Final Jeopardy: Name’s The Same (7-12-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/12/2023) in the category “Name’s the Same” was:
A 1931 Charlie Chaplin film & a West Coast bookstore open since 1953 both bear this name
New champ Justin White, a director of orchestra personnel from Overland Park, KS, won $14,701 yesterday. In Game 2, he takes on these two players: Ittai Sopher, a digital journalist and news producer from New Orleans, LA; and Mia McGill, a communications specialist from Minneapolis, MN.
Round 1 Categories: State Insects – The ____ of Canada – Revival – TV Quick Takes – Slang – Reading with Jenna Bush Hager
Ittai found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “State Insects” under the $800 clue on the 10th pick of the round. He was in last place with $1,000, half of Mia’s lead. Apologizing to his grandma for possibly making her nervous, he made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT with a last second guess!
This industrious insect important to agriculture was chosen by Nebraska & Missouri show
Ittai finished in the lead with $5,800. Mia was second with $4,200 and Justin was last with $3,400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Roman Emperors – Double-Vowel Places – “High” There – Kevin Sent – Walking & Talking – Taking a Ride
Justin found the first Daily Double in “Double-Vowel Places” under the $1,200 clue on the third pick. He was in third place with $1,800 now, $2,400 less than Ittai and Mia, tied in second place. He bet it all and he was RIGHT.
The sea of this, a name big in the Bible, is really a freshwater lake that gets most of its inflow from the Jordan River show
Ittai got the last Daily Double in “Roman Emperors” under the $1,200 clue on the 11th pick. In the lead with $7,000, he had $2,600 more than Justin in second place. Ittai bet $2,000 and guessed Constantine. That was WRONG.
Hadrian had his wall & this cousin who immediately preceded him had his column show
Ittai finished in the lead with $6,600. Mia was next with $6,200 and Justin was in third place with $4,800. 3 clues worth $1,200 were not shown.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS CITY LIGHTS?
“City Lights” (1931) features Charlie Chaplin as “a Tramp” who falls in love with Virginia Cherrill as “a blind girl” and Harry Myers as “an eccentric millionaire”. A huge success from its premiere, it was ranked No. 11 on the American Film Institute’s 2007 list of the best American films ever made. One of the entries on “City Lights” IMDB trivia page says Albert Einstein attended the premiere with Chaplin and cried at the ending.
San Francisco’s famous City Lights bookstore was founded in 1953 by college professor Peter D. Martin and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. From its website: “City Lights is one of the few truly great independent bookstores in the United States, a place where booklovers from across the country and around the world come to browse, read, and just soak in the ambiance of alternative culture’s only ‘Literary Landmark’.”
Justin bet $4,514 and finished with $9,314.
Mia bet $6,000 and finished with $12,200.
Ittai bet $5,801 and won the game with $12,401. Ittai Sopher is the new Jeopardy! champ.
2 triple stumpers from TV QUICK TAKES:
($400) Scheming dispatcher Louie de Palma kept his charges in line in this 1970s classic
($600) In a magical turn, Warwick Davis took this title movie role to Disney+ in 2022
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Rock Bands”
In 2017 this band whose singer goes by a nickname became the first to have No. 1 albums in the U.S. In the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s & 2010s show
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That was a weird one – it seemed like a good game, but the numbers don’t support it. Maybe it was how animated Ittai and Mia were.
Someone in the writer’s room needs to be reined in. That “Celery City” and “the Mall City” clue was just unwieldy.
I got FJ. Don’t know why, but I knew it. Only visited SF once, in 1999. The girl I met is now a lawyer. Didn’t see the bookstore there (or, if I did, it didn’t register). And, although I’ve seen more than my share of Chaplin films, didn’t see this one. I’ll take it.
I did not think that all three players would answer the Final correctly, especially with so many triple stumpers today.
I must confess I’ve never seen a Chaplin film. However, I remembered the name of the bookstore in SF when I first visited there in 1972. I believe it was either owned or frequented by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Wasn’t sure all 3 would get FJ, but they did.
I’m mostly giving them a pass because too many of those categories were not in my wheelhouse, notably Slang and Jenna Bush Hager. Although someone said “Detroit” in Double-Vowel Places in Michigan and I think another one said “Minnesota.”
Too bad none of them knew the Louie de Palma reference from that classic sitcom. The chest of drawers wasn’t too tough, and those of us of a certain age remember all to well the first American in space. We watched it on TV in school, and also John Glenn’s later orbital space flight.
Today, only 13 contestants are eligible for the next Tournament of Champions. We still didn’t have a player who won 5 games in a row that they qualify for this tournament.
Our coryat score today for everyone is only $18,800 and $28,800 on 17 triple stumpers. So many triple stumpers in the DJ round caused it to waste time.