Final Jeopardy: Literary Characters (7-10-20)

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

From an 1894 work, his name literally translates to “Tiger King”

Today’s players: Francois Barcomb from New Paltz, NY, Steven Grade, from Atlanta, GA, and Ryan Fenster, from SeaTac, Washington

This is a rerun from 11/8/2019. The full recap is over here

Here are two categories from the last quarter-final of the 2017 Tournament of Champions (with Jon Eisenman, Justin Vossler, Andrew Pau):

FRENCH DIP $200: Francois went swimming in the Seine, even though I told him, “L’eau est froide”, meaning this

$400: I think I swim like a dolphin, but my wife says I look like une baleine, one of these

$600: I’m entering Jacques’ pool using this, le plongeoir

$800 DD Bet $1000): When I was young, ma mere warned me of this part of our pool, le côté profond

$1000: After a few laps, I always seek out ma serviette de plage, this

SCIENCE FICTION ($400) This “Dune” author’s first published sci-fi tale appeared in Startling Stories magazine in 1952

($800) In John Wyndham’s 1951 novel “The Day of” these, “these” are carnivorous plants that can walk & kill a man

($1200) Like “World War Z”, “Robopocalypse” is labeled this kind of history; it’s told by those who survived a robot war

($1600) In “A Princess of Mars”, this fictional Civil War vet is transported to Mars & meets the beautiful Dejah Thoris

($2000) The cover of this Isaac Asimov novel claimed, “Four men and one woman journey into the living body of a man”