Final Jeopardy: Academy Awards (8-29-22)

Today’s Final Jeopardy clue 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.

THIS GAME IS A RERUN FROM APRIL 15, 2022. CLICK HERE FOR THE ORIGINAL RECAP.

xxx was selected to compete in the Second Chance Tournament coming up in October 2022

Here are two categories, one from each round of this game:

JEOPARDY! ROUND: The contestants got all the clues in YOUR TV HOST WITH THE MOST
($200) This “Daily Show” host acted on a South African soap opera called “Isidingo” when he was 18
($400) This “Good Morning America” co-anchor left Southeastern Louisiana as the women’s basketball program’s third all-time leading scorer
($600) He began hosting “The Price Is Right” in 1972 & reminded you to help control the pet population by having your pet spayed or neutered
($800) Before starting her self-titled talk show, she sang for her supper & shared the silver screen with Justin Guarini
($1000) She went “Live!” as a title daytime TV co-host in 2001 but in the ’80s, got to show off her moves on “Dance Party USA”

ANSWERS: show

DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND: The contestants also got all the clues in FEMALE LITERARY CHARACTERS

($400) A specialist in waterproof fires, she was known to use a time-turner so she could be in 2 classes at once
($800) This 3-letter Caroline Kepnes novel finds young Guinevere Beck stalked by a Big Apple murderer
($1200) Fitting its title well, Elinor, the oldest Dashwood girl in this Austen novel, has a good head on her shoulders
($1600) In the sci-fi novel “Gideon the Ninth”, Gideon is a cavalier bonded to Harrowhark, one of these bone-raising conjurers
($2000) This enchantress from the “Odyssey” is the sympathetic heroine of a 2018 novel by Madeline Miller

ANSWERS: show