Final Jeopardy: Authors (6-12-12)
The Final Jeopardy question (6/12/2012) in the category “Authors” was:
His multi-novel series in based on Robert Browning’s poem “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came.”
2-day champ Aaron Cappocchi returned today with a 2-day total of $56,101. Can he score another big victory today? Not if one of these two players can overtake him: Kathy Wright, from Seattle, WA and Eddie Nwabuoku, originally from New York, NY.
Kathy found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Grime Fighters” before the first commercial break. She was in the lead with $2,800 and the men were tied at $1,000 each. She bet $1,800 and she was RIGHT.
This household cleaner’s website says it “didn’t get its name from the area code where it was developed.”
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Kathy finished in the lead with $9,000. Aaron was second with $4,400 and Eddie was last with $2,200.
Aaron found the first Double Jeopardy Daily Double in “‘Side’ Dishes.” He was still in second place but now he had $8,400, $7,800 less than Kathy. He bet $6,000 and he was RIGHT.
This comic strip’s genesis was in a series of animal cartoons called ‘Nature’s Way’ first published in 1979. show
Aaron found the last Daily Double in “What’s for ‘Desert’.” He now had $20,400, only $600 less than Kathy. He bet $1,200 but didn’t know so he was WRONG.
The name of this desert in the south of Israel is Hebrew for ‘south’. show
Kathy finished in the lead with $21,000. Aaron was next with $19,200 and Eddie was in third place with $600.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
The Dark Tower series was chiefly inspired by the Robert Browning poem and the full text was included in the final volume’s appendix. “In the preface to the revised 2003 edition of The Gunslinger, King also identifies The Lord of the Rings, Arthurian Legend, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as inspirations. He identifies Clint Eastwood’s “Man with No Name” character as one of the major inspirations for the protagonist, Roland Deschain. King’s style of location names in the series, such as Mid-World, and his development of a unique language abstract to our own (High Speech), are also influenced by J. R. R. Tolkien’s work.”(wikipedia)
Eddie wrote down “JRR Tolkein.” He bet it all and finished with nothing.
Aaron got it right and added $1,999, to finish with $21,199.
Kathy also got it but bet big. She added 17,398 to her winning so Kathy Wright is the one who ended up with quite a payday today: $38,398. It’ll be a while before we see a one-day total like that, or maybe not. Kathy will be back tomorrow!
Alex said nary a word about yesterday’s Final Jeopardy! Events in the Bible gaffe. The funny thing about it is, there was a Final Jeopardy! question back last February concerning the first chapter of Acts where the clue supplied what really happened (Matthias was chosen to replace Judas).
