Final Jeopardy: Theater (7-15-25)

The Final Jeopardy question (7/15/2025) in the category “Theater” was:

The title of a Pulitzer-winning play from 2007 mentions this month, as does another winner from 54 years prior

8x champ Scott Riccardi, an engineer from Somerville, NJ, brought his winnings up to $201,301 yesterday, despite losing his big FJ! bet. In Game 9, his challengers are: Pete Johnston, a filmmaker & educator from Lansing, MI; and Carl Adams, a litigation technology specialist orig. from Des Moines, IA.

Round 1 Categories: Drums & Percussion – King Me – Single – “Double” – Homer – Can He Hit for the Cycle?

Scott found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Homer” under the $600 clue on the 13th pick of the round. He was tied for the lead with Pete at $4,200, Carl wasn’t on the board yet. Scott bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.

The last book of the “Iliad” contains the funeral of Hector; the last book of the “Odyssey” has the funeral of this slayer of Hector show

WHO IS ACHILLES?

Scott finished in the lead with $12,600. Pete was second with $6,000 and Carl was last with $400. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: Science Quiz – Before & After – Doing Time Together – Movies Set in the 1920s – It’s Borderline – That Ship Has Sailed

Carl found the first Daily Double in “Movies Set in the 1920s” under the $1,200 clue on the 8th pick of the round. He was in last place with $2,800, $11,800 less than Scott’s lead. Carl bet $2,700 and he was RIGHT.

In this 1952 film Don Lockwood works as a stuntman elevated to leading man, just before the advent of talking pictures show

WHAT IS “SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN”?

Scott got the last Daily Double in “It’s Borderline” under the $1,200 clue on the 19th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $22,200, $9,400 more than Pete in second place. Scott bet $6,000 and he was RIGHT.

This Mexican state between Sonora & Coahuila has all 3 of the border crossings from Mexico to New Mexico show

WHAT IS CHIHUAHUA?

Scott finished in the lead with $28,200. Pete was next with $15,600 and Carl was in third place with $9,100. All clues were shown.

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ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS AUGUST?

Having August in the title, winning the Pulitzer for Drama and being adapted to film are 3 things these 2 plays have in common.

Tracy Letts’ play “August: Osage County” won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2008. Per dramatists.com, it requires a cast of 6 men and 7 women, and “unflinchingly—and uproariously—exposes the dark side of the Midwestern American family.” The reviews indicate the drama is interlaced with a heavy dose of comedy.

John Patrick’s play “The Teahouse of the August Moon” won the Pulitzer for Drama in 1954, but is usually listed as a comedy. Adapted from Vern Sneider’s same-titled 1951 novel, the play is set in 1945 Tobiki, a town on Okinawa. There, an Army of Occupation officer is tasked with Americanizing the natives, who turn the tables on him. The cast requires 30 people and a goat. The play, a film adaptation and a musical have all suffered for casting whites as Asians.

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Carl stood pat on his $9,100.

Pete bet $12,601 and finished with $28,201.

Scott bet $4,000 and won the game with $32,200. Scott’s 9-day total is $233,501.

A triple stumper from each round:

HOMER ($1000) Izmir in Turkey, a traditional birthplace of Homer, is also called this, like a Georgia city that’s a traditional birthplace of Julia Roberts

MOVIES SET IN THE 1920s ($2000) Gregory Hines starred as Delbert “Sandman” Williams in this Harlem-set Francis Ford Coppola movie that begins in 1928

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “MAN-MADE OBJECTS”

Around since 1998, it’s now roughly the length of a football field & travels at about 5 miles per second show

WHAT IS THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION?

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