Final Jeopardy: Classical Music (6-20-18)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/20/2018) in the category “Classical Music” was:
Not in the initial score, the feature giving this symphony its byname was a whim added by the composer close to its 1792 debut
New champ Ali Hasan, a secondary school teacher from Canada, won $20,401 yesterday. In his second game, his opponents are:Lindsay Garces, an insurance underwriter from Massachusetts; and Tyler Dilts, a novelist & teacher from California.
Round 1 Categories: That’s a Good-Lookin’ Title Word – 25 Years Ago: 1993 – It’s Totally Tubular – I Give You Everything… – The Sun, the Moon, the Stars – & This Is the Thanks I Get?!
Ali found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “25 Years Ago: 1993” under the $800 clue, with 10 clues to go after it. He was in a tie for the lead with Lindsay. At $3,000, they both had $800 more than Tyler. He bet $2,000 and took a guess with Christopher law. That was WRONG.
A major gun control measures known as this was signed into law in November. show
Tyler finished in the lead with $4,400. Lindsay was second with $3,600 and Ali was last with $3,000.
Round 2 Categories: They Turned My Book Into a Movie – Bodies of Water – WHO Essential Medicines – Sports Doctors – Before Humanity – 3 P’s, Ppplease
Ali found the first Daily Double in “3 P’s” under the $1,600 clue on the 14th pick. He was in second place with $7,000 at this point, $1,400 less than Tyler’s lead. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
15-letter adjective describing the time after a nuclear war. show
Lindsay found the last Daily Double in “WHO Essential Medicines” under the $1,200 clue, with 3 clues left after it. In third place with $5,200, she had $8,000 less than Tyler’s lead. She bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
“Activated” this in powder form is an essential poisoning antidote. show
Ali finished in the lead with $13,400. Tyler was next with $13,200 and Lindsay was in third place with $8,200.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS THE SURPRISE SYMPHONY?
According to Connolly Music’s post “Amazing Facts About Franz Joseph Haydn,” the Austrian composer was “well known throughout his life for being a good jokester. His String Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 33 is subtitled The Joke, because he inserted numerous false endings within each movement to catch audiences off-guard. His Symphony No. 94 is subtitled the Surprise. He had fun with the audience in this symphony by injecting sudden fortissimo chords into quiet passages to wake-up the snorers.”
Sporcle Quiz: Name the country where these 24 composers were born. (Haydn is in there!)
Lindsay wrote down “Enigma.” She lost her $7,000 bet, leaving her with $1,200.
Tyler drew a blank but didn’t bet anything. He remained at $13,200.
Ali got it right. He bet a big $13,001, winning the match with $26,401. His 2-day total is $46,802.
A triple stumper from each round:
THE SUN, THE MOON, THE STARS ($800) Just over 4 light years from earth (Hi, neighbor!), this triple star’s motion towards our sun is 12.5 miles per second
THEY TURNED MY BOOK INTO A MOVIE ($2000) “The Iron Giant”
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “European Geography”
Excluding Russia, it has the longest mainland coastline of any European country, 15,626 miles. show
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Congrats to ali once again on getting this right despite not getting the first daily double. I think Ali has the potential of being a streaker just like Andrew Haringer did. Also haydn had composed the clock symphony although I am not sure how many of you guys know it, John and VJ?
I think over the last few weeks, there has been a bunch of inexperienced players making too many bad guesses and having lack of knowledge in the subjects covered, don’t you guys agree? I am surprised tyler didn’t bet anything but I was hoping he would have known haydn.
Well, as I said: they both probably know Haydn, but this particular symphony is not even well known in Austria. When you have so many composers at the same time…… So double kudos to Ali!!
@Lou, I’m not exactly following you. I mean, isn’t the returning champ the only player you could call an experienced player? Every day, 2 players are on the stage for the very first time.
John knows far more about classical music than I do.
LINK: 9 more clues from the match
I was referring to the newcomers at the beginning of the week in June namely Jason and Jon Fassola, and Leslie of course. I hope that clarified the confusion since I only mentioned the ones that won only one game. You remember how badly they did on their daily doubles right? So I just hope that for the rest of June we hope to see players nailing dd’s.
@Lou, well, most of the time, I don’t remember exactly which clues were DDs very long but out of the 3 you mentioned, only Leslie had a second game and (looking it up) she didn’t get any of the DDs in her 2 games
How much of an advantage do you think the returning champ has?
@timmeh, idk if you are asking me or Lou. As for me, I don’t really know how much of an advantage it is other than in terms of being more comfortable onstage than the new contestants and, of course, having had a whole game to get the hang of the buzzer. That’s a big plus, I think.
@VJ
Thanks, but then I had the advantage of growing up in basically in the center of European classical music (except the French ,Polish and Russian composers of course). For me certain pieces just touch my soul, especially Mozart and Beethoven.
You’re welcome, and thanks for the congrats on my prediction for today
@ VJ and @JJ
Congratulations!!!
The guy who finally made me right yesterday (even a triple correct prediction as to 1, who and Truman appearing), made you right today!! And I’m back to my dry spell!
Ali seems to be really sharp, despite missing his DD again (yesterday he missed both). But Lindsay (Enigma????) and Tyler obviously had no idea. Elgar wrote some “Surprise variations, but he was British and a couple centuries later… I don’t think she had him in mind?? As I said in the CotD even Austrians don’t know the “Paukenschlag Symphonie ” (lit. “Timpani Hit Symphony” ) as it is called in Austrian since they use a timpani or drum to “wake up” the audience . You have so many composers (Mozart, Beethoven, Bach,Schubert etc) that this Haydn work is even not that well known in Austria. Well, congrats to Ali as well, I am really surprised!! Good for him!! He just might be the one to win 4 or more games !
Just as a small additional info: a lot of resentment (and there is quite a bit, Austrians do not like Germans as much as you would think, except Bavarians, since they are a LOT like Austrians) by Austrians to Germans or Germany stems from the fact that Germany “stole” the old “Kaiserhymne” as their national anthem, under Hitler and now as well. When and IF Austria beats Germany in soccer it’s a federal holiday in Austria…..We shall see what tomorrow brings and have a nice day everybody!!!