Final Jeopardy: Contemporary Authors (2-3-17)

The Final Jeopardy question (2/3/2017) in the category “Contemporary Authors” was:

His official website says, “It is forty years since I hung up my cloak and dagger”

5x champ Lisa Schlitt went over the $100K mark in winnings yesterday by $12,300. In the last game of the week, her opponents are: Marion Montgomery, from Huntsville, AL; and Tyler Johnson, from Oklahoma City, OK.

Round 1 Categories: The Jeopardy! Sorting Hat – American History – Numerical Phrases – Television City – Q People – The End of the Story

Marion found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “American History” under the $800 clue on the 14th pick of the round. She was in third place with $1,600, $1,000 less than Lisa’s lead. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.

This 4-word motto saying watch your step was on many American flags. show

WHAT IS “DON’T TREAD ON ME”?

Lisa finished in the lead with $6,000. Tyler was second with $5,600 and Marion was last with $4,000.

Round 2 Categories: The Title of the Movie Escapes Me – Scientific Milestones – The Next U.N. Member, Alphabetically – 20th Century Art & Artists – Silent N – The Occident Express

Lisa found the first Daily Double in “Scientific Milestones” under the $1,200 clue on the 3rd pick. She was in the lead with $6,400 now, $1,600 more than Tyler in second place. She bet $1,400 and she was RIGHT.

Henri Becquerel was all aglow when he won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the property of matter. show

WHAT IS RADIOACTIVITY?

Tyler found the last Daily Double in “Next U.N. Member” under the $1,200 clue, with 11 clues to go after it. In the lead with $12,400, he had $2,200 more than Lisa in second place. He bet $2,400 and he was RIGHT.

After Fiji. show

WHAT IS FINLAND?

Tyler finished in the lead with $18,400. Lisa was next with $13,400 and Marion was in third place with $4,000.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS JOHN LE CARRÉ?

These words are on John Le Carré’s official website on the author page. He is referring to leaving his job with British intelligence to take up writing full-time. He continues with: “I wrote my first three books while I was a spook; I wrote the next eighteen after I was at large.” (Update: it’s no longer on his website — click here for the full text from the Wayback Machine)

There have been several past clues on le Carré’s pen name, such as 2003’s BETTER KNOWN AS… ($2000) Spy novelist David John Moore Cornwell.

Marion got it right. Her $3,900 bet brought her up to $7,900.

Lisa also got it. She went all in and finished with $26,800.

Tyler thought it was Salman Rushdie. He lost his $8,901 bet, leaving him with $9,999. So Lisa remains champ and she now has a 6-day total of $139,100. We will be seeing her again next Monday!

A triple stumper from each round:

Q PEOPLE ($200) Later executed as a traitor, he took power in Norway in 1940

THE OCCIDENT EXPRESS ($2000) This “mighty good” line’s passenger trains were known as rockets; it was “the road to ride”

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

After England, more Shakespeare plays are set in this present-day country than in any other. show

WHAT IS ITALY?

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