Final Jeopardy: Broadway Musicals (11-7-18)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/7/2018) in the category “BROADWAY MUSICALS” was:
Winner of 6 Tonys in 2017, it’s the first Broadway musical to focus on the subject of teens & social media
The 2018 Teen Tournament kicks off today with the first quarter-final match. Here are today’s contestants: Emma Arnold, a junior from Owing Mills, MD; Anish Maddipoti, a junior from Austin, TX; and Maya Wright, a senior from Peachtree City, GA.
Round 1 Categories: Young Adult Reading – Sports Abbrev. – On the Calendar – We Walked to School – It was 10 Miles – In the “Snow”
Anish found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “We Walk to School” under the $400 clue on the 5th pick of the round. He was in second place with $600, $400 less than Maya in second place. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
The promenade down Volunteer Blvd., of course, led me to the University of this state. show
Maya finished in the lead with $6,600. Anish was second with $6,200 and Emma was last with $2,200.
Round 2 Categories: Please Welcome Myth Greece – Teen Math – A Word of Advice – Quoting the Movies – Oops on Stamps – Coming of Age
Anish found the first Daily Double in “Teen Math” under the $1,600 clue on the 7th pick. He was in second place with $6,600 now, $4,000 less than Maya’s lead. He bet $3,000 and thought it was Fibonacci. That was WRONG.
In 1952 an early computer was used to discover the 13th Mersenne one of these numbers. show
Emma found the last Daily Double in “Coming of Age” under the $2,000 clue, with 9 clues left after it. In second place with $9,000, she had $3,600 less than Maya’s lead. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
For warships, the Iron Age began at the same time as the Age of this type of power. show
Maya finished in the lead with $18,200. Emma was next with $15,400 and Anish was in third place with $6,400.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
The New York Times gave high marks in particular to Ben Platt for his performance in the title role of “Dear Evan Hansen” as a social misfit who becomes a local hero through a deception that ends up going viral. Platt won one of the 6 Tonys referred to in the clue. See the complete list of 2017 Tony winners on Playbill.
This is the second clue for this musical. The first was in the third semi-final of the 2017 ToC that featured David Clemmons, Alan Lin and Austin Rogers: BROADWAY 2017 $1600: Ben Platt won the 2017 Tony for his performance as a high school senior coping with a classmate’s death in this hit musical. – Austin got it.
Anish wrote down 3 letters “h-a-something.” He lost his $2,800 bet, leaving him $3,600.
Emma got it right. She bet $3,000, bringing her up to $18,400.
Maya got it, too. She bet $8,000 and won the first semi-final spot with $26,200.
2 triple stumpers from the last round:
TEEN MATH ($1200) It’s (13 + 14) x 15 (calculator)
A WORD OF ADVICE ($1600) Beginning & ending with “M”, it’s a wise saying or rule of conduct
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Americana.” This was also the first quarter-final of the 2016 Teen Tournament.
It was constructed in the Paris foundry of Gaget, Gauthier & Co. From 1875 to 1884. show
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I loved the soundtrack to dear evan hansen
Wow, I have a feeling that the winner of the 2018 Teen Tournament will be a woman. It’s off to a great start with two young women get an automatic entry to semis, but just as the election, it is “TOO EARLY TO CALL”. As Alex said, he’ll spend the next two weeks with the “future leaders of our country”, and he’s right.
All of these 15 teens will see and inherit the next two weeks, and even after this 2018 Teen Tournament, a divided Congress with a Republican Senate and a Democratic House. Get ready for more fun in the coming days, and the next two years of high-stakes political drama.
Emma wins the first wild card spot and one semifinalist. Looking good for the ladies. Also.I didn’t get Anish’s response in final. But glad to see this broadway play in final once again. John and VJ what do you guys think Anish was going for? Also did your schools host dear evan hansen back then?
Read the FJ clue again, Lou. They didn’t have social media when I was in school. They didn’t even have electric typewriters. lol
LINK: 10 more clues from the game
Very bad day for Anish so he’s out.
it was a pretty good day for me. We went to the thrift shop and found a bunch of stuff we didn’t even know we wanted. One of them was an Operation game, Minions edition
@VJ
Same here. I was fighting with the ribbons on an ols Remington . Feels just like yesterday, BUT….that was 1965…..Back then you were awed when you saw a teletype machine with that long yellow strip where the holes were punched in, so the typewriter would rattle that off really fast (today it would be slow motion…) You probably see those teletype things only at the SMITHSONIAN anymore!Most likely in the AC (Antique Communication) department.
Enjoy the early years, Lou. Once you are my age you will not even have to talk to a computer anymore, you’ll have a gadget where you just think and the email or whatever it will be called is sent…..If you had told somebody 50 years ago what will be available today they would have locked you up in a nut farm..😊😊😊😊😊😊😊.
@Lou
When I went to school, Levenson was not even born yet….😊
Generation thing….I’ll hit 71 in December.
@Lou What years do ladies win the Teen Tournament. 2018 is “the year of the woman”, and I hope it will be THAT year.
Talk about a blind squirrel….(me). I had no idea. Congrats to Maya, strong performance by the ladies.
PS
From 2 years ago: how can you not get the SoL from that clue???
Maybe if they would have also mentioned that it was built by Eiffel…..?