Final Jeopardy: English Literature (1-20-12)
The Final Jeopardy question (1/20/2012) in the category “English Literature” was:
The title character of an 18th C. novel was the son of a man named Kreutznaer, but his name gets anglicized.
Lynn Hammerlund is our new Jeopardy! champ today and if she wants to still be the champ on Monday, she’s going to have to cut these two guys off at the pass: Bob Powell from Fort Walton Beach, FL. and Russell Howes originally from Taylorsville, UT
Russell found the Daily Double in the Jeopardy! round in the category “Night Quill” right after he got in a tie with Lynn. They both had $2,600. Bob was in the lead with $5,000. Russell bet $1,600 but could not come up with an answer so he was WRONG.
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That put a damper on Russell for the rest of the round and he finished with $1,600. Lynn pulled ahead and ended up in the lead with $6,800. Bob was in the middle with $4,000.
In Double Jeopardy, Lynn got the first Daily Double in “‘U-R’ There.” She was in a tie for the lead with Bob. They both had $2,000 more than Russell, who had $6,000. Lynn chose to risk $2,400. She was RIGHT and let out a big breath.
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Russell got the last Daily Double in “Alliteratively Yours,” after stumbling over the category name a couple of times and just saying “Yours.” He had moved up very nicely and was only $400 behind Lynn and Bob who were now in a tie with $11,200 each. Incredibly tight game today! Russell bet $1,600. This time, he was RIGHT and was now in the lead.
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A wrong answer on the last clue in “Famous Women” cost Lynn $2,000 and she finished in third place with $10,800. Bob was second with $12,800 and Russell was still in the lead with $14,400.
NONE of the contestants got the Final Jeopardy question right.
The answer is in the first paragraph of the 1719 novel by Daniel DeFoe: “I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very good family in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but by the usual corruption of words in England we are now called, nay, we call ourselves and write our name Crusoe, and so my companions always called me.”
Lynn wrote down “Who is Crown.” That cost her $9,200. She ended up with $1,600.
Bob didn’t write anyone down and bet $8,000. That dropped him down to $4,800.
Russell wrote down “Who is Cross” and bet $11,201, leaving him with $3,199.
That made Bob Powell the winner. Awesome stroke of luck!
No use speculating now, but if Lynn or Russell had gone for the ‘u’ sound in Kreutznaer, instead of an ‘o,’ it might have come to one of them.
