Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Novels (10-20-15)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/20/2015) in the category “20th Century Novels” was:
A line from this 1995 novel is “the infant glistened a scandalous shade of pale emerald”
New champ Dean Meyer won $18,700 yesterday and was the only one with the right FJ answer. In Game 2, she is up against these two players: Alison Saunders, from Baton Rouge, LA; and Robert Arrowood, from Provincetown, MA.
Round 1: The Daily Double was left on the board under either the $800 or $400 clue in “12-Letter Words.” Word!
Alison finished in the lead with $4,200, despite an early reversal*. Robert was second with $3,000 and Dean was last with $3,000.
12 Letter Words: $200 – “So as not to disturb his cat who slept on his left arm, southpaw Albert Schweitzer taught himself to be this.” Alison said Ambidextr-i-ous. That’s 13 letters!
Round 2: Dean found the first Daily Double in “Every Other Letter is O” under the $1,200 clue. She was in third place with $4,400, $3,800 less than Robert’s lead. She bet $3,200 and she was RIGHT.
This architectural style originated in early 18th Century France. show
Alison found the last Daily Double in “Geology” under the $800 clue. In second place with $10,200, she was $2,800 behind Robert’s lead and there were 5 clues remaining. She bet $3,000 and thought it was South America. That was WRONG.
The Canary Current flows north to south along the edge of this continent. show
Robert finished in the lead with $13,000. Dean was next with $12,000 and Alison was in third place with $7,200.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Czarisse Maralit talks about “Defining a Villain” on The Fremd High School English Ning: “After reading Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, these are the thoughts that wandered into my mind. Wicked is a story about a woman named Elphaba, who was born with skin that “glistened a scandalous shade of pale emerald”. Yes, Elphaba was the color green, and yes, as your intuition might have told you after reading the title of the novel, Elphaba is the Wicked Witch of the West…. I’m sure you imagine a sickly green-colored hag with a pointy chin and warts covering her face, a voice that sounds like nails on a chalkboard, and absolutely no character depth whatsoever other than tormenting Dorothy & Co. while trying to retrieve a pair of red ruby slippers. The Elphaba in this novel, however, is a bit different….”
Alison bet $7,100. That brought her up to $14,300.
Dean doubled her score, finishing with $24,000.
Robert bet $12,500 bet so he won the match with $25,500 and he will return tomorrow as the new Jeopardy! champ.
Robert Arrowood is a former realtor. During the chat, he talked about his visit to Teotihuacan. He was at the top of the Sun Temple during a total eclipse of the sun when the water god, Quetzalcoatl, made his presence known.
2 years ago:: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “The Caribbean”
Pico Duarte & Lago Enriquillo in this country 650 miles from Florida are the highest & lowest points in the Caribbean. show
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I was born in Winder, Georgia. It was so nice to see someone on television from Winder. Most people have never heard of it. So proud of you, Dean.
44/59 here.
Nice Coryat, as usual. I thought you might comment on the incorrect wager by Dean. She probably would have won on the others being stumped and accomplished her necessary goals (surpassing the leader and covering the double-up by the person in third) with a bet of between 2201 and 4799.
Again, another time when the person in second shouldn’t bet it all.
LOL, Dean. We might have reached that first round DD if you didn’t have to finish the Mythology category. That very “pawsy” cat story didn’t help either.
Right! And, if I remember right, Michelle Obama was born in 1947? I miss Matt 🙁
I don’t think Alex can hear well anymore, which is normal at his age. Alison said ambidextrious loud and clear and he didn’t neg. Yesterday, Josh (?) said Groundhogs Day and Alex didn’t neg.
I can only surmise that adding the S to Groundhog Day didn’t make an extra syllable so it was okay.
As for ambidextrious, it’s too bad Alex didn’t pick up on it and call her wrong right then, because it would have been interesting to see if the other players noticed it and then gave the right answer or thought it was right-handed. Only 11 letters but they might not have bothered to count. LOL
In my view, the mistake on Groundhog was not about spelling (probably a possessive case). Anyway, I wish I could recall the exactly case, but I remember Alex saying in the past sorry you added an S… Not that important, done and over. 🙂
And that First Lady category totally bombed.
I seem to remember the same thing about the added “s” but maybe there was some other caveat, like a proper name. Can’t find one for adding an “s” right now but…
I found one where someone got dinged for leaving the “s” off Hans a couple of years ago (Round 2 – $800 row)
And I found one where someone got dinged for adding a “d” to fatigue (Also Round 2 – $800 row)
Thanks, VJ—I agree with both ruling; the name is Hans not Han, and “tiredness” is a substantive, so the answer should be one as well, not an adjective.
I just wish J! would be consistent with their rulings. The Facebook crowd should pester the producers about this. 🙂
Off topic, have you read a blog by AChu on Salon.com about Matt?
yeah I read part of it, if you mean the post where he was telling Matt that he was a better player than himself, but I rolled my eyes and stopped reading when I got to the part where he said that it was left ambiguous who the better player was in the TOC because Julia was sick and whatever reason it was about him.
Yeah. That one. :):):)