Final Jeopardy: Children’s Books (3-3-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/3/2020) in the category “Children’s Books” was:

This book was published in Latin as “Virent Ova! Viret Perna!!”

New champ Bruce Lou, a software engineer from San Francisco, CA, won $13,245 yesterday. In Game 2, his opponents are: Mike Upchurch, a writer from Chicago, IL; and Kim Lutz, a homemaker & retired engineer from Centennial, CO.

Round 1 Categories: The 1950s – Common Bond Cuisine – Literary Twins – Charitable Celebs – Immaculate Inception – “List” Bucket

Mike found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “‘List’ Bucket” under the $800 clue on the 4th pick of the round. He was in third place at negative $200, $400 less than Kim’s lead. He bet $800 and he was RIGHT.

From the Greek for “beauty” & “strength”, it’s basic exercises for fitness with little use of special equipment. show

WHAT ARE CALISTHENICS?

Mike finished in the lead with $8,000. Bruce was second with $2,600 and Kim was last with $2,200.

Round 2 Categories: Impostor! – Waterfalls – Parenthetical Song Titles – Geology – Luke – 4, 4

Bruce found the first Daily Double in “Waterfalls” under the $2,000 clue on the 14th pick. He was in the lead with $11,800 now, $3,000 more than Mike in second place. He bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.

In 2009 Hugo Chavez declared that this waterfall should be referred to by its indigenous name, Kerepakupai Mera. show

WHAT IS ANGEL FALLS?

Bruce got the last Daily Double in “Luke” under the $1,600 clue, with 6 clues left after it. In the lead with $20,000, he had $6,800 more than Mike in second place. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.

Unlike the other gospels, Luke has the story of this man who helped a wounded stranger after others passed him by. show

WHO IS THE GOOD SAMARITAN?

Bruce finished in the lead with $23,000. Mike was next with $15,600 and Kim was in third place with $9,000.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS “GREEN EGGS AND HAM”?

In the 2017 article, “The Highbrow Struggles of Translating Modern Children’s Books Into Latin”, Eric Grundhauser talked to Terence Tunberg, who with his wife, translated “Green Eggs and Ham” into Latin, as well as other Dr. Seuss titles. Tunberg, a long-time Latin professor, said he took on the challenge when contacted by a classics book publisher who “caught on to the idea that if they have very young children’s stories in Latin along with the regular books by Caesar and Cicero and all these other people, it would be a draw. And they were right. I still get royalties.” And now look– “Virent Ova! Viret Perna!!” is a Final Jeopardy! clue!

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Kim thought it was “Horton Hears a Who.” That cost her $7,800 and dropped her down to $1,200.

Mike got it right. His $11,000 bet brought him up to $26,600.

Bruce scribbled something out and wrote “I hope I won.” He lost $7,201 so that didn’t work out for him but it did for Mike Upchurch. Mike is the new Jeopardy! champ.

2 triple stumpers from LITERARY TWINS:

($400) A chapter in “Through the Looking-Glass” is named for these mirror-image twins

($1000) This alliterative title Dickens character works for the wealthy Cheeryble twins & his sister Kate marries their nephew

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Classic British Novels”

A preface to this novel calls it “a loud hee-haw at all who yearn for Utopia…& a pretty good fable in the Aesop tradition” show

WHAT IS “ANIMAL FARM”?

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