Today’s contestants:
Emily Hillard, a systems coordinator from Evansville, IN |
Matt Hoffer-Hawlik, an investment banker & strategy consultant from Boston, MA |
TJ Bateman, a software Q.A. lead from Charlottesville, VA (1-day total: $5,199) |
Final Jeopardy! category: COMPOSERS
Final Jeopardy! clue: Brought to our attention by a 1984 film, this Italian had success with the 1780s operas “Tarare” & “Les Danaides”
[spoiler title=’Click/Tap Here for Correct Response’]Who is Antonio Salieri?[/spoiler]
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Obviously the film was “Amadeus”, based on the Peter Shaffer 1980 play. There was a legend as well that Salieri tried to poison Mozart; that legend was the basis of a Rimsky-Korsakov opera (“Mozart et Salieri”).
Interestingly, though, Mozart’s father Leopold, when Wolfgang was still a youth, gained a rather large distrust of the royal court of Joseph II in Vienna after Mozart’s opera “La Finta Semplice” was cancelled, without reimbursement! (Salieri Online)
Back to the film, though, F. Murray Abraham played Salieri in “Amadeus”; he won the Oscar for Best Actor for that portrayal. Interestingly, that is the most recent occurrence of two actors in the same film receiving Best Actor nominations for their roles in that film.
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Final results:
Emily $4,000 + $4,000 = $8,000
TJ $14,800 – $10,000 = $4,800 (Who is Paganini?)
Matt $22,600 + $7,001 = $29,601 (1-day total: $29,601)
Daily Doubles:
1) LITERARY GROUPS & MOVEMENTS $800 (26th pick)
Matt 7000 +7000 (TJ 4200, Emily 2000)
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2) BOTANY $800 (15th pick)
TJ 8600 +3000 (Matt 15000 Emily 3200)
3) TRAVELING ALONG THE 40TH PARALLEL N. $1200 (20th pick)
Matt 17000 +6000 (TJ 14400 Emily 3200)
Game Stats:
Matt 11,200 Coryat, 23 correct, 4 incorrect, 40.35% in first on buzzer
TJ 12,600 Coryat, 19 correct, 3 incorrect, 33.33% in first on buzzer
Emily 4,000 Coryat, 6 correct, 0 incorrect, 10.53% in first on buzzer
TJ Bateman’s final stats:
40 correct
7 incorrect
3/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Money Earned: $10,400)
0/2 in Final Jeopardy
34.82% in first on buzzer (39/112)
Averrage Coryat: $13,600
Matt Hoffer-Hawlik’s stats:
24 correct
4 incorrect
2/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Money Earned: $13,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
40.35% in first on buzzer (23/57)
Average Coryat: $11,200
Matt Hoffer-Hawlik, to win:
2 games: 42.63%
3: 18.17%
4: 7.75%
5: 3.30%
6: 1.41%
Avg. streak: 1.743 games. #Jeopardy
Here’s a link to the CANADIAN PRIME MINISTERS category on tonight’s show.
It was a repeat tonight!!!! Not those contestants – what gives??
Contact your local TV station. Sounds like your local station played the wrong episode.
Alex made a stupid statement at the beginning. He read the category as “3 letter words having ONLY 2 vowels” OK, Alex-any more and the word would be all vowels!
Teri:
It’s not as stupid as you think. “eau” is Scrabble-playable in English and is a 3-letter word with three vowels.