College Championship Rerun: 8-22-17 Semi-Final No. 2

Today’s Jeopardy match originally aired on February 21, 2017. It was the second semi-final of the 2017 College Championship. The players were: Viraj Mehta, Mohan Malhotra and Clarissa Santori.

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There’s a list of clues over here, that includes the NEW YORK TIMES’ MOVIE REVIEWS category. Here is a similar category from a year earlier (THE NEW YORK TIMES: MOVIES, 1/8/2016) all read by NYT film critic A.O. Scott.

$200: When I reviewed “Despicable Me”, I referred to these supporting characters as “industrious little doodads” that look like “extra-strength pain-reliever capsules with eyes and limbs”

$400: “The Walk”, which recreated Philippe Petit’s high-wire crossing of this landmark, was “meticulous and dazzling”

$600: David Oyelowo played Martin Luther King with “grace and dignity” in this 2014 film that ends in 1965 in Montgomery, Alabama

$800: The New York Times said of this 2015 sequel starring Channing Tatum: “The plot is as flimsy as a G-string”

$1000: My review of this film starring Oscar winner J.K. Simmons & Miles Teller was titled “Drill Sergeant in the Music Room”