Final Jeopardy: 20th Century America (7-8-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question in the category “20th Century America” was:

In 1939, turned down by 2 local theaters, Howard University was able to get an outdoor venue for this singer’s yearly concert

Today’s players: James Holzhauer from Las Vegas, NV, Alan Dunn from Johns Creek, GA, and Lindsey Schultz from Pittsburgh, PA.

This is a rerun from 11/6/2019. The full recap is over here

Here are two categories from the fourth quarter-final of the 2017 Tournament of Champions (with Seth Wilson, Lisa Schlitt and Sam Deutsch):

“N” TITLED TO LITERATURE ($200) With this book Jane Austen satirized the fashion for novels like those of Ann Radcliffe

($400) The father of the title character of this Dickens novel dies & leaves the family penniless

($600) This one-act drama by Sartre sounds like a barrel of laughs: an existential portrayal of hell

($800 DD Bet $3,400) Wonderboy is the name of a bat, not a superhero, in this 1952 novel

($1000) Tennessee Williams set this play in a seedy Mexican hotel

THE SILVER SCREEN ($400) For this 2014 Biblical epic, the director promised Russell Crowe no shots of him in the bow beside a giraffe

($800) Penny Singleton colored her hair to play this Chic Young comic-strip heroine in 28 movies

($1200) Neill Blomkamp directed this 2009 sci-fi film in which aliens live in South Africa

($1600) Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in the West” is one of hundreds of films with scores by this composer

($2000) Monty Clift loves Liz Taylor, but Shelley Winters’ bun in the oven overshadows matters in this 1951 tragedy