Final Jeopardy: Novel Title Objects (4-1-24)
The Final Jeopardy question (4/1/2024) in the category “Novel Title Objects” was:
A girl in a 1950 novel walks into this & “got in among the coats and rubbed her face against them”
Today is the last quarterfinal of the Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament. The contestants are: Lilly Chin, a robotics professor from Decatur, GA; Colby Burnett, a high school college counselor from Chicago, IL; and Sam Buttrey, bon vivant & man about town from Pacific Grove, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Tailor’s Version – Current Events – Reptiles & Amphibians – International Sports – Authors at War – Same Last 3/First 3 Letters
Colby found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Authors at War” under the $800 clue on the 10th pick of the round. He was tied for the lead with Sam at $1,800. Lilly didn’t have any money. Colby made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
As a P.O.W., Kurt Vonnegut survived the 1945 allied firebombing of this German city because he was working underground show
Colby finished in the lead with $4,800. Sam was in second place with $4,600. Lilly was last with $2,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: The 14th Century – in My Feelings – Art & Crime – Long Words – You Named Your Band What? – “G”oing Places
Lilly found the first Daily Double in “In My Feelings” under the $2,000 clue on the 16th pick of the round. She was in second place with $10,000, $4,000 less than Colby’s lead. Lilly bet $5,000 and tried malaise. That was WRONG.
Freud’s works helped popularize this loanword for a general sense of dread or unease show
4 clues later, Sam landed on the last Daily Double in “14th Century” under the $1,200 clue. He was in second place with $10,600, $2,600 less than Colby’s lead. Sam bet it all and he was RIGHT.
During the Great Schism beginning in 1378, Robert of Geneva reigned as Clement VII, this 8-letter type of guy show
Sam finished in the lead with $24,400. Colby was in second place with $14,800. Lilly was last with $3,000. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS A WARDROBE?
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) by C.S. Lewis is about the Pevensie children and what happened to them after they were sent to live in an old Professor’s large house “ten miles from the nearest post office.” The quote in the clue comes the first chapter when the children decided to explore the house. Lucy, the youngest, went inside a wardrobe in an otherwise empty room. She rubbed her face against the coats because “there was nothing Lucy liked so much as the smell and feel of fur.” Upon further exploration, she entered Narnia, a strange land on the other side of the wardrobe. This was the first novel in the Chronicles of Narnia series.
Subsequent titles: Prince Caspian (1951); The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952); The Silver Chair (1953); The Horse and His Boy (1954); The Magician’s Nephew (1955); and The Last Battle (1956).
Lilly went with a shoutout to Galactic Trendsetters, her puzzle hunt team. She didn’t bet a farthing so her score remained $3,000.
Colby had “Lilies of the Field”, a 1962 novel. He lost $9,601 and finished with $5,199.
Sam got it right. He bet $5,201 and won the game with $29,601. So it’s Sam Buttrey who finishes off the list of semifinalists. Those games will begin tomorrow.
A triple stumper from each round:
AUTHORS AT WAR ($400) As a 2nd lieutenant in the czar’s army, he saw the siege of Sevastopol & wrote about it in his “Sevastopol Sketches”
ART & CRIME ($000) Art forger Elmyr de Hory is included as a subject in “F for Fake”, a rare documentary by this film auteur
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Shakespeare’s Women”
It is said of her, “Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets: more needs she the divine than the physician” show
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That was the toughest game which I had come across, and I missed FJ since I never read the book.
I only realized yesterday that Sam looks just like Steve Martin.
Congrats to the Professor!
Good, competitive show, with all three having the lead at one time.
These 61 clues were totally off the radar screen for me; just couldn’t get nearly any of them. One of the few was the stumper with a big hint in it “ya big ox.”
That “big ox” clue made me laugh. That was one where a picture would have made it a cinch, but they mainly use pictures when they don’t help 🤣🤣
I’ve done a fair amount of sewing in my day so I got that one and the hook combo as well
Ken informed us that the April Fools Day show would be “devoid” of pranks, even though Sam was there.
Then it was Sam’s turn to pick the last clue at the end of the first round and Ken actually told Sam to say “Bring it”. Sam said “Are we still doing this, Ken?” and said it. Ken said “There we go. Only you get to do it.” 🤣 Maybe other contestant will stop copying that now.
Lilly picked the last clue at the end of the Double Jeopardy! so it didn’t come back up.
I think it might have been because the “bon vivant and man about town” is so affable. Had it been one of the more annoying competitors, it wouldn’t have become a “thing”.