Final Jeopardy: New Words in the 18th Century (5-12-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/12/2023) in the category “New Words in the 18th Century” was:
Describing these, Captain Cook wrote, “the manner in which” they’re done “must certainly cause intollerable pain”
7x champ Hannah Wilson, a data scientist from Chicago, IL, won $189,801 so far. In Game 8, the competitors are: Skyler Gailing, an editorial and community associate from Exeter, NH; and Victoria Ford, an independent bookstore owner from Saint Paul, MN.
Coicidence?? The last time we went to the Captain Cook well for FJ! was on April 13, 2023, Ben Chan’s second game. As you may know, Ben had 3 runaway games. Due to illness, his run was interrupted but he is returning for his 4th game this coming Monday, May 15th. The winner of this match will be up against Ben.
Round 1 Categories: State Capital to State Capital – Triple Rhyme Time – Company Headquarters – A Birthday to Remember – Game Show Hosts – Army “Ant”s
Hannah found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “State Capital to State Capital” under the $600 clue on the 4th pick of the round. She was the only one on the board with $600. Hannah bet the $1,000 allowance but drew a blank so she was WRONG.
Just like Peyton Manning did, head west from this second state capital in the name of a Super Bowl Champion Team to this first show
Hannah finished in the lead with $9,200. Skyler was second with $2,000. Victoria was last with negative $1,200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Life Is Picaresque – Solve for “Ex” – Lesser-Known Film Trilogies – 7-Letter Animals – Hymns & Spirituals – This 20th Century World Leader…
Hannah found the first Daily Double in “Life is Picaresque” under the $1,600 clue on the 9th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $14,800, $12,600 more than Skyler in second place. Hannah bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
Allen Ginsberg said all the “running around in an automobile” in this work by his pal was “a great picaresque literary device” show
Hannah got the last Daily Double in “This 20th Century World Leader” under the $1,600 clue on the 18th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $20,400 now, $19,600 more than Skyler in second place. Hannah bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
…The former Nguyen Sinh Cung, took a name that means “he who enlightens” show
Hannah finished in the lead with a runaway $29,000. Victoria was second with $800. Skyler was last with $0 and out of the game at this point. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants left in FJ! got it right.
WHAT ARE TATTOOS?
On his first trip to the South Pacific, Captain Cook couldn’t help noticing the body art on the Polynesian natives, particularly facial “tattows”. “They are so exact in the application of these Figures,” he wrote in his journal, “that no difference can be found between the one side of the face and the other, if the whole is marked, for some have only one side, and some a little on both sides; hardly any but the old Men have the whole tattow’d.” Cook concluded that “intollerable pain” was the reason why some fellows rethought the wisdom of tattooing.
Etymology Online traces its second entry for “tattoo” to Captain Cook, noting that it comes from “a Polynesian noun (such as Tahitian and Samoan tatau, Marquesan tatu ‘puncture, mark made on skin’).”
Victoria went with shackles. She lost $799 and finished with $1.00.
Hannah got it right. She bet $11,000 and won the game with $40,000. Her 8-day total is $229,801. Don’t miss Monday’s match when Ben Chan returns.
2 triple stumpers from LIFE IS PICARESQUE:
($1200) The picaresque “Adventures of Peregrine Pickle” features a character modeled after this “Tom Jones” author
($2000) In a 1722 work by this author, a woman under the alias Moll Flanders commits various crimes as she climbs a ladder to success
More clues on Page 2
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Shakespeare & History”
Macbeth has a vision of a line of 8 Scottish kings, the 8th holding a mirror to reflect this 9th in line who may have been in the audience show
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Wow. The two challengers were the weakest I’ve seen since the lockdown competitors. Victoria almost sounded like a dilettante.
I have to thank TCM for the “Metropolitan” stumper – just saw that a few months ago, and the commentary mentioned the third film. Unusually, I got well over half the stumpers correct, but, as there were SO many, that wasn’t too difficult of an undertaking!
I thought final was rather easy. However, had I not lived in HI, it might not have come to me as easily.
Besides the Night of the Hunter scene I linked to for that “we will come rejoicing” hymn, there’s a Gunsmoke episode with Jack Elam as a ne’er-do-well. He gets drunk as a hoot owl and goes around singing that hymn. Lynn Hamilton is also in it as a nun. She is better known as Fred Sanford’s girlfriend Donna.
I was stumped in FJ as the clues didn’t ring a bell with me. Well, as the saying goes, you learn something new every day.
Again I’m amazed at Hannah’s pre-FJ score considering all those triple stumpers! There were 28 stumpers between yesterday and today.
There were about that many in Ben Chan’s 3 games.
Hannah clearly outmatched the other two contestants in today’s game, but not so in yesterday’s game.
Hannah certainly dominated in today’s game and most of the match has belong to Hannah. She was the only player to ring in before the first break and it’s the first time that only one player rings in while the other two contestants were still at zero. Both of the challengers couldn’t get more correct responses and they didn’t have a chance at all. Weak opponents today.