Final Jeopardy: Literary Monuments (11-12-24)
The Final Jeopardy question (11/12/2024) in the category “Literary Monuments” was:
A 112-foot-tall monument in a Madrid plaza depicts a writer seated above bronze statues of these 2 characters
New champ Joey DeSena, a development engineer from Raleigh, NC, won $17,497 yesterday. In Game 2, his challengers are: Kathleen Clark, an English teacher, orig. from Stamford, CT; and Jonathan Fox, a staffing capacity manager from Plymouth, MA.
Round 1 Categories: World of Leaders – English Literature – Nice Wheels – Music Miscellanea – We’re Salutin’ Gluten – Rhyme Time
Kathleen found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “English Literature” under the $1,000 on the 3rd pick of the round. She was in the lead with $800, $200 more than Joey in second place. Kathleen bet $800 and she was RIGHT.
In the first chapter of this E.M. Forster book, Lucy comments, “I want so to see the Arno” show
Jonathan finished in the lead with $4,600. Joey was second with $4,000 and Kathleen was last with $2,800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: U.S. History – Rivers of the Whirled – Let’s Dabble in Science – Transportation – Heist Films – Ends in “CH”
Joey found the first Daily Double in “U.S. History” under the $2,000 clue on the 5th pick of the round. He was in second place with $4,000, $2,200 less than Jonathan’s lead. Joey made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
A December 2, 1954 resolution said the conduct of this man “is contrary to senatorial traditions and is hereby condemned” show
Jonathan found the last Daily Double in “Transportation” under the $1,200 clue on the 19th pick of the round. He was in second place with $9,400, $5,000 less than Joey’s lead. Jonathan bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.
Disneyland opened one of these in 1959; Seattle, in 1962 & Las Vegas, in 1995 show
Joey finished in the lead with $14,400. Jonathan was second with $13,600 and Kathleen was last with $7,600. All clues were shown.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO ARE DON QUIXOTE & SANCHO PANZA??
The Miguel de Cervantes monument in Madrid’s Plaza de España is the work of architect Rafael Martínez Zapatero and sculptor Lorenzo Coullaut Valera. They won the contract to undertake the project in a 1915 contest. It features a stone monolith, a sculpture of a seated Cervantes, with separate equestrian statues of his famous characters, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. The monolith is topped by a globe and 5 women representing continents. Other Cervantes-related sculptures surround the monument, some of which were sculpted by Lorenzo Coullaut’s son.
The above video shows tourists by the Don Quixote and Sancho sculptures to give you an idea of size. You can see images with greater detail on equestrianstatue.org
Kathleen bet it all and doubled her score to $15,200.
Jonathan bet $4,400 and finished with $18,000.
Joey bet $12,401 and won the game with $27,201. His 2-day total is $44,698.
A triple stumper from each round. (Please don’t put the answers in the comments)
NICE WHEELS ($1000) Tibetan Buddhists use this device as an aid to meditation
TRANSPORTATION ($2000) Introduced in 1935, this legendary alphanumeric airplane built by the Douglas company, helped revolutionize passenger travel
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “NAME’S THE SAME”
Name shared by a Victorian novelist & an 1805 flagship captain whose name is heard in a famous phrase show
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FJ came to me immediately, though I wasn’t 100% certain.
Kathleen did well to stay in the game, even though she didn’t get to try either of those last two easy-as-pie DDs. I try not to speculate on second-chancers, but I think these two are deserving. All 3 players were solid.
The link provided to the wheat clue doesn’t give its 5-letter name, but I know what it is. The hoarding commodity was semi-obvious. CUBA LIMO was a cinch. I was sure someone would know the casino heist film. I vaguely remember seeing the original over 60 years ago, as well as the remake. Rhyme Time was downright cruel today.
Howard, I thought I linked to the one that said the word in the description. I fixed it now but the right answer should usually be in the search bar. (It was when I checked the link!)
Example — the product says ‘5-letter answer wheat’ but it just says the ‘5-letter answer’ in the search bar.
I thought the final and two of the daily doubles were pretty easy. Some of the categories had some pretty tough material imo.
I agree that the final and DDs were easy. Some of those stumpers were in categories just completely out of my reach – airplanes, taxonomy, epochs.
I got a couple of the rivers the players didn’t. I got the Lewis Carroll creature too, and I ran the Rhyme Time category.