Final Jeopardy: Numerical Book Titles (5-8-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/8/2023) in the category “Numerical Book Titles” was:
This 2007 bestselling novel takes its title from a line in the poem “Kabul” by the 17th century Persian poet Saib
3x champ Hannah Wilson, a data scientist from Chicago, IL, won $90,601 last week. In Game 4, she is up against: Sami Casanova, an actuary from New York, NY; and Juveria Zaheer, a psychiatrist from Whitby, Ontario, Canada.
Round 1 Categories: Scandal! – Pop Music-podge – Gone Fishin’ – Yeet! – Children’s Lit – Consonant Craving
Sami found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Children’s Lit” under the $1,000 clue on the 13th pick of the round. She was in second place with $1,400, $4,200 less than Hannah’s lead. Sami bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.
Though he comes from another world, not from France, this diminutive guy appeared on the 50-franc note for many years show
Hannah finished in the lead with $7,200. Sami was second with $3,600. Juveria was last with $2,800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: “B” Cool – The South Pacific – The Quotable Alex – Futility – American Woman – What Kinda TV Place You Live In?
Hannah found the first Daily Double in “Futility” under the $1,600 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. She was in the lead with $9,600, $6,000 more than Sami in second place. Hannah bet $4,000 and she was RIGHT.
The scene of heavy fighting & futility in World War I, this peninsula bears a name that comes from the Greek for “beautiful city” show
Juveria got the last Daily Double in “American Women” under the $1,600 clue on the 20th pick of the round. She was in second place with $7,600 now, $12,400 more than Hannah’s lead. Juveria bet $7,000 and she was RIGHT.
Soon to mother a brood of actors of this last name, Georgiana Drew married Maurice in 1876 show
Hannah finished in the lead with $21,200. Juveria was second with $17,000. Sami was last with $4,000. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS “A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS?
Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini had his second best-selling Kabul-set novel when he published “A Thousand Splendid Suns” in 2007. His first novel, “The Kite Runner” (2003), tells the story of a father and son whose lives are torn apart by war. “Splendid Suns” also explores that theme and other issues from the perspective of two women. Saib Tabrizi was actually an Iranian poet who, in his travels, spent time in Kabul. His tribute to that city was translated into English by Dr. Josephine Barry Davis and Khaled Hosseini took his novel’s title from the end of the fourth stanza:
“One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs
And the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
If you haven’t read “A Thousand Splendid Suns” yet, you can see if this excerpt on Book Browse kindles your interest.
Sami wrote down “this was fun.” She lost $3,998 and finished with $2.00.
Juveria went with “Seventh Heaven”. She bet and lost her whole $17,000.
Hannah got it right. She bet $13,000 and won the game with $34,000. Hannah’s 4-day total is $124,801.
TRICKY, YOU SAY? THE QUOTABLE ALEX ($1600) An author & former prisoner: “Socialism of any type & shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit”
This difficult to pronounce foreign name resulted in 3 different efforts, none of them acceptable because Juveria and Sami added an extra syllable. Hannah pronounced the last syllable as “chen” instead of “sin”. A similar situation came up with an Italian name back in 2019. Watch a YouTube with various American pronunciations of this Alex.
2 triple stumpers from CHILDREN’S LIT:
($400) A girl is part of a nontraditional (especially for children’s books) family in 1989’s “Heather has Two” these
($600) This nickname for many kings follows “M.C. Higgins” in the title of the first Newbery Medal winner by a Black author
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “19th Century Americans”
His book “An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859” shows he heeded his own famous advice show
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Boy howdy, I’ve never even heard of that book.
Notably, all three contestants were on footstools.
I got much less than half of the TS.
Hannah proved her mettle once again. Excellent contestant.
FJ totally stumped me. Unfamiliar with that novel. “Life of Pi” was my guess.
Stumpers were very tough, other than the “growing lads” and the LP aria album.
Hmmmmm…….No, none of us had read ‘A Thousand Pleasant Suns’ so we all struck out.