Final Jeopardy: 19th Century Authors (12-13-18)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (12/13/2018) in the category “19th Century Authors” was:

In the preface to a book of his stories, he thanks a herpetologist of Upper India & an elephant named Bahadur Shah

New champ Elana Schor, a journalist from Washington, D.C., won $23,601 yesterday. In Game 2, her challengers are: Faris Alikhan, a speechwriter from Atlanta, GA; and Mary Kate Moriarty, a dentist from Dumfries, VA.

Round 1 Categories: The 12 Days of Christmas Shopping List – Get It Strait – Words for Your Dog – Other Long-Running TV Shows – “Fight” Club – Shakespearean Opera by Aria

Faris found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Get It Strait” under the $800 clue on the 9th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $3,200, $2,600 more than Elana in second place. He made it a true Daily Double and guessed Faroe & Jutland. That was WRONG.

The Denmark Strait lies between these 2 islands, one 20 times the size of the other. show

WHAT ARE GREENLAND & ICELAND?

Elana finished in the lead with $4,000. Faris was second with $3,200 and Mary Kate was last with $2,800.

Round 2 Categories: Jack the Ripper Suspects – The Movie’s Characters – 1940s America – Don’t Know Much – A Science Book -The French I Took

Faris found the first Daily Double in “1940s America” under the $2,000 clue on the 15th pick. He was in second place with $9.200 at this point, $1,200 less than Elana’s lead. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.

ON March 11, 1941 this alliterative act became law & let FDR transfer billions of dollars in supplies to foes of the Axis. show

WHAT IS LEND-LEASE?

Mary Kate found the last Daily Double in “Jack the Ripper” under the $1,600 clue, with just the “French” category left after it. In third place with $800, she had $16,800 less than Faris’ lead. She bet $800 and drew a blank so she got it WRONG.

This 19th century author has been looked at: later writers pitted his creation against the Ripper in books like 2009’s “Dust and Shadow”. show

WHO IS ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE?

Faris finished in the lead with $17,200. Elana was next with $10,800 and Mary Kate was out of the game, at negative $400.

BOTH of the contestants left in Final Jeopardy! got it right.

WHO IS RUDYARD KIPLING?

This preface appears in various Rudyard Kipling books nowadays. In it, he thanks “the scholarly and accomplished Bahadur Shah, baggage-elephant 174 on the Indian Register, who, with his amiable sister Pudmini, most courteously supplied the history of ‘Toomai of the Elephants’ and much of the information contained in ‘Her Majesty’s Servants.'” The elephant was apparently a namesake for one of the Indian rulers who went by that name.

Near the end of the preface, he thanks “one of the leading herpetologists,” describing him as “a fearless and independent investigator” who resolved “not to live but know” and “sacrificed his life through over-application to the study of our Eastern Thanatophidia.” Sounds like the cause of death was a poisonous snakebite. Yikes!

Elana bet it all and doubled her score to $21,600.

Faris got it, too. He bet $5,500 and won the game with $22,700. He is the new Jeopardy! champ.

2 triple stumpers from the last round:

JACK THE RIPPER SUSPECTS ($2000) The graphic novel “From Hell” posits that William Gull, who served Queen Victoria in this capacity, was the Ripper

A SCIENCE BOOK ($1600) Subtitled “The Plant that Changed the World” in John Gaudet’s study, this species first widely used in Ancient Egypt

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “NYC TV”

In 2010, in its fourth season, this TV show shifted its primary setting to 6th Avenue, 2 blocks west. show

WHAT IS “MAD MEN”?

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