Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Classical Music) for Wednesday, June 20, 2018 (Season 34, Episode 203):
Not in the initial score, the feature giving this symphony its byname was a whim added by the composer close to its 1792 debut
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Tyler Dilts, a novelist & teacher from Long Beach, California |
Lindsay Garces, an insurance underwriter from East Boston, Massachusetts |
Ali Hasan, a secondary school teacher from New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada (1-day total: $20,401) |
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Correct response: What is the Surprise Symphony? (Symphony No. 94 in G Major by Haydn)
More information about Final Jeopardy:
Wow, there are a lot of surprises this week in Final Jeopardy! Between the “surprised” quote in yesterday’s final question and now the Surprise Symphony, it almost seems like one of the writers went down an Internet rabbit hole of “surprise” and came out bearing a pair of Final Jeopardy! clues.
The “surprise” in Haydn’s Surprise Symphony comes in the form of a fortissimo G chord in the second movement of the work. According to one story, Haydn added it on a whim because he didn’t want his student Ignaz Pleyel would not out-do him in London in the early spring of 1792. According to another, it was added because Haydn had noticed that a front row patron had fallen asleep, and thus Haydn cued an especially-loud chord to rouse the patron. According to the story, it worked.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Ali $13,400
Tyler $13,200
Lindsay $8,200
Tonight’s results:
Lindsay $8,200 – $7,000 = $1,200 (What is Enigma)
Tyler $13,200 – $0 = $13,200 (What )
Ali $13,400 + $13,001 = $26,401 (2-day total: $46,802)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Tyler $4,400
Lindsay $3,600
Ali $3,000
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) 25 YEARS AGO: 1993 $800 (20th pick)
Ali 3000 -2000 (Lindsay 3000 Tyler 2200)
2) 3 P’S PPPLEASE $1600 (14th pick)
Ali 7000 +2000 (Tyler 8400 Lindsay 4400)
3) WHO ESSENTIAL MEDICINES $1200 (27th pick)
Lindsay 5200 +3000 (Tyler 13200 Ali 11400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 20
Unplayed clues:
J! round: THE SUN, THE MOON, THE STARS $400
DJ! Round: None!
Total $ Left On Board: $400
Game Stats:
Ali $15,000 Coryat, 20 correct, 3 incorrect, 37.50% in first on buzzer
Tyler $13,200 Coryat, 16 correct, 0 incorrect, 25.00% in first on buzzer
Lindsay $6,400 Coryat, 11 correct, 2 incorrect, 21.43% in first on buzzer
Combined Coryat Score: $34,600
Lach Trash: $14,400(on 11 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $4,600
Ali Hasan, stats to date:
45 correct, 9 incorrect
41.07% in first on buzzer (46/112)
1/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$5,000)
2/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $15,400
Ali Hasan, to win:
3 games: 38.74%
4: 15.01%
5: 5.82%
6: 2.25%
7: 0.87%
Avg. streak: 2.632 games.
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Gomer Pyle”s line, “Surprise, Surprise, Surprise” comes to my mind right away. Man, could that guy sing! RIP, Jim Nabors…
That’s, uh..nice:)–I hope you might also use this “occasion” to actually listen to the Symphony (#94) in question, or to any work (although this work is a nice introduction, as is any symphony from #92 through #104 IMO–his last, phew!) by this brilliant (and thoroughly enjoyable) composer…as I would recommend to anyone at all reading this who has any affinity for “Classical” music (It’s somewhat unfortunate to have to use that term for classifying his music because all those negatives that might come to mind when you hear that word are the exact opposite of what experiencing his music entails…to add “insult to injury” he is regarded as the essential composer (along w/ Mozart to an extent) in the subgenre of “classical” within Classical Music (some of the others being baroque, romantic, etc,….)