Final Jeopardy: Shakespeare & History (5-7-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/7/2021) in the category “Shakespeare and History” was:
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
2x champ Jamie Logan, writer & consultant from Augusta, ME., won $50,200 in the last couple days. In Game 3, she is up against: Juliet Mayer, a grad student orig. from The Plains, VA; and Sara Biegler, a stay-at-home parent from Syracuse, NY.
Round 1 Categories: A Cinematic Wedding Abroad – Finish the Poetry Line – Americana – Cliches – Sheep – Just Got Real
Jamie found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Americana” under the $1,000 clue on the 7th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $1,200, $600 more than Juliet in second place. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
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Jamie finished in the lead with $7,800. Juliet was second with $5,000 and Sara was last with $2,800. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: Laying Down the Scientific Law – Adjectival Evidence – Monks – Windows & Doors – Play that Folky Music – A Whopp”ington” of a City
Sara found the first Daily Double in “Monks” under the $2,000 clue on the 10th pick. She was in third place with $5,200 now, $5,400 less than Jamie’s lead. She bet $3,500 but couldn’t come up with an answer on time, so she was WRONG.
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Sara got the last Daily Double in “A Whopp”ington” of a City” under the $1,600 clue, on the 15th pick. In third place with $2,900, she had $8,500 less than Juliet’s lead. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
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Jamie finished in the lead with $19,400. Juliet was next with $15,800 and Sara was in third place with $9,800. No clues went uncovered.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
In Act IV, Scene 1 of “Macbeth”, the three Witches show Macbeth the line of kings and he says:
“And yet the eighth appears, who bears a glass
Which shows me many more; and some I see
That two-fold balls and treble sceptres carry:
Horrible sight!”
According to shakespeareonline.com, “The eighth king who bears the glass is James VI of Scotland, ruling in England as James I when this play was written. Shakespeare meant to pay him a compliment by declaring that many of his descendants should reign.” See Explanatory Note 119 on this page. Also, see 121 to explain the balls and treble sceptres.
This same site has a lot more on the importance of King James’ patronage to Shakespeare and his acting troupe.
Sara had no response. That cost her $4,500 and left her with $5,300.
Juliet got it right. She bet $8,000 and finished with $23,800.
Jamie came up with Macduff (a character in the play). She lost her $12,201 bet, landing in second place with $7,199, and that made Juliet Mayer the new Jeopardy! champ.
Reversal: SHEEP ($200) In a children’s rhyme, these 4 words precede “Have you any wool?” – Juliet’s response of “black sheep, black sheep” was rejected and Jamie got what they wanted with “Baa Baa, black sheep”. The judges gave Juliet a thumbs up during the chat.
A triple stumper from each round:
JUST GOT REAL ($1000) Pres. Buchanan & Queen Victoria sent greetings after this, including the name of an ocean, had been laid successfully in 1858
LAYING DOWN THE SCIENTIFIC LAW ($1600) This Frenchman who came up with a law on paramagnetic bodies & temperature may not have been the best scientist in his family
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Has anybody taken the Anytime online Jeopardy test? I’m curious as I plan on taking the test in a few weeks.
Wakefield School in The Plains, VA is very proud! Go Juliet! What a thrill to see you competing and winning. We will all be tuned in for the next session.
That was a tough finale, but an otherwise fairly typical game.
Interesting that a contestant named Juliet would get a Shakespeare work correct. I loved it.
Happy Mother’s Day VJ and Rhonda.
Thanks so much for the Mother’s Day wishes, Jacob!
It will be a much better one this year, thank goodness!
I looked on google for “black sheep black sheep” as a possible correct response in today’s game, but I could not find any reference to this phrase. Why then was it deemed a correct response?
Black sheep, black sheep, have you any wool?
Yes, my little master, three bags full
From Mother Goose in Prose by L. Frank Baum:
The judges were clearly wrong here as it should have been: “Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?”
Rick, the judges were not wrong to credit Juliet’s answer. I posted the link to that “black sheep, black sheep” version. That’s all they had to see. Also, Jamie got credit for the “Baa, baa” response after Juliet’s was rejected.
Thanks, Jacob and Howard.
No, Rudyard Kipling originally wrote the short story in 1888, and he included the lyrics: “Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?”
idk what you don’t get about the ruling, Rick, but here’s the last thing I’ve got to say — here’s the clue: “In a children’s rhyme, these 4 words precede “Have you any wool?” No mention of Rudyard Kipling or original version. Just “children’s rhyme” and it’s quite common for there to be several versions of children’s rhymes, regardless of what the most popular one is.
In any event, as I also said before, it was a $200 clue. It didn’t make or break anyone.
I feel the same way. No where did I find black sheep black sheep to be correct.
The last few months have been terrible, but hopefully it’ll get better with the Tournament of Champions.
In what way have they been terrible? I really don’t know what some of you guys expect. A great game every day is just never going to happen.
For myself, I judge how good the game was by the number of triple stumpers, with the average number being 7. Today was a good game with only 5 stumpers. Yesterday wasn’t a good game (16).
Agreed. Thursday’s show was dreadful. Tonight those sharp ladies left little on the table. The Monk in the Garden was kind of a gimme, but Sarah just couldn’t come up with it. Some of the other stumpers were a little surprising, but otherwise they were excellent. Juliet deserved her win after a tough Final. She was impressive all the way through.
Happy Mother’s Day, VJ. You do such a fine job.
We haven’t had a 4-time champion since John Focht won 4 games in February.
How so? The Tournament of Champions is normally the toughest of the games.
The Tournament of Champions is the most exciting and are not bad.
It’s gonna be bad. Because Jason is easily gonna win.
Richard you never know David Madden won 19 games and did not win the TOC neither did Julia Collins
I am happy to see that the reversal has helped juliet on her big win. since that daily double didn’t pay off for Sara today juliet, had dominated the game so far. Let’s hope she can sweep up next week before the tournament of champions. So far we have had a three time champ and the dry spell continues plus a dismissal. It’s been a challenging week to the start of may. Let’s hope next week will be better. Wishing you a happy mother’s day VJ!
All Juliet gained off that reversal was $200, Lou.
Thanks for the Mother’s Day wishes
I saw that this morning they updated the 2021 Tournament of Champions matchup on the jeopardy website.