Final Jeopardy: Classic Fiction (12-20-19)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (12/20/2019) in the category “Classic Fiction” was:

A 1902 work says of a riverboat journey, “We penetrated deeper and deeper into” this, the work’s title

New champ Eric Smith, a bartender from Tucson, AZ, won $17,000 yesterday. In Game 2, his challengers are: Lucy Yuan, a lawyer from Vancouver, BC; and Claire Marinello-Fisher, an ESL professor from Hasbrouck Heights, NJ.

Round 1 Categories: Alternative Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town – Take My Rhyme – World Stamp News – Stuff – Writers Go Way Back – On a First Name Basis With That Show

Claire found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Writers Go Way Back” under the $200 clue on the 14th pick of the round. She was in second place with $2,200, $1,000 less than Lucy’s lead. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.

This Shakespeare play is set in 44 B.C. show

WHAT IS “JULIUS CAESAR”?

Claire finished in the lead with $8,800. Lucy was second with $6,000 and Eric was last with $3,200.

Round 2 Categories: Around the USA – Composers & Their Works – Books Filmed With Different Titles – Agriculture – The Marshall Plan – That’s Oxymoronic

Eric found the first Daily Double in “The Marshall Plan” under the $1,600 clue on the 7th pick. He was in third place with $6,000 now, $4,000 less than Claire’s lead. He bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.

$13 billion in aid was distributed to 17 European nations, including this new country born from a recent division. show

WHAT IS WEST GERMANY?

Eric found the last Daily Double in “Composers & Their Works” under the $2,000 clue, the last clue of the round. In the lead with $19,000, he had $6,600 more than Claire in second place. He bet $5,500 and guessed Tchaikovsky. That was WRONG.

In 1878 & 1886 he produced sets of “Slavonic Dances” show

WHO IS ANTONIN DVORAK?

Eric finished in the lead with $13,500. Claire was next with $12,400 and Lucy was in third place with $8,400.

ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS “HEART OF DARKNESS”?

Joseph Conrad’s novel “Heart of Darkness” was actually published in serial form in London’s “Blackwood’s Magazine” in 1899 and later in novel form in 1902. It is based upon Conrad’s earlier firsthand experience as commander of the “Roi de Belges” Congo steamer when he was sent to rescue a company agent named Georges-Antoine Klein, who became Kurtz in the novel. The quote in the clue comes from Chapter 2. It is at 12.02 in the fine reading of the book on Educational Clearing House’s website.

An old clue from 1986: WAR STORIES ($400) Coppola based his Vietnam war epic, “Apocalypse Now”, on “Heart of Darkness” by this Polish-born author

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Lucy bet $3,000, bringing her up to $11,400.

Claire bet $4,401 to finish with $16,801.

Eric bet $11,500 and won the game with $25,000. His 2-day total is $42,000.

A triple stumper from each round:

ON A FIRST NAME BASIS WITH THAT SHOW ($600) About Ms. Morgenstern, who leaves Minneapolis to give New York one last chance

COMPOSERS & THEIR WORKS ($1200) The 1996 movie “Shine” popularized his concerto known as the “Rach 3”

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Record Labels”

This label, home to U2 & Bob Marley, was created, fittingly, in Jamaica with an investment of 1,000 pounds sterling. show

WHAT IS ISLAND RECORDS?

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