Final Jeopardy: Classic Literary Characters (6-16-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question in the category “Classic Literary Characters” was:

He declares that one of the people he is trying to emulate is a medieval knight known as Amadis of Gaul

The players: Tufts Univ. freshman William Scott; Univ. of Central Florida sophomore Hannah Sage; and Brown Univ. freshman Dhruv Gaur.

This is a rerun from 4/20/2018. The full recap is over here

Here are some more clues from other Dhruv Gaur games:

HAMLET ($400) Shakespeare may have gotten the names of these courtiers from 2 members of Danish nobility who visited London in the 1590s (Daily Double – Dhruv won $3000)

COLLEGE VOCABULARY ($800) In Wisconsin, it’s a yellow cheese; in Maine, it’s a 2,000-student college

B.C.-ING YOU ($2000) Called the “Father of History”, he wrote a long account of the Greco-Persian Wars (Daily Double – Dhruv won $1200)

CLASSIC KIDS’ BOOKS ($400) Kids really dig this 1998 book featuring Stanley Yelnats & Zero, 2 of the young inmates at Camp Green Lake (Daily Double – Dhruv won $1000)

BARBARIANS AT THE GATE ($1200) These barbarians whose name means “destroyer” crossed the Rhine River & sacked Rome in 455 A.D. (Daily Double – Dhruv won $4000)

AS DEFINED BY RANDOM HOUSE ($1600) “A German emperor”

KILLER APPS ($600) People who do odd jobs via this app are called “taskers”, not “bunnies”

FICTIONAL STUDENTS ($1600) Max Fisher takes on Bill Murray & the establishment at this title school in a Wes Anderson movie

STRAIGHT “A”s IN SCIENCE ($1600) Immunoglobulins, which attack foreign substances inside you, are aka these (Daily Double – Dhruv won $3000)