Final Jeopardy: Films of the 2000s (1-19-22)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (1/19/2022) in the category “Films of the 2000s” was:

One of the screenwriters of this 2001 film described it as “‘Clueless’ meets ‘The Paper Chase'”

35x champ Amy Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, CA has now won $1,164,000. In Game 36, she is up against: Ashley Chow, a corporate lawyer from Santa Clara, CA; and Dimitri Apessos, a 8th grade math teacher from New Orleans, LA.

Round 1 Categories: World Leaders – All Ears – How Are We Even Related?! – Potent Potables – An Orange Category – Correct that Number

Dimitri found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “World Leaders” under the $600 clue on the 2nd pick of the round. He had $200. Nobody else was on the board yet. Dimitri bet it all and he was RIGHT.

At age 39 in 2017 he became the youngest president in the history of modern France show

WHO IS MACRON?

Amy finished in the lead with $9,000. Dimitri was second with $5,400 and Ashley was last with $400. All clues were uncovered.

Round 2 Categories: Local Nicknames – “Big” Talk – Cemeteries – Short Novels – Mexico before 1600 – Also a Broadway Musical

Amy found the first Daily Double in “‘Big’ Talk” under the $2,000 clue on the 13th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $17,800 now, $10,400 more than Dimitri in second place. Amy bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.

Ironically, it was cosmologist Fred Hoyle, a leading advocate of the steady-state theory, who coined this term show

WHAT IS THE BIG BANG?

Amy got the last Daily Double in “Cemeteries” under the $1,200 clue with 8 clues left after it. She was in the lead with $24,800 now, $17,000 more than Ashley in second place. Amy bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.

Naturally, Washington Irving rests at this famed cemetery in New York State show

WHAT IS SLEEPY HOLLOW?

Amy finished in the lead with a runaway $32,800. Ashley was second with $6,800 and Dimitri was last with $6,200. All clues were uncovered.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS “LEGALLY BLONDE”?

In July 2021, the New York Times published an oral history of “Legally Blonde” interviewing the stars, screenwriters and other crew members of the film. Kirsten Smith is the screenwriter who revealed that the film was initially pitched as “Clueless meets The Paper Chase.” (“Clueless” (1995) = dumb blonde stereotype + “Paper Chase” (1973) = first year Harvard Law student.) Actress Jessica Cauffiel said the first draft of the movie’s script was “edgy” and “raunchy”, reminiscent of “American Pie”, which goes to show ya that films can still be funny without risque humor. Perhaps most interesting, other stars are named who were considered for a part in the film. Read more on The Hollywood Reporter if you don’t have an NYT subscription.

Coming in May 2022: Legally Blonde 3

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Dimitri got it right. He bet $6,000 and finished with $12,200.

Ashley got it, too. She bet $5,601 and finished with $12,401.

Amy wrote down “Never Been Kissed”. She lost $15,000 but won the game with the $17,800 she had left. Amy’s 36-day total is $1,181,800.

2 triple stumpers from MEXICO BEFORE 1600:

($1600) This people, the first big civilization in Mexico, left behind figures called werejaguars

($2000) The biggest court for the ball game pok-ta-pok was in this 2-word city on the Yucatan whose ruins you can visit today

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Children’s Literature”

Einstein’s theory of relativity & Max Planck’s quantum theory inspired this book that won a 1963 Newbery Medal show

WHAT IS “A WRINKLE IN TIME”?

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