Final Jeopardy: Novel Quotes (5-31-22)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/31/2022) in the category “Novel Quotes” was:

Referring to the book’s title, this character says, “I know it’s a poem by Robert Burns”

12x champ Ryan Long, a rideshare driver from Philadelphia, PA, has now won $226,300. In Game 13, his challengers are: Kenny Liew, a software engineer orig. from Los Angeles, CA; and Carissa Faroughi, an architect from Falls Church, VA.

Round 1 Categories: Word Puzzles – Mayors – Book of the Year – Wood – Send a Letter – Musicians Selling Music

Ryan found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Mayors” under the $600 clue with two clues left after it. He was in the lead with $7,600, $6,800 more than Kenny in second place. Ryan bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.

He opposed speculation, gentrification & loud college parties as mayor of Burlington, Vermont from 1981 to 1989 show

WHO IS BERNIE SANDERS?

Ryan finished in the lead with $9,600 and Kenny was second with $1,600. Carissa was last with negative $600. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: Medieval Times – It Only Borders One Country – Science – It’s a Flat-Out Fact – SNL Cast Members on Film – Going “Pro”

Ryan found the first Daily Double in “Medieval Times” under the $1,600 clue with 13 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $19,200, $12,400 more than Kenny in second place. Ryan bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.

In 1279 these invaders ended China’s Song Dynasty show

WHO ARE THE MONGOLS?

Carissa got the last Daily Double in “It Only Borders One Country” under the $1,200 clue with 4 clues left after it. She was in third place with $2,200, $27,400 less than Ryan’s lead. Carissa bet $1,200 and she was RIGHT.

Technically an ecclesiastical state, it’s found west of the Tiber show

WHAT IS VATICAN CITY?

Ryan finished in the lead with a unbeatable $28,400. Kenny was second with $6,800 and Carissa was last with $4,200. All clues were shown.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS HOLDEN CAULFIELD?

Back on 3/11/2014, it was Arthur Chu’s 11th and last win. “The Catcher in the Rye” was the correct response to the final clue. It didn’t mention Robert Burns but referenced “the hero’s fantasy of rescuing children falling from a cliff.” The recap of that game has Holden Caulfield’s description of his fantasy from Chapter 22 and it is right before that part that Holden tells his sister, Phoebe, that he knows “Comin’ Thro’ the Rye” is a poem by Robert Burns.

Why does Holden first call it a song? Quite a few Robert Burns poems, besides “Comin’ Thro’ the Rye”, have been set to music like “Loch Lomond”, “The Banks of Doon” and, most famously, “Auld Lang Syne”.

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Carissa thought it was the Jane Austen character Emma. She lost her $4,100 bet and finished with $100.

Kenny got it right. He bet $1,601 and finished with $8,401.

Ryan’s incorrect response was “Ted Cruz.” Ryan lost $2,000 but won the game with $26,400. His 12-day total is $252,700.

2 triple stumpers from BOOK OF THE YEAR:

($600) A classic by a fellow Englishman inspired Anthony Burgess to write a book in response whose title is this, one year later

($800) Herman Raucher based his coming-of-age novel about the summer of this year on his own experiences on Nantucket island

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “20th Century Metaphors”

If it had physically existed, it would have stretched some 500 miles from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic Sea show

WHAT IS THE IRON CURTAIN?

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