Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Artists (9-17-20)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (9/17/2020) in the category “20th Century Artists” was:
“Los tres grandes” were Jose Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros & him
New champ, David Ferrara, a realtor from Los Angeles, CA, won $4,977 yesterday. He’s up against these two challengers today: Joe Velasco, a student from La Mirada, CA; and Beth Gunter, an attorney from Los Angeles, CA.
Round 1 Categories: A Shrubbery! – Word Words – Daily Reading – U.S. Senator Rhyme Time – Aren’t You… – Discount CEOs?
Beth found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Discount CEOs?” under the $800 clue, with 7 clues to go after it. She was in second place with $2,600, $1,400 less than David’s lead. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
Jack Dorsey, CEO of this credit card processing giant, gets a $2.75 yearly salary, 2.75 being the percentage charged per swipe. show
Beth finished in the lead with $7,400. David was second with $5,000 and Joe was last with $4,200.
Round 2 Categories: Famous Names – Science & Nature – One-Letter Geography – Film Composition – The 18th Century – Starts & Ends With “E”
David found the first Daily Double in “Film Compostion” under the $1,200 clue on the 6th pick. He was in a tie for the lead with Beth. They both had $7,400, $2,000 more than Joe in second place. He bet it all and thought it was Schubert. That was WRONG.
1938 & 1972 films both called “The Great Waltz” focus on this composer. show
8 clues later, Joe landed on the last Daily Double in “Science & Nature” under the $800 clue. In second place with $6,200, he had $1,600 less than Beth’s lead. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
Aside from the Sun & the Moon, this is the brightest natural object in the night sky. show
Joe finished in the lead with $14,600. Beth was next with $14,200 and David was in third place with $7,600.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS DIEGO RIVERA?
KhanAcademy.org relates how the Mexican Revolution that raged from 1910 to 1920 gave rise to the Mexican muralism movement: “At the end of the Revolution the government commissioned artists to create art that could educate the mostly illiterate masses about Mexican history. Celebrating the Mexican people’s potential to craft the nation’s history was a key theme in Mexican muralism, a movement led by Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, and José Clemente Orozco—known as Los tres grandes. Between the 1920s and 1950s, they cultivated a style that defined Mexican identity…. The muralists developed an iconography featuring atypical, non-European heroes from the nation’s illustrious past, present, and future”
An old clue from 1995: FAMOUS WOMEN ($1000) Painter Frida Kahlo was twice married to this Mexican muralist
David got it right and doubled his score to $15,200.
Beth crossed out Diego Rivera and went with Picasso and that after Alex used David’s FJ! mishap to caution against second guessing in the beginning of the show! She lost her $12,999 bet and was left with $1,201.
Joe also got it right. He bet $5,500 and won the game with $20,100. Joe Velasco is the new Jeopardy! champ.
2 triple stumpers from DAILY READING:
($800) A youngster wakes up to find everything out of place in “Wacky Wednesday” by this author writing under the name Theo LeSieg
($1000) This 1973 Kurt Vonnegut novel about depressed car dealer Dwayne Hoover is subtited “or Goodbye Blue Monday”
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Before They Were President”
On Oct. 4, 1940, for the premiere of what’s been called his most famous movie role, Ronald Reagan was in this city show
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What was Joe thinking with that $5500 bet? If she hadn’t crossed it out, she’d’ve won!
Yes, I didn’t know where that $5,500 wager came from, but it worked out for Joe, and I did notice that had Beth stuck with her initial response, she would have won. Instead, Second Guessing & The Pressure of the Lights got her, and we’ll see how Joe wraps up our 1st week of Season 37 tomorrow.
I don’t know what everyone has to say after this week of Jeopardy! games.
I’m going to say we waited a long time and then it went by so fast
And I’m happy to have it back!
“Waltz composer” is a dead give away for “The Waltz King” for those who know classical music, so I’m surprised he missed it after going all in. He wasn’t in a situation where he needed to go for it to get back in the game, so I thought the large wager implied he was confident in the category.
Although the category doesn’t mention classical music per se, even though all responses ended up being classical composers, so maybe he wasn’t expecting classical music questions.
@JP, I agree that his all in wager indicated confidence. He seemed pretty surprised that he missed it, too!