Final Jeopardy: Literary References (6-27-17)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/27/2017) in the category “Literary References” was:
An homage to a 1953 novel, this number appears as an error code when a user tries to access a web page with censored content.
New champ Brandon Randall won $20,001 yesterday. Today he is up against these two players: Shannon Crock, from Mars, PA; and Heather Hurley, from Arlington, VA.
Round 1 Categories: Seuss Synopsizes Himself – Old School – A Bucket List – World Heritage Sites – Synonyms for Cold – Net Flicks
Brandon got the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “World Heritage Sites” under the $1,000 clue on the very last pick of the round. He was in the lead with $6,800, $3,800 more than Heather in second place. He bet $1,200 and he was RIGHT.
134 square miles of this Australian wonder were added to the list in 1981 show
Brandon finished in the lead with $8,000. Heather was second with $3,000 and Shannon was last with $2,200.
Round 2 Categories: Pokey, Man, Go – Genres – Scot-pourri – Religion – Sculptors & Statuors – A-M
Shannon found the first Daily Double in “Pokey, Man, Go” under the $2,000 clue on the 11th pick. She was in third place with $3,000 at this point, $6,200 behind Brandon’s lead. She bet $500 and she was RIGHT.
After a victory at Acre in 1191, he was imprisoned in Austria on his way home to England & ransomed for 150,000 marks. show
Heather found the last Daily Double in “Sculptors & Statuors” under the $1,200 clue. There were 4 clues worth $6,800 left after it. In second place with $12,600, she had $2,200 less than Brandon’s lead. She bet $1,600 and guessed Rushmore. That was WRONG.
Known for 4 giant presidential heads, he also did a now-lost sculpture of Woodrow Wilson. show
Brandon finished in the lead with $14,800. Heather was next with $11,000 and Shannon was in third place with $8,300.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Status Code 451 was approved by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) in December 2015. The code “tells visitors they can’t see the requested content due to ‘legal obstacles,’ which usually means government censorship. Former Google engineer Tim Bray suggested code 451, inspired by Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, back in 2012.” In the 1953 Bradbury classic, books were outlawed and, if any were found, they were burned. That was not a good thing, but you can read the rest of P.C. World’s article to find out why the 451 Error Code is a good thing.
Shannon got it right. She bet $8,295 and finished with $16,595.
Heather thought it was 404, the code for not found. She lost her $10,998 bet and was left with $2.00.
Brandon also got it right. He bet $7,201 and won this match with $22,001. His 2-day total is $42,002.
A triple stumper from each round:
A BUCKET LIST ($1000) 1959’s “A Bucket of Blood” was one of the movies that made this B-movie director “King of the Drive-Ins”
SCOT-POURRI ($1600) This King’s victory in the Battle of Bannockburg in 1314 led to Scottish freedom from English rule
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Famous Women”
On January 5, 1939, in a Los Angeles probate court, this national heroine was declared legally dead. show
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As worldly and well-traveled as Alex is, I can’t believe he’s never heard of cuy, the guinea pigs that Brandon was talking about in the chat.
I’ve never been to Peru, but I’ve heard about the 18th century painting of The Last Supper that is in Cuzco Cathedral where Jesus and the Apostles are dining on cuy instead of bread and wine.
@VJ, I’m sure Alex has heard of cuy. Sometimes I get the impression he plays naive during the chat segment to make the contestants feel at ease. I’ve noticed him doing this a lot with young contestants.
I enjoyed this match. I don’t know why. There were a lot of missteps. Probably because of the way Shannon (so shy and demure) came from behind and landed in 2nd place.
12 Years ago: Kammy McCleery from Kentucky said William Wallace instead of Robert the Bruce.
I have never heard of Gutzon Borglum before.
Well here are some other interesting facts about gutzon
In 1908, Borglum completed the statue of Comstock Lode silver baron John William Mackay (1831–1902). The statue is located at the University of Nevada, Reno.
In 1909, the sculpture Rabboni was created as a grave site for the Ffoulke Family in Washington, D.C. at Rock Creek Cemetery. [18]
In 1912, the Nathaniel Wheeler Memorial Fountain was dedicated in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite books because there was a rollercoaster that also had the word Fahrenheit in its name. But still the whole government censorship is out of control. Don’t you wish that the censorship thing didn’t exist, VJ? Also what sort of websites you visited were censored?
I have never run across this 451 code myself. In this match, I was wondering if Alex was going to pronounce “homage” in the French way. He didn’t but it was funny that the word first turned up in the Genres category while he was having a field day saying “zhaaaanr.” I was also struck by the $400 Scot-pourri clue being very similar to an FJ from almost 3 years ago. Its value went from being the FJ clue to a first row DJ clue! Hmmmm.
LINK: 10 more clues from this match (including that $400 Scot-pourri clue)
36/61 here. The two ladies went almost all in and would have lost on a triple stumper had FJ been one