Final Jeopardy: Real People in Poetry (7-27-22)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 7/27/2022 Jeopardy! game. Please don’t put the answers to these clues in the comments so people who missed the game can have a chance to answer them. It is okay to refer to them by category and clue value or by part of the clue.
ALLITERATION ($600) First & last name of the woman in a tongue twister who “bought some butter, ‘but’, she said, ‘the butter’s bitter'”
TRANSPORTATION ($1200) Greek for “circle” gives us the name of this helicopter relative
A.D. ($1200) In 1549 the first Governor-General of this Portuguese colony selected Bahia as its capital
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($600) George Takei’s 2-word catchphrase
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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.