Final Jeopardy: Play Characters (2-23-22)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 2/23/2022 Jeopardy! game. Please don’t put the answers to these clues in the comments so people who missed the game can have a chance to answer them. It is okay to refer to them by category and clue value or by part of the clue.
BEFORE THE HORSE ($1000) It’s the fancier term for clockmaker
FROM P TO Y ($1600) Another word for treachery
Sneak Peek clues — THERE’S AN ANIMAL IN THAT TITLE
($200) By Hans Christian Andersen: “The Ugly ____”
($400) A thriller about an assassin: “The Day of the ____”
($600) By Steinbeck: “The Red ____”
($800) Set in India & the basis for a 2021 film: “The White ____”
($1000) A 1971 sequel: “____ Redux”
ANSWERS: show
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Would just “Loman” be an acceptable response without the first name? Because there are other Lomans in the play like Willy’s son Biff.
@karachi person, I would have to say just “Loman” would be acceptable based on this precedent: In the 2/28/2019 All Stars game, Alex Jacob just answered “Loman” to this Daily Double:
GO PLAY: At Circle in the Square in 1975, George C. Scott earned raves as this Arthur Miller character
You can see that on J-Archive in the Jeopardy! round. When they put part of the answer in parentheses (in this case, Willy), it means the contestant did not say that part.
thanks VJ.
Thank goodness for Fikklefame. After Round One, ABC broke in with a 25-minute report on Ukraine.
From what I saw earlier, this group was very strong.
Why Christine didn’t bet an extra $ makes no sense. She was fortunate.
I do remember Brooks Atkinson as the NY Times’ esteemed theater critic, but couldn’t come up with Loman. I recall seeing a televised production of “Death” many years ago. According to Wikipedia, it was in 1966 and starred Lee J Cobb.
@Howard, Yikes! I sure hope we don’t get preempted with news reports tomorrow!
Rod Steiger is another actor I consider to be in the same league as Lee J. Cobb and George C. Scott. Rod played Willy Loman in 1966 too in a TV production.
Based off of ongoing activity, I think there will be a lot of preemptions in the coming weeks…
Weird wager to tie instead of +$1. Contestants are surely allowed to calculate their wager. So wonder what happened.
This was a great ending to this game with the second tiebreaker since the national college championship. Christine was pretty quick on the buzzer today and she had great opponents. I think she might have what it takes to get a streak running. This has been a great finish so far.
VJ, Wow. Thanks for the names of all the great actors who played Willy Loman. I tried to recall who they were but came up empty. It turns out they were all cream of the crop. No wonder he is such an unforgettable character.
Wow, indeed, Jacob — they sure set the bar high right off the bat with Lee J. Cobb (later Juror No. 3) then George C. Scott (later Patton), didn’t they?
George C. Scott reprised the Lee J. Cobb Juror #3 role in Friedkin’s 12 Angry Men remake *and* the Exorcist police lieutenant that Cobb played in Friedkin’s The Exorcist in Blatty’s Exorcist 3 sequel. Weird, right?
Weird in a way, Lawrence, but also very cool movie trivia. 😀
Wow what an ending and also this marks the first time that a tiebreaker has been played in one month. Last Friday night we had a tiebreaker in the National College Championship after two players bet everything and responded correctly and today it happened again but this time Christine wagered Henry’s doubled score just in case if he bet everything but one dollar and it worked out for her. What an exciting finish it has been.