Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Novels (8-20-24)

TODAY’S JEOPARDY! RERUN: QF2 of the 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament that originally aired on 3/21/2024

The Final Jeopardy question in the category “20th Century Novels” was:

Virginia Woolf disliked this book that was “cutting out the explanations and putting in the thoughts between dashes”

Today’s JIT quarterfinal features these 3 contestants: Leonard Cooper, a doctoral student from Little Rock, AR; Jason Zuffranieri, a upper school mathematics faculty member from Carrollton, TX; and Larissa Kelly, an editor from Richmond, CA.

Round 1 Categories: Historic Firsts – Characters in Book Series – Transportation – There Will Be a Test on This – The Cinema in 2023 – 4-Letter Homophones

Larissa found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “There Will be a Test on This” under the $800 clue on the 8th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $4,600. Nobody else had any money. Larissa bet it all and she was RIGHT.

Used to determine if a computer can “think”, the Turing test was originally known as this, also the name of a 2014 movie about Turing show
WHAT IS THE IMITATION GAME?

Larissa finished in the lead with $12,000. Jason was second with $4,200 and Leonard was last with $1,200. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: The Locals – In Your Element – Notable Names – On the Nose – Classic TV – Idioms & Expressions

Leonard found the first Daily Double in “In Your Element” under the $1,600 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. He was in last place with $2,400, $9,600 less than Larissa’s lead. Leonard bet it all and he was RIGHT.

P: This solar deity show
WHAT IS HORUS?

Jason found the last Daily Double in “Notable Names” under the $2,000 clue on the 11th pick of the round. He was in second place with $9,400, $6,200 less than Larissa’s lead. Jason bet it all and he was RIGHT.

His 1936 “General Theory” suggesting government spending to lower unemployment influenced economic policy for decades show
WHO IS KEYNES?

Larissa finished in the lead with $25,200. Jason was next with $19,600 and Leonard was in third place with $9,600. All clues were shown.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS “ULYSSES”?

Woolf’s quote in today’s clue refers to the “stream of consciousness” technique pioneered by James Joyce. In 1982, the New York Library hosted an exhibition featuring works and memorabilia of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce. After viewing it, Herbert Mitgang wrote “How Mrs. Woolf felt about Mr. Joyce” for the New York Times: “Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s Hogarth Press was offered the opportunity to publish Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ – but declined it. She was malicious; he was sympathetic, calling the novel ‘a remarkable piece of dynamite.'” Indeed, Virginia Woolf privately opined that “Ulysses” was “an illiterate, underbred book … the book of a self-taught working man, and we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, and ultimately nauseating.” Ouch!

Woolf’s husband wanted to publish “Ulysses” but could not find a printer who was willing to undertake the project for fear of prosecution. It was published in France in 1922 but banned in the United States until 1934.

Leonard crossed out the start of “To the Lighthouse” in favor of the right response. He bet $4,700 and finished with $14,300.

Jason went with “The Sound and the Fury”, another “stream of consciousness” novel. That cost him $6,000 and left him with $13,600.

Larissa got it right. She bet $15,000 and won the game with $40,200. Larissa Kelly is the second semi-finalist.

Final Jeopardy (3/21/2024) Leonard Cooper, Jason Zuffranieri, Larissa Kelly