Final Jeopardy: Oscar Hyphenates (10-2-18)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/2/2018) in the category “Oscar Hyphenates” was:

This actor has never been nominated for acting– he won, though, as a writer for 1997 & as a producer for 2012.

New champ Doug Dodson, a classical singer from Boston, MA, won $16,000 yesterday. In his second game, he takes on these two players: Cory Landis, a registered nurse from New York, NY; and Kirsten Morry, a lawyer from Newfound and Labrador.

Round 1 Categories: October Observances – Sailing Into History – Portuguese Primer – Gems & Jewels – Weird Al-Chemy – At the Zoo

Cody found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “At the Zoo” under the $1,000 clue on the 4th pick of the round. He was in a tie with Doug. They both had $600 and Kirsten had not yet buzzed in. He bet the $1,000 allowance and he was RIGHT.

This capital’s zoo was created from the personal animal collection of King William IV of Prussia. show

WHAT IS BERLIN?

Cody finished in the lead with $8,600. Doug was second with $6,800 and Kirsten was last with $800.

Round 2 Categories: French Artists – A Little Dry – Largest Cities – The Broadway Play’s Premiere Cast – Books of the 1940s – After the Zoo

Kirsten found the first Daily Double in “Books of the 1940s” under the $1,200 clue on the 12th pick. SHe was in the red for $800 at this point, $11,600 less than Cody’s lead. She bet the $2,000 allowance and she was RIGHT.

In Chapter 1 of this Betty Smith novel, we’re told that the one in Francie Nolan’s yard “was neither a pine nor a hemlock” show

WHAT IS “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN”?

3 clues later, Doug found the last Daily Double in “After the Zoo” under the $1,200 clue. In second place with $6,000, he had $4,800 less than Cody’s lead. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.

A fertilized egg before it becomes an embryo. show

WHAT IS A ZYGOTE?

Doug finished in the lead with $15,000. Cody was next with $12,000 and Kirsten was in third place with $2,000.

NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS BEN AFFLECK?

Actor-writer-producer, Ben Affleck shared the Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Oscar with Matt Damon for the 1997 film “Good Will Hunting.” He was recognized again as one of the producers of Best Motion Picture of the Year at 85th Academy Awards for “Argo” (2012). At the time, Josh L. Dickey wrote in “Variety”: “No one’s hyphens are blinging right now quite like Ben Affleck’s, whose Hollywood dream began with a screenwriting Oscar and is being heavily re-gilded with “Argo.”

This is Ben’s first FJ! He’s had a couple of categories and here’s a clue from one of them: NO DISRESPECT TO BEN AFFLECK $400: On Kanye’s “nodisrespecttobenaffleck” hashtag, this woman, “alias” Ben’s wife, noted, “I say that all the time”

Kirsten wrote down Day-Lewis. She bet and lost it all.

Cody didn’t have a response. He lost $7,999 and finished with $4,001.

Doug wrote down “backrolls,” assuring Alex that it would go viral. He lost $9,001 bet so he won the game with $5,999. His 2-day total is $21,999.

2 triple stumper from the last round:

FRENCH ARTISTS ($1600) After seeing open warfare in the streets of Paris in 1830, Delacroix began his allegory of her “Leading the People”

AFTER THE ZOO ($2000) A traditional Japanese sandal much like a flip-flop

2 years ago: BOTH players left in Final Jeopardy! got this clue in “In the Novel”

The 1st scene in this book: “With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene” show

WHAT IS “FAHRENHEIT 451”?

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