Final Jeopardy: Best Picture Oscar Winners (3-18-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/18/2019) in the category “Best Picture Oscar Winners” was:
These 2 films, recent back-to-back winners, both have 9 letter titles that end with the same 5 letters
2x champ Lindsey Shultz, a physician from Pittsburgh, PA, won $55,201 last week. In Game 3, her opponents are: Lauren Owen, a director of analytics from Littleton, CO; and Brian Heavey, an asst. IT manager from Middleborough, MA.
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Round 1 Categories: Inside, the “OC” – Business & Industry – Colorful Lit – Five Guys – Missouri History – TV Series Finales
Brian found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Five Guys” under the $800 clue on the 11th pick of the round. He was in second place with $1,400, $1,600 less than Lindsey’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
On his passing in 2018, the cast of “The Big Bang Theory” tweeted, “Thank you for inspiring us and the world” show
Brian finished in the lead with $7,800. Lindsey was second with $6,000 and Lauren was last with $2,200.
Round 2 Categories: Trident True – The Celebrity Author – Archaeology – 15-Letter Words – Classical Music Prodigies – Country Shortcuts
Lindsey found the first Daily Double in “Country Shortcuts” under the $800 clue on the 3rd pick. She was in second place with $6,800 now, $1,000 less than Brian’s lead. She bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
Israel & Saudi Arabia. show
Lindsey found the last Daily Double in “Music Prodigies” under the $1,200 clue, with 4 clues worth $6,800 left after it. In the lead with $16,600, she had $5,600 more than Brian in second place. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
His father, Hiao-Tsiun, gave him a “cello” when he was 4 by putting an endpin on a viola. show
Lindsey finished in the lead with $21,000 and Brian was next with $12,200. Lauren was out of the game at this point with negative $200.
Only ONE of the contestants left in Final Jeopardy! right.
At the 2016 Oscars, “Spotlight” was nominated for 6 Oscars and won 2: Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture, beating, among others, “The Revenant” which was the favorite to win Best Picture, according to this article on FiveThirtyEight.
And after that: THE MOVIES ($800) A mute Sally Hawkins falls in love with an amphibious creature in this 2017 movie, Oscar’s Best Picture
Brian wrote down “water,” apparently thinking they only wanted the word that was the same. That wasn’t it anyway. He lost $12,139, leaving him $61.
Lindsey got it right. She bet $3,401 and won the game with $24,401. Her 3-day total is $79,602.
A triple stumper from each round:
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ($600) Apparel from PVH Corp. includes Tommy Hilfiger jeans & this 90-year-old swimsuit brand
CLASSICAL MUSIC PRODIGIES ($2000) At 10 this “Saint”ly composer gave a Paris recital & took requests for any of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas he’d memorized
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Papal Names”
From the mid-20th century, it’s the most recent papal name that’s the same in Latin & in English. show
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A brand new week started off in a DISMISSAL, Lauren forgot who was Holmes’ brother, so she was in the red and OUT. Anyway, “Spotlight” deserved the Best Picture Oscar, but “Moonlight”? No. “La La Land” would’ve won and although it was a minor error, it was legitimate because they picked the most deserving winner, then realized the mistake and went to the wrong one. “Moonlight” is the new “Shakespeare in Love”, folks.
P.S.: Good luck on your brackets because March Madness starts this week.
Jeopardy fans would do well to follow the tournament. Villanova was a FJ response a couple years ago after they won it all.
I finalized my bracket this morning. I’d recommend Nate Silver’s “FiveThirtyEight” site, whose predictions in sports and politics are always the best in the business.
Lindsey does not seem arrogant to me at all
Actually, arrogance is not a quality that I would attribute to anyone unless I perceived it in the way they were treating another person or myself
Lindsey comes off as self-confident to me
@VJ
Larry Martin was self confident. Sadly he is gone. To me Lindsey comes off as arrogant. Sorry. My take on her.I don’t have to like the players you do and vice versa. It’s (still) a free country and I am entitled to that opinion as you are to yours and everybody else to her or his.
Neither of my comments was directed at you so don’t direct yours at me
One of my favorite videos, from one of my favorite YouTube channels, breaking down the 2017 Oscar nominees, including Moonlight.
@JP “La La Land” would’ve won. Although it was an error, it was deserved to be the Best Picture Oscar.
I certainly enjoyed La La Land more than Moonlight. I also thought Manchester By The Sea was was excellent. More moments of that movie stuck with me than any other nominee that year.
Brian was a worthy competitor today, contrary to some opinions. Lindsey only had a $3,600 lead when they got down to the last 6 clues when she picked up a $2K clue, then hit the last DD. She might have had a runaway if she bet more on that.
The buzzer clicking happens because she is holding it to close to her mic. How that translates to arrogance is beyond me. But, anyhow, she was shaking it for all it was worth on that Tamerlane clue where Brian and Lauren both got in there before her with incorrect responses. After Lauren went with “Poland”, Lindsey stopped trying to buzz in so that must have been what she was going to say.
LINK: 10 more clues from the match
Another beginning of a week and we have a champ who did NOT crash on Monday. Maybe Lindsey will break the 5 game barrier? Congratulations for win #3 to Lindsey! Maybe it’s something in the transmission, but she seems to come across a little bit arrogant and the way she works the buzzer is – as another comment stated on Friday- a bit irritating.
Congratulations to Lindsey once again on her win. What movies are there that has the word water in them?
“The Shape of Water ” won the year after”Moonlight” (best movie 2017, awarded the Oscar in 2018), just a year before “Green Book” .
I just noticed. Every time the middle player is out, it shows the contestant on the champions’ podium and goes back to the all 3 podiums and it shows his opponent on the left.
I noticed that too. Nowadays, whenever the middle player is out, instead of a fade straight to the right player, there is an extra fade of the 2 contestants on the left & right players, before the fade to the right player, and yes, we got introduced to this ”New Fade” in Kyle Jones’ 3rd game, when he & Andrew Lundy got to play Final Jeopardy!, after not giving Riley Westmoreland a chance.