Final Jeopardy: Playwrights (5-30-16)

The Final Jeopardy question (5/30/2016) in the category “Playwrights” was:

An 1892 Punch cartoon depicts him lounging with a cigarette & holding a fan with a name written on it.

New champ Erin Delaney won $24,401 on Friday, sending 9x champ Buzzy Cohen home, presumably in Buttercup. Today Erin takes on these two players: Wilcley Lima, from Orlando, FL; and Bryna Fischer, from Westlake Village, CA.

Round 1 Categories: NFL Team Names – The Constitution – Female Book Characters – The Eagles – Hotel California – Take It “EZ”

Wilcley found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “The Constitution” under the $600 clue, with 7 clues to go after it. He was in third place with $2,400, $1,800 less than Bryna’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.

The 5th Amendment says you can’t be jailed “without” this phrase “Of law”, a protection rooted in Magna Carta.  show

WHAT IS DUE PROCESS?

REVERSAL: In “Eagles” for $400, Wilcley only said “American Eagle” to this clue: “Teens like to stock up on clothes & accessories from this retailer whose stock symbol is AEO.” Erin picked it up, adding the Outfitters part. The judges later decided to accept Wilcley’s response.

Wilcley finished in the lead with $5,800. Bryna was second with $5,200 and Erin was last with $4,200.

Round 2 Categories: I’m Saxon & I Know It – Physics Test – 5-Syllable Words – Religious Titles – African Countries – Right Initials, Wrong Voice

Erin found the first Daily Double in “5-Syllable Words” under the $1,200 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. In second place with $5,400, she had $400 less than Wilcley’s lead. She bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.

This dinosaur whose names means “swift thief” roamed the earth during the Cretaceous period, not the Jurassic. show

WHAT IS VELOCIRAPTOR?

Bryna found the last Daily Double in “Religious Titles” under the $1,600 clue 6 picks later. She was in the lead with $10,000 now, $1,600 more than Erin in second place. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.

In the 16th century, Suleiman constructed a semahane, or whiling hall, for these people. show

WHO ARE DERVISHES?

Bryna finished in the lead with $17,600. Erin was next with $14,800 and Wilcley was in third place with $3,800.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS OSCAR WILDE?

In the March 5, 1892 edition of Punch, Oscar Wilde was lampooned as “Quite Too-Too Puffickly Precious!! Being Lady Windy-mere’s Fan-cy Portrait of the new dramatic author, Shakespeare Sheridan Oscar Puff, Esq.” with an explanatory note from the Daily Telegraph: “He addressed from the stage a public audience, mostly composed of ladies, pressing between his daintily-gloved fingers a still burning and half-smoked cigarette,” referring to the speech Oscar Wilde gave from the stage after the first performance of “Lady Windermere’s Fan.”

Wilcley didn’t have a response but he didn’t risk anything so he stayed at $3,800.

Erin got it right. She bet $14,798 finishing with $29,598.

Bryna thought it was George Bernard Shaw. She lost her $12,001 bet, landing in second place with $5,599. That made Erin a 2-day champ with total winnings of $53,999.

A triple stumper from each round:

NFL TEAM NAMES ($1000) This team that entered the AFL in 1960 gets its name for a frontiersman

THE EAGLES ($600) Before winging it on their own, Glenn Frey, Don Henley & other Eagle bandmates were often her backup group

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Oscar-Winning Writers”

Winning for 1999, this New England writer is the last person to win an Oscar for adapting his own novel. show

WHAT IS JOHN IRVING?

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