Celebrity Jeopardy Final: Tween Lit (10-25-23)
In quarterfinal #5 of the 2023 Celebrity Jeopardy! Championship, the celebrity contestants are: sports broadcaster Peter Schrager, playing for Baby Quest Foundation; actor Adam Rodriguez, playing for LIFT Los Angeles; and actress Mira Sorvino, playing for the U.N. Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking.
The Final Jeopardy clue in the category “Tween Lit” was:
Referring to the lengthy title of her much-discussed novel, this author lamented that she didn’t just call the book “Margaret”
Jeopardy! Categories: Above, Below Or Intersected By The Equator – Fix The Movie Quote – Pride & Potus – Failing History – Name Droppers – Mixed Greens
Mira found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Failing History” under the $400 clue on the 4th pick of the round. She had the lead with $400, $200 more than Adam in second place. She bet $300 and she was RIGHT.
A poll of historical writers named this Tudor king the worst monarch in history and &??? his six wives would probably agree show
Mira finished in the lead with $3,200. Peter was second with $2,000 and Adam was last with negative $800. All clues were shown.
Double Jeopardy! Categories: Libraries – Oh, Brother! – Sneaker Brands – American Bridges – The Nobel Prize – By The Numbers
Peter found the first Daily Double in “Libraries” under the $800 clue on the 19th pick. He was tied for the lead with Mira at $5,800 now. Adam had zero. Peter bet $2,000 and took a shot at it with Walt Whitman. That was WRONG.
On display at the Newark Public Librarv is the copy of “Portnoy’s Complaint” this author inscribed to his parents show
Peter got the last Daily Double in “The Nobel Prize” under the $800 clue, with one clue left after it. In the lead with $7,200, he had $800 more than Mira in second place. Peter bet $2,000 and thought it was Copenhagen. That was WRONG.
The Peace Prize is the only Nobel Prize awarded not in Stockholm, but in this fjord-tastic neighboring capital show
Mira finished in the lead with $5,400. Peter was next with $5,200 and Adam was in third place at zero. All clues were shown.
Triple Jeopardy! Categories: Fungus Among Us – Old Pop Music Had Some Vowels: E-I-E-I-O – Foods Named After People – Sculptures – Sigmund Freud – Please, Anything But “Math”
Adam found the first Triple Jeopardy! Daily Double in “Foods Named After People” under the $900 clue on the 5th pick of the round. He was in last place with $600, $5,800 less than Peter’s lead. Adam bet the $1,500 allowance and he was RIGHT.
Named after a Russian ballerina, this meringue-based dessert is nicknamed “Pav” in Australia show
Mira found the next Daily Double in “Sigmund Freud” under the $1,200 clue on the 11th pick of the round. She was in second place with $7,500, $400 less than Peter’s lead. She bet $1,000 and came up with envy. That was WRONG.
From the Latin for “desire” or “lust”, Freud used this word to refer to a person’s sex drive show
Mira found the last Daily Double in “Sculptures” under the $600 clue on the 25th pick. She was in second place with $8,600, $2,000 less than Peter’s lead. Mira bet $1,500 and she was RIGHT.
It’s no lie: almost $80 million dropped at auction for Giacometti’s surrealist, “Le Nez”, a head with a very long one of these show
Mira finished in the lead with $12,200 and Peter was next with $11,800. Adam was in third place with $4,500. All clues were shown.
ALL of the celebrities got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS JUDY BLUME?
Judy Blume’s most successful book is “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret” (1970), with its 7-word title. Blume published her first published book in 1969 and that one actually had an 8-word title: “The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo”. Business Insider put together a list of 23 favorite Blume novels from GoodReads reviews. It includes “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing”, “Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great” and another 7-word title often heard from parents, “It’s Not the End of the World”. Looking over that list, you wouldn’t be wrong to conclude that long titles didn’t hurt the popularity of her works by any means.
Adam bet $500 and finished $5,000.
Peter bet $7,200 and finished with $19,000.
Mira bet $12,000 and won the match with $24,200. Mira advances to the Semifinals. Adam and Peter each won $30,000 for their charities.
A triple stumper from each round:
Round 1: PRIDE & POTUS ($500) This POTUS joined the Republican Unity Coalition, a gay rights organization, roughly 25 years after leaving the White House
Round 2: SNEAKER BRANDS ($800) Speedcat, Drift Cat & Neo Cat
Round 3: OLD POP MUSIC HAD SOME VOWELS: E-I-E-I-O ($1500) It’s a greatest hits album released by Madonna in 1990 _ _ E / I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ E / _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I O _
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Surprisingly good. Usually, I find the CJ! games to be “Jeopardy! lite”, and the players treat it as such. However, this game, and especially Mira and Peter, were legit. I knew Mira received her degree from Harvard, and I found that Peter was graduated from Emory. Although Adam had worked as a stockbroker, I can’t find a college degree for him. In any case, this was an actually competitive game. Congrats to Mira. She’s my early pick to win it all.