Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Books (5-10-24-24)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/10/2024) in the category “20th Century Books” was:
A review said this 1966 book abut real events “will cause a good deal of myopic squabbling about just what a novel is”
3x champ Allison Gross, a data scientist from Cleveland, OH, has now won $44,598. In Game 5, her competitors are: Jonah Lipton, a writer from Los Angeles, CA; and Will Stewart, a political organizer orig. from Nashville, TN.
Round 1 Categories: “O” Say – Can You See? – Prepositional Book Titles – Birdplay – Sports Venues – Pranks
Jonah found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Prepositional Book Titles” under the $1,000 clue on the 10th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $4,800, $3,600 more than Will in second place. Jonah bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
Virginia Woolf used stream of consciousness in this novel about the Ramsay family vacationing on the isle of Skye show
Jonah finished in the lead with $10,400. Will was second with $4,000 and Allison was last with $1,200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: The Southern Hemisphere – Business Names – Singers on Film – World History – Art & Artists – Talking Hot & Cold
Allison found the first Daily Double in “Talking Hot & Cold” under the $1,600 clue on the 14th pick of the round. She was in last place with $4,800, $7,200 less than Will’s lead. Allison made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
This military policy is described as a tactic in which you destroy everything that an enemy can use to wage war show
Allison found the last Daily Double in “Business Names” under the $800 clue with 5 clues left after it. She was in second place with $12,000 now, $3,600 less than Will’s lead. Allison bet $6,000 and tried Firestone. That was WRONG.
It was the last name of brothers Andre and Edouard, who began manufacturing tires for bicycles and automobiles in the 1890s show
Will finished in the lead with $16,000. Jonah was second with $12,800 and Allison was last with $6,000. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS “IN COLD BLOOD”?
Truman Capote based his 1966 book “In Cold Blood” on the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas. Richard Hickok and Perry Smith, two ex-convicts, committed the heinous crimes while attempting to rob the Clutters of a large amount of cash they believed Herbert Clutter kept in his house. Capote spent six years, with the aid of friend and fellow author, Harper Lee, interviewing everyone, including the murderers, and published what was dubbed a new literary genre– the nonfiction novel. Capote won his second Edgar Award for “In Cold Blood”. The first was in 1962 when he and William Archibald won the Edgar for Best Motion Picture Screenplay for “The Innocents”.
The 1967 film based on the book was nominated for 4 Academy Awards but didn’t win any as the film was up against some fierce competition. Scott Wilson, who played “In Cold Blood” murderer Hickok, also had a part as a murder suspect in 1967’s Best Picture “In the Heat of the Night”. Robert Blake, who played “In Cold Blood” murderer Smith, became a real-life murder suspect in the fatal shooting of his wife in 2001. Eerily, Blake’s wife and Mrs. Clutter’s names were Bonny and Bonnie. Both were in their mid-40s when they were murdered.
Allison had no response. She bet her whole $6,000 so she ended up with bupkis.
Jonah got it right. He bet it all and doubled his score to $25,600.
Will bet $9,601 and won the game with $25,601. Will Stewart is the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from SINGERS ON FILM:
($1200) She was handpicked by Aretha Franklin to play the Queen of Soul in “Respect”, released in 2021
($2000) In her first major role, Madonna played the free-spirited title character in this 1985 film
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “USA”
These 2 mayors gave their names to a facility built on the site of an old racetrack owned by Coca-Cola magnate Asa Candler show
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Kudos to those who got the FJ! From the clues that were given, we all thought that this was something which was related to the Vietnam war. Anyways, I did see the film ‘In Cold Blood’, but it wasn’t a movie that I would especially care to see again. I mean, it was so tragic.
Yeah, that was an awful movie. I was only 16 when I saw it and probably never would have seen it except, at that time, my father would take me to see movies he wanted to see. Robert Blake — ugh!!
I also saw “In the Heat of the Night” that same year. Anthony James played the evil guy in that one — ugh!!
Much to say. Jonah took off like a rocket, but the others eventually made it a game. I rarely say this, but I thought both boards were overall pretty easy, even the $1000/$2000 clues.
Sacre’ bleu, Allison, those two tiremakers’ names were French. Easy peasy.
Kudos to the guys for getting FJ. I thought it might be tough for them. I have the book somewhere, never read it, saw the film. At the time, it was billed as a non-fiction novel about the Clutters.
I thought someone might have known who portrayed Aretha; Madonna movie was tough but I remembered its name. Shame on them for not knowing the classic Ford model or the cosmetics maven. I’ve seen dozens of matches from the French Open stadium, but that was a toughie. If you didn’t know it, you could not have guessed it.
Cosign all, buddy.
Howeva – I did know the tennis stadium, but never watched a match! The cosmetics maven, I racked my brain, but couldn’t get it in time.
And I did get FJ, despite 1. not reading the book and 2. not seeing the movie!