Final Jeopardy: Fictional Families (2-24-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (2/24/2022) in the category “Fictional Families” was:
Introduced in the 1930s in The New Yorker, they’ve appeared on TV & Broadway & in live action & animated films
2x champ Christine Whelchel, a piano teacher & church organist from Spring Hill, TN. won $34,000 yesterday. In Game 2, her challengers are: Lucian Wang, a law clerk from New York, NY; and Anne Large, a bar and restaurant owner from Washington, DC.
Round 1 Categories: Book of the Year – Parish From the Earth – Hodgepodge – Senate Committees – The Hall of Famer’s Position – The Inner “Ear”
Anne found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Senate Committees” under the $800 clue on the 6th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $1,200, $800 more than Lucian in second place. Anne made it a true Daily Double and said Judicial Committee. That was WRONG.
In 2006 this committee voted 10-8 to send the Alito nomination to the full Senate show
Christine finished in the lead with $6,800. Anne was second with $3,200 and Lucian was last with $1,400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Historic Women – Lit-pourri – Constellations – Nautical Lingo – That ’70s Show – Rhyming Synonyms
Christine found the first Daily Double in “Historic Women” under the $600 clue on the 5th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $8,400, $5,200 more than Anne in second place. Christine bet $3,000 and took a shot at it with Catherine the Great. That was WRONG.
The War of Austrian Succession was fought over whether she should succeed to the throne, which she did in 1740 show
Lucian got the last Daily Double in “Nautical Lingo” under the $1,200 clue with 11 clues left after it. He was in second place with $7,400 now, $800 less than Christine’s lead. Lucian bet $4,000 and tried peaceful. That was WRONG.
A boat that doesn’t list was said to be “on” this, which now means a calm disposition show
Christine finished in the lead with a runaway $12,600. Lucian was second with $4,600 and Anne was last with $1,200. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO ARE THE ADDAMS FAMILY?
The Addams Family first appeared in The New Yorker on 8/6/1938. They started out as a group of separate ghoulish characters created by cartoonist Charles Addams. Most of the cartoons had one punchline captions and the characters didn’t even have names. In the 1960s, Addams helped develop The Addams Family TV series which ran for 2 seasons from 1964 to 1966. Addams thought up most of the family members’ names. It is mainly thanks to the TV series that Charles Addams’ fictional family became household names. Get the full scoop here.
TV Guide has quite a list with the 60 Greatest TV Families of All Time. The Addams Family came in at No. 9 and is described as “the design for cartoonish clans to come, like the Flintstones and the Simpsons.”
Anne thought it was the Von Trapps. She lost her $800 bet and finished with $400.
Lucian got it right. He bet $600 and that brought him up to $5,200.
Christine didn’t have a response. She lost her $2,000 bet but won the game with the remaining $10,600. Her 2-day total is $44,600.
A triple stumper from each round:
BOOK OF THE YEAR ($200) Gore Vidal’s novel with this title follows the presidential election in the year of the nation’s centennial
LIT-POURRI ($1200) The word detective was brand new at the time this author introduced C. Auguste Dupin, the model for the detective in fiction
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “The Race to Space”
In the 1960s this Mideast country had a space program & one of its rocket launches, the Cedar IV, is commemorated on a stamp show
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It feels to me like Christine is a “cooler”. At least, all clues were uncovered. But, how lackluster – borderline boring. I always find it a bit cringe worthy when there’s a $12k runaway. After the quizzical FJ bet lat night, I don’t know if Christine has “the real stuff”. Head to head vs some others this season, she gets creamed, cleanly. Congrats to her for being a two day champ.
Very uneven show, to say the least. All 3 DDs were very gettable, and Lucian easily would have won the game if he’d just known the expression for calm disposition that begins with “on.” He was at -600 early in DJ and came on strong, mostly with those rhyming synonyms.
As Ismael and Kevin said, they left a bushel of $$ on the table. Who doesn’t know what year the US centennial was? Was hoping someone would know the year Australia got the Olympics, the port city in LA, the Senate committee dealing with shaky stock trades, the position played by the three Bears, the author of Zhivago, and the first woman in space.
These players would have no chance if they were to face any of the GOATs on “The Chase.” But I’d love to see Matt or Amy go up against them on that show. Several former J! contestants have been on “The Chase,” and I know of a number of others who are in the audition stage.
I thought that was a tough FJ, and I sure didn’t come up with the correct response. Regarding the Addams Family TV series, the first season was a really big hit, but the second season suffered from rather lackluster scripting. .
Well I am not surprised that the ladies did not know the Addams family and now I got that theme song stuck in my head again.
I was never a follower of the Addams Family movies, tv shows, etc. I must admit the theme song was a catchy tune though.
I watched the tv series when I was a kid, but am not familiar with the movies, I think Angelica Huston might have played Morticia in one of the movies in the 90’s, I am not sure, though.
Terrible show as all 3 DDs were missed resulted a skunking. I am sure William Weyser or Richard Corliss will say darn those daily doubles.
I will agree with that. Plus we had 17 triple stumpers today. The most known record is 23.
That’s just crazy. I thought 11 in the College Tournament was a lot. 17 is a large amount of “dead air”.
I would say that, but I’m not in the mood, because I made an appearance on Rick Rampezzotti’s streaming channel. He is a friend of mine from Florida. Everything was going great, and then Rolando invited Tristan Gironda near the end of the stream yard. It was time to close off the stream yard, and Tristan didn’t it well. He was like “But I just got here.”, and he was swearing. I overreacted, and Rick didn’t like it. I don’t like swearing, and I’m sensitive. Tristan, I’m sorry. It’s not your fault. It’s Rolando’s fault. I feel like except for Jaskaran Singh winning the National College Championship & yesterday’s tiebreaker, this week has not been great. Let’s see if we can end this week on a high note or a low note, before I get mad at this month for being “The Month of Misunderstandings”, and hope that March will treat me like I’m a fully understood person.