Final Jeopardy: Literature (10-20-14)
The Final Jeopardy question (10/20/2014), in the category “Literature” was:
A chapter heading in this 19th century work calls the title character “one-eyed, lame”, another calls him “deaf”.
New champ Alexander Persaud won $6,000 on Friday after a tough FJ no one could get. Today he takes on these two players: Emma King, from Washington, D.C.; and Frederick Foster, from Las Vegas, NV.
Round 1: Frederick found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Letters from Writers” under the $400 clue. It was very early in the round and he was in second place with $200, $600 less than Emma’s lead. He bet the $1,000 allowance and he was RIGHT.
To F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925: “We are going in to Pamplona tomorrow. Been trout fishing here.” show
Emma finished in the lead with $5,000. Alexander was second with $3,800 and Frederick was last with $3,400.
Round 2: Frederick found the first Daily Double in “A ‘B’ in American History” under the $1,600 clue. He was in third place with $4,600, $5,600 less than Alexander’s lead. He bet it all but did not know so he was WRONG.
A governor’s failure to stop Indian raids prompted this 1676 rebellion led by a Virginia planter. show
Emma found the last Daily Double in “Contronyms” under the $2,000 clue. In second place with $9,400, she had $8,000 less than Alexander’s lead. With 5 clues left after this, she bet $5,000 and took a last second shot with “to dole”. That was WRONG.
To ask for professional advice, or give it. show
Alexander finished with a runaway $17,400. Frederick was next with $4,000 and Emma was in third place with $3,200.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Like “Les Miserables”, this 1831 Victor Hugo novel is very long. It consists of 11 “books”. The first title mentioned in the clue is Chapter 2 in the 9th book and is actually a little longer: “Hunchbacked, Lame and Deaf” but you can see why they had to leave the first word out. The next part of the clue is the title of Chapter 3 of the same book. You can see the titles of each section on The Literature Network
NOTE: the hunchback is not “the title character” in the French title “Notre Dame de Paris”. Victor Hugo disliked the English title because the work was meant to convey much more than just Quasimodo’s story.
Emma wrote down Moby Dick. She lost her $3,199 bet and finished with $1.00.
Frederick got it right. He bet $3,000 and finished with $7,000.
Alexander also got it and bet $2,600. He won this match with $20,000 giving him a 2-day total of $26,000.
Congrats to Alexander on his knowledge of the Balkans, despite misunderstanding the first clue. That helped him get a leg up and a better payday today. Nice going!
Random Observation: Just two games ago (last Thursday), the FJ category was Literature and the answer was a 19th century French novel.
2 years ago:: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Kings”
The last British monarch to be buried outside the U.K., he was interred in 1727 in the land where he was born. show
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“notre-dame de paris” is the original title. thanks for bringing that up, vj! we already said that in the CotD talk. the “hunchback” is the english title, in german it is called “der gloeckner (ringer=the guy who rings the bells}von notre dame and i am sure there are a lot of different title “formulations” in dozens of other languages. but one-eyed,lame and deaf MOBY DICK?????
Just a case of focusing on the wrong info in the clue again…. happened to me in the computer command clue last week. Sarah commented on Friday’s recap that her brain went from palm tree to islands…
Today the first clue in The Balkans category showed a map with the largest country on the Balkan peninsula. I’m not going to even try to find that image because the only country name it had on it was bordering Hungary. The clue said:
This nation’s name reflects its long history as a province of an ancient empire.
Alexander thought they were looking for the empire name and said the Hun Empire (and immediately realized where he went astray). Then Frederick thought he just had the wrong empire there and said the Ottoman Empire.
It happens. This one tickled me though because they both had the wrong empire but if Frederick was right, the country’s name could have been Ottomania. 🙂
what name did you see?omania? the biggest area/country in the balkans was thrace, including territories of today’s bulgaria, greece and the european part of turkey.thrace actually IS a territory with no political borders.
you’ll get it when you see the show, john. It was a present day map