Final Jeopardy: Playwrights (4-28-26)
he Final Jeopardy question (4/28/2026) in the category “Playwrights” was:
When she was 7, her family moved to the mostly white Chicago neighborhood of Woodlawn, leading to attacks & a Supreme Court case
New champ Greg Shahade, a chess player from Philadelphia, PA, won $33,000 yesterday after defeating 31x champ Jamie Ding. In Game 2, he’s up against: Alice Jiang, a student orig. from Redwood City, CA; and Chris Argento, a H.S. teacher orig. from Bayonne, NJ
Round 1 Categories: International National Parks – 2025 Bestsellers – Sitcoms – Last Names – Repetitive Stress – Rhyme Time
Greg found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Repetitive Stress” under the $800 clue on the 12th pick. He was in the lead with $2,200 now, $800 more than Alice in second place. Greg bet $2,200 and he was RIGHT.
Anaphora is the repetition of the start of a clause ending in different ways, like these 4 words in an Aug. 28, 1963 speech in D.C. show
Greg finished in the lead with $7,800. Chris was in second place with $3,600. Alice was last with $2,800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Medical AKAs – Nearer My Pod to Thee – Business History – Happy 100th Birthday, Route 66! – O Captain, My Captain – I’ll Stay With the “Ship”
Greg got the first Daily Double in “O Captain, My Captain” under the $1,600 clue on the 2nd pick of the round. In the lead with $8,200, he had $4,600 more than Chris in second place. Greg bet $6,000 and didn’t know so he was WRONG.
A national hero as an Austrian sub captain during WWII, he’d later gain more fame after marrying a woman named Maria show
Greg got the last Daily Double in “Business History” under the $1,600 clue on the 5th pick of the round. In second place with $4,200, he had $1,000 less than Chris’ lead. Greg bet $4,200 and he was RIGHT.
This co. was born in 1911, after 4 years of talks among the Intl. Time Recording Co., Computing Scale Co. & Tabulating Machine Co. show
Greg finished in the lead with $12,400. Chris was in second place with $10,800. Alice was last with $6,000. All clues were shown.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS LORRAINE HANSBERRY?
Lorraine Hansberry was 29 years old when “A Raisin in the Sun” debuted on Broadway. The award-winning play was inspired by her own family’s experience when, as a child, her parents bought a home in an all-white Chicago neighborhood. The Hansberrys had to sue to keep it. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court — Hansberry vs. Lee, 311 U.S. 32 (1940). The ruling in their favor paved the way to discriminatory restrictive covenants being declared unconstitutional 8 years later.
J-Archive shows over 30 clues on Lorraine Hansberry but this 1992 clue was the only one to mention the Supreme Court case before today. Oddly enough, it included the last name: 1992-04-22 FAMOUS WOMEN ($800) This playwright’s father, Carl Hansberry, won a civil rights case in the Supreme Court
Alice bet $3,200 and finished with $9,200.
Chris bet $1,601 and finished with $12,401.
Greg bet $9,201 and won the game with $21,601. That gives Greg a 2-day total of $54,601.
A triple stumper from each round:
2025 BESTSELLERS ($1000) “When the Going Was Good” recounts this Vanity Fair “Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines”
HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY, ROUTE 66! ($2000) Steinbeck coined this famous nickname for Route 66 in “The Grapes of Wrath”, where the highway is a lifeline for refugees in flight
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “FICTIONAL GROUPS”
Maybe because he was too Baroque, Bernini was rejected as a name for a member of this group created in 1983 show
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Greg became the ninth giant killer to win more than one regular season play game after defeating a superchampion. He is now locked in for 2027 Champions Wildcard.