Not shocked perhaps, but I did raise an eyebrow.
(The Holy Sepulcher wasn’t a bad guess, though…although the connotations of “he won’t rise again” are much different. 
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Not me, 'cause I didn’t get it either. My wife remembered after they revealed the answer, but I wasn’t familiar at all with that incident in history.
I also thought it had to do with the Crusades.
Be more shocked: I didn’t get it, either. Not everyone knows everything,
True, but I would have expected at least one of them to know it. It’s one of those things that come up somewhat regularly on Jeopardy. To be fair, though, the answer is usually a direct reference to Henry II and his (in)famous line “Will no one rid me of this turbulent(or meddlesome) priest?”
Ah, thanks for connecting the dots for me. I knew Henry’s line, but didn’t remember that the priest to whom he was referring was Thomas a Becket.
I also didn’t get it. The reference to knights made me assume that it would be a battlefield. Too late for Hastings, too early for Agincourt or Culloden. I had no guess. If I’d thought of it, I might have said Bosworth Field–even though that was the wrong date as well.
I said “where is Bosworth Field” while I was watching. Didn’t have much confidence, but it was the best guess I could come up with.
I did get it after a bit of thought (the Plantagenets are a bit of a hobby of mine), but I don’t think I would have had time to write the whole question.
Looking at the exact wording of the clue again, I suspect that calling it an “event” was meant to be a hint that it was something other than a military battle.
I guessed a Becket, but I would have written Samuel a Becket, and that’s just stupid 
The year in the clue caused the Norman Conquest to pop into my head and I then blanked on what year that actually was (even though it was off by a century,) so I kept thinking it was some event related to that. Evidently the same thing happened to Charlotte, as it looked to me like she was trying to write “Hastings.”
That’s the one I picked.
What’s a century or two, from a thousand years?
Whoa! A Cliff Clavin DD wager tonight. Ouch!
Seriously! The total value of all the remaining clues on the board, added to the score of the contestant in second place, was still not enough to stop a runaway.
So the appropriate daily double wager was $0.
And it cost her the game!!
To be fair, she did well on all the other Hans questions and it was a tricky one. Final Jeopardy was easy but obviously everyone has different knowledge of things.
Not allowed. Minimum wager for a DD is $5.
Karen definitely let her big lead go to her head. There was only $2,400 left on the board when she got the second DD. She had $21,800 and Melissa, in second place, had only $7,100. If Karen had bet anything under $2,800, she would have held onto the lock and won.
Melissa has now become a three-day champ largely by luck, despite her own bad bets and those of others.
BTW, six months ago I wrote:
Did it again last night! The FJ category was American Novelists, and as soon as I saw the clue I said, “Heller.”
The clue:
He served with an airman named Yohannan in World War II & despite what readers might think, he said he enjoyed his service
I knew that tonight’s FJ was a reference to Catch-22, but drew a blank on the authors name. I don’t suppose they would’ve given me credit for “that guy who wrote Catch-22”.
Only if you add “…and has never been in my kitchen.”
That was a horrible DD bet. The important thing is to win the game. Not everyone is James Holtzhauer and can survive a bet like that.
I was slightly off on the movie theme FJ. I guessed Norman Bates (jeek! jeek!) but I wasn’t sure how the sexiness part was supposed to work.
No spoilers, please.