Final Jeopardy: Espionage (8-3-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (8/3/2020) in the category “Espionage” was:

He was born in India; his father worked for the British government & he was nicknamed for a Kipling character

Today we’re watching a rerun of the first quarter-final of the 2002 Million Dollar Masters Tournament that originally aired on 5/1/2002 and featured: Bob Harris, an author, comedian, and radio commentator from Los Angeles, CA; Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer from Washington, D.C.; and Frank Spangenberg, a lieutenant in the NYPD from Douglaston, NY.

Round 1 Categories: Latin American History – Water Transports – Wax Museums – Autoimmune Disorders – Let Them Eat Cake – So You’re the “Smart” One, Eh?

Rachael found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Wax Museums” under the $800 clue, with 5 clues to go after it. She was in second place with $4,000, $2,000 less than Bob’s lead. She bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.

Appropriately, Potter’s Wax Museum in this Florida city bills itself as the oldest in the U.S. show

WHAT IS ST. AUGUSTINE?

Bob finished in the lead with $7,000. Rachael was second with $6,000 and Frank was last with $4,800.

Round 2 Categories: The New York Times Arts & Leisure – From the Greek – The Renaissance – Middle Names – Hope You Learned Your African Capitals – Places to Put Your Big Winnings

Frank found the first Daily Double in “Middle Names” under the $1,200 clue on the 18th pick. He was in second place with $13,600 now, $1,000 less than Bob
‘s lead. He bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.

This middle name of Supreme Court Justice William Douglas reminds us of an early aviator. show

WHAT IS ORVILLE?

Rachael got the last Daily Double in “NYT Arts & Leisure” under the $1,200 clue, with 2 higher value clues in the same category left after it. In third place with $8,000, she had $14,800 less than Frank’s lead. She bet $1,500 and took a guess with “Aida”. That was WRONG.

The Met’s 2002 production of this opera “calls for 346 people onstage along with a horse (Napoleon’s)” show

WHAT IS “WAR AND PEACE”?

Frank finished in the lead with $19,200. Bob was next with $15,800 and Rachael was in third place with $10,100.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS KIM PHILBY?

Harold “Kim” Philby, a British diplomat’s son, was born in 1911 in British India. From “A Spy Among Friends”: “Philby’s father nicknamed his son Kim after the eponymous hero in the popular Rudyard Kipling novel…. The name stuck forever, but its aptness would not emerge for years.” Philby began spying for the Soviet Union in 1934 and continued to do so when he joined Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service in 1940. Known for passing more than 900 British documents to the KGB, Philby defected to the USSR in 1963 and died there in 1971. Read more on Philby as one of the Cambridge Spy Ring.

In the 1901 Kipling novel, Kim is a white child who can pass for an Indian, spying for the British Secret Service. “Kim” was adapted to the big screen in 1950, with Dean Stockwell in the title role and Errol Flynn as Mahbub Ali.

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Rachael got it right. She added $2,301 and finished with $12,401.

Bob got it, too. He bet $4,200, raising his score to $20,000 even.

Frank thought it was John LeCarré, who co-authored the book shown above on Philby! Frank lost a whopping $12,401, leaving him with $6,799. That made Bob Harris a semi-finalist.

A triple stumper from each round:

SO YOU’RE THE “SMART” ONE, EH? ($200) Cartoon catchphrase meaning the quality of having a higher I.Q. than an ordinary ursine critter

MIDDLE NAMES ($2000) John C. Calhoun’s middle initial stood for this name

More clues on Page 2

6 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “State Holidays”

This is the only state that honors a former U.S. Secretary of State with his own legal holiday show

WHAT IS ALASKA?

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