Final Jeopardy: Plays (9-4-23)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (9-4-23) in the category “Plays” was:

The January 12, 1864 Washington Evening Star reported on a performance of this “dashing comedy” to “a full and delighted house”

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This is the HEGEL category from Double Jeopardy!
$400: The key world event of Hegel’s youth was this, which broke out in the spring & summer of 1789 when he was 18
$800: Much of Hegel’s work reacts to this older German philosopher, though his son Immanuel was named for someone else
$1200: Hegel thought understanding comes at the end of a process: this bird “of Minerva spreads its wings only” at dusk
$1600: Opera lover Hegel befriended Anna Milder-Hauptmann, the first to sing the role of this woman who disguises herself as Fidelio
$2000: It’s the method of using opposing views to seek truth; Hegel thought his own style of it was better than Plato’s

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Here is the highlights video from the game, which includes the Final Jeopardy! round