Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Literature (12-11-23)
The Final Jeopardy question (12/11/2023) in the category “20th Century Literature” was:
Thomas Pynchon wrote that this novelist “in 1948 understood that despite the Axis defeat…fascism had not gone away”
The Champions Wild Card quarter-finals continue today with these three champs: Amal Dorai, a venture capital investor from San Francisco, CA; Donesh Olyaie, a marketing director from Los Angeles, CA; and Emma Saltzberg, a campaigns director from Brooklyn, NY.
Round 1 Categories: Got Your Name Tag? – It’s the Geneva Convention – The Music of Canada – Hydrology – Circle Time – F-Stop
Amal found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Hydrology” under the $600 clue on the 7th pick of the round. He was the only one on the board with $4,600. Amal bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
The gradual movement of water through porous openings in rock or soil, it’s also a way to make coffee show
Amal finished in the lead with $8,600. Donesh was in second place with $3,600. Emma was last with $2,200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: The Country’s Unknown Soldier… – Directors’ First Features – The 7 Deadly Sin-onyms – Home on the Range – Arts – Crafts
Amal found the first Daily Double in “Arts” under the $1,600 clue on the 8th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $10,600, $2,800 more than Donesh in second place. Amal bet $3,000 and said “Swan Lake”. That was WRONG.
The full title of this modernist Stravinsky ballet includes “Pictures from Pagan Russia in Two Parts” show
Emma got the last Daily Double in “The 7 Deadly Sin-onyms” under the $1,200 clue on the 18th pick. She was in last place with $9,000, $2,000 less than Donesh’s lead. Emma bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
”Pride” synonym paired with “the id” in a Freud title show
Emma finished in the lead with $15,000. Donesh was in second place with $12,600. Amal was last with $11,200. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS GEORGE ORWELL?
In 2003, a “Centennial” edition of George Orwell’s 1949 novel “1984” was published in honor of the 100th anniversary of Orwell’s birth. The foreword was written by American author Thomas Pyncheon. It also includes an afterword by German-American philosopher Erich Fromm (1900–1980), written in 1961 (I think).
Pyncheon wrote that Orwell had come to see the British Labour party “as potentially, if not already, fascist…. professing to fight for the working classes against capitalism, but in reality concerned only with establishing and perpetuating their own power.” Pynchon has a lot more to say before he gets to the part in the clue: “Orwell in 1948 understood that despite the Axis defeat, the will to fascism had not gone away, that far from having seen its day it had perhaps not yet even come into its own….”
Amal got it right. He bet it all and doubled his score to $22,400.
Donesh went with Roth. He bet and lost his whole $12,600.
Emma also got it right. She bet $10,201 and won the game with $25,201.
2 triple stumpers from DIRECTORS’ FIRST FEATURES:
($800) “Play Misty For Me” (1971)
($2000) “The 400 Blows” (1959)
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Aesthetic Movements”
This turn-of-the-century movement was alternately known around the world as Nieuwe Kunst & Modernista show
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I was convinced the Final answer was Ayn Rand.
Excellent comeback by Emma! Go NY Go NY GO!
Excellent game, and what a comeback by Emma after she stood silent throughout the first segment. DDs were unkind to me, but FJ was a gimme.
Silly answers given for the southern line parallel to the equator. It wasn’t difficult. Only others I got were the directors of “Play Misty for Me” (very good movie) and “400 Blows,” and the Ontario rocker.
These recent Finals are toooo easy. I don’t like them.