Final Jeopardy: 1950s Cinema (10-29-19)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/29/2019) in the category “1950s Cinema” was:

Objects of attention in this suspenseful film include a digging dog, a scantily clad dancer & a possible murderer

New champ Steve Moulds, a playwright from Louisville, KY, won $21,200 yesterday. In Game 2, his opponents are: Kari Bale, a stay-at-home mom from San Jose, CA; and Anthony Giordano, a plumber from Walpole, MA.

Round 1 Categories: A Star-Spangled Banner Lyrical Quiz – Gargoyles – Book Numbers – Tons of Fun – Coastlines – Idioms Delight

Anthony found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Tons of Fun” under the $800 clue, with only the $2,000 clue in the same category left after it. He was in the lead with $6,200, $2,600 more than Kari in second place. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.

3,500 years old & weighing 220 tons, one of NYC’s oldest artifacts is the Central Park obelisk known as her needle. show

WHO IS CLEOPATRA?

Anthony finished in the lead with $9,200. Kari was second with $3,600 and Steve was last with $3,400.

Round 2 Categories: Elemental Etymology – TV – Take “Ten” – Grant – Wood – American Gothic

Steve found the first Daily Double in “Grant” under the $2,000 clue, with 2 categories left after it. He was in second place with $13,400 now, $1,000 less than Anthony’s lead. He bet $6,000 and he was RIGHT.

Grant said, “I do not think there was ever a more wicked war than” this one, the first in which he fought. show

WHAT IS THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR?

On the very next pick, Steve landed on the last Daily Double in “American Gothic” under the $2,000 clue. He was in the lead with $19,400 now and had $5,000 more than Anthony in second place. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.

This Southern Gothic O’author wrote her novel “Wise Blood” about a preacher in the church without Christ. show

WHO IS FLANNERY O’CONNOR?

Steve finished in the lead with $22,000. Anthony was next with $16,400 and Kari was in third place with $6,000.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS “REAR WINDOW”?

James Stewart plays photographer L.B. “Jeff” Jefferies in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 thriller “Rear Window.” Stuck in a wheelchair with a broken leg, he takes up spying on his NYC courtyard neighbors. They include the scantily clad dancer (Georgine Darcy) he dubs “Miss Torso.” Suspicious activities by Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr) lead Jeff to believe Thorwald murdered his wife. He also thinks Thorwald killed the “digging dog” so it wouldn’t uncover evidence of the crime.

“Rear Window” is No. 48 on AFI’s 2007 list of the 100 Best Films of All Time. The cast includes three Best Actor/Actress Oscar winners: James Stewart (1940’s “The Philadelphia Story”), Grace Kelly (1954’s “The Country Girl”), and Gig Young (1969’s “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”). Also, the film’s score was composed by 2x Best Music Oscar winner, Franz Waxman. See more “Rear Window” trivia on IMDB

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Kari wrote down “The Maltese Falcon.” She bet and lost it all.

Anthony got it right. He bet $16,399 and finished with $32,799.

Steve got it right, too. He bet $10,801 and won the game with $32,801. His 2-day total is $54,002.

A triple stumper from each round:

GARGOYLES ($800) Paisley Abbey in Scotland added a new gargoyle likely inspired by this 1979 horror film

WOOD ($2000) Visit Mandalay in Burma & you may come home with a table of this wood from which the city’s U Bein Bridge is built

2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Letter Perfect”

George Eastman called it “a strong, incisive sort of letter” show

WHAT IS “K”?

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