Final Jeopardy: Fictional Languages (11-26-21)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/26/2021) in the category “Fictional Languages” was:

Lapine is the name of the language created for this 1972 book beloved by children

7x champ Amy Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, CA has now won $257,800, $50,000 of that is from yesterday alone! In Game 8, she takes on these two players: Chris Rayis, a composer and lyricist from Burlington, NC; and Greta Perel, a communications consultant from Overland Park, KS.

Round 1 Categories: Right from the Gecko – Festivals – 5 Letters, 4 Vowels – Story Time – Long-Running TV Shows – Car Repair

Greta found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Story Time” under the $1,000 clue on the 2nd pick of the round. At $200, she was the only one on the board with money. Greta bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.

Ludovico’s technique is applied rather violently to make Alex non-violent in this novel. show

WHAT IS “A CLOCKWORK ORANGE”?

Amy finished in the lead with $9,000. Greta was second with $5,200 and Chris was last with $2,000. No clues went uncovered.

Round 2 Categories: L’Histoire Francaise – The Movies – U.S. Rivers – You Can Quote Me – Museums – “Inner” Knowledge

Chris found the first Daily Double in “L’Histoire Francaise” under the $1,600 clue on the 2nd pick. Chris was in third place with $4,000 now, $5,000 less than Amy’s lead. Chris made it a true Daily Double and thought it was Henry IV. That was WRONG.

He became King of the Franks in 768, the Lombards in 774 & then in 800, he took the Roman crown. show

WHO IS CHARLEMAGNE?

Greta got the last Daily Double in “You Can Quote Me” under the $2,000 clue on the 11th pick. In second place with $5,600, she had $9,800 less than Amy’s lead. Greta made it a true Daily Double and went with “early to bed”. That was WRONG.

Ben Franklin’s “advice to a young tradesman” begins, “Remember that” this 3-word phrase — tick-tock! show

WHAT IS “TIME IS MONEY”?

Amy finished with $23,400, for a whole week of runaway games. Chris was second with $4,000 and Greta was last with $3,200. No clues went uncovered.

ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS “WATERSHIP DOWN”?

“Watership Down” is a 1972 novel by Richard Adams about rabbits who seek a new home because young Fiver believes their current warren is in danger of destruction. Hazel, his older brother, helps lead the search. Richard Adams insisted that “Watership Down” was not intended to be anything other than a “jolly good story” that he came up with as a way to entertain his daughters while driving them to and from school. “It’s not meant to be a parable,” he told the Guardian in 2015.

Adams invented the language spoken by the rabbits and called it “Lapine.” Here on Fikkle Fame, Rhonda has been our very own “Lapin” for at least 6 years now. Given Rhonda’s adorable avatar and no shortage of Bunny jokes, regular readers must know that “lapin” means “rabbit” (in French) by now.

If you have a yen to learn Lapine, Douglas “Loganberry” Buttery has compiled a guide to help with that, as well as a Lapine to English dictionary and vice versa.

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Greta bet it all and doubled her score to $6,400.

Chris bet $2,400 and also finished with $6,400. He had a higher score than Greta going into FJ! so he won second place.

Amy bet $14,000 and won this game with $37,400. Amy’s 8-day total is $295,200.

A triple stumper from each round:

THE MOVIES ($1200) An 8-time Oscar nominee, she could not be ignored as Nova Prime in “Guardians of the Galaxy”

MUSEUMS ($2000) This motel where Martin Luther King was assassinated honors his legacy as part of the National Civil Rights Museum

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Home & Garden”

In 1847 eccentric horticulturist Sir Charles Isham popularized these when he imported terra cotta ones from Nuremberg show

WHAT IS A GARDEN GNOME?

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