Final Jeopardy: Novel Characters (6-26-15)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/26/2015), in the category “Novel Characters” was:
This lawyer from a famed 1960 novel shares a name with an ancient Roman renowned for his wisdom.
3x champ Matt Pressman is now up to winnings of $46,700. In the last game of the week, he can win his 4th game if he can defeat these two players: Ankoor Bagchi, from Chicago, IL; and Kat Cahill, originally from Cincinnati, OH.
Round 1: Ankoor got the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Saints” under the $800 clue, the very last clue. He was in the lead with $3,400, $1,200 more than Matt and Kat, who were tied in second place. He bet $400 and thought it was Constantinople. That was WRONG.
St. Cyprian was Bishop of this old foe of Rome during a persecution of Christians; make that St. Cyprian the Martyr. show
Ankoor finished in the lead with $3,000. Matt and Kat both had $2,200.
Round 2: Ankoor found the first Daily Double in “American History” under the $1,200 clue on the 4th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $4,600 now. Matt and Kat still had $2,200 each. He bet $2,000 and thought it was the Roosevelt Doctrine. That was WRONG.
The Great White Fleet, 16 battleships that toured the world in 1907, were a show of TR’s foreign policy called this. show
Ankoor found the last Daily Double in “Serious Nonfiction” under the $1,200 clue. In the lead with $6,200, he now had $1,200 more than Matt in second place. He bet $1,200 and he was RIGHT.
With this year for a book title, Charles C. Mann brings to life what civilization was like in the Americas before Columbus. show
Ankoor finished in the lead with $12,200. Matt was next with $8,200 and Kat was in third place with $6,200.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Atticus Finch, whose kids call him by his first name, is the attorney in Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”. The character was portrayed by Gregory Peck in the 1962 film adaption of the 1960 novel. The American Film Institute voted Atticus Finch the greatest hero in American film in 2003.
Wikipedia’s page on the name Atticus lists its meaning as “man from Attica” and has a list of real people bearing the name, including the Roman referred to in the clue. The page then lists fictional characters and other uses.
Kat bet $6,198. She finished with $12,398.
Matt bet it all and finished with $16,400.
Ankoor bet $4,201 bet so he won the match with $16,401, and we’ll be seeing this quick-on-the buzzer champ on Monday.
Ankoor Bagchi is an attorney. During the chat, he talked about introducing himself to his future wife on the first day of law school on the train ride home, after noticing that she had the same orientation packet he had.
2 years ago:: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Novels”
This 1934 novel was partly written in the Hotel Pera Palace in Istanbul; the room is now a memorial to the author. show
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Well, I’m sorry to see Matt go, but go Red Sox.
Boy, Ankoor worked that buzzer! If he had gotten all his answers correct (including the 2 DD’s) he would have finished with a lot more cash before FJ. Congrats, anyway.
@VJ — “Matt, Kat and Pat for one of the games” — LOL!
Congrats vj on correct prediction.
Congrats to Ankoor for winning the game in spite of 1/3 correct DD’s. But, you are quick on the buzzer champ. Arithmetic was not the contestants’ strong category especially fractions. I feel your pain. 😉 😉
Yeah, Jacob, I definitely got the impression that both Matt and Kat knew a lot of the clues but just could not beat Ankoor on the buzzer.
And I was also thinking they should have really lined up Matt, Kat and Pat for one of the games. LOL! That probably would have thrown Trebek for a loop. :):)
Jacob: four in a row! Very nice.
Eric, you’re too kind but thanks. It was just luck. Friday I hitched a ride on vj’s prediction. 😀
But it still counts as 4 in a row. Either way, we would have made the same prediction because that was like a $200 clue.
Maybe I’ll predict zero if they ever ask for the maid’s name or the brother’s 🙂
Yeah! Take that! Heck man, the one you hit on Tuesday was golden!
P.S. it will o.k. to remind me on Monday, I probably won’t remember.
Matt should have wagered $200 or less to win on a triple stumper since it was a 2/3 game. Some or all NBC stations ran an hour long nightly news tonight(not sure if CBS or ABC did, if they did it didn’t air on my local station), so J! or WOF was preempted where it airs at 7PM on the East Coast.
In my area it ran on ABC but not NBC at 7:30 p.m.