Final Jeopardy: Classic British Novels (3-6-18)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/6/2018) in the category “Classic British Novels” was:
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”
2x champ Matt Lisiecki, has now won $34,551. In Game 3, he takes on these two guys: Rob Wivchar, from Denver, CO; and Jack Rice, from Portland, OR.
Round 1 Categories: Name That Poet! – The Vegan Life – Direct Me to the Directional University – TV – 2 Letters Different – Slovenia & Slovakia
Jack found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Slovenia & Slovakia” under the $800 clue. There were 5 clues still to go worth $3,800. He had a big lead at $5,800, $4,000 more than Rob in second place. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
A farm in the Slovenian town of Lipica is known for these animals it has bred for 400 years. show
Jack finished in the lead with $7,800. Rob was second with $1,000 and Matt was last with $800.
Round 2 Categories: Other Mona Lisas – A Year Ending in 8 – “Horse” Talk – International Holidays & Observances – Electricity – Oscar’s Best Picture Rhyme Time
Rob found the first Daily Double in “A Year Ending in 8” under the $2,000 clue on the 5th pick. He was in second place with $2,600 now, $6,400 less than Rob’s lead. He bet it all and said 1778. That was WRONG.
Cyrus Griffin is elected the last president of e Continental Congress. show
Rob found the last Daily Double in “International Holidays” under the $1,200 clue on the 16th pick. In second place with $3,200, he had $9,800 less than Matt in second place. Undaunted, he went with a true Daily Double again and, this time, he was RIGHT.
February (summer Down Under) is the month for this Australian state’s Royal Hobart Regatta. show
Jack finished in the lead with $19,400. Rob was next with $13,200 and Matt was in third place with $400.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Author and journalist Russell Baker wrote the preface to a 1996 edition of George Orwell’s political allegory on the Russian Revolution “Animal Farm.” Here is the part with the phrases in the clue: “Orwell called the book ‘a fairy story.’ Like Voltaire’s Candide, however, with which it bears comparison, it is too many other things to be so handily classified. It is also a political tract, a satire on human folly, a loud hee-haw at all who yearn for Utopia, an allegorical lesson, and a pretty good fable in the Aesop tradition. It is also a passionate sermon against the dangers of political innocence.” Baker was the 1983 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for his 1982 memoir “Growing Up.”
Match Animal Farm characters with what they represent in this Sporcle Quiz.
Matt got it right. He bet nothing so he remained at $400.
Rob thought it was “Gulliver’s Travels.” He lost his $12,000 bet, leaving him $1,200.
Jack got it right, too. He bet $7,100 making it a $26,500 payday. Jack Rice is the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
NAME THAT POET! ($800) “The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there”
“HORSE” TALK ($1200) An 1831 novel said one of these “which had never been thought of… rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph”
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “The Western Hemisphere”
2 U.S. state capitals & 2 major Panamanian ports are named after this European. show
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This board was not friendly to Matt, too bad. But dude, Aesop doesn’t make you think of animals?
Maybe we would have seen all the clues if Jack picked up the pace a little. Geez! Great knowledge base, though.
Yeah, I was worried that Matt wasn’t going to make it to FJ there when he blanked out on Duchamp. Anyhow, it was Rob who missed FJ! and it did make him think of animals– the talking horses in Gulliver’s Travels.
I agree about Jack. If he gets a big lead tomorrow and then starts doing that, I’m definitely going to think it’s stalling.
Oops, my bad, sorry Matt. We’ll see how Jack plays tomorrow.
I agree about Jack, too, VJ and Cece. Those long pauses were a bit much.
He started chugging during Double Jeopardy though…was calling them much faster.
Matt couldn’t get anything going at all today, just like laura, but jack dominated the whole game. Animal Farm will always be in my heart forever, VJ. Do you have a list of favorite.classical British novels by Charles Dickens?
@Lou, I would have to say “Oliver Twist” is my favorite of Dickens. I love the musical “Oliver!” too though they left out many characters. I loved the 1935 film version of “David Copperfield,” too. Both of those films were Oscar-nominated, though only “Oliver!” won.
LINK: 10 more clues from the match
You mean that Sony Columbia movie?
Yes. If I had to pick a favorite character, I would pick Mr. Bumble.