Final Jeopardy: World Literature (4-18-22)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/18/2022) in the category “World Literature” was:

Befitting the title, Antoine Galland, the first western translator of this collection, worked on it only “after dinner”

9x champ Mattea Roach, a tutor from Toronto, Ontario won $210,802 so far. In Game 10, she is up against: Caitlin Hayes, a musician and educator from North Vancouver, British Columbia; and Sarah McGrath, a business manager from New York, NY.

Round 1 Categories: World Leaders – Fantasy Fiction – Out of … – Pillow Talk – Smith & Jones – Vigorous Vocab

Mattea found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “World Leaders” under the $600 clue on the third pick of the round. At $600, she was the only one with any currency. Mattea bet the $1,000 allowance and she was RIGHT.

Otto Von Bismarck was this Germanic nation’s prime minister from 1862 to 1890 with a brief break around 1873 show

WHAT IS PRUSSIA?

Sarah finished in the lead with $5,200. Mattea was second with $5,000. Caitlin was last with $3,800. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: West of the Mississippi – Geology – Art on Commission – Airlines – Actors on Broadway – One E, Double E

Mattea found the first Daily Double in “Airlines” under the $1,200 clue on the fourth pick of the round. She was in first place with $6,600, $1,400 more than Sarah in second place. Mattea bet $3,200 and she was RIGHT.

A shamrock has been the emblem of this airline for over 80 years show

WHAT IS AER LINGUS?

Mattea got the last Daily Double in “Art on Commission” under the $800 clue on the 14th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $12,600, $4,400 more than Caitlin in second place. Mattea bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.

It was Leonardo Da Vinci’s patron Ludovico Sforza who commissioned this work painted on the wall of a monastery in Milan show

WHAT IS “THE LAST SUPPER”?

Mattea finished in the lead with $20,800. Sarah was second with $12,400 and Caitlin was last with $9,800. All clues were shown.

WHAT IS “1,001 NIGHTS or ARABIAN NIGHTS”?

The 1,001 Nights are a collection of Arab tales supposedly told by Scheherazade to her husband, the king, in an effort to postpone his plans to execute her. She tells him the stories at night, cleverly leaving off the ending so he will have to let her finish it the next night. Antoine Galland’s French translations were published in 12 volumes over a 13-year period (1704-1717) under the title “Les mille et une nuits” (“The Thousand and One Nights”). This wikipedia article has a list of the titles in each volume. Galland came up in the additional info on Final Jeopardy! on 3/24/22 when the category was “Disney Characters” and the correct response was Aladdin’s princess. It is mentioned that “French translator Antoine Galland added it to 1001 Nights in the early 18th century.”

Did you know? In 1845, Edgar Allan Poe published a short story entitled “The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade”

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Caitlin got it right. She bet $2,000 and finished with $11,800.

Sarah wrote down “dessert stories.” That cost her $9,000 and left her with $3,400.

Mattea wrote down Midnight and some gobbledygook. “I tried to go for “Midnight’s Children”, she explained while expressively waving her little hands around. She lost her $4,001 bet but won the game with the remaining $16,799. Her 10-day total is $227,601.

A triple stumper from each round:

FANTASY FICTION ($600) In George R.R. Martin’s saga of Westeros, this blustery & bloody volume follows “A Game of Thrones” & “A Clash of Kings”

ART ON COMMISSION ($2000) There’s quite a bit of red in the painting he did of Pope Paul III with his grandsons (image) during a visit to Rome in the 1540s

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Religious Words”

This word for a concept in Eastern religions comes from Latin roots for “made in flesh” & “again” show

WHAT IS REINCARNATION?

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