Final Jeopardy: Shakespeare (4-14-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/14/2021) in the category “Shakespeare” was:
With 4,042 lines, it’s Shakespeare’s longest play & it’s also the one that’s been filmed the most
New champ Erick Loh, a pastor from Northridge, CA., won $21,000 yesterday. In Game 2, he takes on these two players: Kari Stadem, a retired homeschooler from Willmar, MN; and Patrick Hume, a project manager orig. from Stoneham, MA.
Round 1 Categories: Caribbean Geography – Also a Batman Villain – Biblically Inspired Book Titles – The Letter of the Lawn – Hodgepodge – One-Syllable Adjectives
Kari found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Biblically Inspired Book Titles” under the $800 clue on the 9th pick of the round. She was in second place with $1,000, half of Erick’s lead. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
Translating the name of a Philistine god mentioned in 2 Kings gives this 1954 novel about castaways its title. show
Kari and Patrick tied for the lead with $5,800 and Erick was last with $2,600. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: 3-Named Celebrities – Old Occupations – Math Talk – Warm Thoughts – What Is Your “Major”? – Malfunction
Patrick found the first Daily Double in “Old Occupations” under the $1,600 clue on the 19th pick. He was in the lead with $14,600 now, $4,400 more than Erick in second. He bet $3,000 but didn’t know so he was WRONG.
It wasn’t just a purple color and flower, it was also a washerwoman. show
Patrick also got the last Daily Double in “Malfunction” under the $1,600 clue, with 1 clues left after it. Still in the lead with $17,600, he had $5,400 more than Erick in second place. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
In 1979 an automatic valve at this Pennsylvania facility failed to close, leading to damage to the core. show
Patrick finished in the lead with $20,600. Erick was next with $12,200 and Kari was in third place with $7,800. No clues went uncovered.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
According to Guinness World Records, among their list of 10 Startling Ten Startling Great Bard-themed World Records: “Hamlet is the longest of all the Great Bard’s 37 plays. Written in 1604, the play consists of 4,042 lines of 29,551 words. Hamlet also contains the longest of any of Shakespeare’s 1,277 speaking parts, with Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, having 1,569 lines of 11,610 words.” The list also notes that “Hamlet has appealed most to film makers with 79 versions”, although that may be higher since that 2014 post.
Wikipedia’s “Hamlet on screen” article, is going by 2006 stats and states that “Over fifty films of William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” have been made since 1900.” Also mentioned: most films of Hamlet are heavily cut due to the length of the play, “however Branagh’s 1996 version used the full text.”
Kari thought it was “Romeo and Juliet”. She lost her $4,000 bet and finished with $3,800.
Erick went with “Romeo and Juliet”, too. That cost him $12,200 and left him nothing
Patrick got it right. He bet $3,801 and won the game with $24,401. Patrick Hume is the new Jeopardy! champion.
A triple stumper from each round:
ALSO A BATMAN VILLAIN ($400) The Adelie is a medium-sized one
WARM THOUGHTS ($2000) In “Tam O’Shanter” he writes of a wife “gathering her brows like gathering storm, nursing her wrath to keep it warm”
2 years ago: BOTH players left in FJ got this FJ in “European History”
In 2000 the Russian Orthodox Church canonized 7 members of this family, 82 years after their deaths show
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Thank you VJ for all of your recaps. It’s great to hear that you’re doing and feeling better. Also, thank you Lou for providing your point of view from the games.
I think I know Patrick. I think he was a couple of years ahead of me in high School.
Thanks, Rhys
Thank you very much Rhys! much appreciated!
I thought that it may have been ‘The Taming of the Shrew’, but I wouldn’t have picked ‘Romeo and Juliet’.
The next Tournament of Champions airs in May 2021.
Yay! So glad Buzzy is getting a guest host spot. Thanks, Dalton! I will add Jeopardy!’s tweet to the What to Expect post
Buzzy for Jeopardy! Host. He’s Mr. Personality
As an avid reader of William Shakespeare, hamlet had a movie based on the play but it’s been a while since I saw it. The second longest play was coriolanus and then cymbeline, followed by Richard III. Romeo and Juliet only had three thousand lines so that was definitely ruled out. Let’s hope Patrick can break the dry spell of leader curses here. There have been plenty of Shakespeare jeopardy clues previously.