Final Jeopardy: Poetry (7-20-15)
The Final Jeopardy question (7/20/2015), in the category “Poetry” was:
Wagner’s line “Oed’ und leer das Meer.” meaning “waste and empty the sea”, is quoted in a poem by this American-born man.
2x champ Jennifer Morrow “the Dancing Champion” has won $37,000 so far. She returns today to face off against these two players: Mary Ciconte, from Lombard, IL; and Scott Lord, from Santa Monica, CA.
Round 1: Jennifer found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “4-Syllable Words” under the $800 clue. She was in the lead with $4,600, $2,800 more than Scott in second place. She bet $1,500 and she was RIGHT.
Geographic adjective for the part of Africa shown here.
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Scott finished in the lead with $6,200. Jennifer was right behind him with $6,100 and Mary was last with $2,800.
Round 2: Scott found the first Daily Double in “The Bill of Rights” under the $1,200 clue on the second pick of the round. He was in the lead with $6,600, $500 more than Jennifer in second place. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
The 4th Amendment: none of these “shall issue but upon probable cause” show
Jennifer found the last Daily Double in “At the Monastery” under the $1,600 clue. In second place with $13,300, she was $5,500 behind Scott’s lead. She bet $4,000 and thought it was Francis. That was WRONG.
Stained glass is one product the monks make to sustain themselves. The rule of this saint, also the namesake of a recent pope, tells them to lives by their own hands. show
Scott finished in the lead with $17,600. Jennifer was next with $14,500 and Mary was in third place with $8,000.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
“Since its publication in 1922, T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land has been confounding English students and scholars, both the curious and the learned. It is a poem of unprecedented artistic breadth and erudition and a representation of the cultural and moral infertility that Eliot saw in the mechanized, passionless urban landscape of the new century. The piece is famous not only as one of the greatest literary edifices of high modernism, standing alongside James Joyce’s Ulysses, but for also being, also like Ulysses, nearly incomprehensible the first (or second or third) time through without the cultural perspicacity of someone like Eliot. An understanding of The Waste Land depends on an understanding of Eliot’s veneration of his artistic predecessors: the “dead poets” who created the art of writing, reaching as far back as ancient Greece…” (Allusions in Eliot)
Mary thought it was Walt Whitman. She bet and lost it all.
Jennifer thought it was Whitman, too. She lost $2,000 finishing with $12,500.
Scott got it right. He bet $11,401 bet so he won the match with $29,001, “a nice total,” as Alex Trebek put it. He is the new Jeopardy champ and we’ll be seeing him again tomorrow.
Scott Lord is a construction attorney. During the chat, he talked about how Placido Domingo came to sing at a charity event held at his house.
2 years ago:: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Oscar-Winning Actors”
They’re the only 2 Best Actor winners with the same last name; one was a winner for 1979 & 1988, the other for 2005 show
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Que up the Gospel music and let the bells ring! Praise entropy, fate, God, or whatever force guides all events in this universe!
Praise Beep-Boop, the great simulator.
Ah me, the magic drumsticks failed her! How COULD this happen?
But hooray, I won’t have to watch her dance AND HEAR HER SING (god help me) any more.
I bet you even as she Googles her name and reads that she made a total ass out of herself on national television, she still thinks she’s so much greater than the common herd, and something so special. All she is is a self-centered showoff.
There! I told HER! And now I’ll light her a cyberial exploding cigar.
But other extroverts are surely on the horizon–
According to a Boston Globe reporter who was invited to an audition, an extrovert actually has a better chance of getting on the show — they encourage the hopefuls to be lively
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Well, I was hoping Jennifer a 3-time champion. I was also hoping Jennifer got her second daily double of the night correct.
Good game except for the ts on Jane Pauley being Trudeau’s wife.
Congrats Scott.
@ Jacob, Whitman! Tee hee. The ladies failed to attach any significance to the American-born part of the clue so our predictions went south once again. They wouldn’t even add the “-born” part if it was Whitman.
Yes, congrats to Scott.
It was kind of funny the way Jennifer picked the “What Have I Done” category after her DD went wrong, the way she said it.
Well, if you only know one poet’s name that’s what you go with. LOL
Forget about confusing “Leaves of Grass” and “The Waste Land.”
For the 1st 15 secs I couldn’t get “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” out of my head. Then I was like, but that’s by Frost. And finally Eliot came to me — in the nick of time.
J! brings up Whitman’s name so often that contestants now think it’s always Whitman.
@Cece, you make an excellent point. I had never thought about that. Probably when the contestants studied for the show they focused on Whitman rather than Eliot.