Final Jeopardy: 19th Century Plays (3-10-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/10/2020) in the category “19th Century Plays” was:

From the title of a British-set comedy, it completes the final line “I’ve now realized for the first time in my life the vital…”

4x champ Paul Trifiletti, an attorney from Athens, GA, has now won $83,801. In Game 5, his opponents are: Mark Nasielski, an electrical engineering student from Los Angeles, CA; and Lacey Davies, a casting assistant from New York, NY.

Round 1 Categories: Let There Be Light – Secondary Titles – You’re in My House! – Poet-pourri – Football – Student Word List

Mark found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Poet-pourri” under the $600 clue on the 6th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $2,400, $1,800 more than Lacey in second place. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.

Katharine Lee Bates’ book containing this patriotic song used similar language about Mont Blanc: “O beautiful beyond all dream” show

WHAT IS “AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL”?

Mark finished in the lead with $8,200. Paul was second with $1,800 and Lacey was last, at negative $200.

Round 2 Categories: What is That? – The Comics – She’s a Goddess! – The End of the Emperor – Brr! It’s Cold Out There – Let Me “in”!

Mark found the first Daily Double in “End of the Emperor” under the $800 clue on the 4th pick. He was in the lead with $7,800 now, $4,800 more than Paul in second place. He bet $3,200 and he was RIGHT.

Claudius’ death in 54 A.D. was due to this type of foul play, very common in the TV miniseries “I, Claudius” show

WHAT IS POISONING?

Mark found the last Daily Double in “It’s Cold Out There” under the $1,600 clue, with 4 clues left after it. In the lead with $17,000, he had $7,200 more than Paul in second place. He bet $2,000 and guessed New York. That was WRONG.

In 1954 an historic contiguous USA low temp of -70 was recorded near Rogers Pass in this fourth-largest state. show

WHAT IS MONTANA?

Mark finished in the lead with $16,600. Paul was next with $13,000 and Lacey was in third place with $1,000.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS “IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST”?

Oscar Wilde lampooned the rigid standards of Victorian society in his 1895 farcical play “The Importance of Being Earnest”. The rules and expectations were so confining that Jack invents a brother named Ernest as a means to escape his duties from time to time. Algernon invents Bunbury, an imaginary friend. The play has made it to the cinema several times, most recently with Colin Firth in 2002 and a filmed version of the 2011 Broadway revival.

TV Tropes has a whole page on “Finale Title Drop” with songs, films, books and more, including “The Importance of Being Earnest” under “Theatre”.

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Lacey got it right. She doubled her score to $2,000.

Paul got it, too. His $10,000 bet brought him up to $23,000.

Mark wrote down “reason for being.” He lost $9,401 and finished with $7,199. So Paul won the game and is now a 5-day champ with $106,801.

A triple stumper from each round:

POET-POURRI ($800) The August 1913 Poetry Magazine had “I Heard a Flute” by Ruth Gaines &, more famously, this Joyce Kilmer poem

THE END OF THE EMPEROR ($1600) He died at his military headquarters in 180 A.D., 3 years after making Commodus his co-emperor

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “1950s Fiction”

The N.Y. Times called this 1,000-page novel by a woman “one of the most influential business books ever written” show

WHAT IS “ATLAS SHRUGGED”?

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