Final Jeopardy: Cinema History (5-13-24)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/13/2024) in the category “Cinema History” was:

Films made outside the U.S. in the ’50s like “Three Coins in the Fountain” & “Quo Vadis” led to an era dubbed “Hollywood” on this river

New champ Will Stewart, Will Stewart, a political organizer orig. from Nashville, TN., won $25,601 last Friday. In Game 2, he is up against: Michael Richter, an elections worker from Portland, OR; and Joyce Yang, a data analyst from Germantown, MD.

Round 1 Categories: The Golden Age – Celebrities – Same 3 Letters, 2 Different Meanings – Hello, Walls – Big Geo – Also a Collective Noun

Will found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Big Geo” under the $1,000 clue on the 2nd pick of the round. Nobody had any money. Will bet $1,000 and thought it was Chile. That was WRONG.

At just shy of 500,000 square miles of mountains, jungle & arid coastline, it’s the third-largest country in South America show

WHAT IS PERU?

Joyce finished in the lead with $5,200. Will was second with $2,400 and Michael was last with negative $400. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: Literary Title Occupations – ____ From The ____ – Colonial America – Lexicongress – Men Of Medicine – TV’s Fantastical Places

Will found the first Daily Double in “Men of Medicine” under the $1,600 clue on the 7th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $7,200, $2,000 more than Joyce in second place. Will bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.

In 1853 this British anatomist wrote “On The Structure and Use of the Spleen”; his more famous work came 5 years later show

WHO IS HENRY GRAY?

Will found the last Daily Double in “Lexicongress” under the $2,000 clue with 8 clues left. He was in the lead with $13,400, $5,800 more than Joyce in second place. Will bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.

Jason Smith currently holds this title that includes the name of the legislature of the United Kingdom show

WHAT IS THE PARLIAMENTARIAN?

Will finished in the lead with a runaway $18,600. Joyce was second with $9,200 and Michael was last with negative $400 and out of the game at this point. All clues were shown.

BOTH contestants left in Final Jeopardy! got it right.

WHAT IS THE TIBER?

If you knew that the fountain in the first film title is in Rome, or if you knew that “Quo Vadis” is about ancient Rome, then you only needed to switch your focus to the river that runs through Italy’s capital city— the Tiber (il Tevere, in Italian). A lot of movies were made at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome in the 1950s and ’60s. Typically, they were “sword and sandal” epics, like “Quo Vadis” and “The Robe”. There was also romance and comedy, like “Three Coins in the Fountain” and “It Started in Naples”. If the latter was remade today, they could probably leave in the 8-year old boy’s habit of stealing but they would definitely have to cut out his smoking!

According to The Guardian, “Over its history, more than 3,000 films have been produced at Cinecittà, generating 90 Oscar nominations and 47 awards.” Moreover, the Cinecittà complex is said to be making a return to its former glory with help from tax incentives.

Joyce got it right. She bet $800 and finished with $10,000.

Will got it right, too. He bet $100 and won the game with $18,700. Will’s 2-day total is $44,301.

A triple stumper from each round:

BIG GEO ($800) It’s a 7,900-foot plunge down this giant gorge into the Snake River below

LITERARY TITLE OCCUPATIONS ($1600) In a James Patterson novel, an attorney is incarcerated & becomes literally this type of title behind-bars advocate

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “NOVEL TITLES”

A 1590 poem written for the retirement of Queen Elizabeth’s champion knight shares its title with this 1929 novel by an American show

WHAT IS “A FAREWELL TO ARMS”?

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