Final Jeopardy: Art (3-7-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/7/2019) in the category “Art” was:
This famous work of art was damaged in 1652 when a door was cut into a wall, removing Jesus’ feet
2x champ Dana Wayne, an educator from No. Hollywood, CA, has now won $32,401. In Game 3, she is up against: Kristin Philips, a college program administrator from Mountlake Terrace, WA; and Hope Shinn, a librarian from Silver Spring, MD.
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Round 1 Categories: Native American $1 Coins – This & That – Elements – Mixed Dog Breeds – Reading Talk – Steamed Punk
Dana found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Mixed Dog Breeds” under the $1,000 clue on the 13th pick of the round. She was in second place with $800. Kristin had the lead with $3,200 but a reversal was announced (see below) and her score went up to $4,000. Dana made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
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Kristin finished in the lead with $7,200. Dana was second with $4,400 and Hope was last with $2,200.
Round 2 Categories: Dam / Strait – Illegal Baby Names – The Doctors – Drunk on Literature – “Super” – Size It
Dana found the first Daily Double in “Drunk on Literature” under the $1,600 clue on the 4th pick. She was in second place with $6,000 now, $1,200 less than Kristin’s lead. She bet $1,800 and she was RIGHT.
Alcoholic Ben Sanderson decides to drink himself to death in Sin City in this John O’Brien novel. show
Hope found the last Daily Double in “Size It” under the $800 clue, with 5 clues worth $5,600 still to go after it. In third place with $9,800, she had $5,800 less than Kristin’s lead. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
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Dana finished in the lead with $16,200. Hope was next with $15,800 and Kristin was in third place with $12,000.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
leonardodavinci.net has one of those “facts you might not know lists.” No. #9 is “The painting has been a victim of neglect and abuse. In 1652, monastery residents cut a new door in the wall of the deteriorating painting, which removed a chunk of the artwork showing the feet of Jesus. Late in the 18th century, Napoleon Bonaparte’s soldiers turned the area into a stable and further damaged the wall with projectiles. During World War II, the Nazis bombed the monastery, reducing surrounding walls to rubble.” No. 10 addresses specific dates of restoration and No. 6 notes: “Critics maintain that only a fraction of the painting that exists today is the work of Leonardo da Vinci.”
From 2014: PAINTERS ($1600) Leonardo da Vinci painted this fresco in the church of the Santa Maria Delle Grazie in Milan
Kristin bet $8,500, bringing her up to $20,500.
Hope bet it all, doubling her score to $31,600.
Dana bet $15,401 and won the game the same way she did yesterday, by $1.00. Only this time, it was a much bigger payday: $31,601. Great to see that… Go Dana!
Reversal READING TALK ($400) I get it, I hear you, “I read you” these 2 ways – Kristin’s rejected answer 5 x 5 provided a funny moment when she gave it without buzzing in. Alex told her she had to do that. She did and he said “No.” They wanted “loud and clear” but the judges decided to accept 5 x 5 which means the same thing
A triple stumper from each round:
THIS & THAT ($800) At the narrowest point of this northern neighbor of Panama, it’s only 75 miles from the Pacific to the Caribbean
THE DOCTORS ($2000) The first female to earn a medical degree in the U.S., she opened her own clinic on NYC’s Bleecker Street in 1857
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Nations of the World ”
A 2011 report said the citizenry of this country included a total of 32 women. show
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I don’t get why 5×5 fit the book category
@Joel, I didn’t get that either but I guess since they had nothing in the clue itself to exclude that possible response, they had to allow it
@VJ
It’s military/aviation/navy jargon. I explained it to Joel.
“How do you READ (understand) me?” ” 5×5″ =loud and clear/excellent.
Do you remember what the real answer was
Joel – all that is in the recap under the results image — the category, the clue, the response they wanted and the response that was rejected, then accepted (and there is a link to another site that will show you that 5×5 means loud and clear
@Joel
5×5 is mentioned in the aviation and navy manual. It’s a code like a police code 10-20, (location), sort of a handbook with codes and transmissions. It’s more a manual but I guess it qualifies as a book…
@Joel
And the category was “Reading Talk”, not books. When you receive a transmission you are asked “How do you read me?” and you answer “5×5” instead of loud and clear. That’s the best reception. If it’s somewhat garbled you’d say “4×4″ or 3×3”, the lower the #, the worse the reception.
Really helpful. Now I forget, what was the actual question she responded to
@Joel
I get it, I hear you, “I read you” these two ways. Since “read” was in the clue I guess it qualified for “books”. 5×5= 2 ways = the first 5 is signal strength, the second 5 is readability or how you receive it. All clear?
Congrats to Dana on her third win. And also I am happy that the ladies got final right. Also I was wondering if there were protests going on regarding Jesus’s foot in The Last Supper John and VJ? Did some oppose Da Vinci’s work?
@Lou, No, not that I know of. The work was commissioned by the then Duke of Milan. Don’t forget, at da Vinci’s time the church ruled supreme in Catholic countries, especially Italy.
Of course, thank you my friends. Much appreciated with the helpful information. I really hope that we don’t get anymore four game curses because we need some five time winners before the season ends.
Well, I watched The Da Vinci code and one of those paintings is the FJ! answer. Now, come to think of it, that film became a center of controversy, and so is this painting. @Lou, @John, @VJ, care to explain why?
@John Christian, Here’s an article on Art World that will explain it to you
@Lou, there’s a preview of the book “Leonardo da Vinci” by Walter Isaacson on Google Books. On Page 291, it says: “By 1652 the painting was so faint and dissipated that the monks felt comfortable breaking a doorway through the wall at the bottom, cutting off the feet of Jesus, which were probably crossed in a manner prefiguring the crucifixion.” In the paragraph after that, it says that there was an effort at restoration in the latter part of the 1700s that met with public protests.
LINK: 8 more clues from the game
Well, what can I say other that I’m pleasantly surprised. Congratulations to all 3 players for getting it and especially to Dana for win #3. Now, if she wins tomorrow, then she is another player winning #4 on Friday and going for the elusive #5 on Monday…..
Proof how you can read people wrong: after her first game I thought she wouldn’t last. So I owe her an apology and it’s proof how you can misread people.
By the way: in aviation, military, navy(recreational) etc 5×5 ist the STANDARD answer !!!