Final Jeopardy: Literary Characters (3-4-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/4/2022) in the category “Literary Characters” was:
Dostoyevsky wrote that this title man in an earlier European novel is “beautiful only because he is ridiculous”
3x champ Margaret Shelton, a homemaker from Pittsburgh, PA won $58,200 this week. In Game 4, she takes on these two players: Caitlin McHale, a university marketing manager from Philadelphia, PA; and Adrian Alcalá, a software developer from Great Barrington, MA.
Round 1 Categories: Sams Club – History – Now We Are Six – Transportation – The Elements of Literature – All the Way from D to E
Margaret found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “History” under the $600 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. The only one in the money, Margaret had $200. She bet the $1,000 allowance and she was RIGHT.
Built by a Ming Dynasty Emperor, this place is so named because most people in the empire were denied access show
Margaret finished in the lead with $7,200. Caitlin was second with $3,600 and Adrian was last with $2,200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Bordering Russia – Pop Culture Pairs – Genus & Species – Signs & Symbols – Unusual Words – Arthurian Legend & History
Margaret found the first Daily Double in “Arthurian Legend & History” under the $800 clue on the 2nd pick of the round. She was in the lead with $7,600, $4,000 more than Caitlin in second place. Margaret made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
The figure best known by this name appears in some versions as Ambrosius, a prophet & adviser to King Vortigern show
Adrian got the last Daily Double in “Genus & Species” under the $1,600 clue with 9 clues left after it. He was in second place with $10,000, $11,600 less than Margaret’s lead. Adrian bet it all and came up with crocodile. That was WRONG.
Waran is Arabic for the monitor lizard; this largest member of the genus varanus can weigh 350 pounds & kill with its bite show
Margaret finished in the lead with a runaway $24,000. Caitlin was second with $5,600 and Adrian was last with $4,600. Two clues worth $3,600 were not shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS DON QUIXOTE?
Russian author, Fyodor Dostoyevsky believed that nothing in the whole world was deeper and more powerful than Cervantes’ novel, “Don Quixote” (1605 & 1615). Dostoyevsky drew inspiration from “Don Quixote” for the character of Prince Myshkin in “The Idiot”. He wrote to his niece Sofia Ivanova (1/1/1868): “I will merely mention that of the beautiful characters in Christian literature, Don Quixote alone is the most complete. But he is beautiful only because at the same time he is comical…. There is compassion for the beautiful person who is ridiculed and who is unaware of his own worth, and so the reader is drawn toward him.” However, after further character development, Dostoevsky wrote in his notebook: “The Prince, the hero of the novel is, if not ridiculous, then in possession of another sympathetic trait, he is innocent!” Learn more on Google Books
Adrian thought it was Prince Myshkin, the main character of Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot” (1868). He bet and lost it all.
Caitlin came up with Oscar Wilde’s “Dorian Gray” (1890). That cost her $3,601 and left her with $1,999.
Margaret wrote down Voltaire’s “Candide” (1759). She lost her $2,500 bet but won the game with the remaining $21,500. 4-day total is $79,700.
A triple stumper from each round:
NOW WE ARE SIX ($1000) The Dardanus & the Scaean were 2 of the 6 gates of this ancient legendary city of Anatolia
THE ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE ($400) In a work by L. Frank Baum, the Scarecrow & this character are captured by a female giant & turned into a bear & an owl
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Civil War”
The Chicago Tribune called Clement Vallandigham, an anti-war Ohio Dem., a “traitor” & a “hissing” one of these creatures show
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@jk, I was shocked that no one got it, too. Candide was the best guess. Dostoevsky died before Oscar Wilde published “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
Well Marge had some good competition this week and made a good comeback. One triple stumper was not going to hurt her. So I still think she has a good shot at winning Game 5 on monday and maybe get close to Tyler Rhodes.
Tough final as we end the week with a triple stumper as today’s FJ was not nice to anybody.
I really thought this one was one that all of them would get. Kind of shocked no one got it.
So we end the week with two triple solves and one triple stumper. On the other hand we have our second 4 day champ in Margaret. We’ll see if she can become our first 5 day champion since Amy lost.