Final Jeopardy: Religious Words (4-13-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/13/2020) in the category “Religious Words” was:

This word for a concept in Eastern religions comes from Latin roots for “made in flesh” & “again”

Today is the first semi-final of the 2020 College Championship. Competing today: Tyler Combs, a senior (Indiana Univ.); Kayla Kalhor, a sophomore (Univ. of Florida); and Beni Keown, a freshman (Northwestern Univ.)

Round 1 Categories: U.N. Observances – Lesser-Known College Sports – Arts & Culture – Greek Letters – The Lion King – Crossword Clues “P”

Beni found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Crossword Clues ‘P'” under the $800 clue on the first pick after the chat. He was in the lead with $5,200, $800 more than Kayla in second place. He bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.

Stolen like the “Letter” in an Edgar Allan Poe story. show

WHAT IS PURLOINED?

Beni finished in the lead with $10,600. Kayla was second with $6,600 and Tyler was last with $2,200.

Round 2 Categories: The English Bill of Rights – What a Character – Roads Scholar – On the Band’s Set List – Get a Job! – Before & After

Tyler found the first Daily Double in “English Bill of Rights” under the $2,000 clue on the very first pick. The scores were the same as above. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.

The bill required parliaments to be held frequently “for redress of all” these complaints– sounds familiar! show

WHAT ARE GRIEVANCES?

Tyler got the last Daily Double in “Roads Scholar” under the $2,000 clue on the 9th pick. In third place with $6,800, he had $2,600 less than Kayla’s lead. He bet $3,200 and he was RIGHT.

At one end of Grafton Street in this European capital city is St. Stephen’s Green; at the other, you’ll find Trinity College. show

WHAT IS DUBLIN?

Beni finished in the lead with $20,600. Tyler was next with $16,400 and Kayla was in third place with $13,000.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS REINCARNATION?

The article “The mystery of reincarnation” on NCBI (The National Center for Biotechnology Information) says the word “is derived from Latin and literally means ‘to take on the flesh again,’ in other words, ‘to take on the fleshy (physical) body.’” It further notes that “Reincarnation is also known by other terms like “rebirth,” “metempsychosis” (Greek word), “transmigration” (English equivalent of metempsychosis), “disambiguation,” “palingenesis” and so on.” It lists Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism as the main Eastern religions that believe in reincarnation, with additional info on how each religion thinks it works.

The article has a retraction note based on the grounds of “duplicity of text” because it “contains overlapping text sections from Wikipedia,” so here’s a link to Wikipedia’s article, if you want to look at that one.

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Kayla got it right. She bet $12,995 and finished with $25,995.

Tyler got it, too. He bet it all and doubled his score to $32,800.

Beni wrote down “orthodox” with an unhappy face : ( to indicate he knew that was off base. He lost his $12,201 bet and that made Tyler Combs the first finalist. Two more to go!

A triple stumper from each round:

ARTS & CULTURE ($200) “Wait until the evening before opening night”, said Rossini of writing these instrumental pieces played before operas

WHAT A CHARACTER ($800) Jonathan & Mina Harker are characters in this classic novel from 1897

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Greek Mythology”

In one version Thetis killed 6 of her children in her attempts to make them immortal; this warrior was her seventh. show

WHO IS ACHILLES?

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