Final Jeopardy: Nobel-Winning Novelists (9-7-21)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/25/2021) in the category “Nobel-Winning Novelists” was:

Falsely accused of murder, a character in his 1948 novel becomes “tyrant over the whole county’s white conscience”

Semi-final No. 2 of the 2021 Tournament of Champions features:4x champ Ryan Bilger, a grad student from Macungie, PA; 4x champ Veronica Vichit-Vadakan, a librarian from Portland, OR.; and 5x champ Kevin Walsh, a story analyst orig. from Williamstown, NJ

Round 1 Categories: Bestsellers – Capital Hills – Holidays & Festivals – The Family Business – Tournaments – Double the Double Vowels

Ryan found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Capital Hills” under the $1,000 clue, with 13 clues left after it. He was in second place with $2,000, $200 less than Veronica in the lead. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.

Local legend says this state capital’s name was inspired by a view of the James river from atop Libby Hill show
WHAT IS RICHMOND?

Ryan finished in the lead with $7,400. Veronica was second with $2,600 and Kevin was last with negative $1,400. No clues went uncovered.

Round 2 Categories: Medical Milestones – Rock Bands – The Finest of Fine Arts – Vegetables – The “TOC” – A Palace in History

Veronica found the first Daily Double in “The Finest of Fine Arts” under the $1,200 clue on the 2nd pick. She was in second place with $4,200 now, $3,200 less than Ryan’s lead. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.

In this Tchaikovsky ballet, each suitor hands Aurora a flower during the “Rose Adagio” show
WHAT IS “SLEEPING BEAUTY”?

Ryan got the last Daily Double in “Medical Milestones” under the $1,200 clue on the 10th pick. In second place with $11,000, he had $600 less than Veronica’s lead. He bet $5,000 and only got one of the names so he was WRONG.

File under “S” in the 1950’s these 2 microbiologists each developed a polio vaccine show
WHO ARE SALK AND SABIN?
Ryan got Salk right.

Veronica finished in the lead with $16,000. Ryan was next with $13,600 and Kevin was in third place with $3,000. No clues went uncovered.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS WILLIAM FAULKNER?

“Intruder in the Dust” was published by William Faulkner in 1948. The novel explores the theme of race relations as well as racial injustice in the mid-20th century South when an African-American man named Lucas Beauchamp is wrongfully accused of murder. According to Wikipedia, Lucas Beauchamp and his wife, Molly, first appeared in Faulkner’s 1942 short fiction collection, “Go Down, Moses.”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1949 was awarded to William Faulkner, not for this particular novel but “for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel.” In the 1940s, there were only 6 Nobel Prize laureates in literature as no prize was awarded from 1940 through 1943. They were: 1944, Johannes V. Jensen (Denmark); 1945, Gabriela Mistral (Chile); 1946, Herman Hesse (Germany); 1947, André Gide (France); 1948, T.S. Eliot (UK); 1949, William Faulkner (USA).

Kevin went with Baldwin. That cost him $3,000 and left him with nothing.

Ryan got it right. He bet $2,402 and finished with $16,002.

Veronica got it, too. She bet $15,400 and won the game with $31,400. Veronica Vichit-Vadakan is the second finalist in the ToC. Check back in tomorrow to see Jennifer Quail, Jason Zuffranieri and Nibir Sarma compete for the last spot in the finals.

Final Jeopardy (5/25/2021) Ryan Bilger, Veronica Vichit-Vadakan, Kevin Walsh