Final Jeopardy: Literature (7-9-24)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/9/2024) in the category “Literature” was:
In one story he is enslaved by the Old Man of the Sea and uses apes to pick fruit so he can afford his fare back to Baghdad
4x champ Isaac Hirsch, a customer support team lead from Burbank, CA, has now won $100,586. If he wins game 5, he’ll qualify for Tournament of Champions. If he doesn’t, one of these players will take the first podium tomorrow: Anna Paone, a stay-at-home Mom from Sunnyside, NY; and Kathy Davis, a chemistry professor from North Manchester, Indiana.
Round 1 Categories: Crime History – A Novel Introduction – Stock Ticker Talk – TSA Yea or Nay – Big Bands – Moment of “Zen”
Isaac found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “A Novel Introduction” under the $800 clue on the 4th pick of the round. He was second place with $400, half of Kathy’s score. Isaac bet the $1,000 allowance and he was RIGHT.
This novel opens on a rather bleak note with “Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know” show
Isaac finished in the lead with $4,200. Kathy was second with $3,800 and Anna was last with $2,600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Ancient Contemporaries – World Capital Attractions – The Human Body – A Shapely Category – Sounds Like the Movie’s Sequel – 11-letter Words
Anna found the first Daily Double in “Sounds Like the Movie’s Sequel” under the $1,600 clue on the 2nd pick. She was in last place with $2,600 now, $$1,600 less than Isaac’s lead. Anna bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
The animated “Bee Movie” didn’t precede this 1973 movie that conned its way into winning 7 Oscars show
Isaac got the last Daily Double in “Ancient Contemporaries” under the $1,200 clue, with 11 clues left after it. In the lead with $15,000, he had $6,000 more than Anna in second place. Isaac bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.
Galen was learning medicine in Greece about tbe time this Egyptian astronomer was writing his “Almagest” show
Isaac finished in the lead with $19,400. Anna was next with $9,800 and Kathy was in third place with $3,800. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS SINBAD (SINDBAD)?
The Library of Congress outlines the 7 voyages of Sindbad (that’s the spelling they use). The clue refers to the 5th voyage: Sindbad “is enslaved by the Old Man of the Sea who rides on his back for weeks, and ends up in the City of the Apes. There he learns how to deal with the apes and gets them to pluck fruits and coconuts which he sells, building another fortune before returning home to Baghdad.”
Kathy didn’t have a response to the clue. She bet $0, standing pat on $3,800.
Anna thought it was Aladdin. That cost her $1,201 and left her with $8,599.
Isaac got it right. He added $201 and won the game with $19,601. Isaac’s 5-day total is $120,187 and, of course, he’s a future TOC-er no matter what happens after this.
A triple stumper from each round. (Please don’t put the answers in the comments)
STOCK TICKER TALK ($600) In May 2024 its BRK-A was going for $620,109 per share
SOUNDS LIKE THE MOVIE’S SEQUEL ($000) A 1985 dystopian film with a country as its title was not a prequel to this 1978 film with Gregory Peck as Josef Mengele
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES”
Less than 100 yards north of the J. Edgar Hoover Building is this notorious location show
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Briefly, Isobel burned Burton’s translation of “The Perfume Garden”, even though she was offered £6,000 for it. If you think that was bad enough, she also consigned to flames “almost all of his 40 -year collection of diaries and journals. She did design the Bedouin tent raised over their graves (Isabel died in 1896) in Mortlake, SW London.
1/3 on DD, but got FJ somewhat easily. You want to know what is difficult to get? A book of all the “Thousand Nights and a Night”, complete. Sir Richard Burton (not the actor) translated them, but, then, did something which I will NEVER understand: when he died, had his wife burn all his papers, including the translation. I mean, the dude got circumcised to enter Mecca as a non Muslim! (Unbeknownst to them.)
There are, all told, over 300 stories.
Got about 1/2 the TS, as usual.
Ok, I’m all wet. They were published.
Yikes, that was a whole laundry list of changes made mid-game.
I thought FJ MIGHT be Aladdin, then realized last-second who it was, but not in enough time to have written it down.
As Kevin said, I have no idea what Anna was thinking, other than waving the white flag and playing to ensure second place.
Some of those stumpers ranged from easy to at least gettable. The Peck/Mengele film (a personal favorite), the BRK-A company (I jokingly tell people I’m the 2nd biggest shareholder of their main holding), the inflatable car device, the capital with the Byzantine mosque, and the Checkerboard Square pet food company.
I did exceptionally well in Jeopardy today, but didn’t break any record. As for FJ, I went for Aladdin too. On a side note, the 1958 film ‘Vertigo’ seems to appear regularly in the Jeopardy games.
I don’t understand Anna’s wager, it doesn’t make sense at all. If she is right and wagered what she did and Isaac is wrong and goes for the lockout, Anna would have lost and she made a bad wager. But it didn’t matter in the end since Isaac was the only player correct and he now qualifies for the Tournament of Champions.
What I found so unusual in this game is that there are 4 scoring changes in this game in DJ! It’s never happened before.
Kevin, there were only 3 scoring changes.
Four: magic triangle; corroborated; char-grilled or whatever Isaac said; and $$ added back to the player who also missed that 11-letter word clue.