Final Jeopardy: European Artists (7-2-15)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/2/2015), in the category “European Artists” was:

In 1890 a critic said this artist “directs his brush with enormous dabs of impasto of very pure color in sinuous trails.”.

New champ Alex Irvine won $26,000 yesterday. His opponents in his second game are: Jon Lubin, originally from Stony Brook, NY; and Elsa Angrist, from Arlington, VA

Round 1: Alex found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Sole Men” under the $600 clue with only 2 clues left after it. He was in third place with $2,200, $2,000 less than Elsa’s lead. He bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.

His basketball HOF bio says in 1921 he “hobbled into a Converse Chicago sales office complaining of sore feet. show

WHO IS CHUCK TAYLOR?

Jon finished in the lead with $4,600. Elsa was second with $4,200 and Alex was last with $3,200. After the break, Jon’s score was changed to $4,200 for leaving the “s” off his answer to this last clue ($200 in Sole Men): “A German army medic named Klaus was the “Doc” behind this boot brand.”

Round 2: Jon found the first Daily Double in “State Capital Nicknames” under the $1,200 clue. He was in second place with $6,600, $3,200 less than Elsa’s lead. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.

“Crabtown”. show

WHAT IS ANNAPOLIS, MD?

Alex found the last Daily Double in “Literature of the Early 1800s” under the $1,600 clue. Still in third place, he had $4,400, $5,400 behind than Elsa’s lead. He bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.

A father, a mother & 4 sons are shipwrecked on a desert isle in this Johann David Wyss adventure tale. show

WHAT IS “THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON”?

Alex finished in the lead with $16,400. Elsa was next with $14,200 and Jon was in third place with $7,800.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS VINCENT VAN GOGH?

On its blog, VanGogh Gallery.com says: “Van Gogh used impasto not just to add dimension to his paintings but to add emotion and movement. We see this movement in the swirling clouds of Wheat Field with Cypresses and Starry Night. The same colors and images could have been created with a traditional painting technique but the movement and emotion of the painting would be missing.”

As for the quote in the clue, it is a translation from “Les Isolés: Vincent van Gogh” by Gabriel-Albert Aurier, a French writer, poet and art critic who died at the age of 27, just two years after Van Gogh died. A preview of “Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy and Auvers” (1986) by Ronald Pickvance on google books gives a different translation as well as the original French: “Sa brosse opère par énormes empâtement de tons tres purs, par trainées incurvées…”

Jon got it right. His $7,799 bet brought him up to $15,599.

Elsa thought it was Gauguin. She lost $10,000 and finished with $4,200.

Alex came up with Monet. That cost him $12,001 and he wound up with $4,399, and that made Jon Lubin the new Jeopardy! champ.

During the chat, Jon shared how the Jeopardy! think music always brings back memories of his mother tapping out the tune on his back when, as a child, they often watched the game together.

2 years ago:: TWO of the players got this FJ in “U.S. Presidents”:

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WHO ARE GROVER CLEVELAND and FDR?

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