Final Jeopardy: Foreign-Born Authors (1-3-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (1/3/2023) in the category “Foreign-Born Authors” was:
Early in her career she translated romance novels into Spanish, often changing the dialogue to make the heroines smarter
13x champ Ray Lalonde, a scenic artist from Toronto, Ontario Canada, won $386,400 so far. In Game 14, his challengers are: Claire Theoret, a high school registar from Essex, VT; and Lloyd Sy, a graduate student in literature orig. from Rockford, IL.
Round 1 Categories: Fiction’s Fictional Places – American Art & Artists – Orgs. for Short – Romantic Movie Lines – Here’s Looking at “U” – Kid Cuisine
Lloyd found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Kid Cuisine” under the $800 with 8 clues left after it. He was tied for the lead with Ray at $3,600, $800 more than Claire in second place. Lloyd bet $5 and didn’t even try to figure it out. He said “What is you see why I bet $5?” Of course, that was WRONG.
History professor Paul Josephson’s definitive article on these breaded items is titled “The Ocean’s Hot Dog” show
Ray finished in the lead with $5,000. Lloyd was second with $4,595 and Claire was last with $3,200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: The Good, Old, U.S. of A. – Science News – Pop Music-Pourri – L’Histoire De France – Fun with 21 – Same First & Last Letter
Lloyd found the first Daily Double in “L’Histoire de France” under the $1,600 clue on the 4th pick of the round. He was in second place with $5,795, $805 less than Ray’s lead. Lloyd bet $3,095 and he was RIGHT.
After WWI, Germany lost this hyphenated border region to France, got it back in WWII, then lost it to France again show
Ray got the last Daily Double in “Same First and Last Letter” under the $2,000 clue on the 14th pick of the round. In the lead with $11,400, he had $910 more than Lloyd in second place. Ray bet $3,000 and drew a blank so he was WRONG.
A type of tax, or to remove material, such as from a book or film show
Lloyd finished in the lead with $12,490. Ray was in second place with $12,000 and Claire was last with $11,200. All clues were shown.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS ISABEL ALLENDE?
Isabel Allende was born in 1942 in Lima, Peru to Chilean parents. When her father left, her mother returned to Chile in 1945, remarrying in 1953. Her diplomat stepfather’s work took the family to other countries. Back in Chile in 1962, Isabel married and started a family. She found work as a translator of Barbara Cartland romance novels while pregnant with her second child. Isabel took it upon herself to improve the Cartland formula, modifying the dialogue, “so that the female protagonist would not come across as completely feebleminded, and then I would get carried away and change the ending.” This resulted in her termination from the job.
In 1970, Salvatore Allende, her father’s first cousin, was elected president of Chile. He was ousted in a military coup 3 years later and, as one of his relatives, Isabelle went into exile in Venezuela for 13 years. There she was able to concentrate on writing her own works and the rest is history. After marrying an American in 1988, Isabel moved to California and that is where she still lives. Learn more on Book Riot.
Claire bet it all and doubled her score to $22,000.
Ray went all in, too. He finished with $24,000.
Lloyd bet $12,000 and won the game with $24,490. We’ll be seeing Ray in the next Tournament of Champions and we’ll be seeing Lloyd a lot sooner — like tomorrow!
2 triple stumpers from the last round:
THE GOOD, OLD, U.S. OF A. ($2000) Have an electrifying visit to this, “New York’s Birthplace park” at the southern tip of Manhattan
POP MUSIC-POURRI ($400) “Don’t Get Above Your Raisin”‘ is a song from Flatt & Scruggs; it’s also the name of an episode of this Ken Burns series
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Historic Americans”
His collection of books suffered disastrous fires at the home called Shadwell in 1770 & at the Library of Congress in 1851 show
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Great run, Ray Lalonde. 13 wins & almost $390,000. We’ll see you in the Tournament of Champions.
Wow, what a terrific group tonight. I’m familiar with the FJ author was but never considered her at all. One fewer wrong answer by Ray, or if he’d nailed one or 2 of those easier stumpers, and the outcome likely would have been different.
I thought the city south of Seattle; the college conference/investor protector; Ken Burns series; the electrifying NYC park; and the type of tax (DD) were all there for the taking.
Ray looked like Luis de Guzman did in his last show – kinda in a fuzz. Ray beat himself. I thought Lloyd was trying to be flip with his $5 wager and likewise weird DD bet. I hope that that doesn’t become his hallmark. At that, I don’t see Lloyd going on a long run, anyways.
I agree. I’m not a big fan of weird bets.
As for the ocean’s hot dog, I absolutely hated them when I was a kid!
Luigi de Guzman
In the words of Alex, “ooh, so close!”
Ray had a great 13 game run so far as he is now in the tournament of champions. great to see everyone getting final Right.
We have our first giant killer of the new year and that is Lloyd Sy. Congratulations to him. After having three attempts in which a player came so close to taking down Ray, it took 4 attempts to do so. We’ll gonna miss Ray but with13 wins and nearly 390,000 in winnings he is now in second place in the TOC tracker.