Final Jeopardy: 16th Century Names (7-5-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/5/2019) in the category “16th Century Names” was:
Hoping to stop Dominican friar Johannes Tetzel from preaching for indulgences, in 1517 he wrote a series of debate topics
New champ Ryan Bilger, a student from Macungie, PA, won $34,650 yesterday. In Game 2, he is competing against: Sally Leedham, a legal assistant from Bradford, Ontario; and Jim Royal, a writer from St. Louis, MO.
Round 1 Categories: We Mean Bid-ness – Historic Americans – Parts of the Whole – The FIFA Men’s World Cup – Literary Minnesota – 1 Letter Different
Ryan found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Literary Minnesota” under the $400 clue on the very first pick of the round and, of course, no one had a dime. He bet the $1,000 allowance and he was RIGHT.
The lives of 3 women centuries apart intertwine along the shores of this Lake in Danielle Sosin’s “The Long-Shining Waters” show
Ryan finished in the lead with $10,000. Sally was second with $6,000 and Jim was last with $2,600.
Round 2 Categories: A Steel Day – Biographies of Non-People – Female Singers Mononymous – National – “G.O.” – Graphic
Ryan found the first Daily Double in “A Steel Day” under the $1,200 clue on the 6th pick. He was in the lead with $13,200 now, $4,800 more than Sally in second place. He bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.
March 3, 1901: J.P. Morgan announces his purchase of this man’s steel company. show
Jim found the last Daily Double in “Female Singers Mononymous” under the $1,200 clue. There were 9 clues left after it, worth $7,200. In second place with $11,400, he had $14,800 less than Ryan’s lead. He went with a true Daily Double but could not come up with a response so he was WRONG.
This Brit: “I’ve never wanted to look like models…I represent the majority of women & I’m very proud of that” show
Ryan finished in the lead with a runaway $27,000. Sally was next with $12,400 and Jim was in third place with $1,200.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
In “Peddling purgatory relief,” Ray Cavanaugh relates the crazy lengths that Friar Tetzel went to while selling indulgences in at least 10 German cities that “could upgrade a soul from purgatory to heaven.” Martin Luther specifically targeted this practice in 1517 with his “Ninety-Five Theses on the Power of Indulgences.” Although Tetzel attempted to defend himself and the Catholic Church, this ultimately led to his disgrace and he died an outcast two years later. Martin Luther must not have felt very good about that because he tried to console Tetzel near the end.
From 2016: A HISTORY LESSON ($2000) No. 47 of these from 1517 reads, “Christians are to be taught that the buying of pardons is a matter of free will”
Jim didn’t bet anything so he remained at $1,200.
Sally bet $9,000, bringing her up to $21,400.
Ryan bet $2,199 and won this one with $29,199. His 2-day total is $63,849.
I only caught this one triple stumper from the whole game:
FEMALE SINGERS MONONYMOUS ($2000) Martin Luther King Jr. called this singer & activist “The Queen of American Folk Music”
I thought this clue would be a triple stumper, and was mighty impressed when Ryan got it.
BIOGRAPHIES OF NON-PEOPLE ($1600) (showing an image of this dog in a director’s chair with the name blotted out) Susan Orlean’s book about him tells how he became a ’20s film star, though his dark coat was difficult to light
(More clues on Page 2)
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Peoples of the World ”
Living from Norway to Russia, they’ve been called the only indigenous people of the European Union. show
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All I can to say to Jim is that he did the right thing on his Daily Double, by going all in, in order to catch up to Ryan, but he just drew a complete blank, and my mom doesn’t like Adele. If it had been a different clue, and Jim got it right, the game would have been a closer. Instead, Ryan scores his 2nd runaway, and since all 3 got Final Jeopardy! right, it wouldn’t have mattered in the end, and this week started off as hard week with only 1 out of 9 correct responses in Final Jeopardy!, but then, the week made a huge comeback with 2 triple solves in a row, but not quite enough to make it to half of 15 correct responses, which, of course, is 7.5. With 2 games & $63,849, Ryan Bilger is looking good heading into Monday’s episode. Will Ryan be the next James Holzhauer? We’ll have to wait and see.
I thought it was odd that Martin Luther King was in the clue about Odetta, and then Martin Luther was the FJ answer.
@Rhonda, I guess we notice these things a lot more than the players because we already know the answer to FJ.
In Monday’s game when Polynesia was the answer, for example, I noticed there was a clue where New Zealand was the answer, one point of the Polynesian Triangle.
That makes a lot of sense, VJ, thanks for pointing it out. Of course, unlike you, I didn’t put the New Zealand clue together with Polynesia lol.
we’re always looking for the next james like we looked for the next ken jennings but it isn’t going to happen so quickly there was fifteen year gap. ryan looks good and maybe he makes toc but he isn’t elite
Jim couldn’t get much going today but I was most impressed with Ryan’s performance. It seems that he could do what James had done previously because he is pretty quick on the buzzer. We finished off the week with a 3 time player falling short of his fourth game, two triple solves and a few final jeopardy triple stumpers. By the way VJ, what was the exact cause of tetzal’s death even after Martin Luther tried to console him?
I agree, Lou. It already looks like there’s going to be two Ryans in the next ToC. Ryan B knows his stuff!
As to Tetzel’s cause of death, Martin Luther wrote that Tetzel died from “grief of the heart.” However, if you put “Tetzel cause of death” in a google search, the answer that will come up is “plague,” I saw a source on google books from 1891 that said “The statement that Tetzel died of the plague is without support.”
In other words, who knows?
15 more games left until the Season Finale. Too bad Jim couldn’t come up with a guess on the last Daily Double in the second round he finished in 3rd place. Congrats to Ryan, a 2 day champion with $63,849.