Final Jeopardy: Fictional Characters (4-3-25)

The Final Jeopardy question (4/3/2025) in the category “Fictional Characters” was:

Boq is one of these fictional people, “not as big as the grown folk…but neither were they very small”

3x champ Bryce Wargin, a post market surveillance coordinator from Kansas City, MO, has now won $59,400. In Game 4, his opponents are: Mary Walheim, a retired risk manager from Berwyn, PA; and Alfred Wallace, a librarian from Grand Forks, ND.

Round 1 Categories: ‘Allo, Guv’nah – Complete the British TV Programme Title – Anatomy Class – Java Facts – 5-Syllable Words – Tell Me a Story, Quickly

Bryce found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Tell Me a Story, Quickly” under the $800 clue with 5 clues left after it. He was tied for the lead with Mary at $4,400. They both had $1,600 more than Alfred in second place. Bryce made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.

Families gather, slips of paper are chosen, a black spot’s on one, Tessie Hutchinson has a very bad day show

WHAT IS “THE LOTTERY”?

Bryce finished in the lead with $11,600. Mary was second with $4,800 and Alfred was last with $2,800. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: History in the Making – Strait Edge – Known by Their Initials – Take the Long Way – Movie Musicals – Rising From the “Grave”

Alfred found the first Daily Double in “History in the Making” under the $1,200 clue on the 1st pick of the round. He was in last place with $2,800, $8,800 less than Bryce’s lead. Alfred made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.

Thankfully, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka overturned this unfortunate decision of 1896 show

WHAT IS PLESSY V. FERGUSON?

Alfred found the last Daily Double in “Strait Edge” under the $2,000 clue on the 8th pick of the round. He was in second place with $9,200, $1,200 less than Bryce’s lead. Alfred bet $3,000 and guessed Yemen. That was WRONG.

The Strait of Hormuz connects the Persian Gulf & this other gulf with a national name show

WHAT IS THE GULF OF OMAN?

Bryce finished in the lead with $16,000. Alfred was second with $10,600 and Mary was last with $6,000. All clues were shown.

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NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS A MUNCHKIN?

Boq is a Munchkin who first appeared in Chapter 3 of L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” (1900). In the novel, the Munchkins were described as “not as big as the grown folk she had always been used to; but neither were they very small. In fact, they seemed about as tall as Dorothy, who was a well-grown child for her age, although they were, so far as looks go, many years older.” So, the Munchkins went from child-size, to dwarf-size in the 1939 Wizard of Oz film, then back to child-size.

Boq also shows up in Gregory Maguire’s 1995 “Wicked” novel, as well as the musical and film adaptations. There’s a YouTube video that covers the “Top 10 Ways Wicked the Movie Differs from Wicked the Musical”; one of them is that more time gets devoted to Boq, who even gets a last name in the movie.

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Mary thought he was a Lilliputian. She lost $5,999 and finished with $1.00.

Alfred was going for Lilliputian but ran out of time. He lost $10,000 and was left with $600.

Bryce wrote down “dwarves”, after crossing out the Lilliputians. He lost $5,201 and won the game with the $10,799 he had left. A very happy Bryce has a 4-day total of $70,199.

2 triple stumpers from the last round:

HISTORY IN THE MAKING ($2000) On June 15, 1215 King John granted the Magna Carta in this field south of the Thames

KNOWN BY THEIR INITIALS ($2000) New York City bartender & restaurateur Patrick Joseph

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “FASHION HISTORY”

These decorative items get their name from their origin in the port city of Strasbourg, on the border of France & Germany show

WHAT ARE RHINESTONES?

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