Final Jeopardy: Children’s Literature (1-15-20)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (1/15/2020) in the category “Children’s Literature” was:
Einstein’s theory of relativity & Max Planck’s quantum theory inspired this book that won a 1963 Newbery Medal
2x champ Veronica Vichit-Vadakan, a librarian from Portland, OR. has now won $52,000. In Game 3, she takes on these two players: Laura Thomason, an English professor from Lizella, GA; and Oishee Shemontee, a tutor from Arcadia, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Famous & Historic Women – Easy as A_B_D – Trees – Literary Mashups – Team America – World Police
Laura found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Famous & Historic Women” under the $800 clue on the 4th pick of the round. At $1,200, she was the only one with money to burn. She bet $600 and thought it was Harriet Tubman. That was WRONG.
Let’s tell of her & nothing but her– she was born a slave in New York in the 1790s & once freed, sold a book of her “Narrative” show
Laura finished in the lead with $6,000. Oishee was second with $3,800 and Veronica was last with $3,600.
Round 2 Categories: U.S. Representatives – Composers – What Type of Machine Am I? – Netflix & Chill – Border Rivers – Backronyms
Veronica found the first Daily Double in “Composers” under the $800 clue on the 15th pick. She was in the lead with $8,800 at this point, $1,600 more than Laura in second place. She bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
If you visit this country, you can enter the room where Edvard Grieg did his composing in the home he built. show
Veronica found the last Daily Double in “Border Rivers” under the $1,600 clue, with just one clue left after it. In the lead with $13,400, she had $5,400 more than Laura in second place. She bet $3,000 and gave a country name so that was WRONG.
The only river that serves as part of a national border in the Caribbean is the Artibonite River on this island. show
Veronica finished in the lead with $10,400. Laura was next with $8,000 and Oishee was in third place with $6,600.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
In an interview with Scholastic, Madeleine L’Engle explained how Einstein inspired her to write “A Wrinkle in Time” (1962): “It was my discovery of particle physics and quantum mechanics…. In 1942, I started reading Einstein. I picked up a book about him – I don’t quite know why. I started writing the book in 1961 and it won the Newbery Medal in 1963.” She also elaborates on how she learned about time travel and tesseracts.
From 5/1/2019 (James Holzhauer got it right in his 20th game) BEFORE & AFTER ($1600) Madeleine L’Engle’s Newbery-winning novel that’s also a vacation home
Oishee got it right. She bet $6,599 and finished with $13,199.
Laura thought it was “The Fault in Our Stars.” That cost her $5,800 and dropped her down to $2,200.
Veronica got it right, too. She bet $5,601 and won the game with $16,001. Her 3-day total is $68,001.
A triple stumper from each round:
TREES ($1000) Brought to the United States as an ornamental, this spicy-sounding Brazilian tree has red berries and can crowd out native species
U.S. REPRESENTATIVES ($2000) This Louisiana Rep. received a standing ovation in 2017 after returning from injuries received from a gunshot wound
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Special Days”
A 1954 act amended a 1938 one by striking out this word & replacing it with “Veterans” show
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I mean come on now, any English teacher or English professor should be familiar with a wrinkle in time right? I know when I was in high school I read it countless times. At any rate, congrats to veronica on her third win
Gosh, I just wish you would stop ragging on the wrong FJ responses, Lou. No one knows everything you think they should know.
Veronica finally built up on her wins despite falling behind a little bit in round one. Glad that she regained control of the game. I almost thought oishee had a lock on the game but it didn’t happen.
The fault in our stars is actually a comedy movie talking about a cancer patient falling in love with a guy so it isn’t a book about time travel. I really wonder if these newbies are brushed up on literature, VJ?