Final Jeopardy: Real People in Poetry (7-27-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/27/2022) in the category “Real People in Poetry” was:
Milton wrote of this contemporary: “When by night the glass of” him “observes imagined lands and regions in the moon”
2x champ Ed Coulson, an economics & real estate professor from Dana Point, CA, won $40,200 so far. In Game 3, he takes on these two players: Colleen Birney, a court monitor from Milford, CT; and Brianne Barker, a biology professor from Madison, NJ.
Round 1 Categories: The Southern U.S. – Fiction – A Prisoner of Your Own Device – Alliteration – Tennis Aces – Acceptable 2-Letter Scrabble Words
Brianne found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “The Southern U.S.” under the $600 clue on the 8th pick. She was in second place with $2,000, $400 less than Ed’s lead. Brianne bet $1,500 and she was RIGHT.
It’s estimated that there are as many as 70 streets in Atlanta with this fruity 9-letter name show
Brianne finished in the lead with $8,700. Ed was second with $3,600 and Colleen was last with $2,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Notable Women – Oscar Winners’ TV Roles – The Animal Kingdom – Transportation – “B.C.” – A.D.
On the second pick, Ed found the first Daily Double in “The Animal Kingdom” under the $800 clue. He was in second place with $4,000, $4,700 less than Brianne’s lead. Ed made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
This North American marsupial has a gestation period of as little as 12 days show
Colleen got the last Daily Double in “Transportation” under the $1,600 clue with one clue left after it. In last place with $11,200, she had $2,900 less than Ed’s lead. Colleen bet $3,000 and guessed buggy. That was WRONG.
This type of sturdy horse-drawn wagon of early America got its name from the Pennsylvania region where it was developed show
Ed finished in the lead with $17,600. Brianne was next with $14,700 and Colleen was in third place with $8,200. All clues were shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
The quote in the clue is in Book Five of John Milton’s 1667 epic poem “Paradise Lost”, and the only one that specifically names Galileo. There are two other quotes that are said to refer to the Italian polymath: Book One: “Hung on his shoulders like the moon whose orb / Through optick glass the Tuscan artist views”; and Book Three: “There lands the Fiend, a spot like which perhaps / Astronomer in the Sun’s lucent Orb / Through his glaz’d Optic Tube yet never saw.”
Galileo’s early training was actually in the arts and that topic is explored in Pietro Greco’s biography “Galileo Galilei, The Tuscan Artist”. A true Renaissance man, In addition to science, Galileo was well-versed in the arts, philosophy and theology.
When Johnny met Leo: The Florentine’s article “Milton and Galileo” describes 30-year-old Milton’s trip to Florence, Italy in 1638 and his visit with 74-year-old Galileo.
Colleen didn’t have a response. She lost her $2,200 bet and finished with $6,000.
Brianne went with English poet John Donne. That cost her $3,000 and left her with $11,700.
Ed thought it was Edmund Spenser. Ed lost $11,800 and finished with $5,800. That made Brianne Barker the new Jeopardy! champ
A triple stumper from each round:
FICTION ($1000) This Anthony Doerr novel is tied together by the idea of a paradise for birds, also found in an Aristophanes play
OSCAR WINNERS’ TV ROLES ($2000) In full prosthetic makeup, convicted killer Pam Hupp in 2022’s “The Thing About Pam”
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Business and Industry”
Over 1/2 of Fortune 500 and 42% of all N.Y. Stock Exchange companies are incorporated in this state show
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My goodness. I thought everyone would get it. This one seemed so obvious, to me. No other name even cane to mind. It was clear that the reference was to a telescope. No idea how the clue could be read to come up with a poet. I don’t know how the clue could be seen as ambiguous in any way.
jk, I believe it’s a matter of how one thinks of contemporaries. Some people think of others in the same field when they think of someone’s contemporaries.
Earlier this year, I mentioned a discussion I was having with my son on the topic of poets and their contemporaries. My example was Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). Tennyson was over 60 when Stevenson was just getting noticed. I said I don’t think of them as contemporaries because of that but my son said they are, period. If it wasn’t for that discussion, I probably wouldn’t have considered Galileo this morning.
P.S. Edmund Spenser died before John Milton was born.
I believe Milton was in his early 20s when John Donne died. I saw somewhere that Milton may have heard John Donne give a sermon at the church where Donne was priest.
In my opinion, Final Jeopardy was set up for incorrect responses. The wording of the category and the clue (“Real people in poetry” and the reference to a “contemporary” of Milton) strongly suggest a fellow poet is the correct response, and this is borne out by what the contestants came up with. I’m not the least bit surprised nobody got it.
Good point.
For the second this week we have another triple stumper. But I believe that might be the last one for this season. With Ed’s loss, that definitively locks the field for November’s Tournament of Champions. We are only two more games away until the season finale. The Penultimate episode of Season 38 is tomorrow.
That is why Jennings wins again as we are on a verge to have a losing week in the final.
I hope it’s the last 1 for this season.