Final Jeopardy: 19th Century British Authors (12-10-21)

Here are some more triple stumpers from the 12/10/2021 Jeopardy! game. Please don’t put the answers to these clues in the comments so people who missed the game can have a chance to answer them. It is okay to refer to them by category and clue value or by part of the clue.

GET YOUR SOMETHINGS IN A ROW ($200) East to west by birthplace: Holliday, Rivers, Severinsen

($1000) In construction order: Afsluit, Nieuwebildt, Omring

GOING MEDIEVAL ($2000) In medieval times this order of monks translated medical texts in their library at Monte Cassino in Italy

Here are 5 old clues about Percy Bysshe Shelley that make references to his wife Mary or her parents:

09-25-2015 HAIKU ABOUT THE POET $400: “Queen Mab” was so fab / Was the groom of Frankenstein / Not waving, drowning
12-06-2010 WHAT HAPPENED TO THE “MOTHER”s? $2000: Mary Wollstonecraft was this to Percy Shelley
11-17-2005 BRITISH POETS: In 1812 he became a disciple & friend of social philosopher William Godwin, later his father-in-law
10-26-1998 POETIC LICENSE $1000: His first wife, Harriet, was pregnant when he ran off with teenager Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
01-26-1998 A TRIP TO LITERARY BRITAIN $1000: The heart of this romantic poet is buried with his wife Mary at St. Peter’s Church in Bournemouth

Sneak Peek clues – YACHT ROCK SAILS AGAIN
($200) This Philly duo–2 guys, 1 mustache–hit No. 1 in 1982 with “I Can’t Go For That”
($400) This ex-Commodore sailed to the top of the charts in 1983 with “All Night Long”
($600) M is for moonlight, as in “Moonlight Feels Right” by Starbuck, as well as this xylophone with an unexpected–& amazing!–solo
($800) You can always right your ship with “Hey Nineteen” & “Deacon Blues” by this jazzy soft-rock band
($1000) Grover Washington Jr. was so smooth with this title “Building Castles in the Sky”, this title again, “You & I”

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8 Responses

  1. Jason says:

    Since my Spanish is completely self-taught, I don’t know the pronunciation of “archipelago”. Either Mayim was correct, or, more strangely, completely mangled it. Considering other mis- or poorly pronounced words, I just can’t give her the benefit of the doubt. This harkens back to when she guest hosted, and it seemed like she was seeing the clues for the first time (unlike when Alex Trebek hosted, and, every morning of taping, he would go over the games to be played, and work on the words that might be troublesome, so they sounded so smooth during the game).

    J.P. showed some charisma, so, I’m happy that he got a WC spot.

  2. Louis Jin says:

    Well congrats to alisa and the other players on getting to the semi-finals. Though I was hoping to see a triple solve this time around but still though good to see my favorite book Frankenstein appearing here. The book was still a good interest to me since grade school. Also VJ on a scale of 1 to 5 how good did you find the book Frankenstein?

  3. Richard Corliss says:

    Semifinalists:
    Ed Hashima: $32,100
    Sam Buttrey: $22,400
    Gary Hollis: $20,000 ($21,000)
    Alisa Hove: $20,000 ($16,400)
    Marti Canipe: $13,400

    Wild Cards:
    J.P. Allen: $14,799
    Katie Reed: $12,000 ($14,000)
    Hester Blum: $12,000 ($8,600)
    Deborah Steinberger: $9,800
    =================================
    John Harkless: $4,000
    Julia Williams: $3,800
    Gautam Hans: $1
    Lisa Dresner: $0 ($6,400)
    Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders: $0 ($3,200)
    Ramón Guerra: $0 ($1,400)

    • Jacob Ska says:

      Richard, Thanks so much for your ranking. I had to look no further than your list to see where the three finalists ranked during the first week of the Tournament. No further research needed. Good work on your part.