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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category New York Times Book Reviews) for Monday, June 10, 2024 (Season 40, Game 196):
In 1958 a review of this book now considered a classic called it repulsive, disgusting & “highbrow pornography”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Josh Fry, a software developer originally from Peachtree Corners, Georgia
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Aaron Lemos, a high school video production teacher from Northridge, California
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Adriana Harmeyer, an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana (8-day total: $183,100)
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Correct response: What is Lolita?
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Orville Prescott, August 18, 1958, using words that I see fit to repeat instead of attempting to paraphrase—I’m also not entirely sure why the show thought it necessary to include “now considered a classic” in the clue; I don’t think its status has changed particularly significantly since its publication:
“Lolita,” then, is undeniably news in the world of books. Unfortunately, it is bad news. There are two equally serious reasons why it isn’t worth any adult reader’s attention. The first is that it is dull, dull, dull in a pretentious, florid and archly fatuous fashion. The second is that it is repulsive.
“Lolita” is not crudely crammed with Anglo-Saxon nouns and verbs and explicitly described scenes of sexual violence. Its depravity is more refined. Mr. Nabokov, whose English vocabulary would astound the editors of the Oxford Dictionary, does not write cheap pornography. He writes highbrow pornography. Perhaps that is not his intention. Perhaps he thinks of his book as a satirical comedy and as an exploration of abnormal psychology. Nevertheless, “Lolita” is disgusting.
This is a first-person narrative written in prison by a middle-aged European intellectual and pervert called Humbert Humbert. A literary dilettante who had spent considerable time in various sanitariums, Humbert suffered from a mental illness that made him lust for young girls.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Monday, June 10, 2024 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Capitals & Their Airports; Bunny Lit; Well, That Happened; Time For Some Drugs; Duets With Dads; Find “Out”)
Adriana started Game #9 by immediately running BUNNY LIT; after that, both Josh and Aaron got onto the board. After 15 clues, Adriana had $3,800 to Josh’s $2,800 and Aaron’s $2,000.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Adriana 7 correct 1 incorrect
Josh 5 correct 0 incorrect
Aaron 3 correct 0 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Josh is “okay” in table tennis.
Aaron was a finger double on “My So-Called Life”.
Adriana read the encyclopedias at her grandparents’ house.
The second half of the round was peppered with incorrect responses, with our three players combining for 9 over these 15 clues; this included the Daily Double that dropped Josh back to $0. Adriana led after 30, but it was still a competitive game.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Adriana 9 correct 4 incorrect
Josh 9 correct 2 incorrect
Aaron 8 correct 4 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Adriana $3,000
Josh $1,600
Aaron $1,600
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Senate History; The Animal Kingdom; Monuments & Memorials; There’s Gold In Your Future; They Directed Themselves; Emotions)
Our players were a little bit spooked by the Daily Doubles in Double Jeopardy; both Adriana and Josh bet just $1,500 apiece on them. This meant that Adriana held the lead going into Final by just $1,400.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Adriana 17 correct 6 incorrect
Josh 20 correct 3 incorrect
Aaron 12 correct 7 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 18 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Adriana $12,100
Josh $10,700
Aaron $1,600
Adriana was the only player correct in Final, and that makes her a 9-day champion! She’ll play tomorrow in the hopes of getting to 10!
Tonight’s results:
Aaron $1,600 – $1,600 = $0 (What is Portnoy’s Complaint?)
Josh $10,700 – $1,401 = $9,299 (What is The Catcher in the Rye?)
Adriana $12,100 + $9,500 = $21,600 (What is Lolita?) (9-day total: $204,700)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) CAPITALS & THEIR AIRPORTS $800 (clue #16)
Josh 2800 -2800 (Adriana 3800 Aaron 2000)
2) MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $1200 (clue #13)
Adriana 9800 +1500 (Aaron 2800 Josh 5600)
3) THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $1600 (clue #22, $8000 left on board)
Josh 7200 +1500 (Adriana 10500 Aaron 1600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -64
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Adriana 2 3 4 5 1 1 1 5
Aaron 2 5 1
Josh 3 4 4 3 4*
DJ! Round:
Adriana 2 1 3 4 5 2 3* 5† 4†
Aaron 1 5 2 1† 3 2
Josh 4 3 3 4 5 4 4*
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Adriana 3.00
Josh 3.75
Aaron 2.44
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 18 (0.09 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Adriana $11,800 Coryat, 17 correct, 6 incorrect, 35.09% in first on buzzer (20/57), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Josh $13,600 Coryat, 20 correct, 3 incorrect, 28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57), 3/5 on rebound attempts (on 11 rebound opportunities)
Aaron $1,600 Coryat, 12 correct, 7 incorrect, 29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $27,000
Lach Trash: $10,800 (on 9 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $15,200
Lead Changes: 4
Times Tied: 0
Player Statistics:
Adriana Harmeyer, career statistics:
214 correct, 24 incorrect
15/17 on rebound attempts (on 40 rebound opportunities)
39.18% in first on buzzer (201/513)
7/11 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $11,500)
7/9 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $17,911
Aaron Lemos, career statistics:
12 correct, 8 incorrect
1/2 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $1,600
Josh Fry, career statistics:
20 correct, 4 incorrect
3/5 on rebound attempts (on 11 rebound opportunities)
28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$1,300)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $13,600
Adriana Harmeyer, to win:
10 games: 58.277%
11: 33.962%
12: 19.792%
13: 11.534%
14: 6.722%
Avg. streak: 10.397 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Adriana $12,100 Josh $10,700 Aaron $1,600)
Adriana: Standard cover bet over Josh is $9,301. (Actual bet: $9,500)
Aaron: Bet at least $1,200 to pass Adriana if she’s incorrect and bets to cover. (Actual bet: $1,600)
Josh: Bet between $2,801 (covering against any small bets Adriana might make) and $7,499 (keeping Aaron locked out). (Actual bet: $1,401)
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I guessed “What is ‘Portnoy’s Complaint’?” On re-reading the clue, “Lolita” makes more sense.
“Portnoy’s Complaint” isn’t the worst guess to this clue, to be honest.
I was heading on a two week vacation, never heard of the book but picked it up anyway. When I got to my destination and started it, I couldn’t put it down.
If the year had not been given I would have been torn between Myra Breckenridge and Portnoy’s Complaint but they were both late 1960s.
Lolita was the only racy 1950s book I could think of.
Lolita was the only racy 1950s book I could think of.
Same here.
Initially thought Siddhartha (the movie was originally rated X), but figured that was too early. I guessed ‘Catcher in the Rye’ (also a little too early). But no, it was ‘that book by Nabokov’, to quote The Police. I’ve seem a couple of the film adaptations as well as having read the book.
The NYT has its own story on the books that it got “wrong,” including the first book of Sur Grafton’s series (gift article),
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/29/books/negative-book-reviews.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yk0.28oW.Tl5tXl2d1B00&smid=url-share
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It was one of those finals that, as I was reading it, I had the answer before I finished and asked myself, “What else could it be?“ BTW, my mother wouldn’t let me read it. Lol
Note: my mother is in a nursing home and I sat by her bed today and encouraged her to guess the answer. She couldn’t come up with it, but she remembered the book and told me that she hadn’t read it either. She will be 100 years old next month and is still a Jeopardy! fan.
I’m old enough to remember the controversy about “Lolita” when it was first published. Because of that and the fact that it has remained in the social consciousness since then, this was an easy get for me. I suppose some younger people might have trouble thinking of it but I thought it would be a triple get since it is pretty well known. Like you, Kathleen, I had the answer before I finished reading the clue.
Over $200,000! Go Adriana!
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The first thing I thought of was Peyton Place, which many folks described as trash.
Lolita was what popped into my head, and I never read it either, as the subject matter sounded gross.
A very good run so far for Adriana. I’m already looking forward to seeing her in the next Tourney of Champions!
I guessed Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs. Came out a year later than 1958. Whoops.
Lolita, was one of two books that “popped” in to my head, when thiss Final Jeopardy “answer” (clue) was revealed. But, considering what I knew of the subject matter, thought it might be considered pornagaphic by many, though written well.(Obviously similar to the New York Times’ reviewer’s opinion.) So I rejected Lolita, and, went with Lady Chatterly’s Lover. Found out, when I googled it, that Lady Chatterly was published much later. Guess the old Match Game advice of “trusting your first instinct” applies here.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover was the only one that came to my mind but I was pretty sure it was much earlier (and I was right). If I had thought of Lolita, I would probably have guessed it, but I had actually assumed it was earlier than 1958 (though not as early as Chatterley).
[By the time I was aware of Lolita it was already not recently published, so an “old book”. Now if it had been Valley of the Dolls I would have been able to recognize its approximate timing 😉 (which was only 8 years later).]
according to Wikipedia, Lady Chaterrly’s Loven wasn’t published openly in English until 1969, then baned for being obscene. The publisher sued, and, the obscenity banned was reversed, sold millions of copies in English speaking countries, and, now is considered to be in the public domain.
Jacqueline Susan’s novel a classic? Well Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is considered a classic of it’s genre.
I just saw the movie at the new
Art House movie theater here in Eugene and noticed when the movie originally “came out,” so the answer was easy for me.