Final Jeopardy: From Screen to Stage (2-17-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (2/17/2020) in the category “From Screen to Stage” was:

This 2007 movie came to Broadway with an all-female creative team including book & direction and with songs by pop star Sara Bareilles

New champ Terry Heard Jr, an aircraft maintainer from Akron, OH, won $17,663 last Friday. In Game 2, he is up against: Tom Ellison, business manager from Brooklyn, NY; and MacKenzie Jones, a program development director from Tulsa, OK.

Round 1 Categories: Jackal – Hyde – 3-word Book Titles by Middle Word – Survivor – Beard Man – Rhyme Fighter

Terry found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Hyde” under the $800 clue on the 10th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $3,200, $1,200 more than MacKenzie in second place. “Everybody remembers what you did on Friday. You had more money,” Alex said. Terry said, “Let’s do it again.” He bet it all and he was RIGHT.

Ann Hyde was the mother of 2 British queens, Anne & this woman who married William III. show

WHO IS MARY?

Terry finished in the lead with $8,400. MacKenzie was second with $7,400 and Tom was last with $2,200.

Round 2 Categories: World Rivers – Act of Congress AKAs – Entertainment – The Not-So-Vicious Circle – Art Subjects – Hawaiian Crossword Clues

MacKenzie found the first Daily Double in “Art Subjects” under the $800 clue, with 11 clues to go after it. She was in the lead with $13,800, $2,600 more than Terry in second place. She bet a big $13,000 and she was RIGHT. Don’cha just love it?

Anna McNeill was arranged in grey & black for a work by this artist, her son. show

WHO IS JAMES WHISTLER?

The “less than a minute to go” warning was sounded 2 clues later with 9 clues still on the board. They only got to 3 more clues and none of them was last Daily Double. Boo hoo hoo!

MacKenzie finished in the lead with a runaway $26,400. Terry was next with $10,800 and Tom was in third place with $4,600.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS “WAITRESS”?

In a 2015 article on 90.9 WBUR (Boston’s NPR News Station), American Repertory Theater Artistic Director Diane Paulus shares the story of how the 2007 film “Waitress” evolved into a musical that made it to Broadway in 2016. She elaborates on how the film resonated with her and how she “found her composer/lyricist outside the musical theater world in Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter Sara Bareilles.” (Sarah just won a Grammy at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards on 1/26/2020 in Best American Roots Performance For “Saint Honesty”) Paulus also talks about Jessie Mueller, her lead actress who previously won a Tony for her portrayal of Carole King in “Beautiful.” Jessie was also nominated for a Tony for her performance in “Waitress.”

An old clue from 2011: MOVIE WAITRESSES ($1200) As Jenna in “Waitress”, this “Felicity” star served up pies at Joe’s Diner

Tom drew a blank and had no reponse. He lost his $4,337 bet and finished with $263.

Terry wrote down “What is the answer to this clue.” That only cost him $420, leaving him with $10,380.

MacKenzie got it right. She didn’t bet anything so she won the game with her pre-FJ runaway score of $26,400. MacKenzie Jones is the new Jeopardy! champ.

A triple stumper from each round:

ENTERTAINMENT ($1600) A resort area in the Catskills where many Jewish entertainers got their start had this alliterative nickname

THE NOT-SO-VICIOUS CIRCLE ($1600) 1989 film in which Keanu Reeves tells Alex Winter, “Strange things are afoot at the Circle K”

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: BOTH players left in FJ! got this clue in “The Supreme Court”

In the 1966 case of this man, Earl Warren wrote of eliminating “evils in the interrogation process” show

WHO IS MIRANDA?

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