Final Jeopardy: Famous Phrase Origins (3-28-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/28/2019) in the category “Famous Phrase Origins” was:
One theory says a phrase for euphoria comes from Plate No. 9 in an 1896 meteorological “Atlas” of these
New champ Steven Grade, a sports industry consultant, won $21,600 yesterday. In Game 2, he is up against: Sarah von Oeyen, a librarian from Troy, MI; and Kenji Shimizu, a biomedical engineer from Ann Arbor, MI.
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Round 1 Categories: Moveable Feasts? – Film Directors – We Would Have Also Accepted… – Name That Novelist! – The Western U.S. – Put a “Ring” on It
Sarah found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Name that Novelist!” under the $1,000 clue on the 17th pick of the round. She was in second place with $1,800, $3,600 less than Steven’s lead. She bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.
“Tonight’s lecture– a slide show about pagan symbolism hidden in the stones of Chartres Cathedral” show
Steven finished in the lead with $8,200. Sarah was second with $5,200 and Kenji was last with $2,800.
Round 2 Categories: Thing 1 & Thing 2 – Celebrity Siblings – Fictional Memoirs – For the Birds – Letter Perfect – Diet Land
Kenji found the first Daily Double in “Diet Land” under the $1,600 clue, with 7 clues left after it. He was in a second place tie with Sarah. They both had $9,200, $9,000 less than Steven’s lead. He bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.
Traveling on foot, this reformer missed the Diet of Augsburg in 1518 but got a horse & wagon & made it to the one in Worms. show
4 clues later, Steven found the last Daily Double in “For the Birds” under the $1,200 clue. In the lead with $21,000, he had $6,800 more than Kenji in second place. He bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.
Sailors have long been superstitious about killing this bird, as reflected in a 1798 poem. show
Steven finished in the lead with $27,000. Kenji was next with $17,800 and Sarah was in third place with $9,200.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
In “What is Cloud Nine,” Mental Floss says: “The Cumulonimbus—the puffiest and presumably most glorious cloud—happens to be the ninth one mentioned in 1896’s International Cloud Atlas. It’s possible that’s where this metaphor for bliss originated,” and then goes on to dispute that theory by pointing out the contention of slang experts: “when the phrase first appeared in 1935, it was actually ‘cloud eight.’”
From 2001: RHYME TIME ($100) A noisy cumulonimbus
Sarah thought it was stars. She didn’t bet anything and remained at $9,200.
Kenji got it right. He bet $9,201 bet, finishing with $27,001.
Steven got it, too. He bet $8,601, winning the game with $35,601. So it was good he didn’t have a runaway and had to make a bet. Now he has a 2-day total of $57,201.
2 triple stumpers from FICTIONAL MEMOIRS:
($1600) In the ’70s, Clifford Irving fooled quite a few people with his fake memoir of this billionaire
($2000) Ernest J. Gaines wrote the “Autobiography” of this “Miss”, a 110-year-old former slave
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Musical Theatre”
One of the world’s longest-running musicals, in 2015 it celebrated “30 Years of Revolution!” show
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Yes and no.
FDR was a disaster? Right….. He stopped the run on the banks, w/o him there would be no Social Security and he and Churchill managed that the Nazis were beat. The “intervention”
saved the US and ultimately the world. The depression was already there under Hoover. If anything we were acting TOO isolated. FDR had the brains to realize that and was lucky that Churchill was where he was when he was there. Hoover would have been a disaster, he led – in part – the U.S. into the Great Depression, but as I already said , it was a world wide occurrence . FDR pulled the U.S. back from the abyss. Idk where you got your info, I got mine from obtaining a doctorate in history from the oldest university in the German speaking part of Europe, University of Vienna. Without FDR/Churchill Europe would be speaking German and Russian today and we would be even more isolated than we already are. That is, if the U.S. would still exist.
On the day FDR was sworn in the U.S. were already at the lowest economic point ever. On his second dai in office he declared a bank holiday, slowing down the run on the banks, where in 32 states of the 48 all banks were closed already. W/o FDR there would be no unemployment either, not just no Social Security and WWII would have gone the other way.
Hoover led the U.S. to her lowest point ever. The Great Depression WAS already at a maximum when Hoover was finally voted out. Yes, the depression was world wide but the U.S. were even worse off than the rest of the world. FDR saved this country in more than one way in the nick of time.
Congrats to Steven on his second win. I thought it was cool that he knows how to make a roux, but I wondered if he ever gets lumps in his gravy.
LINK: 9 more clues from the game
@VJ
Roux is a mixture of fat and flour used to make sauces and soups.
well, thanks, Richard but fyi, my mom showed me how to make a roux 50 years ago
@VJ, You’re welcome.
Well, today we did see a game that was almost perfect. Congratulations to Steve for win #2, 2 correct FJs, all 3 DDs right (10 K), only 1 clue left, nice payday with an average haul of over 28K per game,, good overall scores before FJ!
And nobody was fooled by “Atlas”>”Land”. “Stars” was not that bad a guess. So maybe Steve….?? He would win game 5 on Tue and that would be already April 2, so he could be the first to have a crack at “the curse” if you believe the “April rumors”. Hope we have a similar nice game tomorrow to close out the week! A refreshing day after the week started kind of on a dismal note. That’s more like it.
Well today’s game was a lot better than Monday. Furthermore, congratulations to Steve on his second win. He and Kenji were all over the board today. At least all the daily doubles were nailed today. And here I thought kenji would have replaced Steve but he fell short. Also VJ and John how long has the phrase I’m on cloud nine been used?
@Lou
If you believe what you hear, about the mid to late 1930s, when FDR attacked the Great Depression and things were starting to look up, Herbert Hoover having been clobbered in the 1932 elections and ousted after just 1 term. FDR would then make history in many regards.
Shame that Hoover only served one term but still though if he had a downfall what would he have done differently during that great depression John? I mean sure Hoover might not have been popular but he must have done something that hurt his presidency.
@Lou
Yeah, he was a lousy President.And a good thing he did not get to serve a second term!!!! The stock market crash in Oct 1929 was during his presidency, but the economy was really bad worldwide (but most people blamed Hoover and he really WAS not too good a President).. But as a consequence of the situation in the US he lost in a landslide against FDR in 1932 and FDR turned things around then, with several “Banking Acts”, stopping the run on the banks, created Social Security in 1935 etc. then WWII ironically improved things economically even more for the US (a lot more jobs in the defense industry etc) and the rest is….well, history!
A second term for Hoover would not have been great, but it would have been better than the disaster that was FDR, whose terrible interventionist policies turned what would have been a normal recession into the Great Depression that actually occurred.
Not only did FDR manage to make a bad problem ten times worse through thoughtless, bumbling policies, he set in action the welfare state that continues to be the biggest driver of debt today.
How FDR Prolonged the Great Depression