Final Jeopardy: World Literature (5-4-21)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/4/2021) in the category “World Literature” was:

This 1970s memoir told of harsh places that metaphorically were like an island chain “from the Bering Strait almost to the Bosporus”

3x champ Emily Sands, a Vice President Of Operations from Chanhassen, MN, won $73,000 in the last week. In Game 4, her opponents are: Hanna Howard, an editor from New York, NY; and Brittany Eltman, a baker from Pittsburgh, PA.

Round 1 Categories: Ding Dong – The Witch Is Dead – Truce! – Reading Material – Pop Culture – Crossword Clues “F”

Emily found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Reading Material” under the $800 clue with 6 clues to go after it. She was tied with Hanna at $3,800, $1,000 less than Brittany in the lead. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.

Combine 2 words in the New York Times’ slogan and you’ll get the name of this light, pulpy paper it comes on show

WHAT IS NEWSPRINT?

Emily finished in the lead with $8,200. Hanna was second with $6,000 and Brittany was last with $5,800. No clues went uncovered.

Round 2 Categories: Brits in Boats – 20th Century Names – Facts about Countries – American Music – Playing Pope – Pronouns

Hanna found the first Daily Double in “Playing Pope” under the $1,200 clue on the 11th pick. She was in the lead with $12,000 now, $5,800 more than Emily in second. She bet $4,000 and she was RIGHT.

In “The Agony and The Ecstasy” Rex Harrison played Pope Julius II taking on Charlton Heston as this artist show

WHO IS MICHAELANGELO?

Emily got the last Daily Double in “Facts about Countries” under the $1,600 clue on the 15th pick of the round. In second place with $6,200, she had $9,800 less than Hanna’s lead. She made it another true Daily Double and thought it was the Liffey. That was WRONG.

The longest river in Ireland, it flows 220 miles to reach the Atlantic Ocean near Limerick show

WHAT IS THE SHANNON RIVER?

Hanna finished in the lead with $20,800. Emily was next with $5,200 and Brittany was in third place with $2,200. No clues went uncovered.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO?

In Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds (Banned Books), Nicholas Karolides summarizes “The Gulag Archipelago”: “The ‘archipelago’ of the title refers to the forced-labor camps, ‘thousands of islands’ scattered across the country geographically ‘from the Bering Strait almost to the Bosporus but ‘in the psychological sense, fused into a continent–an almost invisible, almost imperceptible country inhabited by the zek people [prisoners]” Based upon Alexander Solzhenitzyn’s personal experience as a political prisoner in the Gulag from 1945 to 1953, the Russian author also used information collected from over 200 eyewitnesses to this horrendous example of “man’s inhumanity to man”.

“The Gulag Archipelago” was first published in English in 1974. Solzhenitzyn was deported from the Soviet Union that same year. Russia restored his citizenship in 1990.

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Brittany couldn’t come up with anything on time. That cost her $2,200 and left her with nothing.

Emily got it right. She bet $799 and finished with $5,999.

Hanna couldn’t come up with anything either. She lost her $200 bet and won the game with $20,600. Hanna Howard is the new Jeopardy! champion.

2 triple stumpers from BRITS IN BOATS:

($400) After being cast adrift by the rebellious crew of the Bounty, this captain & his men eventually made it to Indonesia

($800) The boat in which he & companions made an epic 800-mile Antarctic journey in 1916 is now at his alma mater, Dulwich College

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “European Cities”

Founded, according to tradition, in 11 B.C., this former capital lies about halfway between Paris & Berlin show

WHAT IS BONN?

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