Final Jeopardy: Literary Geography (11-28-23)
The Final Jeopardy question (11/28/2023) in the category “Literary Geography” was:
This State Univ.’s Writers’ Workshop has had famous alumni who wrote about the state, like Jane Smiley & W.P. Kinsella
Today is the final match of the Champions Wildcard Tournament (Clubs). The contestants have the amounts shown after their names to add to what they accumulate today: Jen Jazwinski, ($5,600); Dennis Chase, ($3,000); and Nick Cascone, ($9,300). There are no losers– by the end of this game, we will have 3 winners.
Round 1 Categories: Writers’ Words – Seconds – Slinging Arrows – A Capital Idea? – The Department of Homeland Security – Foreign Language
Nick found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Seconds” under the $600 clue on the 9th pick of the round. He was tied for second place with Jen at $800, $1,800 less than Dennis’ lead. Nick bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
Henry VIII secretly married this second wife in 1533, after she got pregnant show
Dennis finished in the lead with $7,200. Nick was in second place with $5,800. Jen was last with $1,600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Remember the Mane – Name that 1990s Year – Stardust – Flower Power – Peace, Love & Understanding – 4 N Language
Jen found the first Daily Double in “Flower Power” under the $1,600 clue on the 2nd pick of the round. She was in last place with $2,800, $4,400 less than Dennis’ lead. Jen made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
Austria’s national flower is this one that Rogers and Hammerstein described as “small and white, clean and bright” show
Jen got the last Daily Double in “Stardust” under the $1,600 clue on the 5th pick of the round. She was in second place with $6,800, $200 less than Nick’s lead. Jen bet $5,000 but drew a blank so she was WRONG.
A faint constellation in the northern sky, Camelopardalis, represents this animal show
Dennis finished in the lead with $16,400. Nick was in second place with $14,600. Jen was last with $3,800. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS IOWA?
The Iowa Writers’ Workshop is a prestigious graduate-level creative writing program, formally existing since 1936. Graduates earn a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree. Many famous writers have served on its faculty and the program has produced many award-winning writers.
Canadian writer W.P. Kinsella graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1978. His 1982 novel “Shoeless Joe Jackson” is set in Iowa and is the source for the Kevin Costner film “Field of Dreams” (1989).
American writer Jane Smiley earned her MFA in 1976. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her Iowa-set novel “A Thousand Acres” (1991). The 1997 film based on the novel starred Michelle Pfeiffer and Jessica Lange.
Jen got it right. She bet it all and doubled her score to $7,600. Yesterday’s $5,600 brought her up to $13,200.
Nick also got it right. He bet it all and doubled his score to $29,200. He had $9,300 from yesterday to add in so he finished with $38,500.
Dennis thought it was SUNY. He lost his $11,500, which left him with $4,900. His $3,000 from yesterday was added in and he landed in third place with $7,900.
Nick won the grand prize of $100,000. Jen won $50,000 and Dennis won $25,000. The 4th Champions Wild Card Tournament begins tomorrow.
A triple stumper from each round:
A CAPITAL IDEA? ($1000) A vacuum cleaner salesman & spy named Jim Wormold is the protagonist of this Graham Greene novel
4 N LANGUAGE ($2000) Inopportune or untimely, like the title “Woman” in a Dominick Dunne novel
2 years ago: NEITHER of the 2 contestants left got this FJ in “World Capitals”
An annual event called Winterlude includes skating on the Rideau Canal, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in this city show
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I only heard of the Iowa Workshop because of the show “Girls”.
And I didnt like the final DD about the giraffe. It felt like quite a stretch to deduce it from elephant/leopard.
Congrats to Nick! He was solid throughout! #LFGM
Props to my fellow Queens guy Nick. I got FJ only because I knew “Field of Dreams” locale. As Lawrence said, this would be hard to figure out if you didn’t know either association.
I know nil about Jane Smiley, including her name. However, WP Kinsella – Field of Dreams – “Is this heaven?” “No, it’s Iowa!” However, it is only dumb luck that I looked at his Wikpedia page somewhat recently. (If Field of Dreams, or The Natural is on, I’m watching it – again. Period.)
Good on the players realizing that “this is it”. Sitting at home, it bugs me when a contestants not in the lead doesn’t wager to at least tie, rationalizing that they will 1. ring in and 2. get the clue right for those that are left. And, it’s “go big or go home”. Worked for James Holzhauer and Cris Pannullo.
Congrats to Nick. He looks the part. I notice Dennis went with a 4 in hand tie today, vice the bow tie yesterday!
The chance Nick took paid off, and he is the 1st 1-Day Champion in a Tournament of Champions in “Jeopardy!” History.
I don’t love that FJ clue for being such an important. It’s too easy but also a little too specialized imo. If you know those books or movie adaptations, it’s automatic. If not, you’re probably lost. The best FJs have multiple ways to deduce the answer. Would be okay for a regular game, but not the final of a big tournament imo.
Congratulations to Nick, our third Champions Wildcard champion. He is heading to the Tournament of Champions. If you remember Jilana and Nick in their first appearance, they met for the first time and Nick was a strong player and quicker on the signaling device and won his first game and that was his only win in his original run. Jilana came back for Second Chance and won that and she made it to the finals of Champions Wildcard as well and was the second runner-up. Now Nick won this Champions Wildcard and he was as strong as Jilana was and he matched Jilana’s performance. Both Jilana and Nick has won their respective tournaments. First Jilana in the Second Chance and now Nick in the Champions Wildcard.