Final Jeopardy: 17th Century Writing (6-4-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/4/2021) in the category “17th Century Writing” was:
This 17th century work quotes the Book of Job, “Behold the giants groan under water, and they that dwell with them”
New champ Julia Markham Cameron, an attorney from Brooklyn, NY won $16,450 yesterday. In Game 2, she takes on these two players: Susie Ogorman, a homemaker from Mobile, AL; and Whitney Sorensen, a content strategist from Draper, UT.
Round 1 Categories: Magna Cartography – Death of a Literary Character – Failed Constitutional Amendments – Pieces of Games – Behind the Song – All the Small “Ling”s
Susie found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Behind the Song” under the $1,000 clue on the 5th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $1,400, $800 more than Whitney in second place. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
In 1940 Woody Guthrie wrote this song because he was sick of hearing “God Bless America” show
Julia finished in the lead with $6,000. Susie was second with $4,400 and Whitney was last with $4,200. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: African Americans – Ancient History – Ears to You – Working with Clay – Cinematic Cities & Towns – A Quick Study
Whitney found the first Daily Double in “Cinematic Cities & Towns” under the $1,200 clue on the 3rd pick. She was in second place with $5,000 now, $1,000 less than Julia’s lead. She bet $2,500 and she was RIGHT.
When Nicole Kidman and Matthew Broderick move to this town in a 2004 remake, the neighborhood wives seem a tad robotic show
Susie got the last Daily Double in “Ears to You” under the $1,200 clue, with 11 clues left after it. In third place with $6,800, she had $2,400 less than Julia’s lead. She bet $4,000. She guessed cochlear but that was WRONG.
The ear’s semicircular canals help maintain this, partly from the Latin for “balance” show
Julia finished in the lead with $12,800. Susie was next with $7,600 and Whitney was in third place with $7,100. One clue worth $400 went uncovered.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
According to Originus, in his work “Leviathan”, Thomas Hobbes completely supported government by monarchy so long as the monarch “upholds peace and prevents a return to the ‘state of nature’ where life is ‘nasty, brutish, and short’. In a Hobbesian society, the right to self-preservation rules above all else.”
On the other hand, Interesting Literature has 5 Fascinating Facts about Thomas Hobbes. In the last one, it says: “It’s often claimed that in his masterpiece, the 1651 book Leviathan, Hobbes is calling for a strong dictator who will keep a nation under control. But Hobbes was a great ironist, and many commentators believe he was merely observing that a strong leader was a regrettable necessity rather than something actively desired.”
Whitney went with “The Tempest”. That cost her $3,333 and left her with $3,767.
Susie thought it might be “Gulliver’s Travels”. She lost her $3,000 bet and finished with $4,600.
Julia wrote down “The Decameron”. She lost $3,000 but won the game with $9,800. Her 2-day total is $26,250.
A triple stumper from each round:
PIECES OF GAMES ($1000) 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 & 64 are marked on the die called a doubling cube in this game
AFRICAN AMERICANS ($2000) One of the great stunt pilots of the 1920s, she was the first African-American woman to earn her pilot’s license
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Oscar Nominated Families”
It’s the last name of Alfred, Lionel, David, Emil, Thomas & Randy, who with 90 nominations, are the most Oscar-nominated family show
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Regarding the final question, the best that I could come up with was ‘Gulliver’s Travels’, but I knew that wasn’t going to fly.
When was the last time there were 4 women on Jeopardy (including the guest host)?
This is the first time ever.
Doesn’t Julia look like a better looking version of Sally Hawkins?
Tough final as we end the week with a triple stumper.
The leviathan is a reference to the bible in job 3:8, job 41:1 and psalm 74:14. Though no one can conclude what kind of beast this is. But still one triple stumper will not hurt Julia as she can make a comeback on monday. Why did Susie go for gulliver’s travels, @Rhonda and @jacob? Hopefully Julia can easily break the leader curse that has been plaguing for four months.
Gulliver’s Travels crossed my mind. It included descriptions of the fictional coastal land of Brobdingnag, inhabited by “giants”.
Lou , I really don’t know. Perhaps she’ll pop in and tell us.
Gulliver’s Travels was as good a guess as any. All I could come up with was Gargantua.
We were so close to having a week without a triple stumper, but we ended the week with a triple stumper.
That’s happened to other weeks this season.