Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Novels (6-30-21)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/30/2021) in the category “20th Century Novels” was:

British biochemist J.B.S. Haldane’s essay on ectogenesis, birth outside the womb, helped inspire this 1932 novel

2x champ Courtney Shah, a community college instructor from Portland, OR won $39,100 so far this week. In Game 3, the opponents are: S.A. Shenoy, a student orig. from Newark, DE; and Abby Furnish, a government analyst from Washington, DC.

Round 1 Categories: World of Empires – Birds in Book Titles – Sports & Society – Add an S to the Front – Awards & Honors – We’d like to Thank the Academy

Abby found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Awards & Honors” under the $1,000 clue, with one clue left after it. She was in the lead with $5,200, $600 more than Courtney in second place. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.

In 2003 this Auckland-born man was the first foreigner made an honorary citizen of Nepal show

WHO IS EDMUND HILLARY?

Abby finished in the lead with $7,400. Courtney was second with $4,600 and S.A. was last with $3,400. No clues went uncovered.

Round 2 Categories: Star-Spangled Banter – Mapping the Midwest – Colorful Vocabulary – Magazines – The Director’s First Feature Film – Aria Grande

Abby found the first Daily Double in “Mapping the Midwest” under the $1,600 clue on the 5th pick. She was in the lead with $9,800 now, $2,800 more than S.A. in second. She bet $2,000 and didn’t have a response so she was WRONG.

Cities along this river that shares its name with a state capital include Ottumwa and Fort Dodge show

WHAT IS DES MOINES?

S.A. got the last Daily Double in “Aria Grande” under the $1,600 clue, with 1 clue left after it. In the lead with $10,600, he had $400 more than Courtney in second. He bet $5 and he was RIGHT.

Susanna sings the beautiful aria “Deh Vieni, Non Tardar” in this Mozart opera that promises nuptials show

WHAT IS “THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO”?

S.A. finished in the lead with $12,605. Courtney was next with $10,200 and Abby was in third place with $9,400. No clues went uncovered.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS “A BRAVE NEW WORLD”?

Mental Floss’ list of “15 Things You Might Not Know About Brave New World” mentions a lot of places, incidents and materials that were purported influences on Aldous Huxley in writing “Brave New World”. Per No. 2, Huxley foreshadowed the 1932 novel himself in his first novel “Crome Yellow” (1921) with this passage: ” An impersonal generation will take the place of Nature’s hideous system. In vast state incubators, rows upon rows of gravid bottles will supply the world with the population it requires.” JBS Haldane’s essay, referred to in the clue, was called “Daedalus” or “Science and the Future” and was published in 1924 so it would seem that Huxley already had the idea of babies being hatched in incubators. Perhaps the essay enabled him to flesh out the concept.

An old clue from 2002: “BRAVE” HEART $200: Society is divided into 5 groups in this futuristic novel: Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas & Epsilons

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Abby thought it was “Metamorphosis”. That cost her $5,600 and left her with $3,800.

Courtney got it right. She wagered $8,800 and finished with $19,000.

S.A. came up with “Steppenwolfe”. He lost $8,000 and landed in second place with $4,605. Courtney Shah remains the Jeopardy! champ. Her 3-day total is $58,100.

A triple stumper from each round:

BIRDS IN BOOK TITLES ($600) Beatrix Potter wrote & illustrated “The Tale of” this puddle-duck

THE DIRECTOR’S FIRST FEATURE FILM ($800) 1967’s “Enter Laughing”; here he is, around that time (image)

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “19th Century Literary Characters”

“Hard and sharp as flint…He iced his office in the dog-days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas” show

WHO IS EBENEZER SCROOGE?

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