Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Authors on Authors) for Monday, April 30, 2018 (Season 34, Episode 166):
Whitman said this man’s poetry has a “propensity toward nocturnal themes, a demoniac undertone behind every page”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Leslye Laderman, an employee benefits attorney from Creve Coeur, Missouri |
Osman Syed, a student from Jamesville, New York |
Alexandra Henkoff, a college admissions counselor from Houston, Texas (1-day total: $17,300) |
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Correct response: Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
More information about Final Jeopardy:
The quote came from Whitman’s 1887 work, Specimen Days in America”:
Almost without the first sign of moral principle, or of the concrete or its heroisms, or the simpler affections of the heart, Poe’s verses illustrate an intense faculty for technical and abstract beauty, with the rhyming art to excess, an incorrigible propensity toward nocturnal themes, a demoniac undertone behind every page–and by final judgment, probably belong among the electric lights of imaginative literature, brilliant and dazzling, but with no heat. There is an indescribable magnetism about the poet’s life and reminiscences, as well as the poems. To one who could work out their subtle retracing and retrospect, the latter would make a close tally no doubt between the author’s birth and antecedents, his childhood and youth, his physique, his so call’d education, his studies and associates, the literary and social Baltimore, Richmond, Philadelphia and New York, of those times–not only the places and circumstances in themselves, but often, very often, in a strange spurning of and reaction from them all.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Osman $27,400
Leslye $6,200
Alexandra $3,800
Tonight’s results:
Alexandra $3,800 – $3,500 = $300 (Who is Dante)
Leslye $6,200 + $1,401 = $7,601
Osman $27,400 + $5,933 = $33,333 (1-day total: $33,333)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Osman $9,000
Leslye $3,000
Alexandra $2,200
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) LITERARY CHARACTERS $600 (3rd pick)
Osman 400 +1000 (Alexandra 200 Leslye 0)
2) JAPAN-POURRI $800 (11th pick)
Osman 12600 +3500 (Alexandra 3800 Leslye 2600)
3) MUSEUMS $1600 (24th pick)
Osman 20100 +4500 (Leslye 4200 Alexandra 3800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 150
Unplayed clues:
J! round: None!
DJ! Round: RHYMES WITH BOB $2000, POP CULTURE IN THE NEWS $1600 & $2000
Total $ Left On Board: $5,600
Game Stats:
Osman $21,400 Coryat, 30 correct, 3 incorrect, 51.85% in first on buzzer
Leslye $6,200 Coryat, 7 correct, 2 incorrect, 12.96% in first on buzzer
Alexandra $3,800 Coryat, 13 correct, 4 incorrect, 25.93% in first on buzzer
Combined Coryat Score: $31,400
Lach Trash: $10,200 (on 7 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $6,800
Alexandra Henkoff, stats to date:
28 correct, 6 incorrect
26.17% in first on buzzer (28/107)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $6,300
Osman Syed, stats to date:
31 correct, 3 incorrect
51.85% in first on buzzer
3/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $9,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $21,400
Osman Syed, to win:
2 games: 79.58%
3: 63.33%
4: 50.40%
5: 40.11%
6: 31.92%
Avg. streak: 4.898 games.
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Baltimore (where he died) Ravens…….2 correct. Should be a clean sweep, but usually one player manages to come up with a wrong answer.
Nice pay day! I wonder why not wagering more, when you already wager on a runaway…. seems to like numbers…33.333
Congrats either way.
Dante? Just about 600 years apart…..
In fairness to Alexandra, there was nothing in the clue that indicated Whitman was referring to a contemporary. (And barely at that…Poe died almost 40 years before the quote.)
True, but usually to refer to somebody within 50 – 100 years or a classic writer, like Homer or Ovid.
I could recite by heart, a long time ago, two of EAP’s poems: Annabel Lee and The Bells. They flowed so well.
I’m interested to see exactly how Osman piled up so very many points. Quick with the thumb or lucky with the topics? Can he repeat?
nothing in the clue implied American, which is what Alex claimed was wrong with Alexandra’s answer of Dante.
That’s really interesting about Poe and The Ravens. Thanks John Blahuta.
Does “daub” rhyme with “bob”? Not where I live—and not according to dictionary.com…
It’s like saying “taut” rhymes with “hot”.