Final Jeopardy: Scary Movies (4-12-17)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/12/2017) in the category “Scary Movies” was:
A remake of this scary movie was released on 6/6/2006, 30 years to the day after the release of the original.
2x champ Greg Chin has now won $37,599. In Game 3, he is up against these two players: Jane Joseph, from Wilmington, DE; and Trevor Mahoney, from Louisville, KY.
Round 1 Categories: Back to School With Politicians – How Do You… – True Story – State the National Monument – Here We “Ar” – Happy 70th, David Letterman
Greg found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “How Do You…” under the $600 clue on the 5th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $1,000, $200 more than Jane in second place. He made it a true Daily Double and didn’t have a response so he was WRONG.
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Trevor finished in the lead with $3,000. Jane was second with $2,400 and Greg was last with $1,000.
Round 2 Categories: Dave’s Not Here, Man – Biology – We Salute You – Shakespeare Is Killing Me! – Puppets – Feeling Sheepish
Jane found the first Daily Double in “Shakespeare is Killing Me” under the $12,000 clue on the 3rd pick. She was in second place with $4,000 now, $200 behind Trevor’s lead. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
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Greg found the last Daily Double in “We Salute You” under the $1,600 clue, with 6 clues still to go after it. In the lead with $10,200, he had $1,400 more than Jane in second place. He bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
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Greg finished in the lead with $14,400. Jane was next with $8,800 and Trevor was in third place with $8,600.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
From IMDB Trivia on the original film: “The Omen” was sneak-previewed in the USA on June 6, 1976. Damien Thorn, the devil child, was born at 6 am on June 6, 1970. The film takes place from June 6, 1970 to 1975.
From IMDB Trivia on the remake: “The film was released to coincide with the date 06/06/06 in order to spark interest and gain publicity.” Other items note that Harvey Stephens, the original Damien, had a cameo as a tabloid reporter and Mia Farrow, the mother of a devil child in “Rosemary’s Baby” (1968), played Damien’s nanny.
Trevor thought it was “The Exorcist” (1973). He lost his $2,600 bet and finished with $6,000.
Jane got it right. She bet $8,602, bringing her up to $17,402.
Greg picked “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” the title of the 2003 remake. (“Chain Saw” was 2 words in the 1974 original). He lost his $2,600 bet. That left him with $11,199 and made Jane the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
TRUE STORY ($1000) Peter Mathiessen’s memoir of hiking in the Himalayas has this title, also a rare feline of that region
PUPPETS ($800) In this movie a Variety headline says “Malko ankles screen for strings”
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “The Greek Alphabet”
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Uh, the image and triple stumpers for this game should be up later today.
@Dalton, does that mean you’re sending me that info? (grin)
Sorry VJ!
I was just kidding with you, Dalton
forget the part about would both answers be correct i meant should jeopardy have specified UK or US
I don’t think the way the clue was worded was misleading and I kinda think if they specified U.K. in the clue, it may have been more confusing to the contestants.
In any event, there are a lot of places online that say there were sneak previews of the movie in theaters across the U.S. on 6/6/1976, even though that’s not the official U.S. release date. Here’s one on AFI’s website (but I linked to the IMDB Trivia item instead because this is in the notes and you really have to be looking for it):
“The filmmakers forfeited $2,348,892 in box office sales by holding two sneak previews in 547 theaters on 6 Jun 1976 and 10 Jun 1976….”
according to wikipedia and other web sites the omen was released on 6/6/1976 in the UK and 6/25/1976 in the US would both answers be right
How did Greg miss this? I thought he would have been like Arthur Chu or something. But oh well. At least Greg gave it his best though. Still it would be great to see another multi game champion before the teacher’s tournament again. By the way, vj, what scary movies have you seen in the past well at least a few that you could remember aside from Texas chainsaw Massacre and Saw series
I’m not a big fan of scary movies.
@Lou, I don’t watch much in the horror dept. Never saw the Texas Chain Saw films. I’ve been around when other people were watching them and seen parts here and there, like the Nightmare on Elm Street stuff, Tales from the Crypt and so on. I saw the first Chucky movie and that one was more comedy to me than horror.
Showgirls
@Jlane, my grandson helped me with this recap. He got FJ before the music even started playing!
I got to see the first 9 clues, then it got preempted for a press conference.
Your grandson did a great job helping you with the recap, VJ – He’s obviously a very bright fellow who takes after his grandma! 🙂