Final Jeopardy: Writers for Children (2-2-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (2/2/2021) in the category “Writers for Children:” was:
The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine gave “rejoice” as a rhyme for the correct pronunciation of his name
New champ Steve Crupi, a retired police dept. info supervisor from Las Vegas, NV, won $10,000 yesterday. In Game 2, his opponents are: Myrlin Hermes, a novelist from Portland, OR; and Henry Michaels, an arts administrator from Santa Barbara, NC.
Round 1 Categories: Cutting Edge Technology – Fashion – Country / Music – 2 Letters, Ends in “E” – American Names – Authors
Henry found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “American Names” under the $1,000 clue on the 13th pick of the round. When he found it, he had a leading $1,400, $400 more than Steve and Myrlin tied in second place. Before he made his bet, Henry benefited from a reversal and gained $1200 (*see below). Now that he had $2,600, he bet $1,500 and he was RIGHT.
The movie “Rope” was partly based on a murder committed by this pair, first names Nathan and Richard. show
Myrlin finished in the lead with $6,800. Henry was second with $5,500 and Steve was last with $3,600. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: “A” Is for Astronomical – The Western Hemisphere – Films with Small Casts – Old Newspapers – The Norman Conquest – Rhyme Time
Henry found the first Daily Double in “Old Newspapers” under the $1,600 clue on the 9th pick. He was in second place with $5,900 now, $2,500 less than Myrlin’s lead. He bet $2,000 and thought it was mud-slinging. That was WRONG.
A furious rivalry between NYC’s World & Journal papers in the 1890s led to this term for sensational news reporting show
Henry got the last Daily Double in “Western Hemisphere” under the $2,000 clue, with just 4 clues in Rhyme Time left after it. In third place with $10,700, he had $1,700 less than Myrlin’s lead. He bet $4,000 and went with Costa Rica. That was WRONG.
This “C” in the ABC islands of the Caribbean has the oldest continously inhabited Jewish community in the Americas. show
Myrlin finished in the lead with $14,400. Steve was next with $12,000 and Henry was in third place with $5,100. No clues went uncovered.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
In its 2019 article: Here Is the CORRECT Way to Pronounce Dr. Seuss (and 17 Other Popular Author Names), the Readers Digest led off with Theodore Geisel’s most famous pen name: “If you are in the majority, you pronounce “Seuss” to rhyme with “Zeus.” (Maybe you even say “Zeus,” and consider that acceptable.) But according to humorist Alexander Liang, one of the Doctor’s college pals, the correct pronunciation was always “Soice,” rhyming with “voice.” Liang even wrote up a little rhyme to drive the point home: “You’re wrong as the deuce/ And you shouldn’t rejoice/ If you’re calling him Seuss./ He pronounces it Soice (or Zoice).” They add that “Seuss himself eventually relented and adopted the rhymes-with-moose pronunciation, unable to control his own legend.”
Another pen name of Dr. Seuss was a triple stumper in the 9/17/2020 game: A youngster wakes up to find everything out of place in “Wacky Wednesday” by this author writing under the name Theo LeSieg
Henry went with DuBois, not a bad guess at all in terms of the rhyme. He lost $5,000 and finished with $100.
Steve got it right. He didn’t a fickle nickel so he remained at $12,000.
Myrlin came up with Boyce. She lost $10,000 and finished with $4,400. That made Steve the winner with a 2-day total of $22,000.
*Reversal: CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY ($600) A rip-cut saws along the grain of the wood, while this cut goes against the grain – they were looking for cross cut so Ken nixed Henry’s response of pull cut. The judges checked it out and said okay.
2 triple stumpers from AUTHORS:
($600) In 2020 this author of “Dear John” returned to familiar territory (love in North Carolina) with “The Return”
($1000) He began “Dombey and Son” during a trip to Switzerland in 1846
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “20th Century Disasters”
On the radio in 1937 this 3-word exclamation came after “the smoke and the flames now…not quite to the mooring mast” show
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We’ve finally got a Tuesday with a player getting no wrong answers in the whole game
I feel bad for Myrlin. She played a pretty strong game but the FJ was her undoing.
She was strong and knew a lot. I thought at one point she would win and be a multi-game winner. Oh, well. The vagaries of the game get good players often.
Thanks for sharing the article with the pronunciation of other authors’ names. There were a couple names I was unfamiliar with, but of those I recognized, my assumed pronunciation was incorrect about 75% of the time.
You’re welcome, JP. I found out that I’ve been saying Nabokov wrong like forever and if I’ve ever heard anyone say it correctly (J! players included), I didn’t notice. Today, of course, it is said correctly (@ 0.29) in the first YouTube I came across
I quizzed my Amazon Echo (AKA Alexa) on the pronunciation of those authors and the results were not very good.
Not surprised. Alexa can’t even say bonjour right. 🤣🤣🤣
I looked up a French interview with Nabokov and found (as expected) that the interviewer put the emphasis on the last syllable
I followed that up with playing the J6! clues. When it came to the maker of the Birkin bag, it looks like they had trouble rendering the accented ‘e’. It showed in the app as “WHAT IS HERMèS”, and the response was pronounced as “What is Herma diaersesis ess”.
And Myrlin’s last name just so happened to be Hermes, what a coincidence, eh, VJ?
yes, Rhonda, lol ! It was cool how she had her name embroidered on her shirt. No one will misspell it when she’s wearing that!
I liked her shirt, too, VJ. She was a great contestant, I wish she had won the game, nothing against Steve, though..
Same she reminded me of this contestant I liked on that cooking show Chopped, she played really well, wish she won.
Those daily doubles weren’t nice to Henry today. Overall I was hoping he and myrlin would know Dr Seuss. Furthermore green eggs and Ham, Horton hears a who, and cat in the hat are famous books by him. Congrats to Steve on his second win. Was myrlin thinking of Frank Cotrell Boyce and his book sputnik’s guide to life on earth VJ? Or was it James Boyce?
I assumed she meant Frank Cotrell Boyce, Lou. I don’t know why anyone would need to be told that Boyce rhymes with rejoice though.