Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Children’s Books) for Tuesday, March 3, 2020 (Season 36, Episode 127):
This book was published in Latin as “Virent Ova! Viret Perna!!”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Kim Lutz, a homemaker and retired engineer from Centennial, Colorado
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Mike Upchurch, a writer from Chicago, Illinois
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Bruce Lou, a software engineer from San Francisco, California (1-day total: $13,245)
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Correct response: What is Green Eggs and Ham?
More information about Final Jeopardy:
Dr. Seuss in Latin? That exists! University of Kentucky Latin professor Terence Tunberg, along with his wife Jennifer, were commissioned by textbook publisher Bolchazy-Carducci to translate many of Dr. Seuss’ works into Latin. Green Eggs and Ham became Virent Ova! Viret Perna!!, How the Grinch Stole Christmas became Quomodo Invidiosulus nomine Grinchus Christi natalem Abrogaverit, and The Cat in the Hat became Cattus Petasatus. Atlas Obscura wrote an article in 2017 about the process.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Bruce $23,000
Mike $15,600
Kim $9,000
Tonight’s results:
Kim $9,000 – $7,800 = $1,200 (What is Horton Hears a Who?)
Mike $15,600 + $11,000 = $26,600 (What is Green Eggs + Ham?) (1-day total: $26,600)
Bruce $23,000 – $7,201 = $15,799 (What is I hope I won)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Mike $8,000
Bruce $2,600
Kim $2,200
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) “LIST” BUCKET $800 (clue #4)
Mike -200 +800 (Bruce 0 Kim 200)
2) WATERFALLS $2000 (clue #14)
Bruce 11800 +5000 (Mike 8800 Kim 3000)
3) LUKE $1600 (clue #24)
Bruce 20000 +3000 (Mike 13200 Kim 7000)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 137
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 259 (2.04 per episode average), 2 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Mike $15,600 Coryat, 23 correct, 4 incorrect, 45.61% in first on buzzer (26/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
Bruce $18,600 Coryat, 19 correct, 1 incorrect, 29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Kim $9,000 Coryat, 11 correct, 0 incorrect, 17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $43,200
Lach Trash: $7,000 (on 7 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $3,800
Bruce Lou, career statistics:
44 correct, 8 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 9 rebound opportunities)
38.05% in first on buzzer (43/113)
3/5 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $7,600)
0/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $19,500
Mike Upchurch, career statistics:
24 correct, 4 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
45.61% in first on buzzer (26/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $800)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $15,600
Kim Lutz, career statistics:
11 correct, 1 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $9,000
Mike Upchurch, to win:
2 games: 53.077%
3: 28.171%
4: 14.953%
5: 7.936%
6: 4.212%
Avg. streak: 2.131 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Reminder that as per the rules of the show, leading articles may be added to responses without penalty; thus, in the case of PARENTHETICAL SONG TITLES $1200, “Dude”, “The Dude”, and “A Dude” are all considered equally correct by the show’s judges.
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Did they know that this episode would be aired on March 2nd – Dr. Seuss’ birthday?
doh!…it’s already the 3rd. his birthday was yesterday.
Yes, but yesterday was Sunday so maybe the chose to have it today for the closest date.
I mean, it’s been a week so far, but yesterday was Monday, no?
Yes, Geisel’s birthday was Monday, 2nd. Ah, and the old Latin again!!! So now we are 1/6 in FJ for the week. Bruce would have lost anyway by 999 had Mike gone all in. According to the numbers (unless it’s a typo) Bruce miscalculated by 1.000…….Mike would have had 31.200 and Bruce only 30.201. Maybe Latin should also be a category contestants should pay attention too? You have Latin roots not only in Romance languages (Spanish,Italian,French,Portuguese, Romanian) but also in English, German and Scandinavian and is still very much a language that is alive and will stay around, just as Greek….
I just got back from vacation so knowing what is today can be off. LOL.
My first thought was Horton Hatches the Egg when I saw ova, so I guess that’s what Kim was thinking with her answer when she went with the other Horton book.
Interesting bet by Bruce. I think he probably meant to bet $1,000 more than he did to guarantee at least a $1 win with the correct answer. In the end, it didn’t matter, though.
Methinks he miscalculated there, as the leader should just about always bet enough to guarantee a win with a right answer.
OK, I’m not imagining things, and math hasn’t changed recently. Oddly, with Mike not doubling up, Bruce still would’ve gotten the win had he gotten it right. Strange bets by both.
And I’m shocked only one of the three got got from “Vir-… Ova” to “Green Eggs.”
In the category “4, 4” (a pair of four letter words), for “This type of event is meant to move possible damaged merchandise quickly & at very low prices”, they were looking for “fire sale”. I wonder if they would have also accepted the response which came to my mind, “hail sale”…
There should have been a d in the word translating green. The person hired to translate it made a mistake. I just checked it in my Latin dictionary. I had 3 years of Classical Latin in high school and my husband learned Church Latin in a seminary and later taught Latin extra when he was a high school history teacher. “Verdant gardens” is an example of a borrowing into English, a Germanic language.
The clue wasn’t, “what would the name be in Latin?” It was, “How was it published?” As such, it was correct.
No, the question was asking for the name of the children’s book before it was translated into Latin. Dr. Seuss wasn’t mentioned; everyone might have gotten it right if it had been. The Latin is also odd because it literally says “green eggs! green ham!” It should have just said the green eggs (plural) plus et (and) perna. Actually there were many word orders possible because of all the endings on words that show their relationships. There was a Latin newsletter published, I think in Toronto, and I even translated some favorite popular songs into Latin just for the fun of it.
Are “virent” and “viret” both different forms of “green,” so a literal translation of the latin would be “Green Eggs and Green Ham?”
Actually, “virent ” and ‘viret” are not adjectives but the verb “vireo”, which means “to be green”, and is conjugated as follows: vireo, vires, viret, viremus, viretis, virent. So the Latin title translates as: “The eggs are green, the ham is green.”
So that is the standard way you would say that something is green? Do all the colors have such verbs?
Some of the most common colors do. For example, “albeo”, “rubeo”, and “nigro” mean “to be white”, “to be red” and ” to be black”, respectively; whereas “albesco”, “rubesco”, and “nigresco” mean to become white, red, and black, respectively. On another note, “viresco” means “to become green”
Are those like “reflexive” verbs?
Glad someone else noticed Mike answered “The Dude”. Does that leniency extend to the entire game? Considering that they will dock you for adding or dropping a single letter, I’m surprised that you can get away with adding an entire word where it doesn’t belong.
The show has determined that it is fairest to not require leading articles. The extension of that is to thus permit “the” or “a” to be added to any response without rendering it incorrect (unless there is another work to confuse it with).
Note that this doesn’t apply to internal articles, which must be correct.
An aunt of mine, who just passed last Tuesday, used to teach high school Latin, and would have been my go-to resource on this. 🙁