Final Jeopardy: Adapted from Antiquity (3-27-14)
The Final Jeopardy question (3/27/2014), in the category “Adapted from Antiquity” was:
It begins with a vow to an ancient god & ends with “if I transgress it & swear falsely, may the opposite of all this be my lot.”
New champ Clay Walls won $7,199 in yesterday’s game with a bad FJ response, but his bet was very good — he finished with more money than anyone else. Today he takes on these two players: Emily Waltenbaugh, from Nashville, TN; and Amy Nienaber, from Bettendorf, IA.
Round 1: Amy found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “The 1-Syllable Word” under the $800 clue. She was in the lead with $4,000, $1,400 ahead of Amy in second place. She bet $2,000 and thought it was a moor. That was WRONG.
Scottish term for a long, narrow indentation of the seacoast. show
Amy finished in the lead with $3,800. Clay was second with $3,200 and Emily was last with $1,800.
Round 2: Emily found the first Daily Double in “Shakespeare Rewrites The Beatles” under the $1,600 clue. She was in second place with $3,400, $1,200 less than Amy’s lead. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
“I believe I shall be melancholy. I believe it shall be anon… the women who disturbeth my temper is leaving hence.” show
Amy found the last Daily Double in “European Countries” under the $2,000 clue. She was tied for the lead with Emily. They both had $7,400, $4,200 more than Clay in second place. She bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
While this Balkan country’s national name means “land of eagles”, the name we know it by is from the Latin for “White”. show
Amy finished in the lead with $17,200. Emily was next with $10,200 and Clay was in third place with $800.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
The classical version of the Hippocratic Oath begins with an oath to “Apollo Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods and goddesses.” PBS.org has a page with the classical and modern versions, as well as a brief article “that offers a sense of the controversial nature of the oath today.”
Clay got it right and bet nothing. He finished with the same $800 he started with.
Emily thought it was the “Oath of Office.” She lost $7,050 and finished with $3,150.
Amy also got it right and bet $3,800. She won the match with $21,000 and will be returning tomorrow as the new Jeopardy! champ.
Wow! It just did not go well for Clay at all in this game. Amy and Emily were neck and neck for much of the game, but Amy was so determined and so quick that we don’t think the one-day champ trend will be starting up again. We’ll find that out tomorrow.
One thing we found out today: none of the players watch “Boardwalk Empire” or they might have got this clue, in the category Go “Lucky”, right away: Even after his deportation to Italy in 1946, he remained an influential American mob boss. Clay came up with Lucky Siegel and Emily thought it was Lucky Marciano.
2 years ago:: Only ONE player got this FJ in Latin Phrases.
Though often associated with Machiavelli, this phrase ‘Exitus Acta Probat,’ first appears in a work by Ovid. show
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amy comes from a suitable named town (village?).
bettendorf means “wager village” in german.