Final Jeopardy: Literary Inspirations (3-25-21)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/25/2021) in the category “Literary Inspirations” was:

The now-debunked theories of Luigi Galvani influenced the science in this 1818 novel.

2x champ Amal Dorai, a product manager orig. from Lexington, MA., has now won $43,200. In Game 3, his challengers are: Doug Small, a restaurant manager from Ypsilanti, MI; and Lisa O’Brien, a stay-at-home Mom from Edina, MN.

Round 1 Categories: Icons Of Technology – The Play’s the Thing – State Parks – Celebrity Sibling Surnames – In a Teacup – Good “Bi”

Lisa found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “State Parks” under the $600 clue with 8 clues left in the round. She was in the lead with $4,400, $2,000 more than Doug in second place. She bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.

With boating, camping & fishing, Alabama’s Meaher State Park is on this bay that’s an arm of The Gulf of Mexico. show

WHAT IS MOBILE BAY?

Lisa finished in the lead with $8,600. Doug was second with $3,200 and Amal was last with $1,600. No clues went uncovered.

Round 2 Categories: Born During the Civil War- Gods & Goddesses – TV Locales – Public Transportation – My Chemical Romance – Vocabulary

Amal found the first Daily Double in “Vocabulary” under the $1,200 clue on the third pick. He was in last place with $2,400 now, $6,200 less than Lisa’s lead. He bet it all and he was RIGHT.

The name of this job that provides childcare is a French phrase meaning “equal” show

WHAT IS AU PAIR?

Doug got the last Daily Double in “Born During The Civil War” under the $1,600 clue, with 7 clues left after it. In second place with $7,600, he had $4,200 less than Lisa’s lead. He bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.

This president’s first wife Alice & his second wife Edith were both born during the early days of the War in 1861. show

WHO IS THEODORE ROOSEVELT?

Doug finished in the lead with $14,800. Lisa was close behind with $14,600 and Amal was in third place with $8,000. No clues went uncovered.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS “FRANKENSTEIN”?

In 1818, 20-year-old Mary Shelley published her first novel “Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus” at a time when there was much interest in the scientific community in “galvanism”, a term coined by Allesandro Volta to refer to Luigi Galvani’s 1780s’ experiments when he discovered that electricity could make a dead frog’s muscles twitch. Indeed, Mary Shelley mentioned galvanism in an 1831 preface to her novel: “Perhaps a corpse would be re-animated; galvanism had given token of such things: perhaps the component parts of a creature might be manufactured, brought together, and endued with vital warmth.”

It’s a bit of a stretch for me to think that young English Mary took direct inspiration from Italian Galvani’s experiments, and I think you will agree that his influence was indirect if you take a look at the experiments that were going on in Great Britain at the time: The Real Electric Frankenstein Experiments of the 1800s (Ewwww!)

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Amal got it right. He bet $7,999 and finished with $15,999.

Lisa also got the correct answer. She bet $1,500 and finished with $16,100.

Doug came up with “The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and lost his $14,601 bet. That left him with $199 and made Lisa O’Brien the new Jeopardy! champ.

3 triple stumpers from GODS & GODDESSES:

($800) In Hawaiian religion, she is the goddess of volcanoes & fire

($1200) A top Mayan deity, Kukulkan is sometimes depicted as a feathered one of these real-life creatures, also the meaning of his name

($1600) All’s fair in love & war, 2 things this Babylonian deity, Astarte’s counterpart, is goddess of

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “American Authors”

Alfred Hitchcock wrote, “It’s because I liked” his “stories so much that I began to make suspense films” show

WHO IS EDGAR ALLAN POE?

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