Final Jeopardy: Children’s Books (5-22-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/22/2023) in the category “Children’s Books” was:
The original 1900 printing of this book was in a pale green dust jacket stamped in a vivid jewel tone of green
8x champ Ben Chan, a philosophy professor from Green Bay, WI, has won $227,800 so far. In Game 9, he is up against: Joe Lasser, an astronautical engineer orig. from Colfax, IL; and Nancy Duran, a marketing copywriter from Stowe, VT.
Round 1 Categories: Art Imitating Life – Americana – Assisting the Detective – Book-Pourri – If There Was a Problem – “Yo”, I’ll Solve It
Ben found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Art Imitating Life” under the $600 clue on the 9th pick of the round. He was the only one on the board with $2,800. Ben bet it all and he was RIGHT.
Jan Willem Pieneman’s painting of this 1815 event was to go to the Duke of Wellington, but stayed in Holland show
Ben finished in the lead with $8,400. Joe was second with $1,400. Nancy was last with negative $400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Historic People – A Loss for Words – Walking in a Redwood Forest – Pop Culture 2003 – Vacation Spots – Rice Pudding
Joe found the first Daily Double in “Pop Culture 2003” under the $1,200 clue on the 2nd pick of the round. He was in second place with $2,200, $6,200 less than Ben’s lead. Joe bet all of it and he was RIGHT.
In this film, the Emperor of Japan wants Algren (Tom Cruise) to modernize his army but Algren deeply respects the old ways show
Ben got the last Daily Double in “Walking in a Redwood Forest?” under the $2,000 clue with 11 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $16,400 now, $8,400 more than Joe in second place. Ben bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
A national monument in Marin County known for old growth redwoods is named after this conservationist show
Ben finished in the lead with a runaway $20,800. Joe was second with $7,600 and Nancy was last with $3,600. The $400 clue in “Redwood Forests” was not shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS “THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ” (also acceptable: “THE WIZARD OF OZ”)?
L. Frank Baum published “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” in 1900 to immediate success. The book was illustrated by W. W. Denslow. The first edition of 10,000 sold out immediately at $1.50 per copy. From the Library of Congress: “W. W. Denslow’s original artwork consists of black-and-white line drawings, but the illustrations were printed in color. Some appear in full color and others in only one. Each locale of the story has its own color scheme: Kansas is gray; East, blue; West, yellow; South, red; the Emerald City, green; and, the areas between sections, brown. Because their publisher was concerned about the expense of producing the book, Baum and Denslow paid the cost of including the full-color plates.” Of course, the “vivid jewel tone of green” referred to in the clue was also representative of the Emerald City.
Back in the Day: “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” was also the solution to Final Jeopardy on 9/11/2019 in what was a runaway game for Jason Zuffranieri. Two players also got that right, one of them with just “The Wizard of Oz”.
Nancy went with “Anne of Green Gables” (1908). She lost $3,500 and finished with $100.
Joe got it right. He bet $399 and finished with $7,999.
Ben got it right, too. He bet $4,000 and won his 9th runaway game with $24,800. His 9-day total is $252,600.
2 triple stumpers from BOOK-POURRI:
($400) John Green: “I co-created Crash Course, which offers dozens of free educational videos on YouTube, & in one video titled ‘Don’t Reanimate Corpses!’, I talk about the Romantic movement in English lit & this novel in particular”
($1000) This novel set in the 1920s asks, “What do you know about Lady Brett Ashley, Jake?”
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Ancient Greeks”
Plutarch quotes this man who sentenced many to death: “Small ones deserve that, and I have no higher for the greater crimes” show
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“If there was a problem, solve for x”. Well in all fairness, perhaps if they left the mathematical equation on the screen a tad longer, it would have given someone a chance to come up with the correct response.. I mean, given the short window, I could only come up with ‘2’, and that was exactly what Ben came up with.
Nancy Duran isn’t doing great on Jeopardy today. Ben and Joe are today’s good players.