Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Women Authors (2-4-14)
The Final Jeopardy question (2/4/2014), in the category “20th Century Women Authors” was:
Readers’ letters to this author about her 1948 short story asked where the title event was held & if they could go & watch.
In Day 2 of the Battle of the Decades, the champs returning to compete are: Andrew Westney (1991 Teen Tournament), from Charlotte, NC; Leszek Pawlowicz (1992 TOC), from Flagstaff, AZ; and Leslie Frates (1991 5x winner), from Hayward, CA.
Andrew found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Book Covers” under the $800 clue. He was in second place with $3,000, $2,600 behind Leszek’s lead. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
From 1969: the puppeteer’s hand holds the control piece with the strings attached to the title. show
Leszek finished in the lead with $6,400. Andrew was second with $6,000 and Leslie was last with $3,000.
Leslie found the first Daily Double in “8-letter words” under the $800 clue. She was in third place with $6,200, $3,800 less than Leszek’s lead. She bet $4,000 and she was RIGHT.
If you grasp all the symbols seen here at a glance, this field must be your hobby. show
Leszek found the last Daily Double in “Run EMC” under the $1,600 clue. In the lead with $16,000, he had $2,200 more than Leslie in second place. He bet $10,000 and he was RIGHT.
The equation would never have made it big in its original version, which was conceived as the equivalent M = this. show
Leszek finished in the lead with $25,600. Leslie was next with $13,800 and Andrew was in third place with $13,600.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
According to an article on newyorker.com, Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” drew the most mail ever received by the magazine in response to a work of fiction. Some of it was hate mail. One comment about readers from Jackson was “People at first were not so much concerned with what the story meant; what they wanted to know was where these lotteries were held, and whether they could go there and watch.”
Andrew got it and doubled his money to finish with $27,200.
Leslie wrote down Shirley and her own last name. She lost her $9,801 bet and finished with $3,999.
Leszek also got it and bet $2,400. He won the match with $28,000.
Alex Trebek said today that the two players who do not win get to go home with $5,000 each. The winner goes to the next round, where the losers go home with $10,000.
Jeopardy Calendar Clue of the Day: Literary Places
Chicago’s Packingtown is the scene of this muckraking novel. show
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This week is 1st decade (1984–1993); March 3-7 will be 2nd decade(1994-2003); March 31-April 3 will be 3rd decade(2004-2013). 15 winners from these rounds will have a regular 2-week tournament fromMay 5 to May 16. I found this info at WDBJ7.com (Roanoke, Va.)
That makes sense. But then I’m back to that %$#@ Arthur Chu NEXT WEEK?
I thought Alex said we would see Chu in three weeks. Did I dream that?
thank you for clearing that up! i was thinking back and forth…. so it’s actually a FIVE week tournament before they shell out the million?
on the other hand they never mentioned a split in the tournament, actually alex NEVER explained it. normally it’s the first thing in a tournament they do, to lay out the format….strange!
Jeopardy! is syndicated, so NBC’s Olympic coverage would only affect it if your local NBC affiliate carries Jeopardy! (as mine does … but the SOBs canceled it Tuesday due to weather coverage! How silly.)
I’m thinking maybe the next two weeks will be a tournament. At this point I’d watch a Garbage Collectors Tournament — anything to put off returning to that Chu guy.
i still wonder how the 3 weeks will materialize? tournaments go usually 2 week. week one=5 winners + 4 wildcards = 9 contestants in the semis, then mo,tue,wed the winners advance to a 2 day final. but 3 weeks??? i watched yesterdays show at a friend who had it still on tape and alex said to the winner “quarterfinalist”. in that case it should be 4 weeks….ah well, they’ll figure something out.