Final Jeopardy: Fictional Characters (6-4-24)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/4/2024) in the category “Fictional Characters” was:
This character in a series of popular books begun in 1934 promises, “I’ll stay till the wind changes”
4x champ Adriana Harmeyer, an archivist from West Lafayette, IN, has now won $91,800. In Game 5, her challengers are: Christina Paul, foreign service officer from Davie, FL; and Travis Kissire, deputy public works director from Boise, ID.
Round 1 Categories: Tree-via – Common Bonds – Other Good Books – 21st Century Sports – Eurofood – What “iz” It?
Christina found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Eurofood” under the $800 clue on the 11th pick of the round. She was in last place with $1,000, $2,400 less than Adriana’s lead. Christina made it a true Daily Double and said collard greens. That was WRONG.
Colcannon is a traditional Irish dish made with potatoes & this veggie that puts the “col” in the name show
Adriana finished in the lead with $6,200. Travis was second with $3,000 and Christina was last with $600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: June 4 Ever More – Idioms & Expressions – Modern Potpourri – Feeling a Little Art “C” – Any Port – In a Storm
Travis found the first Daily Double in “Idioms & Expressions” under the $1,600 clue on the 8th pick of the round. He was in second place with $5,200, $3,200 less than Adriana’s lead. Travis bet $3,800 and said little cat feet. That was WRONG.
Sticky foot pads called pulvilli are needed if you want to literally be this & listen to others’ conversations while unseen show
Christina found the last Daily Double in “Feeling a Little Art ‘C’” under the $800 clue on the 15th pick of the round. She was in last place with $1,800, $10,000 less than Adriana’s lead. Christina bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.
Picasso called this post-impressionist known for his “Bathers” series the “father of us all” show
Adriana finished in the lead with a runaway $17,400. Travis was second with $4,800 and Christina was last with $2,400. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS MARY POPPINS?
Kiddle, the Kids Encyclopedia Facts website, has an extensive article on the 8 Mary Poppins books by P.L. Travers. You can find out anything you might want to know about the series and the Mary Poppins films over there.
The title of the first chapter in the 1934 book “Mary Poppins” is “The East Wind”. When said wind deposits Mary Poppins at the Banks’ home on Cherry Tree Lane, the children soon find out that she is no ordinary nanny. At the end of the chapter, Michael Banks asks Mary Poppins “Will you never leave us?” She replies “Till the wind changes” right before she goes to sleep in a bed the children saw her take out of her purse.
Christina switched from the Wizard of Oz to Winnie the Pooh. She bet and lost her whole $2,400.
Travis got it right. His $4,799 bet brought him up to $9,599.
Adriana also got it right. She bet $7,000 and won the game with $24,400. Adriana’s 5-day total is $116,200.
A triple stumper from each round:
21ST CENTURY SPORTS ($400) In 2007 this NL squad became the 1st team with 10,000 losses; in 2008 they won the World Series behind Cole Hamels & Ryan Howard
IN A STORM ($1600) Bogie attests, “One Rocco more or less isn’t worth dying for” in this tempest-tossed John Huston thriller
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “NOVEL QUOTES”
Referring to the book’s title, this character says, “I know it’s a poem by Robert Burns” show
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I was taken aback by the miss on the 1st DD. I erroneously thought it was common knowledge that potatoes and the missed correct response were a traditional combination in Ireland. This is without knowing the nomenclature used in the clue. This was a popular dish in our household on St. Patrick’s Day In New York and we’re not Irish. Of course the “Winnie the Pooh” response for fj helped explain the 1st DD miss. I’m inclined to believe that some contestants simply get nervous onstage.
Maybe the way the clue was worded mixed Christina up. I’m Irish and I figured it was the traditional Irish accompaniment to corned beef but I never had colcannon and I didn’t know what “col” in it is supposed to stand for til I looked it up. The Gaelic is cál ceannann. The last word supposedly stands for white-headed. At any rate, I always eat my “col” separate from my potatoes.
On the other hand, I’m also part French. If they asked me what soupe aux choux is, I’d know that right away because I’ve had it before.
VJ, Your take on it makes good sense. We never had the corned beef because our mom wasn’t a big fan of meat. However, the potatoes with the vegetables were delicious. Don’t know what spices she used but the meal was delicious. As you know, St. Patrick’s Day is huge in New York for everyone. If anyone didn’t wear green that day when we were young they got pinched. 🤣 We looked forward to it every year.
The “col”/cabbage connection befuddled me, until later in the evening when I thought of cole slaw.
Travis took himself right out of the game with that missed DD about the sticky foot pads. There was really only one answer, and he flubbed it. But at least he got the Final, which stumped me big-time. And now I’ve learned that it was a series of novels.
Ouch, those three missed sports clues were right in my wheelhouse. The Detroit driver clue was there for the taking. The Joplin clue was a killer, but I remembered that band, which evolved from her Big Brother & the Holding Company group. I ALMOST got to see her live at Woodstock, but I crashed Saturday night from lack of food and sleep, and missed all the big names. CCR, Sly and the Family Stone, the Who, Grateful Dead too.
I don’t know about some of these clues. I never heard of pulvilli myself and I was confused by that.
Then that other Daily Double about colcannon — I don’t get how they expect anyone who isn’t Irish to know that.
I didn’t know it was a series of books, either. I, myself, went with Jeeves, Bertie Wooster’s butler, from the series by PG Wodehouse.
Good on Adriana on her 5th win and ticket to the TOC!
Jeeves was an answer Adriana came up with either Monday or Tuesday.
It’s actually game 5 for Adriana. I’m glad that she qualified for the Tournament of Champions and she’s the fourth qualifier to make it to the TOC. So far, the field has been all female for the next Tournament of Champions.