Final Jeopardy: Literary Pronouns (10-13-20)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/13/2020) in the category “Literary Pronouns” was:
Thanks to a horror film, this novel returned to the bestseller lists in 2017, some 30 years after reaching No. 1
3x champ, Kevin Walsh, a story analyst originally from Williamstown, NJ, has now won $62,900. In Game 4, his challengers are: Alex Switzky, a writer & producer from North Hollywood, CA; and Natt Supab, a cancer research coordinator from Pico Rivera, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Tree of a Kind – Languages – the Not-So-Roaring ’30s – Women in Literature – Ante Pope – NASCAR in Vegas
Alex found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Tree of a Kind” under the $1,000 clue, with only the NASCAR category left after it. He was in second place with $3,800, $1,400 less than Kevin’s lead. Not having a good vibe, he only bet $100 and philosophically said, “of course!” when he was RIGHT.
Rainbow, yellow gum, Tasmanian blue gum. show
Kevin finished in the lead with $6,000. Alex was second with $4,300 and Natt was last, $400 in the red.
Round 2 Categories: Medical History – Oxymorons – Awards & Honors – TV Theme Song Lyrics – The Cubists – A Bunch of Squares
Kevin found the first Daily Double in “Oxymorons” under the $1,200 clue on the 8th pick. He was in the lead with $8,800 now, $3,700 more than Alex in second place. He bet $2,800 and he was RIGHT.
This oxymoron refers to dark chocolate often in about the 60% cacao range. show
Alex got the last Daily Double in “The Cubists” under the $1,200 clue. In second place with $5,900, he had $8,500 less than Kevin’s lead. It was obvious we would not get to the other 4 clues in the category, especially to Alex, who said “now or never” and made it a true Daily Double. He took a shot at it with “Saint Marie” but that was WRONG.
“Tender Buttons” written by this American expatriate while she was living in Paris, is a book of Cubist still-life prose-poems. show
Kevin finished with a runaway $14,400. Alex and Natt were both out of Final Jeopardy! at $0 and -$400 respectively.
The ONE remaining contestant got Final Jeopardy! right (unlike the last time this happened on 3/12/2015)
WHAT IS “IT”?
Steven King’s horror novel “It”, about the murderous clown Pennywise, was first published in 1986. According to “Publisher Weekly”, it was the best-selling hard cover fiction book of that year. In 1990, a 2-part miniseries adaptation came out, with Tim Curry as Pennywise, that garnered about 30 million viewers. The 2017 remake, with Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise, put the book (in paperback) back on the Bestseller list. The Guardian lists it at about No. 50 for 2017.
Here’s an old clue not related to “It” from 2019-02-28: FROM THE “PEN” OF WEBSTER’S THIRD ($800) “Prudent only in small matters”
Kevin got it right. Even though Alex told him he could bet a bundle, he only bet $4,400 and won the game with $18,800. His 4-day total is $81,700.
A triple stumper from each round:
WOMEN IN LITERATURE ($1000) Rosalind from this comedy has the most lines of any of Shakespeare’s women
AWARDS & HONORS ($1200) Christopher Plummer: “I’ve enjoyed working on projects for children and even won an Emmy for narrating the adventures of this jeune fille Parisienne, created by Ludwig Bemelmans”
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “World Leaders”
He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize twice & the Literature Prize 7 times, winning for the latter in 1953 show
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I’d really have to say that tonight’s game was the absolute worst of the worst. This was the first time since March 12, 2015 that two of the three contestants were dismissed from the game and the first game since the pandemic that this had happened. Not to mention all 3 DDs were missed tonight. Natt just couldn’t get it going and Alex went all out on the last DD before the Double Jeopardy round expired.
On a more positive note, Glad to see Kevin make a conversative bet in Final J! netting him his fourth win. Other than that, what else can I say about this episode?
And to end on a side note, tonight’s episode was pre-empted in many markets due to the postponed NFL game between the Buffalo Bills and the Tennessee Titans so for those of you people who had missed tonight’s episode may have it recorded.
@Ryan, you could say only one DD was missed — the last one, and because of that, Kevin won the game before he even made an FJ bet. .
On that Christopher Plummer clue, my little granddaughter was quick to point out that Alex Trebek mispronounced the character’s name. It’s a long I in the ‘line’ syllable, not like ‘lynn’
I thought of you and Julie when that clue came up, VJ!
We only watch the ones that Christopher Plummer narrates, Rhonda. I showed Julie the movie with Frances McDormand (it’s free on Amazon Prime), but she didn’t care for it.
I’m not a fan of Frances McDormand myself, VJ, she annoys me.
The female expatriate strikes again. I’d bet my left arm Sr. Picasso was under the top row “Cubist” clue.
Kristin Sausville, you are no longer the most recent player to deal with a single-player Final.
This was a painful final jeopardy with Kevin playing solo since Kristin sausville’s previous game. I thought the opponents were at least worthy enough to be in final but to let Alex throw away that 5800 dollar bet was not a good move. VJ, any comments on what Alex could have done differently here?
He took what he felt was his best shot, Lou. Alex had no way of knowing it wouldn’t have mattered because he couldn’t take over the lead and FJ was the softball of all softballs. LOL.
Try not to take it so seriously, Lou. and over-analyze it. It’s not a big calamity. He was coming in second place no matter what he did at that point.
Man, We were shocked to see only one player left in FJ! Alex was doing well until he found the last daily double when Trebek told him now or never, he made it a true daily double and answered incorrectly while Natt couldn’t get things and as a result, both players were out of the game. This is really a double disqualification on today’s show.
The clues weren’t nice to them.