Final Jeopardy: European Authors (9-16-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (9/16/2019) in the category “European Authors” was:
When he didn’t win the inaugural 1901 Nobel Prize, 42 of his peers apologized to him, calling him “the most revered patriarch of today’s literature”
11x champ Jason Zuffranieri, a math teacher from Albuquerque, NM, has now won a very impressive $332,243. In Game 12, he is up against: Laura Majors, a retired marketing director from Denver, CO; and Rodrigo Morante-Tirado, a financial analyst from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Round 1 Categories: Family Television – Acronyms & Abbrevs. – Popular Invention – Art & Artists – Gimme “5” – 200 Years of Walt Whitman
Jason found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Art & Artists” under the $800 clue on the 6th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $2,600, and the only one with any money. He bet it all and he was RIGHT.
Pastel colors and asymmetry are features of this style of Antoine Watteau, a reaction against baroque art. show
Jason finished in the lead with $10,000. Laura was second with $4,000 and Rodrigo was last, at negative $1,000.
Round 2 Categories: Which President? – This Category Has Plateaued – Myths & Legends – Comedy: You Didn’t Have to Be There – Potpourri – Here Comes the Judge Word
Jason found the first Daily Double in “Which President?” under the $1,600 clue on the 8th pick. He was in the lead with $14,400 now, $8,000 more than Laura in second place. He bet $7,000 and he was RIGHT.
7 of the first 10 presidents were born south of the White House; Martin Van Buren & these 2 men were from the North. show
Jason found the last Daily Double in “Plateaued” under the $1,600 clue on the 13th pick. In the lead with $22,200, he had $14,600 more than Laura in second place. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
The Saharan Al-Hamra Plateau is mostly located in Tripolitania in this country. show
Jason finished in the lead with a runaway $34,400. Laura was next with $8,800 and Rodrigo was in third place with $200.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Strangely enough, if you search the Nominations Archive on nobelprize.org, you’ll find that Tolstoy was not even nominated for the 1901 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize! The “apology” letter was written a month after the first literature Nobel went to French poet, René “Sully” Prudhomme. On nobelprize.org, the full sentence reads: “In specific, we see in your person not only the most revered patriarch of today’s literature, but also for us the greatest and most profound poet who, in our opinion, should have been the first to be thought of, even if you yourself never strove for this sort of reward.”
Tolstoy was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in each year from 1902 to 1906, as well as two more times for the Peace Prize (1902, 1910) but never won in either category. According to Russiapedia, Tolstoy found out somehow that he was nominated in 1906 and made an effort to get the nomination withdrawn.
Rodrigo had Camus (born in 1913). He lost everything but $1.00.
Laura got it right. Her $8,000 bet brought her up to $16,800.
Jason went with Goethe (died in 1832). He lost his $10,000 bet but still won the game with the remaining $24,400. His 12-day total is $356,643.
A triple stumper from each round:
POPULAR INVENTION ($1000) During WWII a fabric mesh was sandwiched between polyethylene & adhesive layers to make this sticky roll
WHICH PRESIDENT? ($800) He was left an invalid by a paralytic stroke suffered while in office
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “The Old Testament”
Consisting of 21 verses, the Book of this minor prophet, whose name means “servant of God”, is the shortest. show
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Oh, only Laura got it right, but Jason’s incorrect response ALMOST knocked him out. Did all three players have to guess which author existed in which year? I guess this makes it very difficult.
Nobel was misspelled as Noble on screen when the clue appeared during the think music
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Congrats to Jason, a 12 day champion with $356,643. He now ties Seth Wilson and Austin Rogers with 12 wins.
Wow, I was kinda figuring that would happen to Jason one of these days, now that he’s betting big in FJ because he’s like the Hotstepper (money to burn, baby, all of the time)… LOL!!
Anyhow, congrats to him on another runaway and to Laura for getting FJ right. Besides Prudhomme, I only knew two of the other nominees for that 1901 Nobel Literature prize — Emile Zola and Frederic Mistral. That year, Prudhomme nominated Louis Pasteur’s son-in-law, René Vallery-Radot, whose claim to fame was a Pasteur biography. (He doesn’t even have a page on English wikipedia). The next year, at least one of the fellows who signed the apology letter nominated Tolstoy.
LINK: 9 more clues from the game
I meant to say loherngren. My phone is acting really weird lately.
Well I can say that today’s final jeopardy kind of threw Jason off track a bit but we are actually talking about the author of war and peace. But still though glad Laura got this. I looked up goethe and he hasn’t been nominated for his poetry works VJ. I found out that he has been honoured with Lowenstein from Richard wagner after goethe died. Just out of curiosity had camus been honored with Tchaikovsky’s music when he wrote his works of literature?
Congratulations to Jason once again on his 12th victory. He is now the third biggest winner just ahead of seth Wilson and behind Austin Rogers.