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| 'Jeopardy!' tournament: Game-winning play pivots on Plays category (spoiler!) | |
| Last Edit: WaymanWong 01:39 am EST 11/22/22 | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 01:37 am EST 11/22/22 | |
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| ''Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions'' wrapped up last night, and the Final Jeopardy category was: PLAYS. Clue: ''The Jan. 12, 1864 Washington Evening Star reported on a performance of this ''dashing comedy'' to a ''full and delighted house.'' Correct response: What is ''Our American Cousin''? (This, of course, was the play Lincoln was watching when he was assassinated in 1865.) Congrats to the winner, noted in the link below. Due to last night's 49ers-Cardinals game, the S.F. airing of ''Jeopardy!'' was moved to 3 a.m.!) |
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| Link | Deadline.com: 'Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions' Crowns a $250K Winner |
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| re: 'Jeopardy!' tournament: Game-winning play pivots on Plays category (spoiler!) | |
| Posted by: portenopete 10:20 am EST 11/22/22 | |
| In reply to: 'Jeopardy!' tournament: Game-winning play pivots on Plays category (spoiler!) - WaymanWong 01:37 am EST 11/22/22 | |
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| It came to mind immediately but the date could have thrown you because the review came out a year and a bit before Lincoln's assassination. I hadn't realised that Our American Cousin was such a success in its day or that the performance Lincoln attended was a benefit and it was advertised that the President would be in the audience. | |
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| re: 'Jeopardy!' tournament: Game-winning play pivots on Plays category (spoiler!) | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 09:07 pm EST 11/23/22 | |
| In reply to: re: 'Jeopardy!' tournament: Game-winning play pivots on Plays category (spoiler!) - portenopete 10:20 am EST 11/22/22 | |
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| Although the run was surely not continuous, yes, Our American Cousin was definitely a hit. And I have read that it holds up quite well. One day I should read it. | |
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| Have tried three time to edit the above. Something seems to be wrong with the edit function. (nm) | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 09:13 pm EST 11/23/22 | |
| In reply to: re: 'Jeopardy!' tournament: Game-winning play pivots on Plays category (spoiler!) - AlanScott 09:07 pm EST 11/23/22 | |
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| re: 'Jeopardy!' tournament: Game-winning play pivots on Plays category (spoiler!) | |
| Posted by: davei2000 09:35 am EST 11/22/22 | |
| In reply to: 'Jeopardy!' tournament: Game-winning play pivots on Plays category (spoiler!) - WaymanWong 01:37 am EST 11/22/22 | |
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| That was disappointing. There were few theater clues in this final match of 6 games, and then this one, on which the match hinged, was a well-known trivia fact of American history, not requiring knowledge of "Plays" at all... | |
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| I would not have come up with the name | |
| Posted by: dramedy 02:53 pm EST 11/22/22 | |
| In reply to: re: 'Jeopardy!' tournament: Game-winning play pivots on Plays category (spoiler!) - davei2000 09:35 am EST 11/22/22 | |
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| I knew by the date it was probably referring to the play at the fords theater when lincoln was shot, but I could not have come up with the name. After seeing the name, yes, that is the play. | |
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| re: 'Jeopardy!' tournament: Game-winning play pivots on Plays category (spoiler!) | |
| Posted by: HunterHailey 11:16 am EST 11/22/22 | |
| In reply to: re: 'Jeopardy!' tournament: Game-winning play pivots on Plays category (spoiler!) - davei2000 09:35 am EST 11/22/22 | |
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| Well - clearly not so well known since 1 out of the 3 ToC finalists didn't get it. I thought it was a great clue requiring both figuring out the context quickly (which I thought was the easier part) and then having to pull out the name of the play. It's not as if this is a play that is still part of modern theater production schedule . . . Pretty much all final jeopardy clues require you to know a specific piece of knowledge - not an in depth knowledge of the category. I'd suspect the people who knew that answer from a theater chat group is going to be significantly higher than the general population because we do in fact have a knowledge of plays. | |
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| re: 'Jeopardy!' tournament: Game-winning play pivots on Plays category (spoiler!) | |
| Posted by: davei2000 02:33 pm EST 11/22/22 | |
| In reply to: re: 'Jeopardy!' tournament: Game-winning play pivots on Plays category (spoiler!) - HunterHailey 11:16 am EST 11/22/22 | |
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| Maybe, but I think I had heard of Our American Cousin many years before I'd ever seen a play, let alone become obsessed with them - because, like many, I was interested in Lincoln... As you say below, Sam just had a brain blip - on another day, he'd have got the clue right instead of what he wrote, Our Mutual Friend... |
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| re: 'Jeopardy!' tournament: Game-winning play pivots on Plays category (spoiler!) | |
| Posted by: mikem 11:42 am EST 11/22/22 | |
| In reply to: re: 'Jeopardy!' tournament: Game-winning play pivots on Plays category (spoiler!) - HunterHailey 11:16 am EST 11/22/22 | |
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| I'm a little surprised that one of the finalists didn't get it, because there's a lot of variability among players in their knowledge of theater/music/etc, but it's really an American History question at heart, and they all know history as a rule. | |
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| re: 'Jeopardy!' tournament: Game-winning play pivots on Plays category (spoiler!) | |
| Posted by: HunterHailey 12:18 pm EST 11/22/22 | |
| In reply to: re: 'Jeopardy!' tournament: Game-winning play pivots on Plays category (spoiler!) - mikem 11:42 am EST 11/22/22 | |
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| Having been on the show - that 30 seconds goes very fast and while this is a relatively common bit of trivia - it's not as if it is something one thinks about often and fairly easy to find yourself unable to pull it out of the recesses of your memory under pressure. He clearly knew the title at some point based on his answer but couldn't pull it out. But I too would have thought a ToC finalist would have been able to recall it. But I have no quibble whatsoever calling the category "plays". The answer was an infamous play title and this is 100% in line with how they've categorized final jeopardy categories. Frankly - if they called it a "history" question it would have completely undermined the question itself and removed one of the two elements of the question. It was a question about a play - a historically significant one - but a play nonetheless. | |
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| re: Tonight's Final Jeopardy answer ( SPOILER ALERT ) | |
| Posted by: Dale 09:23 am EST 11/22/22 | |
| In reply to: 'Jeopardy!' tournament: Game-winning play pivots on Plays category (spoiler!) - WaymanWong 01:37 am EST 11/22/22 | |
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