“Intellectual loner” Jonathan Franzen shows fallibility as “Power Player” on “Jeopardy!”

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Author Jonathan Franzen competed in Monday night’s episode of “Jeopardy!,” kicking off its “Power Players Week.”
In first after two rounds and into Final Jeopardy, Franzen eventually fell to conservative pundit S.E. Cupp, who wagered less on the question that all three contestants got wrong. (“Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd took home the bronze.)
The hugely successful novelist and essayist is often characterized as a