Final Jeopardy: Literary Characters of the 1600s (1-4-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (1/4/2021) in the category “Literary Characters of the 1600s” was:
When the title character tells him that a great adventure may win him an island he can govern, he leaves his family
4x champ Brayden Smith, a policy intern from Las Vegas, NV, was up to $97,799 when last seen. In Game 5, he is up against: David Kaye, an English teacher from Scottsdale, AZ; and Teal Patterson, a lawyer originally from Gainesville, FL.
This show was originally scheduled to air on December 21. (It even has a category named that). Alex Trebek opened the show with a message encouraging everyone to expand their gift-giving this Christmas season to help those suffering through these tough times.
Round 1 Categories: Geographic Etymology – The Movies – Farming U.S.A. – December 21 – The Literary Character’s Occupation – ABCDEFG — That’s All You Get
Brayden found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Geographic Etymology” under the $600 clue on the 17th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $5,200, $1,000 more than David in second place. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
Early Spanish settlers gave this South American city a name meaning “fair winds” show
Brayden finished in the lead with $12,200. David was second with $4,800 and Teal was last with $1,000. Two $200 clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: Christmas on Broadway – Words about Words – -ologies – 3-Namers in American History – Replicas – How Do You…
David found the first Daily Double in “3-Namers in American History” under the $1,200 clue on the third pick. He was in second place with $6,400 now, $6,200 less than Brayden’s lead. He bet it all and he was RIGHT.
In 1871 this inventor began teaching instructors of the deaf in the Boston area. show
David got the last Daily Double in “-ologies” under the $800 clue on the 16th pick. In the lead with $21,200, he had $3,800 more than Brayden in second place. He bet $10,000 and said races. That was WRONG.
Ethnology is a branch of this -ology that is closely related to sociology. show
Brayden finished in the lead with $23,800. David was next with $14,800 and Teal was in third place with $5,000. Three $400 clues went uncovered.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right, and they all went for title characters!
In Miguel Cervante’s “Don Quixote” (1605), Sancho Panza is persuaded to join Don Quixote on his knight errant adventures by the promise of a governorship of an island. For this reward, Sancho willingly leaves his family and serves as squire. Although Sancho is described as a simple farmer of little wit, he proves to be a trusty sidekick but constantly reminds Don Quixote of his promise. If you’re interested in more than that, check out Sancho Panza’s Timeline on Shmoop.
Teal thought it was Robinson Crusoe. She bet and lost it all.
David also had Crusoe and he bet the farm, too.
Brayden went with Gulliver. He lost his $5,801 and won the game with the remaining $17,999. His 5-day total is $115,798.
2 triple stumpers from the first round:
DECEMBER 21 ($600) Dec. 21,1914 saw the premiere of the first full-length movie comedy, “Tillie’s Punctured Romance”, featuring him
ABCDEFG — THAT’S ALL YOU GET ($600) Budgie abode (just the 4-letter word that fits the category)
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “21st Century Oscars”
Before she was 25, she became the youngest performer to receive a second Best Actress nomination show
Click here to leave condolences for Alex Trebek and his family. There’s also a link to where you can make a donation to pancreatic cancer research in his honor.
We may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases made from Amazon.com links at no cost to our visitors. Learn more: Affiliate Disclosure.
The two who said “Robinson Crusoe” misread the question, which wanted the “HIM” and not the title character. Which is why I thought it was Friday from that novel.
I have never heard of Sancho Panza.
Actually, Brayden’s 5-Day Total is $115,798, not $117,798.
I thought that it might have been Lemuel Gulliver.
This episode gave kept me on the edge of my seat
Not fair, imo, to verbally attack David who is an English teacher for missing the fj clue. When I had to read Don Quixote in high school it was in a Spanish class taught by a Spanish teacher and not an English teacher. Given that Cervantes wrote the original work in Spanish it is considered Spanish Literature. Even though I read the work many years ago I could not come up with the correct response. It was an out of sight out of mind moment for me.
We start the year with a triple stumper.
By the way, sancho did warn don Quixote about the windmills not being giants and yet he lost his marbles facing those things head on.
A great start for the new year with Brayden getting the fifth win. Congrats to him and the leader curse is broken. But still David had the lead until that anthropology daily double threw him off track. Why.did he risk 10K when 5K should have worked? As an English language arts teacher, he should know sancho panza because if you remember there were a couple of clues that mentioned don Quixote previously, right, VJ? A simple final jeopardy yet the contestants were way off.
Oh I don’t know. Those were all reasonable entries in my book.