Final Jeopardy: In The Bookstore (1-13-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (1/13/2023) in the category “In The Bookstore” was:
The name of this author dead since 2013 now appears on books written by a former U.S. Marshal & a former Apache helicopter pilot
2x champ Yogesh Raut, a blogger, podcaster, and freelance writer orig. from Springfield, IL, has won an impressive $75,202 so far. In Game 3, his competitors are: Brenda Crowell, a freelance writer and crisis worker trainee from Williamsport, PA; and Michael Cavaliere, a consultant from New York, NY.
Round 1 Categories: Let’s Talk Galaxies – A Side of Faberge Eggs – Literary Overlaps – You Brought Me Fame & Fortune – & Everything that Goes with It – I Thank You All
Michael found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Fame and Fortune” under the $1,000 on the 10th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $3,200, $1,200 more than Yogesh in second place. Michael made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
Tony Bennett sang this storied phrase meaning to go from poverty to wealth show
Michael finished in the lead with $10,800. Yogesh was second with $4,200 and Brenda was last with negative $600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Born or Died in 1923 – 8-Letter Words – A Linear Category – Historical Movements – The City Square – I Said Dance!
Michael found the first Daily Double in “Historical Movements” under the $1,200 clue on the 15th pick. He was in the lead with $16,800, $3,000 more than Yogesh in second place. Michael bet $5,000 and said the Great Migration. That was WRONG.
The first of several of these movements took 38 black individuals from the U.S. to Sierra Leone in 1815 show
Two clues later, Michael landed on the last Daily Double in “The City Square” under the $1,200 clue. Yogesh and Michael were tied in the lead at $13,800. Michael bet $5,000 again and, this time, he was RIGHT.
Rittenhouse Square in this city is named for David Rittenhouse, made the 1st director of the U.S. Mint by Washington in 1792 show
Michael finished in the lead with $21,200 and Yogesh was second with $19,000. At negative $600, the game was over for Brenda. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS TOM CLANCY?
Tom Clancy started out on the road to fame and fortune at age 37 in 1984 with the publication of “The Hunt for Red October”. He went on to write many more popular military novels. Some were adapted to very successful films. In 2018, Amazon Prime came out with a “Jack Ryan” TV series that is due to wrap up in its upcoming fourth season.
Many Clancy novels revolve around the character Jack Ryan, who made his first appearance in “The Hunt Red October”. After Tom Clancy died from heart failure at age 66 in 2013, the Jack Ryan series survived with the Clancy family estate’s approval. On TomClancy.com, the names of the men who have continued writing “Clancy” novels are listed under the Authors tab. They are former U.S. Marshal, Marc Cameron; former Apache helicopter pilot, Don Bentley; Mark Maden; Mark Greaney; and Grant Blackwood. Clicking on their names will show you who wrote what.
Yogesh got it right. He bet $2,201 and finished with $21,201.
Michael went with Joseph Heller. He lost $16,801 and finished with $4,399. That meant Yogesh remains Jeopardy! champ with a 3-day total of $96,403.
A triple stumper from each round:
A SIDE OF FABERGE EGGS ($800) The Blue Serpent Clock Egg of 1895, with the snake’s tongue indicating the hour, is owned by this ruler of Monaco
I SAID DANCE! ($400) That’s Natalie Portman in the video for “Dance Tonight” from this ex-Beatle‘s album “Memory Almost Full”
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Names in African-American History”
He was Virginia’s 1st African-American congressman, whose grandnephew, a famous poet, used his last name as a first name show
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Tom Clancy was a Jeopardy contestant in the 1990s. I’m too lazy to look it up on J Archive for the exact year. I can’t even recall whether he won or not but he never met a camera he didn’t like. He was on TV a lot when he was alive.
Here is the J-Archive link to Tom Clancy’s game, Jacob. It was the second game that aired on 11/18/1997 in Power Players Week.
VJ, Thanks so much. Wow! Two people who were on that show are no longer with us.
I didn’t know that Tom Clancy had passed away. I only read his first book in 1985 when I was teaching in Taiwan, and never got to any others when they were available. It was given to me by a retired US Navy Cmdr. who said it was a “great yarn”, which indeed it was. I couldn’t help but noticing Michael Cavaliere, who presents a striking resemblance to actor Tim Bagley who appeared in 9 episodes of “Monk” as Harold Krenshaw, Mr. Monk’s nemesis. But his voice is much different. I hope he may come back sometime. Meanwhile we can appreciate Mr. Yogesh Raut.
The magellanic answer by Yogi in the galaxy category was extremely impressive. I never heard of Magellanic in my life. That should have been a 2K question and a triple stumper, imo. Then again I am weak on astronomy.
Doesn’t Michael look like the actor who played Niedermeyer from Animal House and the Maestro from Seinfeld?
That was a real, old-fashioned, heavyweight brawl tonight. (And on that subject, I cannot forgive Michael for thinking Rocky Marciano, the Brockton Bomber, was Sonny Liston. Good grief!)
Didn’t know FJ but Clancy was the only plausible name I could think of.
Howard, That Sonny Liston/Rocky Marciano snafu shocked the heck out of me too.
I laughed out loud at that Sonny Liston response. Then I had to explain to Nikki why I thought it was funny.
Interesting — there is no record of Sonny Liston’s actual date of birth and no one was sure about it, not even his own mother! This article claims toward the end that it was most likely July 22nd (same date of birth as Alex Trebek).
I didn’t know it was Rocky Marciano, but I coitenly knew it couldn’t be Sonny Liston!
Yogesh has the same amount of correct responses for buzzing and answering as Michael.
Very sad to see Brenda end up in the red. She was up against two men that were way much fast on the signaling device and that made it so that she didn’t get any rhythm going here. Well that’s just how it goes sometimes. There’s much more to this other than there’s a slighter chance of a really fine player going against the grain.
I hope that we get to see Michael again in the second chance tournament because of his strong play against Yogesh and he had 25 correct responses. Too bad Brenda didn’t have a lot of opportunities to come into a game against two buzzsaws.
Did anyone else see the face Michael made after he selected the second DD in Double? If you still have the vid on DVR, it’s worth it!
As for FJ, I knew it, but only from the year, and intuiting from the people mentioned in the clue. A brief story: I graduated from the Virginia Military Institute over 30 years ago. When I was a cadet, there was a symposium with 4 writers that wrote military themed novels. There was Stephen Coonts, who wrote “Flight of the Intruder”, later made into a movie, Harold Coyle, VMI ’74, who wrote “Team Yankee”, Bill Butterworth, who wrote under the name W.E.B. Griffin, and, Tom Clancy. I didn’t meet him, but, saw him up close and personal.