Final Jeopardy: Foreign-Born Authors (1-24-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (1/24/2023) in the category “Foreign-Born Authors” was:
In the 1950s the New York Times said this author “is writing about all lust” & his lecherous narrator “is all of us”
3x champ Troy Meyer, a music executive from Tampa, FL, has won $97,600 so far. In Game 4, his challengers are: Joe Incollingo, a film and TV publicist from Los Angeles, CA; and Linda Napikoski, an ESL instructor orig. from Phoenix, AZ.
Round 1 Categories: Dante’s Circles of Hell, Defined – What Season Is It? – Say It with Advertising – They’re Bad in Books – 3.7 Trillion Fish in the Ocean – Finding Nimoy
Troy found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “They’re Bad in Books” under the $800 clue on the 8th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $2,400 now, $1,800 more than Joe in second place. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
Cathy Ames kills her parents & later abandons her newborn sons Aron & Cal Trask in this Steinbeck novel show
Troy finished in the lead with $10,400. Joe was next with $3,800 and Linda was in third place with $2,600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: A Look at Symbols – January in Recent History – Europe a-Go-Go – Pop Culture Goes to Mars – Opera – Last but Not Least
Troy found the first Daily Double in “Opera” under the $1,200 clue on the 5th pick. He was in the lead with $11,200 now, $7,800 more than Joe in second place. Troy bet $6,000 and he was RIGHT.
“The Libertine Punished” is part of the full title of this Mozart opera show
Linda got the last Daily Double in “January in Recent History” under the $1,200 clue on the 11th pick. In second place with $4,200, she had $18,200 less than Troy’s lead. Linda bet $4,100 and she was RIGHT.
n his 2002 State of the Union Address, George W. Bush used “Axis of Evil” to describe Iran, Iraq & this non-Mideast country show
Troy finished in the lead with a runaway $32,800. Linda was next with $10,300 and Joe was in third place with $7,400. All clues were shown.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS VLADIMIR NABOKOV?
Elizabeth Janeway reviewed Nabokov’s “Lolita” for the New York Times in August of 1958, after the novel was published in the United States. (It was originally published in France in 1955.) She says she first thought it was the funniest book she ever read; then upon reading the uncut version, she thought it was the saddest. “The author”, she starts out, “is writing about all lust” and eventually concludes that “Humbert is all of us.” The sense I get is that she thinks “all of us” will do whatever it takes to satisfy a lust, passion or obsession “without regard to the effect their satisfaction has upon the outside world.” If that’s what she thinks, that’s really sad!
Here’s a Mental Floss post, all about how much fun Nabokov had writing the novel. I linked to that post back in 2015 when a character in “Lolita” was referred to in the final clue.
Joe bet $5,000 and finished with $12,400.
Linda bet $4,501 and finished with $14,801.
Troy bet $7,200 and won the game with $40,000. Troy’s 4-day total is $137,600.
2 triple stumpers from the last round:
OPERA ($2000) His score for “Der Rosenkavalier” includes several Viennese waltzes
LAST BUT NOT LEAST ($1200) This plant of the mint family is used to make potpourri & herbal medicines
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “The Business of Travel”
Adjusted for inflation, the nightly rate this company put in its name in 1962 is now $51 show
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I didn’t think all 3 would know FJ. I figured out the narrator/book after a short while, then it took a few more seconds to remember the author. Had to erase DH Lawrence and Henry Miller from my mind before I could come up with it. I don’t recall whether I read the book (might have) but definitely saw two versions of the film.
Considering it was the last/least “in between” category, someone probably should have known that mint family plant.
I said Henry Miller, myself. I asked myself if he was born in the UK. So, I cheated a little, and looked it up. When I saw Miller was born in NYC, then, I know it was Nabokov. So, a miss for me!
The TS about the circle of Hell, that surprised me no one got it. But, who is in the lowest circle of Hell? The treacherous.
I’ve been trying to remember all day when the correct pronunciation of Nabokov came up before and I finally found it.
It was on a list of authors’ mispronounced names that I linked to in Feb. 2021.
The correct pronunciation is na-BOE-kof with the stress on the second syllable
Also, Otto brought it up in the comments on the 12-9-22 game. Ken read a clue in Russian Writers that contained Nabokov’s name.
I’ve always been more of a reader than a listener, so I can spell almost anything but mispronounce many words and names. I always thought it was nuh-BOCK-ov. Not too far off.
I still remember reading aloud a paragraph in 8th grade class and pronouncing “disciple” as DISS-uh-pull.
I can see that, Howard — it’s so similar to discipline
The FJ wasn’t a slam dunk for any of us this time around, ;but I’m glad that all of the contestants came up with the correct response.
I hope my son watches the show tonight. I know he will get a kick out of that Elton John clue. I had those lines on my quote wall when he was a teenager. 😁
Another one he always gets when it comes up on J! is the ““How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child” from King Lear 🤣🤣 (I liked to pull that one out when I was feeling unappreciated)