Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Nonfiction (1-7-22)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (1/7/2022) in the category “20th Century Nonfiction” was:

“Norwegian Independence Day” & “a vast blue sea” are mentioned in Chapter 1 of a 1948 book by this man

27x champ Amy Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, CA has now won $977,400. In Game 28, she takes on these two players: Patsy Lester, a social studies teacher from Patchogue, NY; and Sean Sweeney, a speech-language pathologist from Dorchester, MA.

Round 1 Categories: Opening Lines in Dr. Seuss – Metaphors – Their First Top 10 Solo Hit – It Was 1970s America, Man – Move It! – Double Time

Amy found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Double Time” under the $600 clue on the 13th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $4,200, $3,400 more than Sean in second place. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.

The 1946 article that coined this term for a brooding drama cited “Double Indemnity”, starring Barbara Stanwyck, as an example. show

WHAT IS FILM NOIR?

Amy finished in the lead with $14,800. Patsy was second with $1,400 and Sean was last with $1,000. No clues went uncovered.

Round 2 Categories: 4-Letter Birds – Awards & Honors – His Widow Lived On – Pop Culture Monikers – That’s Border Line – Words that Start with 2 Vowels

Sean found the first Daily Double in “Pop Culture Monikers” under the $1,200 clue on the first pick of the round. Sean was in third place with $1,000, he had $13,800 less than Amy’s lead. Sean bet $2,000 and drew a blank so he was WRONG.

Born on the south side of Chicago, he originally had “Sense” behind his name in his early rap years. show

WHO IS COMMON?

Sean got the last Daily Double in “His Widow Lived On” under the $800 clue, on the 7th pick. In third place with $600 now, he had $18,600 less than Amy’s lead. Sean bet $590 and he was RIGHT.

This former First Lady died in Austin in 2007, having outlived her husband by 34 years. show

WHO IS LADY BIRD JOHNSON?

Amy finished in the lead with a runaway $32,400. Sean was second with $2,790 and Patsy was last with $1,000. 2 clues worth $1,200 went uncovered.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS THOR HEYERDAHL?

Norwegian Independence Day is celebrated annually on May 17th. On the particular “syttende mai (“Seventeenth May”) that today’s FJ! clue is referring to, Thor Heyerdahl was writing in a “dew-drenched logbook” and pondering how it came about that he was out to sea “on a wooden raft with a parrot and five companions”. It’s all in the very first chapter of “Kon-Tiki Across the Pacific by Raft”

An old FJ! from 2008 — NONFICTION: In 1947 editor William Styron said this book was a long, “tedious Pacific voyage best suited” for National Geographic

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Patsy came up with Winston Churchill. She lost half her score and finished with $500.

Sean went with Hemingway. After losing $2,500, he landed in third place with $290.

Amy got it right. She bet $9,800 and won this game with $42,200. Amy’s 28-day total of $1,019,600 makes her Jeopardy!’s 5th millionaire. Congrats!!

A triple stumper from each round:

THEIR FIRST TOP 10 SOLO HIT ($1000) Turning back time, “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)”, in 1966

HIS WIDOW LIVED ON ($2000) In 1994, nearly 60 years after his death, his wife Anna passed away still proclaiming his innocence in the Lindbergh case

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Constitutional Amendments”

Until a 1913 amendment allowed this, 1/3 of U.S. Government revenue came from liquor show

WHAT IS INCOME TAX?

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