Final Jeopardy: Fiction (6-18-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/18/2021) in the category “Fiction” was:
In a 1915 story by this European, a woman finds a corpse & says, “It’s gone & croaked–just lying there, dead as a doornail!”
New champ Emily White, a public relations specialist from Wilmington, DE won $28,600 yesterday. In Game 2, she takes on these two players: Trenton Woodley, a law student and freelance politico from Memphis, TN; and Elaine Filadelfo, a data researcher from Washington, DC.
Round 1 Categories: 6 Characters in Search of Their Novel – Stock: Markets – Cinemapourri – Scavengers Assemble! – Age – Before Beauty
Emily found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Age” under the $800 clue on the 15th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $2,600, $1,200 more than Elaine in second place. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
Thanks to a 1386 treaty signed by Richard II and Joáo I, England’s oldest ally is this country show
Emily finished in the lead with $7,400. Elaine was second with $3,800 and Trenton was last with $3,400. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: A Spendy Little War – A Tale of 2 Georgias – Biblical Art – Cloth & Fabric – Drama Series Writing Emmys – Giving Consonant Attention
Trenton found the first Daily Double in “A Tale of 2 Georgias” under the $1,600 clue, with 11 clues left after it. He was in third place with $1,800 now, $11,600 less than Emily’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
Georgia’s capital Atlanta is a sister city to this national capital of Georgia show
Emily got the last Daily Double in “Biblical Art” under the $1,600 clue, with 1 clue left after it. In second place with $13,800, she had $2,400 less than Elaine’s lead. She bet $5,000 and didn’t know so she was WRONG.
Stolen in Israel in 1996, this Russian-born artist’s “Jacob’s Ladder” was recovered in 2015 and sold at auction in 2020 show
Elaine finished in the lead with $16,200. Emily was next with $10,800 and Trenton was in third place with $6,800. No clues went uncovered.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
“The Metamorphosis” was published by Franz Kafka in November of 1915 in the German journal, Die weissen Blatter. Gregor Samsa, the main character, awakens one morning to find himself transformed into a giant insect. Gregor had been his family’s main source of income but now becomes a burden to his parents and sister. Upon his death, he is discovered by the Samsa family’s cleaning woman, who refers to Gregor as “it” when loudly informing the household of this turn of events.
An FJ from 2016: WORLD LITERATURE: It was originally published in 1915 under the German title “Die Verwandlung”, meaning “The Transformation”
Trenton drew a blank. That cost him $3,201 and left him with $3,599.
Emily got it right. She bet $10,700, almost doubling her score to $21,500.
Elaine came up with Agatha Christie. She lost her $5,401 bet and was left with $10,799. Emily White remains Jeopardy! champ with a hefty 2-day total of $50,100.
A triple stumper from each round:
CINEMAPOURRI ($600) Paige O’Hara & Robby Benson voiced the title pair of this Disney film
BIBLICAL ART ($1200) Tintoretto painted “The Conversion of Saint Paul” on his way to this city
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Medical News 2018”
For the first time, the FDA approved a drug for the treatment of this, though there hadn’t been a new case in 40 years show
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Happy Father’s Day Tomorrow!
I’m a father to 5 adult children, so thanks for all the good wishes.
Mine was very smart, knew all the classics from high school, but never went to college. He could have gone for free on the GI Bill, but had to go to work instead.
When I was 11, he wrote down a quote from “Hamlet” for me that made little sense at the time, but it’s since become my guiding principle. “This above all, to thine own self be true.”
When I saw “European,” Kafka came to mind right away for some reason, but the quote threw me off and I went with Conan Doyle.
Wow, Howard. It sounds like you had a great dad. We have 3 adult children but as my better half puts it they’re “grown and gone.” As empty nesters we travel a lot. Their careers have taken them to different places far from home (2 females & 1 male) but thanks to Zoom we still “see” each other. Happy Father’s Day Howard.
Happy Father’s Day to all of those dads out there!
Happy father’s day to everyone of my friends’ fathers out there especially my own. My dad will always be a big influence in my life as he also taught me how to fish and become a man and learn to respect other people. Congrats to emily on her second win despite not getting that daily double in the second round.
This final was not familiar to me as I never read any novels from Kafka. My guess was Agatha christie. I remember in one of charles dickens novels that also used a similar phrase dead as a doornail. Did you get this one VJ or did you also went with Arthur Conan Doyle?
I got it, Lou, once I realized the significance of “it” but it took me longer than 30 seconds.
I hope all of you great dads out there have a wonderful Father’s Day.
Special comforting thoughts to Alex Trebek’s children. (Their first without him)
I’m loving these scores that Emily has run up these past two days. Haven’t seen that in a long time. A big congratulations Emily.
Happy Father’s Day to all the people who post here to whom it applies. If you’re not a father, Happy Father’s Day to your father. My dad was a big influence in my life. He taught me how to fish, how to be a man, and to always respect others.