Final Jeopardy: Adventure Novels (5-19-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/19/2020) in the category “Adventure Novels” was:

In this novel the surname of a pastor, his wife & 4 sons is not given in the text; the title was meant to evoke a 1719 novel

New champ Ben Scripps, a TV director from Cadillac, MI, won $18,800 yesterday. In Game 2, his opponents are: Tiffany Vicars, a pharmacist from Louisville, KY; and Jackie Wong, a figure skating analyst from New York, NY.

Round 1 Categories: Bills, Bills, Bills – TV in 2020 – Still Standing in Europe – Cool Beans – Words That Should Rhyme – The Writer’s Creation

Jackie found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Still Standing in Europe” under the $600 clue on the 14th pick of the round. He was in second place with $1,600, $1,400 less than Ben’s lead. He bet it all and he was RIGHT.

Built in the 9th century, the castle named for this European capital looks out upon the Vltava River. show

WHAT IS PRAGUE?

Ben finished in the lead with $6,000. Jackie was second with $2,600 and Tiffany was last with $2,000.

Round 2 Categories: Bills, Bills, Bills – Great American Songbook – Historic Homes – The Lord Deals With Thee, Biblically – Dino-topia – “A” Before “E”

Ben found the first Daily Double in “Great American Songbook” under the $1,200 clue, with 5 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $19,200 now, $12,200 more than Jackie in second place. He bet $2,200 and he was RIGHT.

It became Etta James’ signature song & Beyonce sang it at an inaugural ball for President Obama. show

WHAT IS “AT LAST”?

Ben got the last Daily Double in “The Lord Deals with Thee” under the $1,200 clue on the very next pick. He was leading with $21,400 now and had $14,400 more than Jackie. He bet a modest $1,000 and thought it was Abraham. That was WRONG.

“And God blessed” this man “and his sons, and said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. show

WHO IS NOAH?

Ben finished in the lead with a runaway $20,400. Jackie was next with $7,000 and Tiffany was in third place with $4,800.

NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS “THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON”?

Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel “Robinson Crusoe” was an inspiration to many future novels, poems, films and TV shows. “Der Schweizerische Robinson” was the original German title of what the English-speaking world knows as “The Swiss Family Robinson”. It was written by Johann David Wyss and published by his son Johann Rudolph Wyss in 1812. The German title translates to “The Swiss Robinson”, to imply that the papa in the story was the Swiss equivalent of Robinson Crusoe. The addition of the word “Family” to English translations of the novel led to the assumption that was the family’s last name, even though it’s obviously not a Swiss surname. Then again, who can “Tell”? Their famous folk hero’s last name doesn’t sound Swiss, either, does it?

The House of Switzerland explains why “Heidi” is more popular in Switzerland than “The Swiss Family Robinson”.

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Tiffany came up with “Gulliver’s Travels”. She lost her $1,500 bet and finished finished with $3,300.

Jackie thought it might be “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”. That cost him $2,601 and left him with $4,399.

Ben didn’t have a response. He lost $1,042 and won the game with $19,358. His 2-day total is $38,158.

A triple stumper from each round:

TV IN 2020 ($600) Bruce Wayne is missing & Ruby Rose dons the cowl as this title CW superhero who’s no mere girl

DINO-TOPIA ($2000) Diplodocus was a type of this, meaning “lizard foot”

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Famous Russians”

In Nov. 1836 this writer got a letter naming him to the Most Serene Order of Cuckolds; in Feb. 1837 he was dead show

WHO IS ALEXANDER PUSHKIN?

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