Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Theater (6-10-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/10/2019) in the category “20th Century Theater” was:
The final scene of this play takes place by a grave & includes the line “He had the wrong dreams”
2x champ Brendan Roach, a policy researcher advisor from Cambridge, MA, won $58,700 last week. In Game 3, he is up against: Martin Kane, a high school teacher from Martin, TN; and Mary Fellman, a retail manager from Los Alamos, NM.
Round 1 Categories: Big 4 Sports Team Names IRL – Books – What a Coinkydink – Entertainment – Let’s Have a Cordial – Out to “C”
Martin found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Out to ‘C'” under the $600 clue on the 8th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $3,000, $2,000 more than Mary in second place. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
In the United States, this type of transport helps half a million people in distress each year.
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Martin finished in the lead with $9,000. Mary was second with $6,800 and Brendan was last with $3,800.
Round 2 Categories: Who Are They? – Animal Talk – 3-Word City Names – Accent Marks & Special Letters – “Gold” Records – American Ingenuity
Brendan found the first Daily Double in “3-Word City Names” under the $800 clue on the 8th pick. He was in second place with $7,800 at this point, $4,000 less than Martin’s lead. He bet $6,000 and he was RIGHT.
The full name of this South American city begins with Cidade de Sao Sebastiao do show
Brendan found the last Daily Double in “Animal Talk” under the $2,000 clue, with 10 clues worth $5,600 left after it. In the lead with $18,200, he had $1,600 more than Martin in second place. He bet $2,000 and took a shot with vocal cord. That was WRONG.
The norm in mammals & birds is a nictitating membrane, also called the third this– humans are weird in lacking it. show
Martin finished in the lead with $18,600. Brendan was next with $17,800 and Mary was in third place with $14,400.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
In Arthur Miller’s 1949 Pulitzer-winning play, the line in the clue is uttered by Willy Loman’s son, Biff, at graveside after Willy commits suicide. Biff’s brother, Happy, gets mad about it but Willy’s friend, Charley, steps in and tries to explain their father’s mindset: “Willy was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life…. He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back– that’s an earthquake.”
WatchMojo on YouTube: 10 Top Notes on “Death of a Salesman” on YouTube
Mary thought it was “A Moon for the Misbegotten.” That cost her $14,000 and left her with $400.
Brendan got it right. He bet it all and doubled his score to $35,600.
Martin got it, too. He bet $17,001 and won the game with $35,601.
2 triple stumpers from the “GOLD” RECORDS category:
($1200) One Direction, Fitz & the Tantrums & Graham Parker & the Rumour have all recorded songs titled this
($2000) Striking it rich in love, Colbie Caillat sings, “feels like we’re sitting on top of” this “yeah, our love is” this
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Geography”
Cross the Strait of Bonifacio & you go between the 2nd- & 4th-largest Mediterranean islands & between these 2 countries. show
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Not sure anyone smart enough to be on Jeopardy could have missed that FJ. Any play with death brings that play to mind.
Welp, it doesn’t mean she did not know it, Gary. What sometimes happens is a player thinks the obvious answer will be wrong because they expect FJ to be more challenging. . A cruel irony of the game, perhaps..
That was an unusual second Jeopardy board. It didn’t have the usual categories of History and Literature. Even the ‘Gold’ Music category was tough. Maybe the show created a weird board to trip up James in the event James was still around.
Well, that was a very competitive game. Sorry to see Brendan go but he did so well catching up there in the second round. A little more on the first DD and a little less on the last and things might have turned out differently.
And I’m not meaning to take anything away from Mary or Martin. They were both excellent. Congrats to Martin on the win.
LINK: 10 more clues from the game
A moon for the misbegotten is a play by Eugene O Neill and not Arthur Miller. Not really sure why Mary chose that. But still congratulations to Martin on winning the game and kudos to Brendan on a well played game. I really wonder if Mary got her authors confused VJ? I hope Martin can build a streak here.