Final Jeopardy: English Poets (9-18-20)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (9/18/2020) in the category “English Poets” was:
An 1816 poem by him says, “That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, that sunny dome!”
New champ, Joe Velasco, a student from La Mirada, CA, won $20,100 yesterday. His opponents today are: Sarah Twilley, a music teacher from Seal Beach, CA; and Herman Wilkins, a filmmaker from Los Angeles, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Altruistic Athletes – Beastly Books – Antonyms – Potpourri – Advice From the Sidelines – “Ism”s
Joe found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Ism”s” under the $400 clue on the 7th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $1,000, $200 more than Sarah in second place. “Alex, I always wanted to say this”, he joked, “let’s make this a true $1,000 and zero cents.” Unfortunately, he thought they were showing him a picture of Charles Darwin so he got it WRONG.
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Sarah finished in the lead with $4,600. Joe was second with $4,200 and Herman was last with $1,600. The $1,000 clue in Advice from the Sidelines went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: Places of Substance – Movies’ Last Lines – The Apostles – Words & Phrases – Bo, Jack – Norsemen
Herman found the first Daily Double in “Movies’ Last Lines” under the $1,600 clue on the 11th pick. He was “in a distant third” (per Alex) with $3,200 now, $5,800 less than Sarah’s lead, but only $1,000 less than Joe. He made it a true Daily Double with an “all in gesture” and he was RIGHT.
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Joe got the last Daily Double in “Places of Substance” under the $1,600 clue, with 8 clues left after it. In third place with $7,800, he had $4,000 less than Sarah’s lead. He bet $2,500 and he was RIGHT.
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Sarah finished in the lead with $13,800. Joe was next with $9,900 and Herman was in third place with $9,200. Three clues went uncovered.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE?
Coleridge is of course most famous for “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, published in 1798. The quote in the clue, however, comes from “Kubla Khan: or, A Vision in a Dream”, an unfinished poem he wrote about the same time as the Mariner but did not publish until 1816. “Kubla Khan” came to him in a drug-induced dream that he totally remembered and began to write down when he awoke. Supposedly, an interruption caused him to forget the rest of the dream. “Christabel” is another poem that Coleridge wrote around the same time as the other two, but never finished. It was also published in 1816 in the same pamphlet as “Kubla Khan”
One of my favorites from 2015: BAD POETRY ABOUT POETS ($600) I wrote “Kubla Khan” / To give you the word / & did more stuff / Than just about that darned bird!
Herman thought it was Lord Byron. He lost his $4,601 bet and finished with $4,599.
Joe went with Byron, too. That cost him $5,000 and left him with $4,900.
Sarah got it right, much to her surprise and relief! She bet $6,001 and won the game with $19,801.
A triple stumper from each round:
ALTRUISTIC ATHLETES ($600) This No. 24 driver is taking the fight to childhood cancer not only in the U.S. but in Rwanda
MOVIES’ LAST LINES ($1200) Guy Pearce: “Now, where was I?”
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Congrats to Sarah on her win. We end this week with one day winners, one dismissal and no streakers.
I had no idea for either Double Jeopardy round Daily Double, nor the $1,200 or $2,000 clues for the movie quote category, and I thought I was pretty good on movie quotes. Of the bottom three movie quote clues, I’ve only seen the Guy Pierce one. A humbling game.
I’m glad Sarah didn’t write down “Lord Byron.” If she did, she would’ve finished with $7,799, same score as the winner (Heather Nelson) on the January 24, 2020 episode, aka “The Danielle Steel” episode.
You could tell she wasn’t at all sure she was right but that was great! Lord Byron wasn’t a bad guess on the part of the guys — he actually encouraged this poet to publish this poem.