Final Jeopardy: Hollywood History (4-26-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/26/2023) in the category “Hollywood History” was:
Last name of 3 men who missed the 1927 premiere of “The Jazz Singer” because a 4th of that name had died hours before
New champ Johanna Stoberock, a fiction writer & adjunct professor from Walla Walla, WA, won $6,999 yesterday. In Game 2, she takes on these two players: Liz Everhart, a subrogation analyst & science teacher from Louisville, KY; and Jesse Matheny, a customer success implementation manager orig. from Huntington, IN.
Round 1 Categories: Rihanna – Historical Potpourri – Confidence – Brit Lit – Top to Bottom – A Nation of Vodka Brands
Jesse found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Historical Potpourri” under the $1,000 clue on the 8th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $1,200, $800 more than Liz in second place. Jesse made it a true Daily Double and said Marco Polo. That was WRONG.
He peaked in power as Lord Privy Seal in 1536, fell from power, was executed, & had his reputation revived by the late Hilary Mantel show
Jesse finished in the lead with $4,200. Johanna was second with $4,000. Liz was last with $3,600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: The New Capital – 4-Syllable Words – Whistleblowers – Comedians – Ungulates – The Parent Company
Jesse found the first Daily Double in “The New Capital” under the $1,600 clue on the second pick of the round. He was in the lead with $5,400, $1,400 more than Johanna in second place. Jesse bet $3,000 and said Istanbul. That was WRONG.
In 1923 Kemal Ataturk helped make this city, home to the anti-Ottoman resistance movement, the new capital show
Liz got the last Daily Double in “4-Syllable Words” under the $1,600 clue with 9 clues left after it. She was in second place with $7,600 now, $1,600 less than Johanna’s lead. Liz bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
In Zen Buddhism satori is attainment of this, also an intellectual awakening of the 18th century show
Johanna finished in the lead with $12,000. Liz was second with $11,000 and Jesse was last with $10,800. All clues were shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS WARNER?
The “Jazz Singer”, starring Al Jolson, premiered at the Flagship Theatre in New York City on Oct. 6, 1927. Produced by Warner Bros. Pictures., it is often said to be the first feature-length film with synchronized music and speech. Sam Warner is credited with insisting on keeping Al Jolson’s ad-libbed spoken remarks in the film, earning him the nickname “Father of the Talkies”. Sam Warner died from pneumonia the day before the film’s premiere. His older brothers, Harry and Albert, and his younger brother, Jack, all flew to California to lay Sam to rest and were thus unable to attend “The Jazz Singer” premiere.
Collider’s article “The First Sound Film Was NOT The Jazz Singer” takes a deep dive into how “The Jazz Singer” came to be hyped as the first “talkie” although it had no more dialogue than previously Warner Bros. shorts. They say 1928’s “Lights of New York” was the first full-length film with all synchronous dialogue.
Jesse went with Marx. That cost him $8,200 and left him with $2,600.
Liz also thought it was the Marx brothers. She lost $10,000 and finished with $1,000.
Johanna went Jolson, the star of the film. She lost $10,001 and finished with $1,999. That made Jesse Matheny the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
BRIT LIT ($1000) As the title suggests, this D.H. Lawrence novel recounts the romantic affairs of sisters Gudrun & Ursula
WHISTLEBLOWERS ($800) Jeffrey Wigand’s reporting about tobacco companies making products with addictive levels of nicotine became this movie
2 years ago: NEITHER contestant left got this FJ in “American Business”
In 2004, after a century as a household name, its last model rolled off the assembly line in Lansing, Michigan show
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Lots of similarity to yesterday’s show. 5-figure totals entering FJ, then all 3 crashed and burned. Marx Bros came to mind immediately, but I knew none had died in 1927. Thought it might be one of the MGM trio, but no.
Very surprised Jesse didn’t nail the capital of Turkey. As Jason said, many of the TS clues were gettable. Sobieski; Lawrence novel; tobacco movie; 90th birthday lady; Fisher King star; liquid ungulate; mayonnaise company.
I knew the birthday lady right off the bat because I always check the oldest person on the daily birthday list. Even so, “Went with the Wind” would have told me. That show was comedy gold, esp. Harvey Korman!
I meant to send out a Happy Birthday tweet to her, too, but I got sidetracked.
We all came up with Marx for FJ, but I sure had some doubts. You know, the MO of this one was the same as yesterday’s FJ as I seem to recall that both of these FJs were used before. Well, as long as these two keep stumping the contestants and most TV viewers, I suppose I wouldn’t have done things differently.
So, Johanna knew neither TV History nor Hollywood History. Al Jolson, born Asa Yoelson, was the son of a cantor, IIRC. The Marx Brothers (of whom there were 5), were still a vaudeville troop at that time. I said Warner as soon as I could. Although I knew that there were 4 brothers, the only one I knew was Jack.
That reminds me of some other brothers. If there’s a clue about the Ringling Brothers, there were 5 of them; again, I can only name one, John Ringling.
It was a moderately lower scoring affair. I got, as per usual, about half the TS correct. But, Sobieski? Really? And Ken says “apparently”? Being half descended from that nationality, “He had thirteen letters in his name, and no vowels!”
Hopefully, Jesse can string a few together.
When I was about 9, many years ago, I saw “The Jolson Story” movie. You nailed his name and his father’s occupation.
99.9% of the Facebook comments and emails I read daily misspell troupe/trouper as troop/trooper. The latter are military people or state police. Or Cub/Girl scouts. The former are traveling actors.
Ah, yes, I totally bagged that! The worst thing is, I knew that about the troupe! How embarrassing!!
That was a tough final as we got another triple stumper. Pretty sure William Weyser would say darn those daily doubles to Jesse.
Yes, but maybe, the 3rd time will be the charm with the Daily Doubles for Jesse, and maybe, Final Jeopardy! will be kind to at least 1 person tomorrow.
Oh I’m sorry, I completely forgot that last week on Wednesday we had 1,200 winner. So that means that 2,600 is the second lowest payday of the season. This is the second Wednesday in a row with paydays that is lower than 5,000.
For the second day in a row, we have another triple stumper. Yesterday nobody got it right on Television History and today nobody got it right on Hollywood History. And Jesse winds up with only 2,600 which is lowest payday of the season. But he has a chance to earn a lot more money than 2,600 on tomorrow’s game.
How can this be the lowest, Kevin? Just last week, Devin won on Wednesday with a mere $1,200. I remember my daughter saying Devin got less than second place!