Final Jeopardy: Classic Literature (1-25-24)
The Final Jeopardy question (1/25/2024) in the category “Classic Literature” was:
An intended sequel to this 1869 work centered on the Decembrists, a group of veterans who largely served in the Napoleonic Wars
Today’s Champions Wildcard contestants are: Johanna Stoberock, adjunct professor & fiction writer from Walla Walla, WA; Connor Sears, copy editor from Queens, NY; and Alec Chao, mgmt & program analyst orig. from Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Round 1 Categories: Start Talking, Shakespeare Character – Drinking Vessels – Backwords & Forewords – Highways & Byways – On My Historic CV – Questionable Science in Pop Songs
Alec found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Highways & Byways” under the $1,000 clue on the 5th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $2,000, $1,200 more than Johanna in second place. Alec bet all of it and he was RIGHT.
Important landmarks on this pioneer route included Chimney Rock in Nebraska & Fort Hall on the Snake River show
Connor and Alec were on top with $3,000 each. Johanna was in second place with $2,400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Moments of Inspiration – Whirled Capitals – Feast Days of Christianity – Nicknames – People Who Are Places – What Do “U” Stand for?
Alec found the first Daily Double in “Nicknames” under the $1,200 clue on the 9th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $8,200, $2,400 more than Connor in second place. Alec bet $2,400 and he was RIGHT.
This king’s nickname of “Unready” meant “badly advised” in Anglo-Saxon, not “unprepared” show
Connor got the last Daily Double in “Feast Days of Christianity” under the $2,000 clue with 9 clues left after it. He was in second place with $12,600, $1,200 less than Alec’s lead. Connor bet $2,000 and thought it was migrating. That was WRONG.
Corpus Christi & Whitsunday are examples of this type of feast that can fall on different dates in different years show
Alec finished in the lead with $15,400. Connor was in second place with $14,600. Johanna was last with $7,600. All clues were shown.
ONLY ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS “WAR AND PEACE”?
“The Decembrists” is Leo Tolstoy’s unfinished novel about the 1825 revolt that went down in Russia upon the death of Tsaar Alexander I. Some 3,000 officers and soldiers refused to swear allegiance to Alexander’s brother Nicholas as the new tsar. “The Decembrists” was intended to be a sequel to “War and Peace” and the first three chapters were published in a miscellaneous volume called “Twenty-five Years” in 1884. For whatever reasons, Tolstoy lost interest in the work, although he supposedly began to look at it again later in life.
Tolstoy died on 11/20/1910 at the Astapovo railway station. The town and station were renamed Lev Tolstoy after 1932. This article has some great pictures and details of Tolstoy’s life.
Johanna thought it was “A Tale of Two Cities” (1859). She lost her $6,201 bet and finished with $1,399.
Connor went with “Les Miserables” (1862). That cost him $801 and left him with $13,799.
Alec got it right. He bet $13,801 and won the game with $29,201. Next stop for Alec: the semifinals.
A triple stumper from each round:
DRINKING VESSELS ($1000) Emily Dickinson wrote, “I taste a liquor never brewed-from” these ale vessels “scooped in pearl”
PEOPLE WHO ARE PLACES ($2000) He’s a “Mamma Mia!” maybe papa & a narrow inlet of the sea in the British isles
2 years ago: BOTH players left in FJ got this clue in “Words in American History”
The 1890 census reported that “the unsettled area has been so broken into…that there can hardly be said to be a” this show
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I went dead to rights on Les Mis. I was SO confident, and wrong!
Hmmmm……..I did about average last night, and didn’t get the FJ. We’ll see what happens in today’s game.
Ouch, tough final. “Tale of 2 Cities” and 1869 didn’t seem quite right in my mind, and wasn’t, but that’s all I could think of, other than maybe “Charge of the Light Brigade.”
I liked the FJ wagers. Johanna’s was predicated at getting FJ right, Connor wagering $800 or more, and Alec pretty much having to bet $13801 or more. And both guys getting it wrong. They all wagered properly.
A lot of really tough clues tonight. But some of the stumpers weren’t, and neither was that last DD. The HASTEN anagram and the two missed backward/forward pairs weren’t so difficult. But all played really well.
It seemed they were focusing on the year of the novel and in that respect, their guesses weren’t bad. But the Dickens and Hugo novels had to do with the French Revolution. Napoleon did not come to power till that was over. The Crimean War (Light Brigade) was in the 1850s, long after Napoleon died.