Final Jeopardy: Play Characters (2-23-22)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (2/23/2022) in the category “Play Characters” was:

A 1949 review noted the “wrong formulas for success” of this character & “fatal misconceptions about his place in the scheme of things”

2x champ Henry Rozycki, a physician and professor from Richmond, VA has now won $27,301. In Game 3, he is up against: Patrick Byrnett, a school administrator from Alexandria, VA; and Christine Whelchel, a piano teacher & church organist from Spring Hill, TN.

Round 1 Categories: Highways & Byways – There’s an Animal in that Title – Broom Service – Musical Styles & Genres – Putting the Carbs – before the Horse

Henry found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Highways & Byways” under the $800 clue with 4 clues left after it. He was in second place with $4,400, $1,600 less than Christine’s lead. Henry bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.

Gulag labor was used to build this 7,000-mile highway with the same name as a famous railroad show

WHAT IS THE TRANS-SIBERIAN HIGHWAY?

Christine finished in the lead with $8,000. Henry was second with $5,800 and Patrick was last with $2,000. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: Notable People – Science – Country Nicknames – Are You Smarter than a 1905 5th Grader? – Child Actors – from P to Y

Christine found the first Daily Double in “Notable People” under the $1,200 clue on the 13th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $14,000, $4,200 more than Henry in second place. Christine bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.

On her death in 2005, this Civil Rights activist became the first woman to lie in honor in the U.S. capitol show

WHO IS ROSA PARKS?

3 clues later, Christine got the last Daily Double in “Country Nicknames” under the $1,600 clue. She was in the lead with $18,200 now, $8,400 more than Henry in second place. Christine bet $2,000 and guessed Bangladesh. That was WRONG.

Don’t be sad; this country is known as “India’s Teardrop” show

WHAT IS SRI LANKA?

Christine finished in the lead with $19,000. Henry was second with $17,000 and Patrick was last with $8,800. All clues were shown.

ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS WILLY LOMAN?

Brooks Atkinson’s review of Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Death of a Salesman” literally itemizes the factors in the life of Willy Loman, the title salesman, that add up to Loman’s final solution to what he feels was a wasted life.

Lee J. Cobb originated the role of Willy Loman on Broadway in 1949. There were 4 revivals after that, with: George C. Scott in 1975; Dustin Hoffman in 1984; Brian Dennehy in 1999; and Philip Seymour Hoffman in 2012. There have been Jeopardy! clues on each of these actors in connection with the Willy Loman role.

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Patrick bet it all and doubled his score to $17,600.

Henry bet it all, too. That brought him up to $34,000.

Christine bet $15,000 and finished with $34,000, the same as Henry, and it was Tiebreaker Time.

The first to buzz in on this clue in “Flowers” will win the $34,000:

After its inclusion in a 1915 poem, this red flower became a symbol of fallen World War I soldiers

Christine buzzed in with the correct response: POPPIES from the poem “In Flanders Fields” by John McRae That makes Christine Whelchel the new Jeopardy!champ.

A triple stumper from each round:

PUTTING THE CARBS ($1000) In an ad, young Molly Ringwald hawked this fruit, “nature’s candy”, but didn’t say 1/4 cup had about 33 grams of carbs!

COUNTRY NICKNAMES ($800) Indonesia has been dubbed the “Emerald” of this great circle

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “International Sports”

It’s the only country that has played in every FIFA World Cup tournament, winning 5 times show

WHAT IS BRAZIL?

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