Final Jeopardy: Literature (6-26-24)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/26/2024) in the category “Literature” was:
The British Library says of this 19th c. man, “One of his most famous poems…is a warning about the arrogance of great leaders”
5x champ Drew Basile, a graduate student from Birmingham, MI, is up to $91,283 and he’s on the ToC Tracker. In Game 6, he takes on these two players: Natalie Miliano, a mfg. engineering mgr. from Portland, ME; and Maryl Harris, a study operations manager from Philadelphia, PA.
Round 1 Categories: Round the World – They Wrote the Books – You Don’t Hear as Much About… – Hats on – Grapple Sauce – In Your Dreams!
Maryl found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Hats On” under the $800 clue on the 10th pick of the round. She was in second place with $1,000, half of Drew’s lead. Maryl bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.
In the 1860s he designed an all-weather felt hat he called “the Boss of the Plains” show
Drew finished in the lead with $5,000. Maryl was second with $4,800 and Natalie was last with $2,200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Historic Names – Double Talk – Ellis Island – From the German – Scienc”E” – All That Jazz
Drew found the first Daily Double in “Historic Names” under the $1,200 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. He was in the lead with $6,200, $1,000 more than Maryl in second place. Drew bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
The Pax Romana, or Roman peace, which lasted for more than 200 years, began with his reign in 27 B.C. show
Drew found the last Daily Double in “From the German” under the $1,600 clue on the 18th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $14,800, $9,000 more than Natalie in second place. Drew bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
Meaning synthetic, artificial or fake, this German word could have been in an “Ends with Z” category show
Drew finished in the lead with a runaway $20,200. Maryl was second with $10,000 and Natalie was last with $6,200. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY?
There are a number of YouTube videos by well-known actors reading Shelley’s 1818 sonnet “Ozymandias”; however, I chose this one because Todd Weekley allows for various interpretations of the meaning and/or intent of the work.
Ozymandias is believed to be Egypt’s powerful ruler Ramesses II. “Vanity of Kings”, an article on Museum Buddy, tells how Ramesses II’s statue was transported to England in 1817 and states that it was “was one of the first works to challenge long-held assumptions that great art had begun in Greece.” The Shelley connection is mentioned at the end of the article.
Natalie thought it was William Blake. She bet $1,500 and finished with $4,700.
Maryl went with Coleridge. That cost her $3,799 and left her with $6,201.
Drew got it right. He bet $118 and won the game with $20,318 for a 6-day total of $111,601.
A triple stumper from each round. (Please don’t put the answers in the comments)
YOU DON’T HEAR AS MUCH ABOUT… ($800) these people, the title of a book by Cokie Roberts about Revolutionary War female heroes like Molly Pitcher
ALL THAT JAZZ ($2000) Dizzy Gillespie played in the band of this alliterative scat singer who wasn’t hip to Diz’s bebopping
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “19th CENTURY LITERATURE”
This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird “equally capable of speech” show
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FJ too tough for me, but I felt a bit confident guessing Tennyson.
The women were competent and pleasant. Maryl had one boo-boo too many to prevent a lock game, including that strange “Ellington” answer for the alliterative scat singer. (Although technically his real first name was Edward. But he was known as a bandleader. I vaguely remember seeing them in the mid-60s.)
“Zest” led me to the Chinese dynasty. You’d almost have to be from my generation to remember the legendary ski-nosed comedian.
My father’s parents both came through Ellis Island, as far as I know, and the family name did change somewhere along the way, but I don’t know when. Been a while now, but I recall visiting Ellis Island and seeing my grandfather’s name listed. He died young when I was one.
According to Mamie Van Doren, ski nose was a big lecher.
Did not know that, but Milton Berle was a notorious, and supposedly prodigious, skirt-chaser.
I have never much liked that poem. Whatever Shelley meant by it, it’s rather ironic that Ramesses statues are still around. Another sculpture of him that was stolen in the ’80s or ’90s was just recently returned to Egypt.
It’s also laughable to me that the sculptor could read the nasty character of the King of Kings and capture it in the sculpture. No way were they gonna get away with making the Pharaoh look bad.
My favorite Shelley poem is “Love’s Philosophy”
Drew becomes the second player this season to win 6 games and he becomes the third giant killer to win 5 or more games and qualify for the Tournament of Champions.
I feel bad for Maryl. I liked her. Maybe she gets a second chance invite.
Drew was more reserved this win. Thank heavens for that. However, his last response, again – phrasing!
I got FJ. Also, I liked the way Ken quizzed Drew! I knew the poem, but, I never read it.
I don’t have a problem with Drew. I don’t like Ken’s unnecessary swipes at Drew’s chat stories, like the trip to Italy where Drew didn’t write anything till he got back home. “Oh,” Ken said, “so you totally scammed them.” That was not what Drew was trying to convey.
Today, Ken just mocked Drew’s chat story about falling asleep while cat-sitting. Drew took that in stride.
Also, why does Ken think he has to point out contestant guesses? Oh, you didn’t seem too sure… was that a guess? I wish someone would say nope, I totally knew it -or- I was just messing with you.