Final Jeopardy: Awards & Honors (10-24-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/24/2023) in the category “Awards & Honors” was:
As of 2023 the only 2 to win a Nobel Prize in Literature & an Academy Award were George Bernard Shaw & this singer-songwriter
The Champions Wild Card quarter-finals continue today with these three champs: Steve Crupi, a retired police information supervisor from Mountain View, CA; Jilana Cotter, a senior data analyst from Dade City, FL; and John Vigna, a writer from Los Angeles, California.
Round 1 Categories: War & Peas – The USTA – Who Wants to Be a Milliner? – Novel Ideas – Invented First – “Pound” Key
Jilana found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Novel Ideas” under the $800 clue on the 11th pick of the round. She was in second place with $1,200, $3,400 less than Steve’s lead. Jilana made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
”Cleanliness is next to Fordliness” is a line from this novel show
Steve finished in the lead with $6,400. Jilana was second with $4,600. John was last with negative $400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Gardens – Go See a Movie about a Horse – The Metropolitan Opera – Countries that Border India – A Category Full of Cor(e)Ys – Contronyms
Jilana found the first Daily Double in “The Metropolitan Opera” under the $800 clue on the 5th pick of the round. She was in second place with $6,200 now, $1,800 less than Steve’s lead. Jilana bet $4,000 and she was RIGHT.
Emma Calvé might have tired of the Habanera when she set a Met record singing this role 138 times show
John got the last Daily Double in “Countries that Border India” under the $1,200 clue with 2 clues left after it. He was in last place with $800, $18,200 less than Jilana’s lead. John bet $700 and said Bangladesh. That was WRONG.
In 1967 India & this nation had a military clash along the border of Sikkim, then an Indian protectorate & today a state show
Jilana finished in the lead with $19,000. Steve was second with $9,600 and John was last with $900. All clues were shown.
WHO IS BOB DYLAN?
In 2001, Bob Dylan won an Oscar in the Best Original Song category for “Things Have Changed” from the movie “Wonder Boys” (2000). In 2016, Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016 for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” The choice of a singer and songwriter was not without controversy. We even talked about some Takes on Dylan’s Nobel Prize here on Fikkle Fame.
George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and often acerbic critic, won the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature for “for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty.” In 1939, he won an Academy Award in the Best Adapted Screenplay category for Screenplay & Dialogue for “Pygmalion” (1938) starring Leslie Howard as Professor Higgins and Wendy Hiller as Eliza Doolittle.
John got as far as Bob D when he ran out of time. He lost his $898 bet and finished with $2.00.
Steve thought it was Margaret Mitchell, who won a Pulitzer for GWTW. He bet and lost his whole $9,600.
Jilana got it right. She bet $801 and won the game with $19,801. Jilana advances to the semi-finals. Steve and John each won $5,000
2 triple stumpers from each A CATEGORY FULL OF COR(E)YS:
($1200) Cory Doctorow’s somewhat Orwellian look at the near future isn’t called “Big” this but “Little” this
($1600) Corey Hawkins played Dr. Dre in this hip-hop biopic
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Contemporary Authors”
He has studied cordon bleu cooking, but is known for his 1981 creation of a character with unconventional taste in cuisine show
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Jilana’s wager was a bit off. Had she gotten it wrong, and Steve correct, she would have lost by $1000. Since his max would have been $19,200, she just needed to wager $201.
Still, a good win for her. Unusually, she is a Second Chance player that doesn’t look like there was a reason they weren’t champion.
I blanked for a moment, but then got Final with much time to spare.
I haven’t looked to see if the producers are still going to have the winner of Celebrity Jeopardy! in the ToC. That will be a rude awakening for Ike, if he is in it!
If you like a 2-person horse race, this was the match for you. Jilana is a terrific player. Confident but not brash. Steve stuck with her until some faux pas late in the game.
Challenging FJ, which I knew cold, so it’s tough to say if someone who didn’t know it could have deduced it somehow. I clearly remember him winning both awards.
The army rations and the $1000 Invented First clue weren’t terribly tough. We visited those gardens on Vancouver Island in 1994. It was late on a summer day and it got dark before we could fully explore them.
VJ, I forgot all about the discussion we had on FF in 2016 about Bob Dylan. I said it back then and repeat “He deserved the Award.” I will also repeat what I’ve said over the years. If contestants study FF they stand a better chance on Jeopardy imo.
Who would have ever thought that a singer would receive the Nobel Prize in Literature based on nothing but a song? In any case, I didn’t come up with the correct response.
It wasn’t just one song, though. It was his whole oeuvre, as it were. The Sex Pistols got into the R&R Hall of Fame on one album, but his breadth is much greater. I, personally, love “Tangled Up In Blue”. As Dylan said, “It was 10 years in the livin’, and 2 years in the writin’!”
If you haven’t read his speech, you should. Even not spoken, but read, it is good (and, ironically, that’s part of what it’s about). He didn’t go to the ceremony, and gave his speech 8 months later in front of a few members. If you don’t give the speech, you don’t get the prize, or the prize money.
John’s score at the end of Round 1 was -400. He really struggled throughout the game as he was in the negative for most of the game but so delighted to see him got out of the red so he could play FJ! Jilana currently remains undefeated after winning Second Chance last month.