Category: The Movies Clue: The title of this award-winning 1963 film refers to the number of films it director felt he had made to that point.
Answer: 8 1/2
I didn't know the answer. I thought it was Ocean's Eleven or something.
And incidentally, two contestants ended up tying at $15, 401. This being the Tournament of Champions week, they couldn't end with a tie (Alex mentioned that this was the first time this happened in 20 years), they had to go into sudden death. Another Final Jeopardy! clue was given, and the first person to buzz in and answer it wins. I'd never seen that before, so it was kind of exciting. Here was the sudden death clue:
Category: Child's Play Clue: A Longfellow poem & a Lillian Hellman play about a girls' boarding school share this timely title.
Answer: the Children's Hour
I wasn't able to spit out the answer, the girl was too fast for me. And for what it's worth, I'm really not that big of a fan of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He was wildly popular during his time, but his stature has diminished significantly among scholars in the 100+ years since his death. Aside from grade school teachers who need poems with plodding rhyming couplets that their classroom of 9-year-olds can easily recite, I don't know of any other curriculum that actually teaches Wordsworth these days. His work just isn't academic enough. When it comes to his 19th century American poet contemporaries, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe, and Walt Whitman all make him look like an amateur.
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