Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Literature (11-13-18)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/13/2018) in the category “20th Century Literature” was:
Chapter 1 of this 1954 British novel is entitled “The Sound of the Shell”
The 5th and last quarterfinal match of the 2018 Teen Tournament goes down today. The contestants are: Maggie Brown, a sophomore from Pensacola, FL; Rohan Kapileshwari, a senior from Winston-Salem, NC; and Autumn Shelton, a junior from Lamar, MO.
Round 1 Categories: Literary Which Came First – Games of the Video Variety – Teen Titans – Colors – Summer Camp – Post Malone
Maggie found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Teen Titans” under the $1,000 clue, with 9 clues left after it. She was in second place with $2,200, $3,200 less than Autumn’s lead. She bet $1,500 and she was RIGHT.
18-year-old Octavian won over the Roman army when he held games in honor of this slain leader in 44 B.C. show
Autumn finished in the lead with $5,400. Maggie was second with $4,700 and Rohan was last with $3,400.
Round 2 Categories: Where Are We? – You’ve Got Class – Rhymes With a Vowel – Whose Hit Album? – Historian’s Glossary – Pasture Bedtime
Autumn found the first Daily Double in “Pasture Bedtime” under the $1,200 clue on the 3rd pick. She was in the lead with $6,200 now, $1,500 more than Maggie in second place. She bet $2,200 and took a shot with Dionysus. That was WRONG.
This fertility deity aka Faunus has been seen frolicking in the pasture; he usually takes a nap around noon. show
Autumn found the last Daily Double in “Where Are We?” under the $1,600 clue, with 10 clues to go after it. In second place with $8,800, she had $600 less than Rohan’s lead. She bet $800 and she was RIGHT.
I’m in this city on the Mississippi that’s named for a French king and actually belonged to France from 1800 to 1803. show
Maggie finished in the lead with $12,700. Autumn was next with $12,400 and Rohan was in third place with $9,800.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
The shell that’s in the title of the first chapter of William Golding’s 1954 novel, about British schoolboys stranded on a deserted island, is an important symbol of power. It is used to call the boys to meetings and no one can speak unless he is holding the shell. According to Shmoop, “the conch reminds us that the tools of power are, well, fake. Crowns and flags are no more meaningful than this random shell that Ralph spots in the grass. It’s the meaning people give them that matters.”
An old clue from 2012: UPDATING THE NOVEL ($2000) “We’ll track the cell phone signal of the chief choir boy, Jack Merridew. The lads will be off that island by supper”
Rohan got it right. He bet $2,100, bringing him up to $11,900.
Autumn also got it. She bet $7,200 and finished with $19,600.
Maggie thought it was “Catch-22.” She lost $12,401 and finished with $299. So Autumn got the last semi-final spot and Rohan snagged a Wild Card.
Quarterfinal Results: These 9 players will duke it out for the finalist spots in the next 3 games.
2 triple stumpers from GAMES OF THE VIDEO VARIETY:
($800) Redeem yourself & visit the truly Wild West in an “Undead Nightmare” in this “colorful” series from Rockstar games
($1000) Elias Toufexis voices genetically amped-up Adam Jensen in this series with a Latin name
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Men of Science”
The symbols for 6 chemical elements spell out his name, beginning with cobalt, phosphorus & erbium. show
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Maggie Brown has the same name as, though probably not related to, a woman who was on quite a few game shows in the 70s and 80s, including CBS Joker’s Wild, Press Your LUck, and Wipeout(1988 version with Peter Tomarken), plus a number of game show pilots at the time.
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She might, though I would say that “Brown” is not exactly an uncommon name….it might be her grandmother and not her mother, given the years and then her name would not be “Brown” but her mother’s married name. Maybe she married a Mr. Brown ??
Reminds me of a song by the British group Herman’s Hermits , mid 1960s,”Mrs. Brown, you’ve got a lovely daughter:”😃😃
@VJ
Do you know by any chance how they figure out the lineup in the semis? Since there are 5 winners, 4 WC and only 3 games, there has to be one SF with 2 winners and another SF with 2 WC players. Do they go by amounts won or..???
The only hard and fast rule about the SF matchups is that no one can play against someone they faced in the QF round. Anecdotally, it seems like the producers usually also try to separate the best players.
Based on final dollar amount, Tim and Maya are far out in front, so it would be a big surprised if they faced each other. Almost everyone else is roughly equal in final dollar amount.
Based on QF Coryat, the top three seeds should be 1. Caleb with a big $23000, 2. Maya with $18200, and 3. Tim with $16800 (tied with Jack, but Tim won his game against Jack and Tim’s final dollar amount is the highest out of everyone). So it’d be a surprise if any of these three played each other.
Based on basically nothing else, here are my wild guesses at SF matchups:
Tim vs. Emma vs. Claire
Maya vs. Audrey vs. Autumn
Caleb vs. Jack vs. Rohan
To answer the other question I completely forgot about: There have been SF matches with three QF winners before, and there have been SF matches with three WCs before. Both are relatively uncommon, but the producers don’t necessarily take that kind of balance into account.
In conclusion, the SF matchup selection process is basically a black box besides the “can’t play against a QF opponent” rule, but you can guess the kinds of things they take into consideration given that they obviously want (a) some semblance of fairness and (b) the possibility of a compelling, competitive, and diverse Finals.
That lineup would prevent an all ladies’ final.
The producers haven’t always made sure an all-female final was possible. For example, in the 2009 Teen Tournament, the three female semifinalists were not spread 1/1/1 throughout the SFs even though that was possible; instead, they were placed 1/0/2
See this game on J-Archive
I don’t really have a favorite to win, but I’d like to see Autumn make the finals
LINK: 12 more clues from the match
@VJ I may agree with you, but I’m skeptical with my prediction: a repeat of 2012, an all-female Final.
You forgot to add this week’s contestant lineup.
No I didn’t. I just didn’t feel like doing it because it is incomplete.
I know what you mean. It was supposed to start last Monday but it didn’t. They always want to start after the elections.
Like I said before, the winner of this year’s Teen Tournament will be a young woman. With six young women going to the SF, I am CERTAIN this will be it.
@J C A
Actually it’s FIVE young ladies:
Maya,Emma,Claire, Audrey and Autumn vs, 4 guys: Rohan,Jack, Caleb and Tim,no? so it’s 5 ladies vs 4 guys, pretty even. One has to be in the majority since 9 is an odd #. (my post @ 3:06)
@John B./I. Thank you for correcting me. Besides, I may be skeptical about my prediction but 20 bucks says that it will be 2012 all over again, an all-female Final.
March 1992, Winter 1999, and May 2012.
Seems to me the “Napoleon ” game was the most difficult, it was the only game with only 1 correct (Caleb). All other games had 2 correct. No TS, no sweep. Caleb is my dark horse to win it all, though he’s just a sophomore.
He plays against 6 seniors and 2 juniors. So he is the “lowest” ranked.. The 6 seniors seem to have the overwhelming edge, just curbed by 2 juniors and 1 lone sophomore…..still!!!! He might surprise a lot of people. The only serious competition for him are imo Maya and Emma. One of the 3 will win the TT, but my gut feeling is with Caleb. So it will be E-M-C. But C might be squared….,like E=mc2 (Emma,Maya , Caleb squared)Would be interesting if the 3 would be playing the finals and not be facing each other before, I would love to see that.
Well I wasn’t surprised that two people got this right. But I can say congratulations to the players for the job well done. Lord of the flies is still a great movie which I assume VJ and John you guys seen plenty of times? Although Maggie’s bet was strange but still Autumn I hope makes it to the final and I would love to see an all ladies final this year in the teen tournament. I remember catch 22 but not the movie though.
@Lou
Yeah, we agree on the strange bet by Maggie, as I said.
Did not read Catch 22, saw the movie. Did not see the movie LotF but read the book. Actually HAD to read it- for the first time- as summer vacation assignment in English between sixth and seventh grade in “Gymnasium”= HS, so 10th and 11th overall. I was 16 1/2 and the book was VERY popular in Europe. Especially among English teachers i what is called senior high in the U.S. Not so much yet in the States, that came a little later from what I understand. After publication in the States it was initially a complete bust. Today it ranks in the top 100 of British/US novels according to Time magazine (if you can believe Wikipedia and I would have to agree. Not that I read each and every one of the -alleged- top 100 novels, God forbid!) Interesting though for me how I perceived the book when I was 17 and later, especially after I had turned 40 and beyond that.
Quarterfinalists:
Rhea Sinha: $6,800
Anish Maddipoti: $3,600
Maggie Brown: $299
Rotimi Kukoyi: $1
Isabella Pagano: $0
Dan Oxman: -$2,400
They all go home with $5,000
@VJ, I hope this teen tournament will be better than what happened 2 years ago.