Final Jeopardy: Influential Writing (5-7-20)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/7/2020) in the category “Influential Writing” was:
Its second line is “All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope & Czar, Metternich & Guizot…”
Today’s game is the first half hour of the second match in the Greatest of All Time Tournament (original airdate: 1/8/2020), as Brad Rutter, Ken Jennings and James Holzhauer continue to compete for $1,000,000 and the title of the greatest Jeopardy! contestant of all time. That honor will go to the first player to win three matches. Ken Jennings has one win under his belt.
Round 1 Categories: The Crown – Charities – Literally Stupid Answers – Short Story Syllabus – College Football: After the Game – The “Gold”, “Berg”s
James found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Short Story Syllabus” under the 600 clue on the 4th pick of the round. He was in second place with 800 now, 1,000 less than Brad in the lead. He bet the 1,000 limit and he was RIGHT.
W.W. Jacobs came up with pretty much the opposite of a lucky rabbit’s foot with this story of a dad, a son & 3 wishes gone bad show
James finished in the lead with 9,600, Ken was second with 3,200 and Brad was last with 1,200.
Round 2 Categories: Classic Movie Quotes – Newspapers & Magazines – Art & Artists – Around the World – The Greatest of All Minds – Take an “IQ” Test
James found the first Daily Double in “Around the World” under the 2,000 clue on the 11th pick. He was in the lead with 13,600 now, 6,000 more than Ken in second place. He bet it all and he was RIGHT.
This second-largest port of France once had a longer name that included “de Grace” show
2 clues later, Ken found the last Daily Double in “Greatest of All Minds” under the 2,000 clue. In second place with 8,400, he had 18,800 less than James’ lead. He bet it all and he was RIGHT.
This German developed calculus independent of another wise guy. show
James finished in the lead with 32,400. Ken was next with 22,000 and Brad was in third place with 7,200.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS “THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO”?
The Avalon Project has the 1888 English edition online, translated by Samuel Moore and edited by Friedrich Engels. The first two sentences in full are: “A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.” It was published in late February 1848, about the same time as the Revolutions of 1848 began. Pius IX had been Pope for almost two years. Nicholas I was Czar of Russia. Klemens von Metternich, Austrian Chancellor and Foreign Minister, was forced to resign a month later. Francois Guizot, the French Prime Minister, resigned on 2/24/1848. That was a coincidence, however, as the Manifesto was not widely read at the time of its publication. It was not even published in the United States until 1872.
Why study the Communist Manifesto today? Professor Paul Brians explains.
Brad bet it all and finished with 14,400.
Ken bet 18,800, bringing him up to 40,000
James bet 11,914, as he has done so many times. He finished with 44,314.
Those scores will be added to the totals in the next game to determine the winner of today’s match.
A triple stumper from each round:
LITERALLY STUPID ANSWERS (800): Synonyms for this one-word rhyme include lamebrain, dodo, yo-yo & dum-dum
CLASSIC MOVIE QUOTES (2000): Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka: ‘You stole Fizzy Lifting Drinks!…so you get nothing! You lose!’ this 3-word farewell
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Women Writers ”
On her 2012 passing this Oscar nominee was described as “an essayist and humorist in the Dorothy Parker mold” (but funnier) show
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Good game today by all the players and I think maybe jason zufferaneri could definitely learn a thing or two from the legends here. As he became a 19 day winner, he could probably at some point bet big and nail a daily double in.the tournament of champions though final jeopardy is his weakness. Brad’s weakness is the daily doubles so I hope he can turn that around and the same can be said for jason.
I have a feeling Jason won the next Tournament of Champions.