Final Jeopardy: Seafaring Brits (3-26-25)
The Final Jeopardy question (3/26/2025) in the category “Seafaring Brits” was:
In 1804 an officer of HMS Warrior formally charged this Captain with “Calling me rascal, scoundrel & shaking his fist in my face”
3x champ Josh Weikert, a politics professor from Collegeville, PA, has now won $54,001. In Game 4, he takes on these two players: John Rindone, a policy advisor from Brooklyn, NY; and Melanie Hirsch, a lawyer from Silver Spring, MD.
Round 1 Categories: From Their New York Times Obituary – Kid Lit – Double Talk – Be My TV Show Guest – Hat Tricks – Can I Get an Amendment?
Josh found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “From Their New York Times Obituary” under the $1,000 clue on the 13th pick of the round. He was in second place with $1,800, $2,400 less than Melanie’s lead. Josh made it a true Daily Double and guessed Melba. That was WRONG.
1977: “Dead of Heart Attack in Paris”; “Most exciting opera singer of her time” show
Melanie finished in the lead with $6,800. Josh was second with $2,400 and John was last with $200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: “I” on the Map – Big Screen Baseball Briefly – Fossil Fueled – Lion Around – Famous Pro-Semites – Compound Words
Melanie found the first Daily Double in “Fossil Fueled” under the $1,600 clue on the 9th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $11,200, $6,000 more than Josh in second place. Melanie bet $3,500 and said the ancient great white shark. That was WRONG.
North Carolina chose as its state fossil the teeth of this giant prehistoric shark show
Melanie found the last Daily Double in “Lion Around” under the $1,600 clue on the 12th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $10,100, $4,900 more than Josh in second place. Melanie bet $2,500 and drew a blank so she was WRONG.
Stage directions in this Shaw play based on a Roman story mention a huge thorn in a paw show
Melanie finished in the lead with $12,000. Josh was second with $11,600 and John was last with $2,600. All clues were shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS WILLIAM BLIGH?
British naval officer William Bligh is notorious as the abusive captain behind the 1789 mutiny on HMS Bounty. However, Bligh seems to be the type who would not or could change. Captain Cook Society’s site says that during the year (1804-05) Bligh captained HMS Warrior, his relationships with his officers were poor. The ship’s second lieutenant, John Frazier, had Bligh court-martialed due to the verbal abuse and threatening behavior mentioned in today’s clue. “Bligh was reprimanded, and told to be more correct in his language.” Bligh was then appointed Governor of New South Wales where he again made enough enemies to be forcibly deposed and arrested.
Take that, Charles Laughton! Contrary to Hollywood portrayals of Bligh, he was not a old man. He was actually only 34 years old when 24-year-old Fletcher Christian had enough of his guff.
John thought it was Nelson. He lost $1,600 and finished with $1,000.
Josh also thought it was Nelson. That cost him $6,399 and left him with $5,201.
Melanie made it a Nelson trifecta. She lost $11,201 and finished with $7,999. That handed the game to Josh, giving him a 4-day total of $59,202.
A triple stumper from each round:
HAT TRICKS ($1000) The future Edward VII made this soft-felt hat popular, & presto! It’s now in a spa in the same named “Bad” German City!
LION AROUND ($2000) This self-taught French artist painted a lion standing over a sleeping woman in one of his most famous works
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “AMERICAN AUTHORS”
In a periodical in 1807, he called New York City “Gotham, Gotham! most enlightened of cities” show
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Total DD/FJ skunking for them and me. I went with Nelson, too. It fit the era.
Melanie was cruising until she missed the 2 DDs followed by her “Hello Dali” guess. Josh’s wager locked out John, whether he got or missed FJ, but all he really needed to wager was $401. Melanie was almost compelled to go big.
Old enough to remember the star of “Shaft.” Never saw the films. He was a BAD mother…
Howard, I’m tempted to reply with ‘shut your mouth ‘ but someone might not know it’s the next line in the song 😆
I’m surprised you didn’t get the Lion DD. That tale has even been in cartoons .
As for the Paris DD, Josh totally thought it was Jim Morrison until the word opera showed up! She was the true love of Aristotle Onassis.
Thought you might utter the next part of the song. As for the lion, yes, in hindsight. I vaguely remember it only as an old movie. I was eating a late dinner during much of the show. Long, exhausting day doing things a man my age probably shouldn’t.
The old film I saw had Alan Young (of Mr. Ed fame) as the lion’s pal. Victor Mature and Jean Simmons had top billing.
Confound it, Rick took my quip! I was 2/3 on DD, missing only the Shaw one.
Got FJ, though. Immediately, it came to me. Notably, one of the cuttings from a breadfruit plant that Capt Bligh bright back from the South Pacific is in a museum arboretum in St Vincent and the Grenadines!
Also notably, Cook was murdered in 1779.
Yes Jason, I know all about Captain Cook, but I was grasping for straws. It sure wasn’t going to be Horatio Nelson since he was mostly referred to as an admiral, and not a captain (as the clues alluded to.
Well blimey! How could anyone have guessed that Captain Bligh continued his merry way of ticking off his crew after the mutiny on the HMS Bounty? Yeah, the first thing that came to my mind in FJ was Captain Bligh, but I discounted that right away because the clues were obviously in reference to another ship. You know, that was undoubtedly what all of the contestants thought as well. Anyways, I ultimately went for Captain Cook.
@Rick, Bligh captained a number of ships over the course of his naval career. Wikipedia has a list of all of them. I get the idea that he never changed his abusive ways because whenever he was called to account, he was either cleared or only got a slap on the wrist.
The Captain Cook site I linked to says Cook was a lot harsher than Bligh when it came to punishing his crew.
Awful show as all 3 DDs were missed resulted a skunking and a triple stumper in the final resulted our sixth epic fail on wagering clues of the season. I hope William Weyser will say darn those daily doubles to Melanie.
I did, and who knows if Melanie will be back for Second Chance next year. Probably not, but you never know.
All three players wrote the same incorrect response making this a triple stumper. The last time all three players wrote the same incorrect answer was on 1/16/25.
That was when Joey DeSena beat eventual Champions Wildcard winner: Mehal Shah.