Final Jeopardy: Academy Awards (4-15-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/15/2022) in the category “Academy Award Winners” was:
In 2019 he won his first competitive Oscar, 36 years after a student Academy Award for a film about a Brooklyn barbershop
8x champ Mattea Roach, a tutor from Toronto, Ontario, has now won $182,801. In Game 9, the competitors are: Katie Teller, a dietician from Seattle, WA; and Allan Joseph, a fellow in pediatric critical care medicine from Pittsburg, PA.
Round 1 Categories: In the Zoom Room – 19th Century America – Handle with Air – A Country of Laws – Your TV Host with the Most – Homophonic Pairs
Allan found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “19th Century America” under the $800 clue with one clue left after it. He was in third place with $2,800, $1,800 less than Mattea’s lead. Allan bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
On May 30, 1854 Pres. Pierce signed into law what was officially called “An Act to Organize the Territories of” these 2 places show
Allan finished in the lead with $4,800. Mattea was second with $4,600. Katie was last with $3,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Saintly Spots – Trios – Scientific Canadian – These Songs Really Move – Female Literary Characters – 5-Letter Wordles
Allan found the first Daily Double in “Saintly Spots” under the $800 clue on the 4th pick of the round. He was in second place with $5,600, $200 less than Mattea’s lead. Allan bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
In 1506 Pope Julius II laid its first stone show
Katie got the last Daily Double in “Scientific Canadian” under the $1,200 clue with 3 clues left after it. She was in third place with $7,000, $14,800 less than Mattea’s lead. Katie bet her whole $7,000 and she was RIGHT.
James Gosling developed this 4-letter programming language at Sun Microsystems show
Mattea finished in the lead with $21,800. Katie was second with $14,000. Allan was last with $10,000. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS SPIKE LEE?
From the LA Times: “Spike Lee won his first competitive Oscar at the 91st Academy Awards [2/24/2019]. The filmmaker was recognized for co-writing “BlacKkKlansman,” his film based on the story of Ron Stallworth, a black detective who infiltrated a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s. The film was nominated for six Oscars this year, including directing for Lee and best picture, but took home only the award for adapted screenplay.” Spike Lee shared the honor with co-writers Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott.
Lee has a long history of dissatisfaction with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), dating back to his first nomination in 1990 for directing “Do the Right Thing”. He also was nominated in 1998 for his documentary “4 Little Girls” but did not win. Lee was awarded an honorary Oscar in 2016. Ever controversial, Lee still brought the drama to the 2019 awards when “Green Book” picked up the Best Picture Oscar and he walked out.
Allan got it right. His $5,000 bet brought him up to $15,000.
Katie didn’t have a response. She lost her $8,000 and was left with $6,000.
Mattea got it right, too. She bet $6,201 and won the game with $28,001. Mattea Roach’s 9-day total is $210,802. Mattea will be back on Monday when she will compete against another Canadian: Caitlin Hayes from British Columbia.
A triple stumper from each round:
19TH CENTURY AMERICA ($1000) This literary movement arose in 19th century New England; some of its members experimented with Utopian living at Brook Farm
TRIOS ($2000) A tradition in Northern European art was to show the Virgin & Child not with Joseph, but with this saint, the Virgin’s mother
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Words in the News”
On September 25, 2019, searches on merriam-webster.com for the definition of this 3-word Latin term increased by 5,500% show
IF YOU HAVE SUGGESTIONS FOR CHANGES TO THE SHOW OR COMPLAINTS, PLEASE SEND YOUR FEEDBACK DIRECTLY TO JEOPARDY!
We may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases made from Amazon.com links at no cost to our visitors. Learn more: Affiliate Disclosure.
” I can always make my son laugh with a Samuel L. Jackson impression from the movie where he is the bad money-grubbing brother and sings “I like getting high”
—Oh, VJ, how I would pay good money to see your impression of him! Hehe
Imo, best characterization of a crackhead in a movie, ever. Heartbreakingly hilarious. I saw the movie twice on DVD.
Hope you’re doing well, VJ.
ha ha ha, Cece, I saw that film twice myself and you’re right, Gator was the quintessential crackhead.
I am doing okay though I wouldn’t try to do that “I’m a c-c-c-crackhead” dance anymore.
Reinheitsbegot isn’t the correct spelling, it’s Reinheitsgebot, did they misspell it on the show? (I missed that clue on the show. Hope this helps, that’s what I aim for, helping.) 🙂
They spelled it correctly on the show, McFeisty. That misspelling was on me. Thanks for calling it to my attention. It is a help 😁
This episode showed, to me at least, that Mattea is vulnerable to any amount of strong opponent. I picture, in my mind, how a champion will stack up against other TOC players. To me, she doesn’t go all the way. However, today, I only yelled “I don’t care” once, and, to her credit, this was two days in a row with an appropriate bet.
Happy to see Mattea win again. It only took Jennifer and Mackenzie 8 days to get to the 200K mark. Although Mattea’s amount is a little less than the previous ladies it’s not a bad haul. Good game by all the players today and very few triple stumpers. This game was a lot better than yesterday So we wrap up the week with a new streaker since the 4 game curse in march and a triple stumper. Overall, mattea has done pretty well so far. Lee also had four other films such as Malcolm X, Do the Right Thing, 4 little girls, and she’s gotta have it which are selected by the Library of Congress to be preserved in the National Film Industry. Did you know that Lee also did a commercial for the 501 button fly jeans back in the mid 1990s, VJ? He also directed commercials for Converse and Jaguar too
Here’s what I know, Lou — all that stuff is in Spike Lee’s Wikipedia article and there is no need for you to post it. I sure hope you are not going to do this every day and ask me if I know whatever it is.
No not for every game, not unless there is a triple stumper next time around for final. But anyway though, hope you are having a good friday. Mattea not only has surpassed Buzzy Cohen in wins, but she has widened her knowledge ever since she first started her run. I sure hope buzzy is watching this because he must be proud right now. He is on the chase which starts May 3rd. Hope to see you tuning into that VJ!
Lou, With all that you have posted on FF over the years about how much you have learned in school I’m sure you learned how to cite your sources and what the consequences were if you didn’t. VJ is always very careful to cite her sources. So if you didn’t learn in school you should have learned from reading her works over the years. On Jeopardy websites you are addressing highly educated people who don’t take too kindly to what you’re doing as many have already told you.
If you want to win friends just be yourself. I don’t know if what I have posted is sinking in or not but I’m trying to be kind. I hope you take it that way.