Final Jeopardy: Fictional Places (2-16-18)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (2/16/2018) in the category “Fictional Places” was:
Some residents of the place with this name came from Kensington Gardens, where they had fallen out of their perambulators.
2x champ Rob Worman has now won $21,499. In Game 3, he’ll test his mettle against these two players: Vinay Kadiyala, from Albany, NY; and Gianna Durso-Finley, from Lawrenceville, NJ.
Round 1 Categories: At the Como Park Zoo – Take a Letter – States’ Highest Points – Reality TV Shows – Eponymous Brands – Title Titles
Rob found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Title Titles” under the $600 clue on the 19th pick of the round. He was in the second place with $2,200, $600 less than Vinay’s lead. He bet it all and he was RIGHT.
“Vlad the Impaler: The Real _____ ____. show
Rob finished in the lead with $5,400. Gianna was second with $4,400 and Vinay was last with $3,200.
Round 2 Categories: Art & Religion – Film Sidekicks – Travel Eurasia – In a Hall of Fame – American History – Ends in “Ella”
Vinay found the first Daily Double in “Travel Eurasia” under the $1,600 clue on the 7th pick. He was in the lead with $7,200 now, $1,800 more than Rob in second place. He bet $2,500 and he was RIGHT.
The dunes of Echoing Sand Mountain near Dunhuang, China are best traveled riding this, luotuo in Chinese. show
Rob found the last Daily Double in “Hall of Fame” under the $1,200 clue on the 13th pick. In second place with $10,200, he had $1,500 less than Vinay’s lead. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT, and wished he bet more.
In 2011 both the Wiggles & Kylie Minogue were inducted into this country’s recording industry Hall of Fame. show
Vinay finished in the lead with $19,700. Rob was next with $17,800 and Gianna was in third place with $4,000.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
In Chapter 3, (“Come Away, Come Away!”), of J.M. Barrie’s “Peter and Wendy” (1911), Peter Pan tells Wendy Darling that he wants “always to be a little boy” so he ran away to Kensington Gardens where he lived “a long long time among the fairies.” Later, she asks where he lives now. “With the lost boys,” he says and explains: “They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way. If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Neverland to defray expenses. I’m captain.”
Try this Sporcle quiz… see what else you know about Peter Pan.
Gianna got it right with Never Never Land, as Trebek assumed because she wrote it down “rather quickly.” After the reveal, he said “and once again, I am right, as you were.” LOL!! Gianna added $100 to finish with $4,100.
Rob had the same response as Gianna. He bet a healthy $15,000, bringing him up to $32,800.
Vinay thought they went to the infirmary. (He also thanked Kristi for taking his shift so he could be on the show.) Vinay lost $5,300 and landed in second place with $14,400. Rob Worman remains champ again, with a 3-day total of $54,299. That sure made up for yesterday!
A triple stumper from each round:
TITLE TITLES ($400) Pericles, ___ of Tyre
AMERICAN HISTORY ($800) 1971 events at this prison east of Buffalo were one of the bloodiest clashes between American in the 20th century
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Late Entertainers”
n 2015 a street connecting with Frank Sinatra Drive & Dean Martin Drive in Las Vegas was renamed in his honor. show
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But why were their answers of “Never Never Land” deemed CORRECT when your direct quotation from J.M.Barrie’s “Peter Pan” shows clearly that the Fictional Place was “Neverland”? I am distressed that Disney trumped J.M. Barrie.
@Alexandra. I don’t think we can say that “Never Never Land” came from the Disney version. There’s an illustration by F.D. Bedford in the 1911 book captioned “The Never Never Land” for one thing.
I was just quoting from the 1911 book because it matched the clue. In Barrie’s earlier 1904 play, the quote says “prams,” not perambulators. Various sources say that Never Never Land comes from the play.
Gianna couldn’t get rolling, the gentleman seem to be a lot faster on that button today.
The 2 gentlemen didn’t miss anything in the Double Jeopardy! round.
Congrats to Rob once again. Neverland reminded me of the disney version.Of Peter pan, VJ. I am glad Rob had a big bet payoff and I hope he wins his fourth game next week. Plus this reminded me of Tim kutz and his four game run last February in the second week. Plus VJ, did your kids get into disney Peter pan?
I got such a kick out of Alex and his “prediction” that Gianna had the right answer and then saying he was right. Hey, my 2/3 prediction was right today, too! It was also funny that Alex added an extra syllable to infirmary.
Congrats to Rob on the big bet. He would have won even if Vinay got it right!!
LINK: 11 more clues from the match
Rob’s big bet worked out. But it was not a smart bet. He should have remembered how he won yesterday when Shawn made an unwise wager when she was in second place and it was a ts.
The clue in Title Titles for $400 was the subject of the also triple stumper final J! from day 2 of the 2014 TofC.
Yeah, the FJ that broke Ben Ingram’s perfect record but he won anyhow. On that one, they only wanted the location.