Final Jeopardy: Opera (7-8-24)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/8/2024) in the category “Opera” was:
The melody of a traditional piece for the koto called “Echigo-Jishi” is used in Act 1 of this opera
3x champ Isaac Hirsch, a customer support team lead from Burbank, CA, won $70,186 last week. In Game 4, he is up against: Karan Menon, a data scientist orig. from Edison, NJ; and Stephanie Lewis, a project coordinator from Washington, DC.
Note: Recap delayed by Hurricane Beryl
Round 1 Categories: The Solar System – Truck & Truckin’ Songs – The Spanish Animal – Samuel Beckett – Endgame – Waiting for…
Isaac found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “The Solar System” under the $1,000 clue on the 14th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $7,400, $6,400 more than Karan in second place. Isaac bet $2,200 and he was RIGHT.
Once called the largest asteroid in our solar system, it was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 show
Isaac finished in the lead with $11,800. Karan was second with $2,400 and Stephanie was last with $200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: 20th Century America – Capes – 3 of a Kind – Books – Vocabulary – Fly Me to the Moon
Isaac found the first Daily Double in “Books” under the $1,600 clue on the 5th pick. He was in the lead with $13,800 now, $11,400 more than Karan in second place. Isaac bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
When Kotaro Isaka’s high-speed thriller “Maria Beetle” was translated into English, it got this title show
Isaac got the last Daily Double in “Capes” under the $1,600 clue on the 18th pick. In the lead with $25,200 now, he had $18,000 more than Karan in second place. Isaac bet $600 and he was RIGHT.
In 1602 Bartholomew Gosnold didn’t just find the obvious fish at this cape, but also herring & mackerel show
Isaac finished in the lead with a runaway $27,400. Karan was next with $7,000 and Stephanie was in third place with $5,000. All clues were shown.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS MADAMA BUTTERFLY (MADAME BUTTERFLY)?
According to daisyfield.com, “Echigo-Jishi” means “Lion of Echigo”. “Echigo was the part of Japan now known as Niigata. The ‘lion’ refers to a ‘lion dance’ of the region.” A Kabuki player/composer named Kineya Rokuzaemon IX composed it in 1811. Echigo-Jishi is well-known in Japan and is often performed as a solo koto piece.
Giacomo Puccini’s inclusion of “Echigo-Jishi” in “Madama Butterfly” led to the belief that it was his favorite Japanese tune.
Stephanie bet $0 and finished with $5,000.
Karan bet $2,801 and finished with $10,001.
Isaac bet $3,000 and won the game with $30,400. His 4-day total is $100,586.
A triple stumper from each round. (Please don’t put the answers in the comments)
THE SPANISH ANIMAL ($1000) A flier: el cuervo
FLY ME TO THE MOON ($2000) Scarlett Johansson: “This title noble in a 1989 Terry Gilliam film takes a balloon to the Moon & meets the King of the Moon, played with a touch of “luna-cy” by Robin Williams”
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “THE EASTERN U.S.”
At its peak, this state had 6 seats in the House of Representatives; since the 1930s, it has had just 1 show
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What I know about opera could fit on the head of a pin, with room to spare, but FJ was a breeze.
Karan the geography whiz nailed the two bottom clues in Capes, then inexplicably switched categories. And of course the DD was in the middle clue. Perhaps he’d have made it a game had he stayed with it. But good for Isaac for hitting all 3 doubles and FJ.
Not into country music, but I always watch the CMA Awards and really enjoyed the banter between Paisley and the stumper host when they were on together. Shame on them for not knowing Drew’s legendary relative. I didn’t expect them to know the nuclear agency, but I remember when the name changed. The spy novel had to be one of two, and the irregular past tense verb/quarrel was easy. All but one of the 3 of a Kind were out of my league.
@Howard, if I was writing that quarrel clue, I’d would have worked “Return to Sender” in there. “We had a quarrel, a lover’s this”
I wonder if any of them liked Elvis
That second TS on page 1 is really clunky the way it’s written. Along with other clunky clues, I wonder if they’re all written by the same writer.
I got FJ. While time was still going, I thought, maybe The Mikado, but stayed with my first thought.
1/3 on DD, and less than half of the TS.
Good to see you up, VJ!
Thanks, Jason. The internet connection was out completely yesterday. It’s kinda shaky today but hopefully it will be good enough to get things done today.
I agree with you about clunky clues. I thought one of the J6 clues was confusing. I wasn’t sure if the pronoun referred to the Scourge of God or someone else