Final Jeopardy: Contemporary Authors (11-9-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/9/2022) in the category “Contemporary Authors” was:
A trip to El Paso with his young son & wondering what the city might look like years in the future inspired a novel by this author
In the first semifinal match of the 2022 Tournament of Champions, the players are: Amy Schneider, a writer from Oakland, CA; Maureen O’Neil, an executive assistant from Cambridge, MA; and Tyler Rhode, a director at a start-up from New York, NY.
Round 1 Categories: Supreme Court Cases – Shakespeare Just Kills Me – Chess for Champs – Travel – I’m “En” It! – Stanford Athletics
Amy found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Supreme Court Cases” under the $400 clue with 8 clues left after it. She was in the lead with $7,200, $3,200 more than Tyler in second place. Amy bet $4,000 and she was RIGHT.
2022’s West Virginia v. this Federal agency went in favor of West Virginia show
Amy finished in the lead with $12,600. Tyler was in second place with $4,200 and Maureen was last with $400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: River Run – Geology – 3-Named People – International Film Style – Frontier Folk – Onomatopoeia
Maureen found the first Daily Double in “River Run” under the $800 clue with 6 clues left after it. She was in last place with $3,600, $13,800 less than Amy’s lead. Maureen bet $3,000, but could only think of one river. An incomplete response is WRONG.
Rivers that border Manhattan include the East River & these 2 “H” rivers show
Amy got the last Daily Double in “Frontier Folk” under the $800 clue with 3 clues left after it. In the lead with $18,200, $12,000 more than Tyler in second place. Amy bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.
In 1874 this frontier dentist lost his practice in Dallas because his coughing alarmed patients show
Amy finished in the lead with $19,600. Tyler was in second place with $7,000 and Maureen was last with $600. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS CORMAC McCARTHY?
“The Road” (2006) is a post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son who are among the survivors of a catastophe that has pretty much destroyed the world. At about 3:40 in the above video, Cormac McCarthy tells Oprah Winfrey how he was inspired to write “The Road” while his son John was sleeping during a 2003 trip to El Paso: “I just had this image of what this town might look like in 50 or 100 years… this image of these fires up on the hill and everything being laid waste and I thought a lot about my little boy.” He wrote a couple of pages in his notebook and later realized that this was a book he had to finish. “The Road” won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007. Viggo Mortensen starred in the 2009 film adaptation with a screenplay written by Joe Penhall.
Maureen didn’t have a response. She didn’t bet anything, standing pat on $600.
Tyler got it right. He didn’t bet anything either for a $7,000 finish.
Amy also got it right. She bet $64 and won the game with $19,664. Amy advances to the finals. Maureen and Tyler go home with $10,000 each.
Reversal: SHAKESPEARE JUST KILLS ME ($2000) This title guy kills Lavinia, stabs Tamora, gets killed by Saturninus, who in turn is whacked by Lucius, the said title guy’s son – Ken didn’t catch Tyler adding an extra D to Titus Andronicus, but the judges did.
3 triple stumpers from 3-NAMED PEOPLE:
($800) Many students learn the history of African Americans from John Hope Franklin’s antonym-titled history “From ____ to ____”
($1200) She’s the first black woman on the Supreme Court & the first justice to have been a Federal public defender
($2000) This 3-named naturalist came up with the natural selection theory around the same time as Darwin, spurring Darwin to go public
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Word Origins”
The word for a type of building or institution comes from Greek for a place sacred to a mythical group of 9 show
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Guessed right on FJ because that’s the first author I could think of with a connection to Texas (“No Country for Old Men”). Then I thought it might be the “Lonesome Dove” author (McMurtry) but couldn’t think of his name in time.
Only stumpers I knew were the city in the Dobbs case and the name of the black SC justice. She’s so recent that they all should have known her.
Wow, did Maureen look like she got outclassed in this game. That was something for her to say that, herself, though. So, good on her.
I think Matt was just goofing around in the exhibition, so, it will be something to see if he steamrolls over the other two tomorrow. Likewise, on Friday, I certainly hope that Eric and Andrew have what it takes to beat you know who.
Way more triple stumpers than I thought there would be! One of the ones I got was the one about The Bells. That part is about the brazen bells.
Yes, but on the other hand, those triple stumpers weren’t exactly a piece of cake either. One of the Jeopardy answers was something in Italian, and I managed to get the question (Spaghetti Western) before Amy responded (and she is obviously quick on the draw).
Amy was pretty dominant in this game after that warm up march yesterday. I can say for sure she has a very good chance in the finals. Good game by Tyler as well.
And then there were 7.