Final Jeopardy: Children’s Books (3-29-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/29/2019) in the category “Children’s Books” was:
This 1883 classic ends with the words “A well-behaved little boy!”
2x champ Steven Grade, a sports industry consultant, has now won $57,201. In Game 3, his opponents are: Natasha Leyk, a budget manager from Chicago, IL; and Andrew Simmons, a grants contract reviewer from Lilburn, GA.
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Round 1 Categories: The Zodiac, Kinda in Pictures – Literary Genres – Ad Slogans – Nouns That Are Also Verbs – Continental Breakfast – Following Sports Religiously
Natasha found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Literary Genres” under the $800 clue, with only one clue left after it. She was in second place with $5,600, $2,800 less than Steven’s lead. She bet $1,600 and she was RIGHT.
The Nebula Awards are given by the Science Fiction & this genre Writers of America. show
Natasha finished in the lead with $8,200. Steven was second with $7,400 and Andrew was last with $1,400.
Round 2 Categories: Castle Architecture – Philosophy – Sci-Fi Transports – 5-Letter “W”ords – Paint Me as You See Me – Quartz & All
Natasha found the first Daily Double in “Castle Architecture” under the $2,000 clue on the 5th pick. She was in the lead with $11,400 now, $4,000 more than Steven in second place. She bet $3,000 and had no guess so she was WRONG.
4-letter name for the innermost & strongest building near the center of a castle. show
Andrew found the last Daily Double in “Quartz & All” under the $2,000 clue, with 3 clues to go after it. In second place with $11,800, he had $4,000 less than Steven’s lead. He bet $2,500 and he was RIGHT.
A form of quartz gave its name to this firing mechanism used in old-timey pistols. show
Steven finished in the lead with $17,800. Andrew was next with $14,300 and Natasha was in third place with $12,400.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
According to a 2011 Slate article Bad Things Happen to Bad Children, Carlo Collodi’s original story about Pinocchio was published in serial form in 1881 “in the weekly Giornale dei bambini, the ‘newspaper for kids,’ where it gained a large following. But when Pinocchio was hanged after the 15th installment, Collodi’s young readers were horrified. His publishers forced him to extend the story, bringing Pinocchio back to life through the intervention of a beautiful child with blue hair (the character that later morphs into the Blue Fairy).” Books Tell You Why takes a less harsh look at Collodi, who spent the better part of his life writing political stuff.
From 2011 (around when I first started recapping the show; also why I never read this book to young’uns): “In the original 1883 work, this title character kills a talking cricket, has his feet burned off and nearly starves“
Natasha went with Peter Pan (1911- actually “Peter and Wendy”). She lost her $7,400 bet, leaving her with $5,000.
Andrew thought it was with “Little Lord Fauntleroy” (1886). He lost $12,000 and finished with $2,300.
Steven wrote down “The Velveteen Rabbit” (1922). He lost $10,801. The $6,999 he had left won him his third match. His 3-day total is $64,200.
2 triple stumpers from QUARTZ & ALL (the only ones I caught in the whole game):
($800) This silty, wind-blown stuff is 60 to 70% quartz, more or…
($1200) Quartzite is quartz that was once this rock made up of tiny grains
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Famous British Names”
He used the coat of arms granted to his father in 1596; it depicts a long-shafted weapon, a visual pun on the family name. show
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@VJ
Thanks for the fix. As for the Italian: though I did not take a course in Italian you took, I did not take any but during my work in Vienna with the sightseeing and travel agency I also did deal a lot with Italians. READING an Italian paper I understand 50 % what is said, understanding and speaking are entirely different things, especially because of all the different dialects from Suedtirol to Sicily. I don’t think I need a lesson in Italian either. Just saying…..And 12 years of Latin improved my understanding of Italian considerably, trust me! But let’s let it rest, I honestly appreciate your correction!!!
But when Pinocchio was hanged after the 15th installment, Collodi’s young readers were horrified.”—LOL! Hanged for killing the cricket or for lying?
No, lol, he was hanged by the Cat and the Fox who were trying to rob him of some gold he hid in his mouth. The ghost of the cricket (whom Pinocchio killed by throwing a hammer at its head) had warned Pinocchio not to get involved with the Cat and the Fox but, of course, he didn’t listen…
Lol, VJ, and parents actually read this book to their children? O-m-g.
Probably not,.. I would imagine that kids read it themselves back then. It was in a kids’ newspaper which would be equivalent to other generations’ “Jack and Jill” or “Highlights” periodicals.
I read somewhere once that back in the olden days of merry England, parents would take kids out after beheadings and show them heads stuck on pikes so they would know what happens to bad guys.
By comparison, Pinocchio seems like progress. lol
And they say that children were often present at guillotine executions and some played with miniature guillotines at home, decapitating dolls and rodents. Ugh! Sick people.
That “Castle Architecture” clue surprised me. They typically choose well-trod responses for the Daily Doubles, and that clue seemed fairly obscure.
yup! the ones they had yesterday blew my mind for the opposite reason (I mean, Martin Luther and albatross)
That was an unexpected triple stumper on Final today.
I can’t believe Natasha changed her response in the art category thanks to Alex telling her to say it again.
I agree. I thought she said it well enough to be accepted the first time. Where’s the slack they usually cut the players for foreign pronunciations? Then to add insult to injury, they let Andrew have it. Boo hiss
What correct response did she say the first time?
The first time she pronounced it as Mo-dig-li-own-ee. When Alex asked her to say it again, she still went with the “own” sound but left off the last “ee” sound. Andrew pronounced it as Mo-dig-li-ahn-ee.
I think dinging her for the “own” sound in her first response was splitting hairs on a name like that, that is difficult to pronounce for a lot of English speakers.
Listen to an Italian woman say “Modigliani” on Forvo — you can’t even hear the “g”.
@VJ
I believe she left out the G (pronounced as “J”!!! the first time AND left out the first “I” as well.I replayed it several times, the captions did NOT reflect her actual pronunciation.Only got to it today again, the game was fortunately still saved.
THAT “G” in Italian is actually – if at all- pronounced like a J” as in the Spanish “ll” = Sevilla.(Not like in “Giovanni”, where you DO pronounce the “G”). You don’t pronounce the town SEVILLA but SEVIJA. And “a name like that”???
What’s so absurd or unusual about it?? A proper noun is pronounced as the owner of the name pronounces it. There are tons of Italian names similar to this one, with a “g” in the middle and having more than 3 or 4 syllables.
You have “Michelangelo” where you DO pronounce the “G”, but then it’s really 2 words: “Michel” and “Angelo”, 2 separate first names contracted into one. In terms of pronunciation Italian can or is often more complex than even French.
“Consiglieri” (Godfather” is usually pronounced w/o the “G”…) but then it also depends whether you are from Milan or Palermo I guess.The call whether to demand the “G” pronounced here is tricky, I give you that. But we have seen stranger rulings. Declining metric for decimal was splitting hairs imo, since those words are – at least in German, Dutch, even Spanish and Italian practically synonymous. Leave alone Slavic languages like Serbian, Croatian, even Russian. In any case the ruling was lucky and crucial for Steven. Otherwise……Natasha would have been in the lead before FJ and who knows what the wagers would have been, after all, all 3 were wrong. But it’s water under the bridge anyway…..Puts Steven into a double unique position on Monday…I am obviously not following J! as closely as you, but even I have seen/heard weirder decisions….and I am sure so have you.
I just find “a name like that” perhaps a little bit derogative. Unless you change your name legally you have no say in the matter. My grandmother’s maiden name was a Hungarian “Szediviyi”.(Pronounced TSCHEDIVIJI.(there is a check mark over the “S” I don’t have on my keyboard) If you would call that “a name like that” I would take some offense. Not everybody is called “Smith”, “Miller” or “Jones”.
@John, I listened to her saying it with my eyes closed and I concluded that her response was rejected for the “own” sound – she said Modigliani as if it was Modiglione. So that is the issue, not the “gli” sound. (FYI, I took two years of Italian in college and don’t need a lesson on Italian pronunciation.)
They have often been lenient with mispronunciations of foreign words and names on the show, such as accepting “coup de gras” for “coup de grâce”. Conversely, they have in the past been more strict about people that might fit a category with the same last name, but in last Wed’s game, Alex didn’t ask for a more specific in the Senator & President category when the player answered “Johnson”. So the ruling did not sit well with me.
As for the rest of your comment — you took what I said the wrong way so I fixed it for you.
Surprising responses today. I was pretty sure we’d see one or both of
Tom Sawyer (1876)
Huckleberry Finn (1884)
Instead, we only got one 19th century novel and two from the 20th century. Here are those last lines:
The Velveteen Rabbit: “But he never knew that it really was his own Bunny, come back to look at the child who had first helped him to be Real.”
Peter and Wendy – “When Margaret grows up she will have a daughter, who is to be Peter’s mother in turn; and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.”
Little Lord Fauntleroy: “There’s not an aunt-sister among ’em–nor an earl!”
LINK: 2 categories from this match
This should have been a triple solve because Pinocchio was already made into a Disney movie. Furthermore Natasha was in the right ballpark. But Andrew’s response isn’t Disney related here. But on a brighter note, we started off a with a few dismal performances but Steve managed to turn things around. Also VJ have you heard of the little faunterleroy ever turning into a movie? A win is a win for Steve but I wouldn’t hold my breath. I really hope Steve has what it takes to move up in his wins.
@Lou, I wish you would read the info about the FJ answer in the recap. Then you would know that the Pinocchio book is nothing like the Disney movie.
There have been quite a few Little Lord Fauntleroy films. The only one I saw was the 1936 one with Freddie Bartholomew who was also terrific as little David Copperfield in the 1935 film with W.C. Fields as Micawber.
Another week and another day is in the books, And a lucky day for Steven it was, but first congratulations to him for win #3:
1. He was the only one who did not pick a boy but a rabbit, but won.
2. Natasha and Andrew did not stay put,wagered not all but too much. Had they stayed put….Steven would have lost.
3. Had Natasha gotten her DD right> swing of 6K. and Steven would have lost.
4. Nobody went to a small place in Italy near Firenze, Steven won.
But a win is a win and now he has to fight TWO curses: the Friday and 4 game curse. First he has to win on Monday, We have seen often that the player ending the week on a winning note crashed Monday.
If he wins Monday, then he has only to beat the 4 game jinx and would be the first 5 game winner since Oct.18, pushing Alex Schmidt off (maybe already on Mon if winning more than 92.880 in 4 games). So we should have a very crucial and hopefully good game on Mon.
P.S. Only 2 TSs… bravo!
And that ”On The Fence” game will air on April Fools’ Day.
@William
Yeah, I wonder who will get fooled…..LOL
I don’t think anybody will get fooled but one time, I made an April Fools video about Final Jeopardy! from an episode that aired on March 27th, 2017. The returning champion was Robert Weibezahl, who won $11,000 on Friday, March 24th, which was not a good day for both JEOPARDY! & Wheel Of Fortune. Anyway, Robert’s opponents were Adam Vesterholt & Meral Cultu. Heading into Final Jeopardy!, Adam had a $1 lead over Robert. Adam had $13,401, Robert had $13,400 & Meral was in 3rd place with $11,800. Meral got Final Jeopardy! right, and wagered $1,602, bringing her up to $13,402, meaning that as of right now, the 3 scores are $13,400, $13,401, and $13,402. After that reveal, I paused the video, and said something like this ”And those are the 3 scores, Meral Cultu, you are the new JEOPARDY! Champion with $13,402. You’ll be back tomorrow defending against 2 challengers. See you then. APRIL FOOLS! Now, let’s watch what really happened.” So, after that, Robert missed, and lost $1,600, leaving him with $11,800, and Adam got it right, wagered $13,400, the lockout, and became the REAL new JEOPARDY! Champion with $26,801, and he’ll be back tomorrow defending against 2 challengers.