Final Jeopardy: Musical Theater (11-22-22)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/22/2022) in the category “Musical Theater” was:

The pair at the center of tumult in this long running show were originally to be a Jewish girl & a Catholic boy

11x champ Cris Pannullo, a customer success operations manager from Ocean City, NJ, had won $356,702 when last seen in October. In Game 12, he takes on these two players: David Stiasny, a pediatrician from Highland Park, IL; and Etienne LePine, a software engineer from Lafayette, CO

Round 1 Categories: Health & Medicine – Soccer’s World Cup in the 21st Century – Rhyming Phrases – Who Lives in… – A Pineapple – Under the “C”

David found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Who Lives In…” under the $1,000 clue on the 17th pick of the round. He was in second place with $5,400, $2,000 less than Cris’ lead. David bet $2,600 and tried Belgrade. That was WRONG.

This European city? Bosco Ntaganda, convicted of 18 counts of war crimes & crimes against humanity show

WHAT IS THE HAGUE?

Cris finished in the lead with $8,800. David was second with $4,400 and Etienne was last with $1,200. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: That Was Quite a Year – Stories of the South – RSVP to My Political Party – Buildings – Batman Villains – Vocabulary Words

Etienne found the first Daily Double in “RSVP To My Political Party” under the $800 clue on the 5th pick. She was last place with $2,400, $9,600 less than Cris’ lead. Etienne made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.

My name is Alexander Hamilton, & I helped form this party in the early 1790s show

WHAT ARE THE FEDERALISTS?

Cris got the last Daily Double in “That Was Quite a Year” under the $1,600 clue on the 14th pick of the round. In first place with $17,200, he had $9,600 more than Etienne in second place. Cris bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.

King John okays the Magna Carta; King John appeals to the Pope against the Magna Carta; King John has a year left to live show

WHAT IS 1215?

Cris finished in the lead with a runaway $29,400. David was in second place with $10,400 and Etienne was last with $8,400. All clues were shown.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS “WEST SIDE STORY”?

Broadway director Jerome Robbins got the idea in 1947 to stage a musical based on star-crossed lovers à la Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”. His intended protagonists were an Italian-Catholic boy and a Jewish girl who fall in love on the lower East Side, rival gangs (the Jets vs. the Emeralds) included. He collaborated with Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Laurent, but the project never got off the ground. It was decided that it would come off as another “Abie’s Irish Rose” ripoff, a 1920s play about a Jewish boy and Irish-Catholic girl, who first meet in France during WWI.

Years later, a newspaper article about Puerto Rican youth gangs inspired Bernstein and Laurents to rework the project with Italians vs. Puerto Ricans, discarding the religious differences for more current social issues. The rival gangs became the Jets vs. the Sharks. The musical debuted on Broadway in 1957.

Learn More: 7 Jewish Facts about West Side Story

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Etienne got it right. She bet it all and doubled her score to $16,800.

David came up with “Fiddler on the Roof”. That cost him $6,401 and left him with $3,999.

Cris thought it was “Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding”. He lost $5,221 but won the game with the remaining $24,179. His 12-day total is $380,881.

2 triple stumpers from THAT WAS QUITE A YEAR:

($800) Rhode Island is the first colony to nix its British allegiance; Goethe publishes “Stella” long before Tennessee Williams

($1200) The Six-Day War is fought; “The Dirty Dozen” is onscreen; the 25th Amendment is ratified

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “French Literature”

An 1862 novel says this character “would have arrested his own father…and would have denounced his mother” show

WHO IS JAVERT?

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