Final Jeopardy: Opera (5-9-18)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/9/2018) in the category “Opera” was:

A 12-minute piece of music from this opera depicts Alpine dawn, a storm & the calm, & ends in a section called a galop

It’s Quarterfinal No. 3 of the 2018 Teachers Tournament and today’s educators are: Mary Alice Korth, from Michigan (6th-12th Grade Choir); Scott Montanaro, from Oregon (H.S. History & Psychology); Judy Tymkiw, from New Jersey, (8th Grade English).

Round 1 Categories: In the State Museum – Pronoun Test – Don’t Give Up the Relationship – Disney Facts – Viruses – Let’s Knot

Mary Alice found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “State Museum” under the $1,000 clue on the 9th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $1,600, twice as much as Judy in second place. She bet $1,000 and thought it was Louisiana. That was WRONG.

Andrew Jackson’s leather wallet. show

WHAT IS TENNESSEE?

Scott finished in the lead with $3,200. Mary Alice was second with $2,800 and Judy was last with $1,200.

Round 2 Categories: Class of 1918 – Planet Earth – Differs by a Vowel – Literature in Spanish – Political Terms – Hi, Mom!

Scott found the first Daily Double in “Literature in Spanish” under the $2,000 clue on the 5th pick. He was in the lead with $7,200 at this point, $4,800 more than Mary Alice in second place. Despite doing quite well in the category, he only bet $500 and he was RIGHT.

Mario Vargas Llosa based “The Time of the Hero” on his harsh treatment in military school in this South American capital. show

WHAT IS LIMA?

Judy got the last Daily Double in “Political Terms” under the $800 clue, with 5 clues left after it. In third place with $2,800, she had $8,500 less than Scott’s lead. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.

Sen. Al Beveridge coined this term in 1912 for political support at the local level “grown from the soil” of people’s needs. show

WHAT IS GRASSROOTS?

Scott finished in the lead with $14,900. Mary Alice was next with $12,000 and Judy was in third place with $7,600.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS “WILLIAM TELL”?

Italian composer Gioachini Rossini moved to Paris in 1824 and composed his last opera, “Guillaume Tell,” in 1829. (If he stayed in Italy, it might have been “Guglielmo.”) It was based upon Friedrich Schiller’s 1804 play, “Wilhelm Tell,” about the legendary 13th-century Swiss folk hero who inspired a rebellion against Habsburg rule. The “March of the Swiss Soldiers,” the galop at the end of the 12-minute overture, is forever enshrined in pop culture as the theme from the 1949-57 TV series “The Lone Ranger,” starring Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels. “Hi-yo, Silver, away!”

Judy got it right. She doubled her score to $15,200.

Mary Alice had an incomplete “La W.” She lost her $10,000 bet, finishing with $2,000.

Scott went with “The Magic Flute.” He only lost $500 so he landed in second place with $14,400. Judy Tymkiw is the third semi-finalist and Scott is looking real good for a Wild Card.

A triple stumper from each round:

DISNEY FACTS ($1000) The title animal in this, Disney’s first live-action comedy, is a Bratislavian sheepdog

HI, MOM! ($1600) Mia’s Farrow’s children include this TV & New Yorker journalist

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “State Songs”

Its state song rhymes “patriotic gore” with the name of its largest city. show

WHAT IS MARYLAND?

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