Final Jeopardy: Poets (4-27-22)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 4/27/2022 Jeopardy! game. Please don’t put the answers to these clues in the comments so people who missed the game can have a chance to answer them. It is okay to refer to them by category and clue value or by part of the clue.
FINISH THE OLD PROVERB ($1000) This “is as good as a rest”
THE LEAGUE MVP’S TEAM ($1000) Cody Bellinger, a big hit on the coast in 2019
ARCHITECTS ($2000) A palace that this architect built in the 1880s for his patron Eusebi Güell is a Barcelona landmark
AN ANATOMY OF WORDS ($2000) To climb a rope or pole using one’s hands & legs
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($200) 1851: Nantucket. Sea. Revenge. Madness. Oops. Adrift
($400) A young girl blows into town & kills a woman; does poppies to the point of unconsciousness & later kills a second women before leaving
($600) A Bumppo in the road; Cora does not stay alive, no matter what occurs; hey…where’d everyone go?
($800) Twain travel; Merlin mentioned; knights on bikes; we’re gonna get medieval on your mind
($1000) Miller’s crossing some lines; a wild ride through 1930s Paris with Tania & Boris; smuggled into the states
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So why is nobody mentioning how silly it was for her to just bet $1? If she was going to bet anything, then she might as well have bet it all. Everybody knew Ben was going to bet it all…so the safe bet for Mattea would have been to bet $0 and end with a tie. Betting $1 risked that if she got it wrong, she would have lost to Ben by that $1.
Very strong group tonight. Ben came from distant third to seize the lead, then got outbuzzed most of the rest of the game. FJ confounded me, as Keats, Yeats, Dylan Thomas, even Oscar Wilde danced through my head. But should have known that Yeats was the Irishman.
Game moves nicely when there aren’t a lot of stumpers. I got them on Bellinger’s team; the Barcelona architect; the Buffalo Springfield member; and Mattea’s missed DD (thermodynamics).
She’s eminently likable, but her in-game chatter is getting out of hand.
No longer watching. Have had it with her hand gestures and explaining things indicating others can’t understand. She is obviously been coached more than most contestants.
Mattea has said on Twitter that the producers encouraged her in-game chatter on the basis that it makes good TV. Easy for them to say 🤣🤣🤣 They’re not the ones being dragged over the coals for it.
I was one of the first to decry the chatter, as, to me, most frequently, it sounds like babbling. “Adds to the game” or “good TV”? My foot. Why this time, for the first time in recent memory (vice, who was it, Christine, who did it just a little bit?), would producers encourage it? The cynic in me thinks it’s because it’s something to add some color that is lacking in her gameplay.
It’s a shame she has to be pulled into a good game. Were all like this, 1. MUCH more interesting and 2. She wouldn’t have lasted this long.
I understand VJ’s sentiment that she may just be risk-averse, but, there has been very limited evolution of her game. Maybe she thinks, “not broke, don’t fix it”? She’s like the New Jersey Devils from 25 or so years ago, who did the “neutral zone trap”, which won games, but was deathly boring.
Still, I’m still watching. In my subconscious, Yeats was in there, but, not consciously, and I said “James Joyce”. Yes, I know, not poet, but still Irish! So, I fail, this day!
MATTEA IS YOUNG AND VERY BRIGHT. I WANT TO KNOW WHY ARE THEY PUTTING THESE “SMART” PEOPLE AGAINST HER WHEN THEY HAVE LET OTHERS EARN MUCH MORE MONEY AND THEY HAD THE DUMBST PEOPLE AGAINST THEM.
Your comment makes no sense. To try and get on the show you take a test online and then let the chips fall where they may. They don’t match up contestants with smart vs smart and what you call “dumb “ vs dumb. Try taking the test, it’s pretty difficult and it’s timed. Personally, I can’t wait for her to lose, she’s obnoxious.
Totally agree!
Mattea had given us quite a scare today but still congrats to her on making that bet. She and Ben were pretty much evenly matched today since they were quick on the buzzer. Very few triple stumpers today and a good group of players. I remember The Countess Cathleen is still one of his well known plays. But I highly recommend you guys read The Land of Heart’s Desire. One daily double miss isn’t going to hurt Mattea. For a poet like Yeats to live through 73 years he wasn’t that old. Also Jacob and Rhonda do you guys have some of Yeats poems on kindle?
Lou, No. I don’t even own a Kindle. Poems are not something I would collect. I learned about poets in high school, undergrad college, and grad school. At each level I only took one Literature course. I do recall having to differentiate that Keats was from UK & Yeats from Ireland. I was more interested in the math & science side of learning.
Here’s some other differences between Yeats and Keats
Keats died at age 25 in Rome, where he is really buried
Yeats died at age 73 in France, where is he really buried?
Keats was 6 years old in 1801 (19th century)
Yeats was 36 in 1901 (20th century)
Both of their epitaphs have been in Jeopardy! clues
Keats epitaph: “Here lies One whose Name was writ in Water”
Yeats epitaph: “Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!”