Final Jeopardy: Stage Musical Settings (10-28-24)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/28/2024) in the category “Stage Musical Settings” was:
Turned into a Nazi headquarters in 1933, the nightspot Eldorado is said to have inspired this fictional place
4x champ Will Wallace, a game design director from Austin, TX, has 4 games and $79,998 to his credit. In Game 5, he is up against: Ian Taylor, a food sales rep orig. from Cleveland, OH; and Heather Ryan, a health program director from Binghamton, NY.
Round 1 Categories: World History – Books & Arthurs – On the “D-E-L” – Complete the Rhyming Phrase – Advertising – Musical Nicknames
Ian found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “World History” under the $800 on the 6th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $2,400, $1,400 more than Will in second place. Ian bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
This collective defense treaty between 8 nations was signed in Poland in 1955 show
Ian finished in the lead with $4,600. Heather was second with $3,600 and Will was last with $1,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Extreme Canada – Exclamations! – Mythological Resumes – Medical Matters – Caution – Compound Word Construction Zone
Will found the first Daily Double in “Caution” under the $1,600 clue on the 6th pick of the round. He was in last place with $4,000, $7,200 less than Ian’s lead. Will bet $2,000 and was thisclose but the letter he ended with made it WRONG.
Unexplored parts on some old maps could be designated with pictures of monsters & this 2-word Latin designation show
Ian found the last Daily Double in “Extreme Canada” under the $800 clue with 7 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $14,800, $7,000 more than Heather in second place. Ian bet $1,000 and went with the Pacific Ocean. That was WRONG.
Draining an area the size of Mexico, the MacKenzie River system, Canada’s longest, flows 2,635 miles into this body of water show
Ian finished in the lead with $17,400. Heather was second with $9,800 and Will was last with $8,000. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS THE KIT KAT CLUB?
El Dorado was the name of various cabarets in Berlin, Germany prior to the Nazis rise to power. Christopher Isherwood was a gay English writer who moved to Berlin during this time, attracted by the free-wheeling lifestyle. However, when the Nazi took over, these venues were shut down and people with alternate lifestyles were persecuted.
Isherwood fled back to Britain where he wrote “Goodbye, Berlin” (1939), a fictional account of his life in Berlin from 1929-32. The novel became the basis for a Broadway play “I Am a Camera” (1951), and a musical “Cabaret” (1966). Both were made into films. The Kit Kat Klub stands in for the Eldorado in “Cabaret”. A new production called “Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club” has been making the rounds since 2021 and is currently playing at the August Wilson Theatre on Broadway.
Will thought it might be Rick’s (from Casablanca). He lost $7,998 and finished with $2.00.
Heather got it right. She bet it all and doubled her score to $19,600.
Ian also got it right. He bet $2,201 and won the game with $19,601. Ian Taylor is the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round. (Please don’t put the answers in the comments)
EXTREME CANADA ($1600) This 19,551-foot peak in Kluane National Park bears the name of the founder of the Geological Survey of Canada
($2000) At 83 degrees 7 minutes north latitude, Canada’s most northerly point is Cape Columbia on this island in Nunavut territory
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “PLACES IN AMERICAN HISTORY”
A Native American story says this creek got its name from an injury suffered by a Sioux warrior in a fight with the Crow show
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FJ was a cinch–IF you knew the musical and the name of the club.
What a great game! Ian really should have had a lock game, but he boo-booed too many times down the stretch, including that not-too-difficult oceanic DD. Earlier I was holding my breath wondering if he’d come up with the Polish treaty. Tough break for Will on that near-miss DD.
Three ultra-smart people didn’t know which months have 30 days?
Mythology definitely not my thing, but somehow I guessed Ra’s poisoner.
It could have been worse, Howard. Imagine if someone thought Ian’s answer was just missing the last part of that rhyme that starts with “all the rest have 31”
Ian squeaked through by a mere dollar in becoming the new Jeopardy champion. Congratulations to Ion! Yes, it was another fabulous game, and I performed above average in the game. As for the FJ, I didn’t have a clue as I was never a fan of the musicals.
2/3 on DD and got FJ. I think that these two were actual competition, and Will couldn’t dance.