Final Jeopardy: Literary Characters on Screen (7-7-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/7/2022) in the category “Literary Characters on Screen” was:
Per Guinness, this character who debuted in 1887 is the most portrayed human literary character in film & television
3x champ Yungsheng Wang, a public defender from Los Angeles, CA, has now won $84,202. In Game 4, his opponents are Heather Brown, a civil servant from South Berwick, ME; and Brian Ahern, a user support associate from Daly City, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Which New York City Borough? – ____ & ____ – Salad Dressing for Success – Hemingway – Rhyme Zone – From the Speedway
Brian found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Hemingway” under the $400 clue with 7 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $4,600, $1,600 more than Heather in second place. Brian made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
Hemingway bought his longtime home in Cuba from the sale of film rights to this novel set during the Spanish Civil War show
Brian finished in the lead with $10,600. Heather was second with $3,600 and Yungsheng was last with $2,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Next Leader in Line – 4-Letter Acronyms – Such Great Chemistry – The Scarf – Old Newspapers – “G”eography
Yungsheng found the first Daily Double in “Such Great Chemistry” under the $1,600 clue on the 5th pick. He was in last place with $2,400, $9,400 less than Brian’s lead. Yungsheng bet $2,399 and he was RIGHT.
Rubber is made up of these chain like molecules with a name from Greek meaning “having many parts” show
Yungsheng got the last Daily Double in “Next Leader in Line” under the $1,600 clue at the halfway point. In second place with $7,599, he had $4,201 less than Brian’s lead. Yungsheng bet $4,500 and he was RIGHT.
Hapsburg Dynasty: Joseph I, Charles VI, her show
Yungsheng finished in the lead with $22,099. Brian was next with $13,400 and Heather was in third place with $4,800. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Guinness World Records gave Sherlock Holmes the World Record for most portrayed literary human character in film & TV in 2012, citing 254 depictions on screen by over 75 actors. Two years earlier, they named Sherlock the most portrayed detective.
Of course, as far as this clue goes, “literary” and “human” eliminate others who have surpassed Sherlock onscreen. Sherlock only made it to No. 9 on Voolas.com’s 2016 list of the 10 Most Portrayed Characters in TV & Film.
Heather thought it might be Scrooge, who debuted in 1843. She bet and lost her $4,800.
Brian got it right. He bet it all and doubled his score to $26,800.
Yungsheng came up with Zorro. He made his foxy debut in 1919. Yungsheng bet $4,900 and finished with $17,199. That made Brian Ahern the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
HEMINGWAY ($800) Per the title, a café in a famous Hemingway story is not just clean but this
THE SCARF ($1600) A scarf created for Grace Kelly gets mistreated in this 2021 movie about fashion & murder
3 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Famous Phrase Origins”
The line “a great reckoning in a little room” in “As You Like It” is usually taken to refer to this author’s premature death show
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I have no idea how I knew the Holmes answer, but I heard or read it somewhere not real long ago.
Brian just made it under the wire. Smart player who fell behind only because of the DDs.
Some tough stumpers, but I thought the Scottish king and the NYC borough (the only one not previously named) were gimmes. The “E-acronym package” surely wasn’t too tough. I don’t follow NASCAR too closely, but remembered the name of the cigarette sponsor from long ago.
Howard, I said the same thing to my daughter when they missed that last borough – there’s only 5 and they already named the other 4. I guess those three people never heard the New York, New York, it’s a helluva town song or they would have known what’s up!
On the old newspaper, they could have nailed that if they knew the German name of that city
I was also quite miffed that they missed lapin’s old burrow lol.
I half expected someone to say something like “as usual, no one knows anything about city names in German”. Since I’ve been learning Deutsch on Duolingo, I knew that one.
At first, I blanked on FJ, but, before time was up, I did get it.
Very funny, Jason. 😁 I know you don’t mean me because I don’t think that a triple stumper necessarily means all the players don’t know it. There are other reasons why they won’t ring in, I think, like not totally sure, fear of saying it wrong, or not wanting to take a guess. That is to say, they don’t want to risk losing $$.
Here’s a cool map on jakubmarian.com with European capitals in native languages
Yungsheng Wang is not on the list for the Tournament of Champions.
Wow, a tough FJ to be sure. Actually, I had a hard time coming up with anything. In any case, Basil Rathbone’s portrayal of Sherlock Holmes was the best by far.