Final Jeopardy: Fairy Tales (5-27-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/27/2020) in the category “Fairy Tales” was:

A familiar chant in this fairy tale continues, “Be he alive or be he dead, I’ll grind his bones to make my bread”

It’s the third quarterfinal in the 2020 Teachers Tournament. Today’s teachers are:. Jenna Hall, a high school English Teacher from Seaside, CA; Will Satterwhite, an 8th-12th grade band & choir teacher from Vinton, VA; and Lauren Schneider Lipton, a high school health teacher from Seattle, WA.

Round 1 Categories: Geography – Say It in French – A Hit Recently – Yo Ho Ho – A Writer’s Life – Form “E”

Jenna found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “A Writer’s Life” under the $400 clue on the 18th pick of the round. She was in third place with $200, $2,600 less than Will’s lead. She bet the $1,000 allowance and thought it was T.S. Eliot. That was WRONG.

Born 1898, taught at Oxford & Cambridge, chronicled big cats, enchantresses & closets, died 1963. show

WHO IS C.S. LEWIS?

Will finished in the lead with $5,400. Jenna was second with $1,000 and Lauren was last at negative $400.

Round 2 Categories: We Have a Situation – TV Personalities – Science Now! – The Renaissance – Change a Letter – Of Teachers & Tests

Will found the first Daily Double in “The Renaissance” under the $1,200 clue on the 3rd pick. He was in the lead with $6,200 now, $5,200 more than Jenna in second place. He bet $3,800 and he was RIGHT.

Erasmus was the “Prince of” this -ism that uses classical learning to gain knowledge of man’s nature. show

WHAT IS HUMANISM?

Will got the last Daily Double in “Of Teachers & Tests” under the $1,200 clue on the 13th pick. In the lead with $14,800, he had $12,000 more than Lauren in second place. He bet $1,200 and he was RIGHT.

We’ll gamble you know that this word for an exam supervisor once meant a Roman governor. show

WHAT IS A PROCTOR?

Will finished in the lead with a runaway $22,400. Jenna was next with $9,000 and Lauren was in third place with $7,600.

ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS “JACK AND THE BEANSTALK”?

Before the line in the clue, the giant in “Jack and the Beanstalk” says “Fee fi fo fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman.” According to the wikipedia article, the earliest known printed version appeared in 1711 in “Jack the Giant-Killer” so methinks that title would have worked today, too.

The video: This “Fractured Fairy Tale” version of “Jack and the Beanstalk” comes from the early ’60s TV series, “The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends”. Jack isn’t stealing the giant’s stuff in it. The giant stole all of it from his mother.

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Lauren bet $6,401 and finished with $14,001.

Jenna bet $7,500. That brought her up to $16,500.

Will didn’t bet anything. He already had the semi-final spot in the bag. Jenna and Lauren recovered beautifully from that not-so-hot first round. Their final scores are going to make the next two days very interesting in terms of Wild Card results!

A triple stumper from each round:

A WRITER’S LIFE ($1000) Born 1709 in England, wrote a dictionary, got bio’d, buried in Westminster Abbey in 1784

OF TEACHERS & TESTS ($1000) This synonym of proficiency describes a type of learning that allows students to progress at the rate at which they master skills

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “American Composers”

His works are the only ones in the National Recording Registry that are preserved on piano rolls show

WHO IS SCOTT JOPLIN?

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