Final Jeopardy: American Authors (11-26-18)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/26/2018) in the category “American Authors” was:
The 1877 novel “Garth”, about a New Hampshire family cursed by an ancestor’s crime, is by Julian, son of this novelist
New champ J Cheema, a marketing & strategy consultant from Portland, OR, won $28,000 last Friday, defeating 4x champ Mary Ann Borer. In his second game, his challengers are: Dylan Hamilton, a pediatric dentist from Durham, NC; and Bridget Sullivan, a telemetry technician, Butte, MT.
Round 1 Categories: Predictions by 2030 – TV Title Characters – Which State? – Crafts & Hobbies – Recent Nonfiction – The German Umlaut
Dylan found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Crafts & Hobbies” under the $800 clue on the 17th pick of the round. He was in third place with $800, $3,400 less than Bridget’s lead. He bet the $1,000 allowance he was RIGHT.
It’s become a 9-letter word for the hobby of shopping for old furniture & collectibles. show
Bridget finished in the lead with $5,400. J was second with $4,200 and Dylan was last with $3,600.
Round 2 Categories: Celebrating 35 Years – Bible Books by Characters – Safe Spaces -Earth Science – English Majors – Career Options
Dylan found the first Daily Double in “Safe Spaces” under the $800 clue on the 12th pick. He was still in third place with $4,400 now, $2,600 less than Bridget’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
In 1640 English settlers named a Connecticut town “New” this, reflecting the safety it provided. show
Bridget found the last Daily Double in “English Majors” under the $1,200 clue, with a dozen clues left after it. In second place with $6,200, she had $4,600 less than Dylan’s lead. She bet $3,000 and guessed the Crimean War. That was WRONG.
Sergeant Major John Berryman won the Victoria Cross for this 1854 engagement in which his horse was shot under him. show
Dylan finished in the lead with $10,800. J was next with $6,200 and Bridget was in third place with $1,200.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s only son, Julian Hawthorne was quite well-known during his lifetime and knew everyone who was anyone. He first published “Garth” in serial form in Harper’s Magazine beginning in June 1875. According to Gary Scharnhorst’s biography of Julian, “the plot turns on the discovery of a lost document that ends an ancestral feud like the one in The House of the Seven Gables, noting that Julian even included “a character named Lady Eleanor, who seemingly wanders into the novel from Nathaniel’s Lady Eleanor’s Mantel.” Despite being dubbed a poor imitation of his father as a novelist, Julian wrote many other stories, children’s lit, true crime, mysteries and even had a self-help and advice column on his resume. Unfortunately, his inability to manage his finances led to his involvement in a mining stock scam that earned him a short stint in jail. Read more here
A 1990 clue: LITERARY RELATIVES ($1000) Author of “The House of the Seven Gables”, his son Julian published a biography of him in 1884
Bridget got it right. She bet $42 and finished with $1,242.
J came up with Mark Twain. He bet and lost it all.
Dylan picked Thoreau. That only cost him $1,601. He became the new Jeopardy! champ with the remaining $9,199.
A triple stumper from each round:
RECENT NONFICTION ($800) “The Soul of America” by Jon Meacham has the Lincoln-inspired subtitle, “The Battle for our Better” these
ENGLISH MAJORS ($1600) This Major who conspired with Benedict Arnold asked to be shot, but George Washington had him hanged as a spy
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “World Flags”
Peter the Great designed Russia’s flag based on the tricolor flag of this nation where he’d gone to learn shipbuilding. show
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$12,800 in triple stumper clues, including the missed DD, add that to an FJ! get and the game is won from the fourth podium
For the antiquing clue, my instinct was “thrifting.” Wonder if they would have accepted it?
@Cwc, I think that one would get a thumbs up from the judges… people have been known to find lots of old furniture and collectibles at thrift shops
Question. In that one question when “asylum” was the answer, would “sanctuary” have been acceptable or no?
I don’t think so, Albert. I think it’s a legal status in the context of the clue: “The extraterritorial type of this is granted in embassies, as to Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian one”.
Besides, sanctuary was the answer to the $1200 clue: “Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law making California this type of state protective of immigrants”
@Albert
Plus, to add to VJ’s response: “asylum” could also be confused with a ahhh…well, nut farm.😄
@Albert
Strangely enough, when the Hungarian revolution in 1956 broke out, Cardinal Mindszenty was granted political ASYLUM in the U.S. embassy, where he lived for 15 years before being allowed to travel to Austria, where he died 4 years later. Also in German you call it “politisches Asyl”. I guess it depends on the language and laws of the country/embassy granting asylum, refuge, sanctuary etc. The purpose is the same.
A very low-scoring affair started the week with a fluke. I wonder these categories were very tough.
This game could have gone a lot better if Bridget didn’t make so many bad guesses. She didn’t have any luck today and well J’s chances of winning four games are not happening. The toc clock resets again until we see Dylan trying for a four game run this week. Also VJ and John, do you guys have a favorite quote from one of Hawthorne’s books? So now we have two ladies this time in the toc just like Lilly Chin and and.Lisa Schlitt last year.
Yeah, Lou, that English Majors category turned out to be a “major” catastrophe for Bridget. Tough break esp when she was the only one to figure out FJ!
I don’t have any favorite Hawthorne quotes. I did get that Samuel Johnson quote today though. I am interested in reading that biography of Hawthorne’s son more than the biography his son wrote about him. It says Julian was one of the first celebrity journalists and also one of the first “tell-all” writers.
LINK: 12 more clues from this match
Congrats to Dylan, though Bridget was in the right war. So close, yet no cigar… All she had to do was get that last DD and she would have ended up with 7.200 ,and all things being equal would have handily won with a bet of 3.601, covering Dylan, any other bad guesses notwithstanding.THOREAU? We had him just a week ago in the first of the TT finals….
Don’t players watch episodes of J? IF Dylan saw that game, he should have known that the same FJ response – any response – does not come up twice within a week.
And despite Dylan’s 4K DD not exactly high scores.Just over 18 K before FJ. I wonder how many TS or misses I’ll see when I watch the game later on.
Mental breakdown on my part. If the games are taped – say 8 weeks apart- then a player can only know about games that have been taped at least 8 weeks BEFORE his. So Dylan could not have known about “Thoreau”. At least another 7 weeks would have to go by before Dylan could have seen the TT when HIS game was taped. By the time Dylan was on. the TT was still at least 7 weeks away from getting on the air, because at first I thought ” how can he answer with a clue that just came up a week ago?”. My bad.
@Lou
Rachel will last, Mary Ann..? I’m not so sure. All depends when they finally will have the ToC. They might shoot for all players in that tournament having won 5 games.
The way things went today that could take a while.
And I have read “The Scarlet Letter”. Not exactly my cup of tea….
I just saw and checked VJ’s LINK to 12 Triple Stumpers. No column “They got all right in this category” which is usually the second part of the link. Would explain the low scores.
Terrible game.