Final Jeopardy: Female Authors (6-23-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/23/2023) in the category “Female Authors” was:
At age 9 in 1883 she moved West, where she met Annie Pavelka, a young pioneer on whom she would later model a title character
5x champ Ben Goldstein, a content marketing strategist from Dexter, MI, has now won $49,298. In Game 6, his competitors are: Donna Matturri, a librarian from Columbus, OH; and Ron Nurwisah, an editor orig. from Toronto, Ontario.
Round 1 Categories: Remember Baseball? – Books & Authors – Animal Change a Letter – Who Reigned in England When… – I Learned It on Schoolhouse Rock – Kids of the ’70s, Rejoice!
Ron found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Who Reigned in England When…” under the $1,000 clue on the 17th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $4,200, $1,400 more than
Ben in second place. Ron made it a true Daily Double and said James II. That was WRONG.
Michelangelo finished painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling after 4 years… contractors, am I right? show
Ben finished in the lead with $5,000. Donna was second with $2,600 and Ron was last with $2,400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: African-American Firsts – Qui”zz”ical – On Broadway – A Chemistry Test – Musical Act Etymology – Same First & Last Letter Geography
Ben found the first Daily Double in “Musical Act Etymology” under the $1,600 on the 10th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $8,600, $5,000 more than Ron in second place. Ben bet $1,600 and he was RIGHT.
Karen O said this name of her band comes from “A New York City… reaction to everything” show
Ron got the last Daily Double in “Same First & Last Letter Geography” under the $1,600 clue on the 14th pick of the round. He was in last place with $4,800 now, $7,400 less than Ben’s lead. Ron bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
It flows over 1,300 miles from Highlands near Brazil across Venezuela to the Atlantic show
Ben finished in the lead with $16,200. Ron was second with $13,800 and Donna was last with $11,400. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS WILLA CATHER?
Willa Cather is considered an important early 20th century novelist for her realistic portrayal of immigrant settlers in the West. “My Antonia” (1918) is the novel that today’s clue refers to. Published after “O Pioneers” and “The Song of the Lark”, it was the last of three Cather novels known as “The Prairie Trilogy”. Cather wrote 12 novels in all, winning a Pulitzer Prize for “One of Ours”, also set in Nebraska. “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, another novel that frequently comes up on Jeopardy!, is set in New Mexico.
7 Years Ago: A librarian got this Daily Double: She was born in Virginia in 1873, but at age 9 moved to Nebraska, where her best known works are set
Donna got it right. She bet $6,000 and finished with $17,400.
Ron went with Canadian author, Lucy Maud Montgomery. He bet and lost his whole $13,800.
Ben picked Louisa May Alcott. He lost his $11,500 bet and landed in second place with $4,700. That made Donna Matturri the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
WHO REIGNED IN ENGLAND WHEN… ($400) Alaska was admitted to the Union
SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER GEOGRAPHY ($800) Portuguese is the official language of this resource-rich nation of southwest Africa
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Fiction”
In a 1915 story by this European, a woman finds a corpse & says, “It’s gone & croaked–just lying there, dead as a doornail!” show
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Thank you so much for posting these synopses. It’s almost like watching the show, which is great b/c I can’t find yesterday’s show on youtube now.
You’re welcome, dee. Don’t forget that you can see the final round on Jeopardy!’s YouTube channel for any game you happen to miss. Here’s a link to the video for this game.
Hooray for Donna the librarian. She made significant headway in the Broadway category, and nailed the final. Ben was overdue for a loss.
I was briefly stumped by FJ until I recalled a woman author from that era who wrote about the West, then confirmed it by knowing the title character referred to in the clue.
Very good challengers tonight. They left a few on the table I thought one of them might get. The monarchs when Alaska was admitted and during the Boer War; Portuguese-speaking African nation; We the People document; panda’s name; resistance scale; and Arizona museum city.
Well, it happened again – saying a response which was already given (which we know isn’t USUALLY the right -: or, more accurately, accepted, answer). But, it challenges logic – Queen when Alaska became a state? C’mon, man!
I got FJ wrong. I’m trying to think of what was my response, but, regardless, I was wrong!
I think Ben misunderstood that Alaska clue as in when the USA acquired Alaska. idk but maybe he thought Victoria was the wrong answer in the previous clue?
Congrats to Donna. She didn’t get any Daily Doubles but still won with the week’s highest payday.
Yes, Donna managed to deliver the correct response in FJ, and perhaps being a librarian gave her an edge.
Ron didn’t bet everything on the first daily double. Anyway, Ben Goldstein is leaving us with 5 wins and a shade under 50,000. The lowest 5 day total amount but a win is a win and that’s enough for Ben to make it to the TOC.