Final Jeopardy: Contemporary Playwrights (11-12-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/12/2021) in the category “Contemporary Playwrights” was:
“The Murder of Gonzago” is used as a play within a 1966 play by this man who was inspired by Shakespeare
2x champ Andrew He, a software developer from San Francisco, CA won $72,301 in the last two days. In Game 3, he takes on these two players: Dorothy Lam Frey, a radiologist from Chicago, IL; and Brennan Harkin, a business analyst from Cambridge, MA.
Round 1 Categories: Good Deeds – 20th Century Fiction – Disney+ – Around the House – 200 Years Ago – American Heritage Dictionary Preferred Plurals
Dorothy got the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “20th Century Fiction” under the $400 clue on the 6th pick of the round. She was in second place with $200, $1,800 less than Andrew’s lead. Dorothy bet the $1,000 allowance but couldn’t come up with a response so she was WRONG.
William Peter Blatty really turned heads with this 1971 bestseller. show
Andrew finished in the lead with $10,000. Dorothy was second with $800. Brennan was last at negative $1,400. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: The Civil Rights Movement – Movies by Oscar-Winning Songs – Train Stations – Synonyms – Musical Instruments – “A” in Science
Andrew landed on the first Daily Double in “Train Stations” under the $1,600 clue on the 2nd pick. He was in first place with $12,000 now, $11,200 more than Dorothy in second place. Andrew bet $6,000 and went with Union Station. That was WRONG.
Now in mid-renovation, this historic Baltimore station has the same name as a NYC station that was famously demolished. show
Andrew selected the last Daily Double in “Synonyms” under the $1,600 clue on the 10th pick. In the lead with $12,800, he had $12,600 more than Brennan in second place. He bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.
This animal is a synonym for evasive or sneaky as it was thought to suck out the contents of an egg while leaving the shell intact. show
Andrew finished in the lead with a runaway $24,800. Brennan was second with $1,800 and Dorothy was last with $1,600. No clues went uncovered.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS TOM STOPPARD?
In the second Act of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, the title character rewrites part of “The Murder of Gonzaga” in an effort to “catch the conscience of a King”, and determine if Claudius, his uncle and now king, was responsible for the death of Hamlet’s father.
Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” premiered at the Edinburgh Festival in 1966. Stoppard offers a new take on the Gonzago play that involves the two title courtiers. Check out Interesting Literature for a quick summary of the absurdist play (with spoilers). It is one of Stoppard’s most well-known works but not the only one inspired by Shakespeare. He also co-wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay to “Shakespeare in Love” (1998) with Marc Norman.
Dorothy thought it was Arthur Miller. She lost her $1,000 bet and finished with $600.
Brennan went with Miller, too. That cost him $1,700 and left him with $100.
Andrew got it right and surprised Ken by betting a big $10,000. Andrew won this game with $34,800 and went over the $100K mark with a 3-day total of $107,101.
2 triple stumpers from MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONGS:
($1600) 1972: “The Morning After”, from this disaster film
($2000) “Thanks for the Memory”, from “The Big” this “of 1938”
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Literary Characters”
From an 1894 work, his name literally translates to “Tiger King” show
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Andrew scored another runaway today since his opponents couldn’t catch him. He was pretty quick on the buzzer so far.
Andrew got the final tonight, as did I.