Final Jeopardy: Literature (2-1-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (2/1/2023) in the category “Literature” was:
Published in 2011, P.D. James’ final novel, “Death Comes to Pemberley”, was a sequel to this novel from 200 years earlier
3x champ Jake DeArruda, a delivery dispatcher orig. from Ludlow, VT, is now up to $68,661. In Game 4, he takes on these two players: Patti Palmer, a bookseller and retired teacher from Tulsa, OK; and Aaron Bola, an emergency medicine doctor from New York, NY.
Round 1 Categories: Inventors & Inventions – Hodgepodge – Literary Gems – Iraq – You “Break” – A Friendly Game of Billiards
Jake found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Iraq” under the $800 clue on the 12th pick of the round. Jake was tied for the lead with Patti at $2,200, $2,400 more than Aaron in last place. Jake bet it all and he was RIGHT.
About 20% of Iraq’s population is this ethnic group that today administers 3 northern provinces there. show
Jake finished in the lead with $7,800. Patti was second with $3,800 and Aaron was last with $1,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Mountains – Pardon Me – If Ancient Greek Deities Were around Today – “Z” Category – TV Character First Names – Overlaps
Jake found the first Daily Double in “Mountains” under the $1,200 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. He was in the lead with $7,800, $4,000 more than Patti in second place. Jake bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.
Though it’s near the Equator, this highest African peak has glaciers above the 15,000-foot level show
Patti got the last Daily Double in “If Ancient Greek Deities Were Around Today” under the $2,000 clue on the 10th pick of the round. In second place with $6,600, she had $11,400 less than Jake’s lead. Patti bet $6,000 and she was RIGHT.
Zeus has huge daddy issues in therapy, having overthrown & confined dad, this Titan, in Tartarus; also, that dad ate Zeus’ sibling show
Jake finished in the lead with $24,800. Patti was second with $16,200 and Aaron was last with $7,400. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE”?
Pemberley is the name of the estate belonging to Fitzwilliam Darcy, which fans of Jane Austen’s 1813 novel “Pride and Prejudice” are bound to know. Although clues on “Pride and Prejudice” have frequently appeared on Jeopardy!, clues on the P.D. James’ 2011 mystery novel have been few and far between. In fact, the last one I could find was on October 26, 2018 and it was a triple stumper! FICTION ($2000) One of Britain’s great mystery authors, she went back a couple of centuries for “Death Comes to Pemberley”
A little mixed up: The Jane Austen novel was actually published 198 years ago before P.D. James’ novel. 200 years after “Pride and Prejudice” was published, “Death Comes to Pemberley”, a 3-part BBC mini-series first aired on British television.
Aaron came up with the “Odyssey”. He lost $6,400 and finished with $1,000.
Patti got it right. She bet $16,000 and finished with $32,200.
Jake had a different Jane Austen novel: “Northanger Abbey” (1818). His $7,601 bet dropped him down to $17,199. That made Patti Palmer the new Jeopardy! champ. Congrats, Patti!
2 triple stumpers from the first round:
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS ($600) In the 1830s Jeanne Villepreux-Power invented this glass receptacle to help her study the paper nautilus
LITERARY GEMS ($800) Aunt Em & Uncle Henry join Dorothy on her travels in this metropolis “of Oz”
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “The Wild West”
These 2 legends both known for buckskin clothes & long, flowing hair met violent ends 38 days apart, in Montana & South Dakota show
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I got FJ. Pemberley gave it away, to me, irrespective of dates.
I have to be honest – Jake got on my nerves. Besides the constant movement out of camera, it was the pumping of his arm, as if he was pulling an air horn, and clicking his tongue.
Aaron seemed like a dilettante.
I completely agree.
Jake and Mattea ..not cute! Spare Me.
On the Jeopardy FB page yesterday, a woman who said she works in that field of health insisted that Jake is neurodivergent, whatever that entails. “Swaying Ray” also has some type of affliction that causes him to rock.
Jake showed good sportsmanship in defeat today. Imo he was lucky to get as far as he did missing every fj clue each game…going 0/4. The runaway games helped him survive up until today when he didn’t have a runaway. His game intensity reminded me of Matt Jackson when he played.
Patti was a good player today and is definitely worthy of a big congratulations. Congratulations Patti!
Good group today. The DD and that Greek Deities category as a whole really kept Patti alive.
She obviously knows her literature. My late wife was a devotee of “P&P” in its video forms.
All I could think of was “Wuthering Heights.”
The only cinch clue they all missed was the one in the “break” category.
Aaron’s last-seconds scrawl of “Odyssey” was purely a desperate stab.
I love Wuthering Heights! What a devil Heathcliff was, except when he was portrayed by Laurence Olivier. Then he was a handsome devil. 😁
We were trying to figure out which novel published in 1811 matched the clues, and couldn’t come up with anything in FJ. Yes, the writers should kindly get the dates straight.