Final Jeopardy: Latin Phrases
The Final Jeopardy question (3/28/2012) in the category “Latin Phrases” was:
Though often associated with Machiavelli, this phrase “Exitus Acta Probat,” first appears in a work by Ovid.
New champion Beau Henson returned today to try to put the whammy on these two new players: Jeanie Kenkel originally from Lincoln, NE, and Catie Fletcher, Bozeman, MT.
Catie found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double before the first commercial break in “Colorful Books.” She was in second place with $1,200 when she found it but was then awarded a right answer on a prior clue Alex said was wrong. So she jumped into the lead with $2,800, $1,200 more than Beau. She went for a true Daily Double. She thought it was ‘One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish’ and she was WRONG.
Georgeanne Brennan wrote a cookbook that shares its title with this Dr. Seuss classic. show
Jeanie finished in the lead with $3,200. Beau was next with $2,200 and Catie had $800 at the end of Round One.
Beau found the first Daily Double in Double Jeopardy! in “All About D.” He had $8,600 at this point, $5,400 more than Catie in second place. He bet $3,500 and he was RIGHT.
In chemistry, D is the symbol for this isotope of hydrogen. show
Beau also got the second Daily Double in the category “Official State Fruits.” He now had $14,500, $12,900 more than Catie who was now in second place with $1,600 because Jeanie had lost some dough and was down to $1,200. He modestly bet $4,000 and thought it was a peanut. That was WRONG.
Arkansas (also the state vegetable). show
Beau finished in the lead with $10,500. Catie picked up speed and finished with $6,000 and Jeanie was last with $4,400.
Only ONE of the players got Final Jeopardy! right and, as you might expect, it was the man.
Just a guess, but we’d say more women read Ovid than Machiavelli. But there’s got to be a reason it’s associated more with him than Ovid. Maybe Beau knows it, but we don’t. We did find this information in the Answer Bag: “The Greek playwright Sophocles wrote in Electra (c 409 B.C.), ‘The end excuses any evil,’ a thought later rendered by the Roman poet Ovid as ‘The result justifies the deed’ in ‘Heroides’ (c. 10 B.C.).”
Jeanie couldn’t come up with a guess but she bet nothing so she didn’t need Alex’s sympathy. She finished with what she started with — $4,400.
Catie wrote down “The play’s the thing” (from Shakespeare’s Hamlet). She bet it all and ended up with zero.
Beau got it right. He only bet $1,501, but it was surely enough to win. Heck, he would have still won if he was wrong. His total today was $12,001 and his 2-day total is $28,002. Well done! Especially on that chemistry DD.
