Final Jeopardy: Shakespeare’s Plays (7-28-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/28/2021) in the category “Shakespeare’s Plays” was:
“Let’s all sink with the King” is a line from the opening scene of this play
5x champ Matt Amodio, a PhD student from New Haven, CT has now won $147,800. In Game 6, he is up against: Amanda Michel, a middle school teacher from Dublin, CA; and Saya Signs, a barista & gardening assistant from Brooklyn, NY.
Round 1 Categories: Fiction – Turtle Power – Idioms Made Fancy – International Food & Drink – Sitcom Exits – Do You Remember?
Matt found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Do You Remember?” under the $800 clue on the 10th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $6,400, $5,400 more than Amanda in second place. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
It became a battle cry after it appeared in a cartoon caption in The Washington Post April 3, 1898 show
Matt finished in the lead with $15,400. Amanda was second with $2,600 and Saya was last with $2,400. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: Burgesses in the House! – The Last Word Said in Classic Films – Geographic AKAs – Here’s John – Children in the Bible – Jargon
Matt found the first Daily Double in “Children in the Bible” under the $1,600 clue on the 5th pick. He was in the lead with $17,000 now, $16,000 more than Amanda in second. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
Later to lend his name to a free bible donation society, this judge and hero had 70 sons show
Matt also got the last Daily Double in “Geographic AKAs” under the $1,200 clue on the 10th pick. In the lead with $21,800, he had $18,800 more than Amanda in second. He bet $2,000 and took a shot at it with Mont Blanc. That was WRONG.
Monte Cervino is what the Italians call this mountain that they share with the Swiss show
Matt finished in the lead with $29,000. Saya was next with $5,200 and Amanda was in third place with $600. No clues went uncovered.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
“The Tempest” opens with a ship caught up in a violent storm. King Alonso of Naples is on board the ship with Ferdinand, his son, and friends, Sebastian, Antonio and Gonzalo. Antonio is the one who utters the line in the clue. Antonio is a usurper, the brother of Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan. Exiled on a nearby island with his daughter Miranda, Prospero tells his child that he caused the storm.
Check out “The Ship that Inspired Shakespeare” on the Royal Shakespeare Company’s website
Amanda got it right. She bet $599 and finished with $1,199.
Saya crossed off the correct response and went with “King Lear”. That cost her $3,999 and left her with $1,201.
Matt also got it right. He added $18,000 and won the game with a hefty $47,000. Matt Amodio’s 6-day total is $194,800. OMG!!
2 triple stumpers from the last round:
CHILDREN IN THE BIBLE ($2000) St. Paul’s epistle to the people of this ancient Greek city now in Turkey advises, “Children, obey your parents in the Lord”
JARGON ($1200) Named for an Earl, a Yarborough in this game is a hand of 13 cards in which no card is higher than 9
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Children’s Authors”
This author & illustrator who won the 1964 Caldecott Medal was dubbed the “Picasso of Children’s Books” show
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John Coltrane
Matt is truly fantastic. I never ever heard of PRIBILOF in the 2K question. I am very impressed. I would hate to go up against Matt.
$47,000 is the biggest 1-Day winning total for this season, and $194,800 is the 5th highest 6-Day Total ever, behind Larissa Kelly, Roger Craig, Austin Rogers & James Holzhauer.
When was the last time you posted a Jeopardy! video on your YouTube channel?
Wow! Matt is like James Holzhauer, in a way. I hope he makes $200,000 tomorrow!
Burton is terrible. Can’t wait for the week to end.
I enjoy him so far.
Be thankful that the actor was gracious enough to accept the role. Actually, I thought that he performed just as well as the other guest hosts.
Charlie Brown says “Don’t you know sarcasm when you hear it, Zig?”
Impressive!!
I got quite a laugh at Levar Burton’s understatement at the end of the second round: “Matt, you have a sizeable lead”
OMG is definitely right. Matt has played well so far this season just like Zach Newkirk did previously. Amanda couldn’t get things rolling since Matt had a runaway game again. I would have loved to see a triple solve here too if Saya stayed with her original response VJ. Overall a good game by all the players. matt seems to be betting big on the subjects that he knows very well and betting low on the ones he doesn’t have much confidence in. I like that sort of strategy in jeopardy players. Do you think Matt could get to James Holzahauer’s total winnings, @jacob?
Lou, I really don’t know if Matt can reach the milestone of James Holzhauer or not but his performance has been impressive so far. I do agree with you that he wagers big on categories in his wheelhouse and wagers low on categories not in his wheelhouse. That is a smart strategy imo. As a Clint Eastwood character as Dirty Harry in the movie Magnum Force said “a man’s got to know his limitations.” It appears that phrase is paying out big dividends for Matt so far.
OMG indeed, will tomorrow be the day that Matt be the first player this season to make it to the 200k mark or will one of the players put an end to his streak? We’ll find out tomorrow.