Final Jeopardy: Literary Movie Roles (10-27-21)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 10/27/2021 Jeopardy! game. Please don’t put the answers to these clues in the comments so people who missed the game can have a chance to answer them. It is okay to refer to them by category and clue value or by part of the clue.
HANDY ANDY ($600) Jared Harris plays the title artist in the 1996 film “I Shot” him
STATE YOUR HEADQUARTERS ($1000) Aetna, which better have decent insurance on its headquarters there
GIVE ME A BREAK SYNONYM ($600) Broke into thousands of pieces; it’s also the title of a Rolling Stones song …shadoobie
4-SYLLABLE WORDS ($400) It’s Latin for “we do not know” & now an English noun meaning someone who doesn’t know much
($800) This synonym for oppression precedes “complex” describing a feeling that others are out to harm you
($2000) Multiplicative inverse is a synonym for this math term
THE FOREST FOR THE TREES ($1600) Jaguars & ocelots roam the Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological Reserve in this Central American nation
($2000) “The Bulge”– as in the Battle of the– in this forest includes the Elsenborn Ridge in Belgium
INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES ($1600) For decades, Singapore has complained about the price it pays to get fresh water from this country
($2000) Denmark & 3 other countries squabble over the size of the continental shelf of these islands midway between Norway & Iceland
Sneak Peek clues — PLOT POINT REWRITES
($200) “Glad the sharks didn’t get it”, said the dock official, “but we just hit our marlin quota for the season. Toss it, Santiago”
($400) Montag was right, the firemen stopped burning books, & society gave up TV, except for one specific quiz show
($600) The green room was terrifying. A young mouse. The red balloon. The old lady whispering “hush” … sleep would never come to me
($800) McMurphy returned to the ward as his old self, even livelier–instead of planned surgery, the doctor had fixed a troubling hernia
($1000) “Oh, wow, this is super embarrassing! You’re Joseph K.? ‘K’, like Kafka? We were after Joseph J! Our mistake! You’re free to go”
ANSWERS: show
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The range of actresses from Garbo to Knightley clearly indicated it was an old-time classic. Once I saw the Russian name in the bunch, the answer came to me quickly.
A LOT of stumpers tonight. I was able to get a few: the “I Shot” person; Aetna’s home state; the Stones song; the type of complex; and the Bulge forest.
One more thing: Nancy made a near-fatal error on that last DD. With only 2 clues left, both of which turned out to be stumpers, she bet $4K instead of $3K. Either amount would have given her the lead had she been correct. The $4K turned out to give Tyler a runaway. Ultimately, it didn’t matter how much she wagered, but it certainly could have, had she bet $3K and missed but also bet the farm and nail the Final.
I do have the 1935 film ‘Anna Karenina’ starring Greta Garbo. Unfortunately, I didn’t select it in tonight’s game.
Sorry nancy, but it wasn’t your day today. But still though this triple stumper wasn’t that tough because as a movie buff myself, I have seen Anna Karenenina previously since the Movie trivia mentioned this question before. Nice play today by tyler so I hope he gets another win or so. No one here is a fan of historical movies sad to say except me. Let’s hope tomorrow will make things easier for tyler if he can string together 4 wins. By the way VJ wasn’t there another final jeopardy response about Vivien Leigh previously?
You said that the final was an easy one? I was just asking.
I can’t figure out why you keep asking me questions like that, Lou? I mean, your comment indicates that you think you’re the only one here who is a fan of historical movies. I could be mistaken but I think that means you’re the one person on here most likely to know what time period films Vivien Leigh starred in. In any event, there have been plenty of clues about her most famous role.
Tough final as we got a triple stumper. As usual nobody knows about movies.