Final Jeopardy: American Literary History (3-6-24)
The Final Jeopardy question (3/6/2024) in the category “American Literary History” was:
“The country is celebrating 100 years of freedom 100 years too soon”, says “the fire next time”, published in this year
Today’s Tournament of Champions contestants are: Troy Meyer, a music executive from Tampa, FL; Deb Bilodeau, a restaurant server from San Francisco, CA; and Sean McShane, a tour guide from South Boston, MA.
Round 1 Categories: Shakespeare for Everyone! – Olympic History – Islands – Middle X – Waits – Measures
Deb found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Shakespeare for Everyone!” under the $800 clue on the 2nd pick of the round. Deb was the only one on the board with $800. Deb bet $1,000 and said Desdemona. That was WRONG.
Her last speech includes “Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper…thy sovereign” show
Troy finished in the lead with $7,000. Sean was in second place with $5,200. Deb was last with $1,600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: 1924 – Unusual Words – The Arts – Occupations – Movie Taglines – The Heavens & Earth
Troy found the first Daily Double in “The Heavens & Earth” under the $1,600 clue on the 6th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $11,800, $6,600 more than Sean in second place. Troy made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
Cepheids are the pulsating type of these stars that fluctuate in brightness show
Troy found the last Daily Double in “Occupations” under the $1,200 clue on the 11th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $26,400 now, $19,600 more than Sean in second place. Troy bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.
With a name from Latin for “copyist”, this type of insurance specialist calculates risks & premiums show
Troy finished in the lead with a runaway $38,400. Deb was second with $8,400, and Sean was last with $7,200. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS 1963?
In 1963, American writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin published “The Fire Next Time”, a book that contained two essays. Both essays (“My Dungeon Shook: Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation” and “Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region of My Mind”) were written earlier and published in different magazines in 1962.
“My Dungeon Shook” is essentially a letter to his teenage nephew, counseling him while outlining the challenges Baldwin’s namesake faces as a black man in an American society that wants to keep him down. The essay’s title comes from this passage: “You come from a long line of poets, some of the greatest poets since Homer. One of them said, The very time I thought I was lost, my dungeon shook and my chains fell off.” Baldwin concludes with the quote in today’s clue.
Sean thought it was 1876. He lost $1,201 and finished with $5,999.
Deb had 1976, but bet nothing for a second place finish of $8,400.
Troy got it right and also bet zero. Troy alreaady had the game in the bag. The field for the semifinals is now complete and the games begin tomorrow.
2 triple stumpers from MOVIE TAGLINES:
($400) This 2023 holiday horrorfest promised, “There will be no leftovers”
($2000) “Revenge never looked so promising “, promised this 2020 film starring Carey Mulligan
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Art Museums”
Before its 1959 opening, 21 artists protested its design, saying it would make paintings look tilted & askew show
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I never noticed Troy in a chair before. His win was monster.
I got very, very few of the TS. That means either one or zero!
Didn’t get FJ. Didn’t even have a clue.
Methinks we have an early favorite to win the championship. What a performance. But there are so many variables.
It would have been easy to fall into the 1876/1976 trap, but I knew the year of the Emancipation Proclamation and that the Baldwin novel was a big deal in the early ’60s.
Barely recalled the name of the Carey Mulligan movie. It was offbeat but pretty good.
I think you got the positions for the second and third place at the end of DJ! mixed up. Anyway, 38,400 is the highest score we seen in the quarterfinals. We began this field with 27 players but now we’re down to 9 players and the semifinals begin tomorrow.