Final Jeopardy: 1930s Novel Characters (10-23-19)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/23/2019) in the category “1930s Novel Characters” was:

Prior to a murder in a 1934 book, he says he hasn’t been a detective since 1927 & that his wife inherited a lumber mill

New champ Martha Bordogna, an attorney from Indian Trail, NC, won $16,400 yesterday. In Game 2, she takes on these two players: Allyson Samiljan, a communications special events director; and Nick Rodriguez, a database administrator & composer, from Farmingdale, NY.

Round 1 Categories: National Geographic Women – Government ABCs – Sports All in the Family – E Before I – I Bless the Rains – Down in Africa

Martha found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “I Bless the Rain” under the $800 clue on the 14th pick of the round. She was in third place with $1,400, $2,400 less than Nick’s lead. She bet $800 and she was RIGHT.

Rainfall in this area covering 2 million square miles & 9 countries has topped 120 inches in some years. show

WHAT IS THE AMAZON?

Allyson finished in the lead with $7,400. Nick was second with $3,800 and Martha was last with $2,200.

Round 2 Categories: The March on Washington – International Business – Odd Words – A Poetic Geography Lesson – Botanists – TV Show “Me”

Allyson found the first Daily Double in “International Business” under the $1,200 clue on the 7th pick. She was in the lead with $9,000 now, $3,200 more than Nick in second place. She bet $2,500 and she was RIGHT.

In 1900 this Japanese company began producing upright pianos; motorcycles came along more than half a century later. show

WHAT IS YAMAHA?

Nick found the last Daily Double in “The March on Washington” under the $1,600 clue, with 11 clues left after it. In second place with $10,600, he had $3,700 less than Allyson’s lead. He bet $2,000 and had no guess so he was WRONG.

10 times Martin Luther King spoke these 3 words that end the first verse of “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” show

WHAT IS “LET FREEDOM RING”?

Allyson finished in the lead with $14,700. Nick was next with $11,800 and Martha was in third place with $9,800.

NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS NICK CHARLES?

The quote about Nick Charles’ rich wife and former profession in Dashiell Hammett’s “The Thin Man” (1934) specifies that it’s been 6 years since 1927. He says his father-in-law died a year after he married and left his wife “a lumber mill and narrow-gauge railroad and some others things and I quit the Agency to look after them.” In the 1934 “Thin Man” film, William Powell as Nick Charles pretty much says the same thing, only it’s four years since he quit being a detective. Another reference to his wife’s money in both book and movie is when she asks him why he doesn’t want to take the murder case. He says: “I’m too busy seeing you don’t lose the money I married you for.” Dashiell Hammett never wrote a sequel to the book, but the 1934 film was followed by 5 sequels.

From the 2018 Teacher’s Tournament: MYSTERIES & THRILLERS ($2000) “The Thin Man” by this author is about a former detective & his rich wife solving a murder amid high society

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Martha wrote down “Dick Tracy.” She lost her $7,000 bet and finished with $2,800.

Nick thought it was Sam Spade. That cost him $7,801 and left him $3,999.

Allyson didn’t have a response. She lost her modest $5,200 bet and won the game with $9,500. Allyson Samiljan is the new Jeopardy! champ.

2 triple stumpers from THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON:

($800) The organizers intended the March to bring attention to this bill, eventually signed by LBJ

($2000) One of the few female speakers at the event was this woman famous for her performances at the Folies-Bergere

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Americana”

The tiny town of Cayce, Kentucky was the home & supplied the nickname of a man famous in this job. show

WHAT IS AN ENGINEER?

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