Final Jeopardy: Children’s Authors (11-28-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/28/2022) in the category “Children’s Authors” was:
Reversing the story of this heroine she created, Patricia MacLachlan was born on the prairie but spent much of her life in New England
15x champ Cris Pannullo, a customer success operations manager from Ocean City, NJ, brought his winnings up to $526,544 last week. In Game 16, he is up against: Michael Harten, a dean of academics from Putnam, CT; and Xanni Brown, a Ph.D student from New Haven, CT.
Round 1 Categories: Novel Notes – Slang – Lawmen & Women – Foot, the Bill – Play Your Cards Right – Of Movies
Xanni found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Slang” under the $1,000 clue just before the commercial break. She was in second place with $2,200, $2,000 less than Cris’ lead. Xanni made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
Keep some tissues handy because the highest seats in a stadium are called these show
Xanni finished in the lead with $8,600. Cris was second with $5,400 and Michael was last with $1,600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: British History – Animal Names – Abbrev. TV – 6-Letter Words – That’s Major – Around the Globe
Cris found the first Daily Double in “British History” under the $1,200 clue on the 6th pick. He was in second place with $9,000, $1,200 less than Xanni’s lead. Cris bet it all and he was RIGHT.
Alan Turning devised a method for breaking messages encrypted by this Nazi cypher machine show
3 clues later, Cris landed on the last Daily Double in “That’s Major” under the $1,600 clue on the 9th pick of the round. In first place with $20,800, he had $10,600 more than Xanni in second place. Cris bet $7,800 and he was RIGHT.
They’re the 2 major constellations with “major” in their names show
Cris finished in the lead with a runaway $39,800. Xanni was in second place with $19,400 and Michael was last with $5,600. All clues were shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right and they all had the same response!
WHO IS SARAH (WHEATON)?
Patricia MacLachlan was born and lived in Cheyenne, WY for her first 5 years. After her elementary school years in Rochester, MN, her family relocated to Connecticut. MacLachlan’s early roots made such a strong impression upon her, that she carried a bag of prairie dirt with her as an adult.
Sarah Wheaton is the heroine of MacLachlan’s best known novel, “Sarah, Plain, and Tall” (1985). A native of Maine, Sarah goes West in response to Jacob Witting’s newspaper ad. He is a widower looking to marry up with a woman who can help him raise his two children. In addition to winning the 1986 Newbery Medal, “Sarah, Plain and Tall” won the 1986 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction that same year.
Four more books would follow the lives of the Witting family. Three film adaptations– “Sarah Plain and Tall” (1991), “Skylark” (1993), and “Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter’s End” (1999)– starred Glenn Close and Christopher Walken as Sarah and Jacob.
Michael went with “Anne of Green Gables”, which is set in Canada. He lost his $2,000 bet and finished with $3,600.
Xanni had the same response. She lost $1,114 and finished second with
$18,286.
Cris made it unanimous. He didn’t risk any money though, so he won this game with $39,800. Cris Pannullo’s 16-day total is $566,344.
A triple stumper from each round:
NOVEL NOTES ($1000) King kills; executing executioners; Coffey coda
BRITISH HISTORY ($800) The Marquess of Salisbury, who retired in 1902, was the last prime minister to lead a government from this body
More clues on Page 2
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Secretaries of State”
Dirk Stikker, Dutch foreign minister 1948-1952, wrote, “Churchill’s words won the war”; this American’s “words won the peace” show
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For future reference, Canadian author and poet Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote Anne of Green Gables
Thanks for the information VJ; I’ll keep it in mind.
Killer FJ. Although Xanni missed it, I’d nominate her for a future 2nd chance tourney.
A little surprised no one knew the famous actor who played Tom Joad. One of his best roles. I got his autograph backstage in 1974 after his 1-man appearance as Clarence Darrow.
A much better FJ than the previous contradictory one to be sure. Although no one came up with the correct response (including me), it was still fair game.
Xanni played an impressive game and now she is looking good for the second chance tournament next year. Happy to see Cris winning this game again. Congrats!
Tough final as we got our first triple stumper this week.
Xanni had a very impressive score and on any other day, she would have been in contention to perhaps become the new champion.
Concur, Trevor. She was strong, but, have to credit Cris’ gameplay.
Just like the contestants, I said “Anne of Green Gables”, although I was quite confident that I was wrong. Still, a lights out game! Happy to see it!
Xanni will definitely be back for the next Second Chance Tournament.