Final Jeopardy: Authors (10-14-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/14/2022) in the category “Authors” was:
Featuring a statue of a man escaping his grave, his tomb in Amiens contrasts with the title of his 1864 adventure novel
10x champ Cris Pannullo, a customer success operations manager from Ocean City, NJ, won $333,723 so far. In Game 11, is competitors are: Rhianan Thomas, a hospitality worker from Downey, CA; and Marianne Dos Santos, an intermediate French and religion teacher from Ottowa, Ontario.
Round 1 Categories: The Body Human – All Ears – Stories with Heart – 2 “I”s – Poker Hands – That Movie’s Got Legs
Rhianan found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “2 ‘I’s” under the $1,000 clue on the 18th pick of the round. Rhianan was in third place with $400, $8,600 less than Cris’ lead. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
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Cris finished in the lead with $10,600. Marianne was in second place with $2,800. Rhianan was last with $1,200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Island Countries – 9-Letter Words – Avant-Garde Art – “P”otpourri – The 7th Century – TV as of Late
Cris found the first Daily Double in “Island Countries” under the $2,000 clue on the 5th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $15,200 now, $12,400 more than Marianne in second place. Cris bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
The Sinhalese people make up about 3/4 of its population show
On the very next pick, Cris got the last Daily Double in “The 7th Century” under the $1,600. In the lead with $18,200, he had $15,400 more than Marianne in second place. Cris bet $1,800 and he was RIGHT.
664’s Synod of Whitby in England standardized the calculation of this holy day based on a lunar calendar show
Cris finished in the lead with a runaway $35,200. Rhianan was in second place with $5,200 and Marianne was last with $3,200. All clues were shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS JULES VERNE?
French author Jules Verne is known the world over for his adventure novels, particularly “Journey to the Center of the Earth” (1864), “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” (1870), and “Around the World in Eighty Days” (1872). Verne lived in Amiens, France from 1871 with his wife, Honorine. He died in 1905 and was buried there in Le cimetière de La Madeleine. His wife joined him 5 years later. Dr. Tony Shaw’s blog has close-up photos of Verne’s tomb with the Albert Roze sculpture that depicts the author digging himself out of the earth.
The contrast mentioned in the clue is with the “Journey to the Center of the Earth” title, although Professor Lidenbrock, Axel and Hans, the characters that undertook the journey, came back to the surface thanks to the Stromboli volcano. The novel has been adapted to film and television many times, sometimes changing the characters’ names.
Marianne thought it was Dumas (père, we presume), who is buried in the Panthéon in Paris. She lost her $3,000 bet and finished with $200.
Rhianan went with Lovecraft, who is buried in Providence, R.I. She lost $5,000 and also finished with $200.
Cris also went with Dumas. That cost him $12,221. He had $22,979 left to win his 11th game with. Cris ends the week with $356,702 in the kitty.
Ken Jennings said that Cris will be back in about a month. The 2-week Second Chance Tournament kicks off next week and the Tournament of Champions, which may run longer than 2 weeks, comes right after that.
A triple stumper from each round:
THAT MOVIE’S GOT LEGS ($200) All 4 of them, the “Million Dollar Legs” in a 1939 film don’t belong to co-star Betty Grable but to one of these
TV AS OF LATE ($1200) “Sailing Yacht” is an iteration of this Bravo show, & hats off to chef Marcos for that 3-tiered gluten-free wedding cake
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Books of the 1950s”
A special edition of this 1953 novel came with an asbestos binding show
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FJ was tough, but my intuition told me it might be Verne.
The Friday Fatigue theory (5th taping of the day) didn’t affect Cris a bit today.
I said “inhabited” for the Goldilocks Zone, but that’s not quite the same as habitable.
I never considered Dumas. I knew both Dumas (father and son) were buried in Paris. Verne was around the same age and good friends with the son.
P.S. I saw your post on the John Sebastian album, Howard. What a great keepsake!
By the way, I like it when the Jeopardy game starts up with the curtain opening as it brings back some nostalgia regarding the original Jeopardy games that were hosted by Art Fleming.
This was a good game and Cris made it look too easy. Happy to see him winning despite not getting final. He will have a good month off to rest and practice his knowledge.
All I could come up with was Bram Stoker in FJ. Of course, Stoker didn’t begin writing novels until some years later. Then again, none of the contestants got it right either.
We end the week with a triple stumper.