed that Tristan tripped up on the daily doubles? Why did he take a big risk when he knows it won’t pay off? He could have bet low and still would have had participated in final. Ever read the Canterbury tales VJ?
idk, Lou, even when Tristan got his first DD in the second round, I had a bad feeling and said “don’t do it!” before he bet.
I did read the Canterbury Tales in high school– selected parts, I’m sure, but I certainly wasn’t inspired to read anymore of it than I had to 😀
LINK: 13 clues from this game
True, the key here is: if you are going to do a true daily double, you have to focus on.the key words in the clue before responding and not making random bad guesses. Also why bet big if you don’t know the answer? That’s just throwing the game away. If you remember what Rachel Lin and Kaya Chua did, I am sure Johnny won’t make that mistake. Always make sure to bet low on daily doubles if you want to stay in the game, don’t you agree, VJ?
Well, Lou, the players have to make their bets based on how well they know the category before even seeing the clue, and just because you are an ace in any particular category, you might still get a clue on something you just don’t know.
Johnny is quite the fast writer….Too bad he didn’t wager for at least an even 20 K, but congratulations anyway. I wonder when we will have the next multiple champion? Maybe Johnny, he ran away with this game, also the one who got a DD right.