Final Jeopardy: Authors (10-26-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/26/2021) in the category “Authors” was:
These 2 men who both died in Boston in the mid-20th century each won 4 Pulitzers, one man for poetry & the other for drama
11x champ Jonathan Fisher, an actor from Coral Gables, FL has now won $246,100. In Game 12, the opponents are: Nancy Donehower, a retired college admissions counselor from Portland, OR; and Mandela Namaste, a writer from Williamsville, NY.
Round 1 Categories: The U.K. since 1945 – Songs to Jingles – Car Parts, Apart from Cars – TV Show Opening Credits – Literary Journalism – Fill Out Your “W”2
Jonathan got the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Fill Out Your ‘W’2” under the $800 clue on the 15th pick. Jonathan was in the lead with $4,600 now, $2,400 more than Nancy in second place. He bet $2,000 but couldn’t come up with a response so he was WRONG.
A lawyer in court using this 2-syllable word is basically saying, “Forget what I just said.” show
Nancy finished in the lead with $5,200. Mandela was in second with $3,400 and Jonathan was last with $2,800. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: Federal Agencies – Boredom – When Bay Is on the Map – Foreign Language Films – Bible Numbers – The End of the World
Mandela landed on the first Daily Double in “Boredom” under the $2,000 clue with 10 clues left after it. Mandela was in last place with $5,400, $5,800 less than Jonathan’s lead. He bet $3,000 but couldn’t come up with a response so he was WRONG.
A state of boredom, or an equatorial region where the trade winds cancel each other out, leaving sailors becalmed & bored. show
On the last clue, Nancy landed on the last Daily Double in “Bible Numbers” under the $2,000 clue. She was in the lead with $12,400 at this crucial point, $3,200 more than Jonathan in second place. She bet $2,000 and guessed 300. That was WRONG.
As depicted in Genesis, there were this many people on Noah’s Ark during the flood. show
Nancy finished in the lead with $10,400. Jonathan was in second with $9,200 and Mandela was last with $6,000. No clues went uncovered.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO ARE ROBERT FROST & EUGENE O’NEILL?
The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry was first given out in 1922 and, in 1924, Robert Frost was the third poet to be honored for “New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes” He won 3 more Pulitzers: 1930 (“Collected Poems”) and 1937 (“A Further Range”); and 1943’s “A Witness Tree”. Frost is the only poet to win 4 Pulitzers. Frost came in at No. 2 on this list of the 10 Most Famous Poets from the United States
The first Pulitzer Prize for Drama was awarded in 1918. In 1920, Eugene O’Neill became the second playwright to win the prize for “Beyond the Horizon”. He won two more Pulitzers in that same decade: 1922 (“Anna Christie”) and 1928 (“Strange Interlude”). O’Neill died in 1953 in a hotel in Boston that some people believe he still haunts. He won his 4th Pulitzer posthumously for “Long Day’s Journey into Night” in 1957.
Robert Sherwood is the only other person to have won 4 Pulitzer Prizes up to this date.
Mandela bet $5,000, bringing his score up to $11,000.
Jonathan bet it all and doubled his score to $18,400.
Nancy bet $9,000 and won the game with $19,400. Nancy Donehower is the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
CAR PARTS, APART FROM CARS ($800) It’s another word for a wool scarf
WHEN BAY IS ON THE MAP ($2000) Oh, to live on Sugarloaf Mountain, overlooking the entrance of this Brazilian bay
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Female Music Superstars”
With more than 30 Top 10 albums since 1963, this singer-actress ranks No. 1 among the Billboard 200’s Greatest Women Artists of All Time show
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The category yesterday about boredom seems to include a subjective element inconsistent with objective criteria for factual knowledge. The 1950’s were not objectively boring. They have been studied assiduously and influenced profoundly all that followed. Civil rights as a political focus began in earnest. 4/11/54 is within the period that the country was mesmerized by the demise of Joseph McCarthy.
Congrats to Nancy, my fellow Portlander! She was cool and unruffled all the way through. A couple of wrong answers felled Jonathan, just as it did Matt. I got the Final but it was a guess all the way.
I am incredibly impressed that all 3 got the Final. I had Frost and Arthur Miller. I had no idea that Miller lived to 2005.
I read The Iceman Cometh but i found it depressing. It was a bunch of losers sitting at a bar all day, talking about their big plans, but never doing anything.
Can anybody recommend a non depressing Eugene Oneill play i can read?
So disappointed that jeopardy was pre-empted by debate.
Very, very annoying that we didn’t have Jeopardy here tonight because of a mayoral debate that I have no interest in whatsoever.
Sometimes television stations will run JEOPARDY! when preempted in the wee hours next day. I know the Boston mayoral debate was Monday night on WCVB-TV 5 there for one hour but what city do you happen to be in please? I am in Maryland though born in Boston.
I’m in NYC. Sometimes they will air it in the middle of the n ight if it gets pre-empted but for some reason my DVR won’t record it at any other time than its regular time slot.
Well, my absolute favorite triple stumper of all time is now Jonathan’s response to another word for a wool scarf. I told Nikki that from now on, I’m gonna call a wool scarf a fender. She laughed at me and said there won’t be many chances for that since nobody down here ever wears them. 🤣🤣🤣
Seriously, that was a great response. I think Jonathan thought that one of the answers in that category had to be fender and that’s why he blurted it out, sorta like that time there was a poetry category and one of the contestants was sure one of the answers was going to be John Keats. If I recall correctly, that cost him the value of 3 clues and Keats never did show up.
Hey, VJ —we were talking about the Beatles the other day and today I happened upon this article (maybe you have seen it already). It’s about one of my favorite Beatles songs and, if I remember correctly, you like it too.
Thanks for the article, Cece. Yes, you remember correctly. I do like Eleanor Rigby and it’s great that Paul McCartney actually wrote that article and shared some of these memories of his youth in Liverpool.
On that picture of him with John and George pre-Beatles — I was talking to my son about the Hottest Male Singers article I wrote. He knows I wasn’t a big Beatles fan and wondered why I put 3 of them in the ’60s. I told him I had to because they were *that* popular in the ’60s. Teenage girls went wild over them.
My son said that he always thought Paul McCartney looked like he was lost. Now, whenever I see a picture of young Paul, I can’t help thinking that’s so true. 🤣🤣🤣
That’s a funny observation about Paul, lol. Can you imagine someone saying that in the ’60s to these teenage girls?
Nope. lol. All those years, that’s the first time I ever heard it and it’s so spot on, imo, that I’m surprised no one ever said it before. It’s the wide-eyed ‘where the hell am I’ look? ha ha ha
Back then, parents said a lot of stuff to their little teeny boppers, esp about their hair although there were a lot longer and messier versions on the way.
John had a great 11 game run as we welcome him into the tournament of Champions. 200K is quite an accomplishment. I doubt nancy will get another win but still good to see another. Triple solve today in final. Speakimg of Eugene O’Neill there is a theater center in Waterford, Connecticut named after him. VJ if you are interested feel free to visit it whenever you get a chance.
3 more DDs were missed as we got another skunking this week. The daily doubles were not nice to anybody today.
I’m so sorry that Jonathan Fisher lost.
The last time back-to-back regular play games saw the Daily Doubles go 0-for-3: December 23-24, 2019. I also wonder if Nancy will win a second game to keep the streak since Nikole. Nikole beat 7 day champ Courtney Shah on July 7, then two weeks later Matt Amodio emerged.
I am sure that Richard Corliss or William Weyser would say darn those daily doubles.
I’m not repeating what I said yesterday, but it’s true.
Well Jonathan didn’t win but I am still happy Nancy still made it luckily into this point. There were 3 triple solves so far this week, making it a good week so far. I sure do hope Nancy will cover 3 more wins because of her win and if she does, she will also be in the ToC Tracker.
Perhaps you know something the rest of us don’t, because today is Tuesday and there have been only two shows aired. I thought you needed 5 wins to make the ToC, but perhaps four puts you on the radar. I imagine there have been some participants with four wins over the years.