Final Jeopardy: Epitaphs (3-9-22)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/9/2022) in the category “Epitaphs” was:

Her epitaph, from a 1925 poem by her, ends, “She knows that her dust is very pretty”; “dust” was in another she wrote for herself

2x champ Maureen O’Neil, an executive assistant from Rye Beach, NH, has won $21,000 now. In Game 3, she is up against: Shelley Vinyard, an environmental advocate from Washington, DC; and Sallie Bieterman, an actor and museum educator orig. from Seattle, WA.

Round 1 Categories: In Recent News – The Apollo Program – Literary Character Spoilers – Furniture – 3-Letter Movie Titles – “Cat” Got Your Tongue

Sallie found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Literary Characters” under the $600 clue on the 16th pick. She was in second place with $1,400, $3,000 less than Maureen‘s lead. Sallie made it a true Daily Double and couldn’t come up with a response so she was WRONG.

She is promised to Robert Canler, but the man also called Lord Greystoke asks, “if you were free, would you marry me? Yep! In a later book show

WHO IS JANE PORTER?

Maureen finished in the lead with $3,800. Shelley was second with $3,200 and Sallie was last with $200. 2 clues worth $400 were not shown.

Round 2 Categories: So That’s What They Looked Like – From the State Song – 3 Consecutive Consonants – Dynasties of China – Names in Pop Culture – Eponymous Body Parts

Shelley found the first Daily Double in “So That’s What They Looked Like” under the $800 clue on the 5th pick of the round. She was in second place with $5,200, $1,400 less than Maureen’s lead. Shelley bet $4,000, but did not come up with a response so she was WRONG.

After a lifetime of farming, this woman (image) was nearly 80 when a collector bought 15 of her artworks in 1938. show

WHO IS GRANDMA MOSES?

Sallie got the last Daily Double in “Dynasties of China” under the $1,600 clue with 8 clues left after it. She was in third place with $1,000, $7,800 less than Shelley’s lead. Sallie bet $500 and she was RIGHT.

Living during a time of conflict in the Zhou Dynasty gave Sun Tzu plenty of material to write this treatise show

WHAT IS “THE ART OF WAR”?

Maureen finished in the lead with $9,000. Shelley was second with $8,800 and Sallie was last with $1,500. 4 clues worth $1,600 were not shown.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS DOROTHY PARKER?

Dorothy Parker died at age 73 on 6/7/1967. The Rumpus has the full scoop on Parker’s cremains which were shamefully neglected for 21 years. In 1988, her “dust” was interred at a memorial garden at the NAACP’s national headquarters in Baltimore. “Excuse My Dust”, Parker’s famous suggestion for her epitaph, was part of the inscription on a memorial plaque.

In August 2020, Parker’s ashes were transported to her birth family’s plot in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. Finally, in August 2021, a headstone was erected at the site of her reburial. The last 4 lines of Parker’s poem “Epitaph for a Darling” are engraved on the headstone. Another article on the Dorothy Parker Society’s website lists Parker’s “Darling” poem as one of 25 she wrote that entered the public domain on 1/1/2021.

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Sallie thought it was Edna St. Vincent Millay. She lost her $100 bet and finished with $1,400.

Shelley went with Sylvia Plath. That cost her $4,000 and left her with $4,800.

Maureen got it right. She bet her whole $9,000 and won the game with $18,000. Her 3-day total is $39,000.

2 triple stumpers from NAMES IN POP CULTURE:

($1600) Named after Rembrandt’s son, Titus Welliver plays this TV cop with the same name as another painter

($2000) He’s the adorable Mogwai from “Gremlins” who’s voiced by Howie Mandel

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “British Novels”

A laboratory known as the House of Pain is on Noble’s Isle, the title setting of this novel show

WHAT IS “THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU”?

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