Final Jeopardy: Classic American Novels (4-2-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/2/2020) in the category “Classic American Novels” was:

Lady Duff Twysden was the basis for a character in this 1926 novel set partly in Spain

New champ Hemant Mehta, a blogger from Naperville, IL, won $13,999 yesterday. In Game 2, his challengers are: Tiffany Eisenhauer, a physician assistant from Freeport, ME; and Felicity Flesher, a screenwriter from Studio City, CA.

Round 1 Categories: Famous Names – 11-Letter Words – Academy of Country Music Awards – Kids Books en Espanol – This & That – Let’s Skirt the Issue

Hemant found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Let’s Skirt the Issue” under the $400 clue, with 10 clues to go after it. He was in second place with $1,800, $600 less than Tiffany’s lead. He bet $1,000 and said “Edsel.” He knew that was WRONG.

British designer Mary Quant named this ’60s skirt after her favorite car show

WHAT IS THE MINI SKIRT?

Tiffany finished in the lead with $4,000. Hemant was second with $2,600 and Felicity was last with $800.

Round 2 Categories: The Vietnam War – Books of the Bible – Questions & Answers – Old Names on the Map – Movie Monsters – It Has Three “I”s

Tiffany found the first Daily Double in “Old Names on the Map” under the $1,600 clue, with 7 clues left after it. She was in second place with $5,600 now, $2,200 less than Hemant’s lead. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.

What was once the protectorate of Bechuanaland is now this African county that also starts with “B” show

WHAT IS BOTSWANA?

For the second day in a row, the last Daily Double went uncovered. Mercy! It was under one of 2 clues left in “Vietnam War” or the $2,000 clue in “Bible”.

Hemant finished in the lead with $9,400. Felicity was next with $7,600 and Tiffany was in third place with $6,000.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS “THE SUN ALSO RISES”?

A British socialite, Lady Duff Twysden was the model for Lady Brett Ashley in Ernest Hemingway’s debut novel “The Sun Also Rises” (1926). (The novel has also been published under the title “Fiesta”). The notoriously free-spirited Twysden was part of a group that went with Hemingway to the 1925 San Fermin bullfighting festival in Pamplona. Lesley M.M. Blume wrote a book about what transpired called “Everybody Behaves Badly”. She says Hemingway’s novel “was a (barely) fictionalized account of the events that had gone down in Pamplona.”

The novel’s protagonist, Jake Barnes, described Lady Brett as: “damned good-looking. She wore a slipover jersey sweater and a tweed skirt and her hair was brushed back like a boy’s. She started all that. She was built with curves like the hull of a racing yacht….” That was something of an upgrade on Hemingway’s part, Blume says, as Twysden was neither a pioneer in fashion nor “particularly voluptuous.”

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Tiffany went with Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms” (published in 1929). She lost her $5,999 bet and finished with $1.00.

Felicity got it right. She bet it all and doubled her score to $15,200.

Hemant picked “The Great Gatsby” (from 1925). He lost his $5,801 bet, finishing with $3,599. That made Felicity Flesher the new Jeopardy! champ.

A triple stumper from each round:

ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS ($800) In 2017, before we met her in the middle with Zedd & Grey on pop radio, she was named ACM New Female Vocalist of the Year

MOVIE MONSTERS ($2000) Based on a 1960 Hugo award-winning novel, this movie starred Casper van Dien & Denise Richards as soldiers fighting insect-like aliens

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Films of the 1990s”

Tommy Lee Jones won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for this movie based on a TV series that premiered in 1963 show

WHAT IS “THE FUGITIVE”?

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