Oz in Jeopardy!

There was quite a stretch there of games without any Oz clues. I almost posted one that was about a phrase that was also the title of a song from Wicked (the clue didn't mention Wicked at all, however, so I decided against presenting it). In fact, this next clue, from the April 27, 2018 match, isn't really all that Ozzy, either, unless you have some background. From the category The Matilda Effect (no, I hadn't heard of it, either) in the Double Jeopardy! round, we had this clue at the top for $400:

Tom, the challenger in the middle who eventually ended up in a very distant third place, at least got this one right when he rang in first and responded, "What is a suffragette?" Matilda Gage was, in fact, one of the most famous and well-known suffragettes of the late nineteenth century, a major figure in the struggle to get women the right to vote. However, she also clashed with other leaders of the movement, especially Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and as a result she was eventually marginalized within the movement. She is also an important historical figure, however, because she was the one who encouraged her son-in-law, L. Frank Baum, to start writing down the fanciful stories he told his four sons and their friends. So she is considered by many Oz fans to be the mother of Oz, even though she didn't live long enough to see The Wonderful Wizard of Oz become a surprise bestseller.

This may have been a particularly long dry spell of Oz clues, but boy, would they make up for it in the coming weeks! I'll tell you more about those in a future blog entry.