Final Jeopardy: Opera Source Material (7-26-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/26/2023) in the category “Opera Source Material” was:
Henri Murger, who was broke & lived in a freezing attic apartment in Paris, wrote the source material for this 1896 opera
New champ Julie Sisson, a library circulation assistant from Everett, WA, won $11,210 yesterday. In Game 2, she takes on these two players: Lucas Partridge, a school counselor from Las Vegas, NV; and Alex Muhler, a policy analyst from Oakland, CA.
SEASON 40 TOC PUT ON HOLD
Round 1 Categories: Crooks – Recent TV Shows by Episode Title – All Kinds of Literature – World of Religion – I’m Blue – “Da” or “Ba” or “Dee”
Alex found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “World of Religion” under the $800 clue on the 10th pick of the round. She was in second place with $1,000, $200 less than Julie’s lead. Alex made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
From the Arabic for “struggle”, this word can mean a personal effort against sin, or a holy war in defense of Islam show
Alex finished in the lead with $7,600. Lucas was second with $5,000 and Julie was last with $2,800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Brace for Landing – Dual Biographies – Physics – Taking Stock – Long Movies – From the French
Alex found the first Daily Double in “Dual Biographies” under the $1,200 with 8 clues left after it. She was in second place with $11,200, $4,600 less than Lucas’ lead. Alex bet $4,000 and tried “Romeo and Juliet”. That was WRONG.
In this book with the same title as a Shakespeare play, Adrian Goldsworthy says the 2nd person was “not really that important” –ouch! show
Lucas got the last Daily Double in “Physics” under the $1,600 clue with one clue left after it. He was in the lead with $18,200, $12,200 more than Alex in second place. Lucas bet $100 and took a shot at it with packet. That was WRONG.
A quantum is basically a small and defined unit of energy. This is the term for a light quantum also called the quantum of the electromagnetic field. show
Lucas finished in the lead with a runaway $20,100. Alex was second with $6,000 and Julie was last with $3,200. All clues were shown.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS LA BOHÈME?
“Scenes of Bohemian Life” is a collection of stories about bohemian life in the Latin Quarter of 1840s Paris. Henri Murger first published the stories individually in a literary magazine, which led to his collaborating with Théodore Barrière in producing a play called “La Vie de la bohème”. Due to the play’s popularity, Murger published the original stories in novel form in 1851. Murger died 10 years later, never knowing that, some 35 years later, his stories would inspire Giacomo Puccini and Ruggero Leoncavallo to compose separate operas, both named “La bohème”. It didn’t end there– Jonathan Larson’s 1996 Broadway musical hit “Rent” is the most successful 20th century adaptation of Murger’s work.
Everyone got this similar FJ! clue in the first semi-final game of the 1989 Senior Tournament: OPERA: Based on a French novel by Henri Murger, its title refers to the carefree life artists lead
Julie bet $390 and finished with $3,590.
Alex bet $100 and finished with $6,000.
Lucas stood pat on his runaway $20,100 and he is the new Jeopardy! champ. With 2 games left in the season, Lucas is our last hope for a 3x champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
RECENT TV SHOWS BY EPISODE TITLE ($1000) “Educator of the Year”
LONG MOVIES ($2000) At some point in the 13 hours of Jacques Rivette’s “Out 1”, actors rehearse “Seven Against Thebes” by this ancient playwright
More clues on Page 2
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “African Monarchs”
Some devotees of this emperor who died in 1975 trace his lineage to King Solomon & the Queen of Sheba show
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Boy, Alex and Lucas left Julie in the dust early on. Alex faded down the stretch on that DD and some subsequent misses. Too bad, I thought we were headed for an epic finale.
I don’t know or like opera, so I picked the most French-sounding opera I’d heard of, and it was La Boheme. (Also thought that might be right because the clue referred to a squalid apartment life, and I did know “Rent” was based on this opera.)
Nasty stumpers tonight. All I could get were the Jewish Supreme Court justice and the “Educator of the Year” show.
I was happy to see an average number of stumpers for a change.
I got both dual biography stumpers and the Dylan Thomas poem
Only 2 games left. Tomorrow is the penultimate game of Season 39.