Final Jeopardy: 1950s People (12-30-19)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (12/30/2019) in the category “1950s People” was:

In a New Yorker profile, he said, “Where I like it is out west in Wyoming, Montana, & Idaho, & I like Cuba & Paris”

2x champ Karen Farrell, a political consultant from Woodbridge, VA, won $35,601 last week. In Game 3, her opponents are: Scott Firestone, a web developer from Denver, CO; and Ilene Lederman, a band director from Boynton Beach, FL.

Round 1 Categories: Fashion Brands – TV Movies – Behind the Literature – Famous Women – “C_ment” – Pond

Karen found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Behind the Literature” under the $600 clue on the very first pick of the round. Of course, she bet the $1,000 allowance and she was RIGHT.

Kevin Kwan said he based this 2013 bestseller on the Kwan, Oh & Hu families. show

WHAT IS “CRAZY RICH ASIANS”?

Karen finished in the lead with $9,200. Ilene was second with $3,400 and Scott was last with $2,000.

Round 2 Categories: The Quotable Ralph Waldo Emerson – Edible Pop Culture – Space Science – Theater Terminology – 17th Century History – Word Origins

Karen found the first Daily Double in “17th Century History” under the $1,600 clue on the second pick. She was in the lead with $10,400 now, $7,000 more than Ilene in second place. She bet $3,000 and she was a bit off on the end of it so her response was WRONG.

This Virginia Native American died in 1618 but wars that bore his name were fought on & off between 1622 & 1646. show

WHO IS POWHATAN?
Karen said PowhatoA

Karen found the last Daily Double in “Space Science” under the $1,200 clue, with 8 clues left after it. In the lead with $18,600, she had $11,600 more than Ilene in second place. She bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.

Named for the man who first observed them, the “Galilean Satellites” are the 4 largest moons of this planet. show

WHAT IS JUPITER?

Karen finished with a runaway $20,400. Ilene was next with $7,000 and Scott was in third place with $2,000.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS ERNEST HEMINGWAY?

The quote in the clue comes from Lillian Ross’ very long 1950 New Yorker profile, after spending time with Ernest Hemingway on his way through New York. The cluewriters left “and around Venice” out of the statement. At the time, Hemingway mainly resided in Cuba. He would write “The Old Man and the Sea” the following year. The Cuba-set story earned him a Pulitzer in 1953 and contributed to his getting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. Hemingway bought a home in Ketchum, Idaho in 1959. That is where he took his own life on July 2, 1961.

His connection to Paris was memorialized in “A Moveable Feast,” a memoir of his years as a young writer in 1920s Paris. It was published posthumously, based on his notebooks and manuscripts.

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Scott thought it was Jack Kerouac. He lost his $500 bet and finished with $1,500.

Ilene came up with John Wayne. She lost $2,999, dropping her down to $4,001.

Karen got it right. She bet $1,600, winning the game with $22,000 even. Her 3-day total is $57,601.

A triple stumper from each round:

TV MOVIES ($800) One of Roger Moore’s final films was this 2017 TV remake, but Adam Rayner, not Roger, played Simon Templar

17TH CENTURY HISTORY ($400) This 1611 book had what were known as “He” & “She” editions, after variants in the last words of Ruth 3:15

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Places in 1950s News”

Pravda reported that Khrushchev, on his way to lunch, announced his decision to give this region to Ukraine. show

WHAT IS CRIMEA?

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