Final Jeopardy: Literature for Children (10-15-21)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/15/2021) in the category “Literature for Children” was:

These stories got their collective title because little Josephine Kipling insisted they be told exactly the same way each time

4x champ Jonathan Fisher, an actor from Coral Gables, FL has won $94,000 so far this week. In Game 5, he takes on these two players: Nima Aghili, a lawyer and legal recruiter from Overland Park, KS; and Connie Smith, a mechanical engineer from Oviedo, FL.

Round 1 Categories: “Eye” – State Your Name – Do Solemnly Swear – Graze Anatomy – Finish the Line – Now Read This!

Connie got the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Now Read This” under the $400 clue on the 11th pick. In last place with negative $200, Connie had $2,600 less than Jonathan in first place. She bet the $1,000 allowance and she was RIGHT.

Howard Roark is to “The Fountainhead” as John Galt is to this 1,100-page tome. show

WHAT IS “ATLAS SHRUGGED”?

Connie finished in the lead with $5,200. Jonathan was second with $4,000 and Nima was last with $1,400. No clues went uncovered.

Round 2 Categories: Movie Titles through Pictures – Historic Potpourri – Libraries – The Impassable Dream – High/Low – Dieresis & Umlaut Words

Jonathan landed on the first Daily Double in “Potpourri” under the $2,000 clue on the 10th pick. He was in the lead with $8,800 now, $1,200 more than Connie in second place. He bet $2,500 and he was RIGHT.

Also known as Deutscher Orden, this order of knights went to the Holy Land during the Third Crusade. show

WHO ARE THE TEUTONIC KNIGHTS?

Jonathan found the last Daily Double in “High/Low” under the $1,200 clue with 9 clues left after it. In first place with $17,300, he had $8,500 more than Connie in second place. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.

Mount Whitney is the highest point in what’s known as the “High” this. show

WHAT ARE THE HIGH SIERRAS?

Jonathan finished in the lead with a runaway $24,100. Connie was second with $10,200 and Nima was last with $7,800. No clues went uncovered.

NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT ARE “JUST SO STORIES”?

Rudyard Kipling’s “Just So Stories” began as 3 short stories (“How the Whale Got His Throat”, “How the Camel Got His Hump” and “How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin”) that were published in St Nicholas Magazine from Dec. 1897 through Feb. 1898. Kipling described them as bedtime stories for his then 5-year old daughter, Josephine (nicknamed Effie). According to Kipling, you could not alter a single word in these stories: “They had to be told just so; or Effie would wake up and put back the missing sentence.” In 1899, Kipling and Effie both contracted pneumonia. Kipling recovered but little Effie tragically passed away at age 6 on 3/6/1899.

Kipling wrote more “Just So” stories and published them in book form in 1902. They are believed to be in the public domain in the USA. There’s an ebook you can download for free or read online here.

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Nima wrote “what is the oft-repeated idk.” That’s what those last 3 letters looked like to me, but Mayim let everyone know it was wrong after “repeated”. Nima lost his $3,401 bet and finished with $4,399.

Connie went with “The Jungle Books”, a different collection by Kipling. That cost her $10,000 and left her with $200.

Jonathan came up with “Twice Told Tales” (by Nathaniel Hawthorne). He lost a mere $400 and won this game with $23,700. Jonathan Fisher’s 5-day total is $117,700. What a week!

A triple stumper from each round:

NOW READ THIS! ($800) “Golden Girl” & “28 Summers” are Nantucket-set novels by this woman, “The Queen of Beach Reads”

HIGH/LOW ($2000) The Aswan High Dam created a reservoir or “Lake” that was named for this Egyptian president

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “American Playwrights”

In 1963 the Pulitzer Advisory Board vetoed his controversial play & gave no award; he would go on to win 3 Pulitzers show

WHO IS EDWARD ALBEE?

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