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
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
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
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
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
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The DDs were what got Will to where he was. Joyce just dug it out. I think she might have a chance for Second Chance.
Not an outstanding game, but Will was strong, and Joyce hung in there best she could. My current hometown guy Michael kept taking one step forward and two backward.
Final was not tough, although you pretty much had to know where the famous fountain is and what river it’s on. There were some very gettable stumpers: the behind-bars advocate; the former Nike partner; the Steiger movie; and Arch St city.
When I was a college freshman long ago, an upperclassman invited Rod Steiger to campus for a couple of days. I saw him in the lobby of the journalism school building at one of his speeches. They showed several of his films. Great actor, should have won the Oscar for the Holocaust survivor role.
I highly recommend that Rod Steiger film the contestants haven’t seen to them and anyone else who hasn’t seen it. Rod Steiger was just an incredible actor.
P.S. The clue links to my review of that film and it has the movie trailer in there as well
Thanks very much for the link, VJ. I always love reading your reviews and I agree with you about Rod Steiger and the movie.
Thanks, Rhonda. I’m glad you enjoyed the review.
Thanks for editing my post. I momentarily forgot to omit the film’s name, then couldn’t go back to fix it. Steiger showed great acting range in that film and the two that followed.
No problem, Howard
Michael came so close to making it to FJ! but his attempt to get on the positive ended with an incorrect response on that last clue. He came so close though! But he will wind up automatically in third place and receive 2,000.
Had Michael not missed that $400 Colonial America clue at the very end he would’ve been around for FJ!
So this means Michael will be getting the automatic third place prize. Am I right?
Right. Michael’s final score was less than the other players in the positive amount. He scored badly and didn’t play Final Jeopardy, winding up in third place with a $2,000 consolation.