Final Jeopardy: Theater (5-2-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/2/2022) in the category “Theater” was:
In November 1864 John Wilkes Booth & his brothers were fittingly part of a performance of this Shakespeare play
19x champ Mattea Roach, a tutor from Toronto, Ontario won $460,184 so far. In Game 20, she is up against: Adam Ilgin, a ferryboat deckhand from Lewes, DE; and Becky Benninghoff, a church organist from Woodbridge, VA.
Round 1 Categories: Miami News Clues – You Got Next – Reptiles – From Book to Movie with a Different Title – College Football History – “A.T.”
Mattea found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “You Got Next” under the $800 clue with 11 clues left after it. She was tied for the lead with Becky at $2,200, $800 more than Adam in second place. Mattea made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
As state capital: Cahaba, Tuscaloosa… show
Mattea finished in the lead with $5,800. Adam was second with $3,600. Becky was last with $2,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Congress in the 19th Century – Around the World – Tea Time – Famous Names – Country Music Song Titles – A Vow of No Vowels
Mattea found the first Daily Double in “Around the World” under the $1,200 clue on the 13th clue of the round. She was in the lead with $12,200, $7,800 more than Adam in second place. Mattea bet $3,000, and guessed Iraq as time ran out. That was WRONG.
More than 20,000 acres & with at least 100 artesian springs, Al-Ahsa Oasis is this nation’s largest natural oasis show
Mattea got the last Daily Double in “Tea Time” under the $800 clue on the 16th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $9,600, $3,200 more than Adam in second place. Mattea bet $3,000 again and this time, she was RIGHT.
The Beaver, the Dartmouth & the Eleanor were the ships involved in this Dec. 16, 1773 incident show
Mattea finished in the lead with $16,200. Adam was second with $8,400 and Becky was last with $3,200. 3 clues worth $4,800 were not shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS “JULIUS CAESAR”?
The Booth brothers performance of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” was a one-time event meant to raise funds for a statue of Shakespeare in Central Park. Edwin Booth wrote to a friend about it in June 1864, when he thought the performance would take place that summer. He indicated that he would play Brutus and not Cassius. That turned out to be true; however, the performance took place on November 25, 1864. Junius, Jr. played Cassius and John Wilkes played Mark Antony. The Booth brothers raised about $4,000 for the statue. Edwin Booth was on hand when the statue was unveiled and dedicated in 1872.
I don’t think that “fittingly” was the best word choice for this particular FJ! clue. It was more like an awful omen and folks who saw the 1864 play must have recalled it with horror when John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln on April 14, 1865. More info on Edwin and John Wilkes Booth on Iron Brigader.com
Becky thought it was “Henry V”. She lost her $800 bet and finished with $2,400.
Adam went with “Hamlet”. He bet and lost the whole shooting match; more specifically, $8,400.
Mattea got it right. She bet $601 and won the game with $16,801. Mattea’s 20-day total is $476,985.
2 triple stumpers from the first round:
FROM BOOK TO MOVIE WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE ($1000) “The Midwich Cuckoos” inspired this “Damned” 1960 film about children with frightening powers in a small town
“A.T.” ($1000) In legend the village of St. Calais, France was once saved from hunger by these pastries, basically flour & fruit
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Civil War People”
Before they were photographed together in 1862, Lincoln wryly noted this general “should have no problem” sitting still for it show
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Predictable, to the dollar, wager = “boring”, at least to me. I think Mattea chatters when she’s nervous. Low dollar affair, also boring. I thought the challengers had her on the buzzer in the Jeopardy! round. The Boston Tea Party one could not have been easier.
“Single sanction” honor systems have one punishment – expulsion. Federal service academies have removed that. I attended a military college that, to this day, maintains a single sanction, and we looked down on the “soft”, dishonorable West Point, Annapolis, and USAFA tolerators, who would accept an honor violator to remain in their ranks. The federal position is that too much money has been invested to kick them out.
The whole point is the TS about Army. I said, “honor violations”, and I don’t know if I could have guessed the correct response to the clue, if prompted to be “more specific”.
I did not get FJ. I said “King Lear”. I thought that there was another FJ in the past year about the same topic, but, then, just now, it came to me that it was Edgar Allan Poe. (Notably, Poe was booted from West Point, but, not due an honor violation.)
Yes, perhaps ironically would have been better than fittingly for Final Jeopardy.
Wasn’t Agnew VP after Nixon was VP (under Nixon as Pres) and Johnson came after?
no, Agnew was Nixon’s VP but Nixon was President after LBJ. It went
Truman / Barkley
Eisenhower / Nixon
Kennedy / LBJ
LBJ / Humphrey
Nixon / Agnew, then Ford
Ah, right, Thanks
No vp under Johnson until Humphrey was sworn in 1965.
A tough FJ to be sure.
My first acquaintance with this play was in a Little Rascals episode with Spanky reciting Mark Antony’s “Friends, Romans, Countrymen” speech. Funny stuff
Well this game wasnt a runaway and there is a good chance this could be mattea’s undoing within this week if she does not score another runaway. But still 15k on a lot of easy triple stumpers is not surprising. I mean our champ made a gutsy move last week in final and she could have added 8000 dollars out of all the missed clues today. At least 2 out of the 3 daily doubles were nailed. I would like to see the board cleared and less triple stumper tomorrow hopefully. This final was pretty easy if the opponents knew which one of the booth brothers played ceaser