Final Jeopardy: Novel Titles (5-9-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/9/2022) in the category “Novel Titles” was:
A 1590 poem written for the retirement of Queen Elizabeth’s champion knight shares its title with this 1929 novel by an American
New champ Danielle Maurer, a digital marketing manager from Peachtree Corners, GA, won $15,600 last week. In Game 2, she is up against: Karim Oliver, a student at Vanderbilt University from Saint Petersburg, FL; and Emily Levant, an associate creative director from Los Angeles, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Colorful Albums – Prepositional Literature – Menace to Sobriety – International Rhyme Time – 2 “R”s Not To Reason Why
Karim found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Colorful Album” under the $600 clue on the 10th clue of the round. He was in second place with $800, half of Danielle’s lead. Karim bet the $1,000 and took a shot at it with “Jailhouse Rock.” That was WRONG.
Kelly Clarkson’s holiday album “Wrapped in Red” includes this colorful Elvis song about a sad Noel show
Danielle finished in the lead with $5,400. Emily was second with $3,600. Karim was last with $1,400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: U.S. Geography – Autobiographical Movies – Let’s Get Nautical – You Said It – Make It Singular – The Nuremberg Trials
Karim found the first Daily Double in “U.S. Geography” under the $1,600 clue on the 14th clue of the round. He was in last place with $1,400, $7,600 less than Danielle’s lead. Karim bet the $2,000 allowance, and responded with one correct city. That wasn’t enough so he was WRONG.
Besides Boston & D.C., they’re the 3 largest cities by population in the megalopolis known as the BosWash Corridor show
Danielle got the last Daily Double in “Nautical” under the $800 clue with 7 clues left after it. She was in the lead with $11,000, $4,200 more than Emily in second place. Danielle bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
This 4-word phrase has come to mean preparing for any trouble, but on a ship, it’s getting ready for an imminent storm show
Danielle finished in the lead with $14,600. Emily was second with $8,400 and Karim was last with $1,400. Two $400 clues were not shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS “A FAREWELL TO ARMS”?
“A Farewell to Arms” is a lyric poem written by playwright George Peele to mark the 1590 retirement of Sir Henry Lee, Queen Elizabeth I’s champion knight. Per Cummings Study Guide, Lee continued to serve the queen as Master of the Royal Armouries, as he had done for 10 years.
In 1929, Ernest Hemingway had several titles in mind for his first novel (“The Grand Tour” and “Love in War” were two of them), but ultimately settled on “A Farewell to Arms” as he felt it represented two events that his protagonist, Lt. Frederic Henry, had to face. Hemingway based Lt. Henry on himself and his own experiences in the first World War. Learn more about that here.
Karim wrote down “this has been so cool,” which meant something entirely different in 1590. He lost his $1,000 bet and finished with $400.
Emily thought it was “The Grapes of Wrath” (1939). That cost her $7,000 and left her with $1,400.
Danielle had “The Great Gatsby” (1925). She lost a mere $2,201 and won the game with the remaining $12,399. Danielle’s 2-day total is $27,999.
A triple stumper from each round:
PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE ($800) African-American detective Virgil Tibbs must solve a murder in the Deep South in this John Ball novel from 1965
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MOVIES ($2000) This press-shy director turned to his own past in “The Tree of Life”
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “The 2000s Olympics”
She’s the first female track & field athlete to win medals in 5 different events at a single Olympics show
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Well, looking back, I DID comment on the 5 unrevealed clues! Retrospectively, Ken did, as I said, clamp down on the chatter, but, in that April game, I don’t know if it was players or host fault.
I’m trying to be equitable here!!
Pretty funny just got back from Key West and picked up “A Farewell to Arms” in gift shop since previoulsly never read it. Still didn’t get the clue!
Well, not a great game, but, still engaging. Karim looked, to me, line he was a bit “dazzled” or “star struck”. The three cities DD I got. Also, frankly, I thought the nautical ones were easy.
I thought Emily was going to challenge, but, good on Danielle for the correct wager. Even though it’s the same wager the prior champ would have made, this was simply more interesting, instead of sounding like reading flash cards.
Oh, and, I had NO idea of the FJ clue!
What is so terribly wrong with Mayim Bialik? Actually, I think that she is doing a terrific job as a Jeopardy host.
Nothing is wrong with Mayim. She certainly does not deserve the nasty comments that some people feel compelled to make about her.
I agree absolutely. She is doing just fine.
Well, Rick, what was “so terribly wrong” seems to have tempered a bit. As I said in another comment, my local station shows old shows Saturday evening. Mayim was smooth and even. When she came back this season, her delivery became choppy and halting and hesitant, enough to break the flow of contestant responses. I was guessing that she had to clear each approval or disapproval with the judges. It reminded of the rowing term “catching a crab”. Last night, she was smoother. Still, which round was it when 2 clues were left uncovered?
It’s subjective, of course, but, for me, put Ken and Mayim side by side, and, Ken wins.
@Jason, that was the second round that TWO clues worth $800 were left uncovered. Evidently, you have forgotten that when Ken came back on 4/11/22, there were FIVE clues worth $7200 left uncovered. Be fair!
Now that you mentioned it @JP, I am a fan of american literature but still this novel was something that will be considered in my bucket list.
We begin the week with a triple stumper as today’s Final Jeopardy was a tough one. I am sure that William Weyser would say darn those daily doubles to Karim.
Unless you’re a real fan of American literature and have memorized the years that popular novels were published, I don’t know how you’d make the inference. Going from “retirement” to the novel’s title seems like an enormous leap. Very tough clue, in my estimation.
JP…I was unfamiliar with the poem, and had never read the book (although I knew of the book), but it was the idea of the knight’s retirement that brought a farewell to arms to me almost immediately. There’s no accounting for the connections the brain makes, sometimes.