Final Jeopardy: 1960s Films (10-31-18)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/31/2018) in the category “1960s Films” was:
Chocolate syrup, casaba melon & Playboy model Marli Renfro were enlisted to create an iconic scene in this film.
New champ Emily Frey, a professor from Swarthmore, PA, won $17,701 yesterday. In Game 2, her opponents are: Adam Soffrin, a behavior analyst from San Francisco, CA; and Swapna Sathe, an engineer from Loveland, Ohio.
Happy Halloween everybody!! Check out Alex Trebek’s costume:
Round 1 Categories: Game Show Hosts – Take a “Nee” – Reports of My Death… – It’s a Witch – A Skeleton – Give Them Some Candy
Emily found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “A Skeleton” under the $600 clue, with 7 clues to go after it. She was in the lead with $5,000, $1,400 more than Adam in second place. She bet $1,400 and, with no response, was WRONG.
This arm bone was named for its supposed resemblance to the spoke of a wheel. show
Emily finished in the lead with $3,800. Adam was second with $3,600 and Swapna was last with $2,400.
Round 2 Categories: Halloween With Gene Simmons – The First Millennium – Philosophy – World Capital Punishment – Song Title Women by Lyric – Ottoman-opoeia
Emily found the first Daily Double in “Philosophy” under the $1,200 clue on the 8th pick. She was in the lead with $5,000 now, $1,000 ahead of Swapna in second place. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
Kierkegaard said a leap of faith into a relationship with God is the way to deal with this German for “dread”. show
5 clues clues later, Emily landed on the last Daily Double in “World Capital Punishment” under the $1,200 clue. In the lead with $8,200, she had $2,200 more than Swapna in second place. She bet $4,000 and she was RIGHT.
This capital of Barbados got its name from the type of structure seen here.
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Emily finished in the lead with $18,600. Swapna was next with $15,600 and Adam was in third place with $7,600.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Indie Wire has an Oct 2017 video interview with Marli Renfro who does not mention that she was 11 years younger than Janet Leigh, the star she body doubled for. IMDB’s “Psycho” trivia page says the chocolate syrup was Hershey’s, as well as mentioning the casaba melons used for the sound of a knife penetrating flesh.
The melons were also mentioned in a “Psycho 101” category in the 1/21/2010 Jeopardy! game. Pat Sajak was one of the celebrity contestants and he got 3 of the clues.
Adam wrote down “Goldfinger.” He lost $7,598 and finished with $2.
Swapna got it right. She bet $5,000 to finish with $20,600.
Emily got it, too. She bet a hefty $12,601 so she won her second game with $31,201. Her 2-day total is $48,902.
A triple stumper from each round:
IT’S A WITCH ($800) A girl is whisked away to Endor College of Witchcraft by “The Little” this, the title of a classic by Mary Stewart
THE FIRST MILLENNIUM ($1600) This “Venerable” monk & author who died in 735 is known as “The Father of English History”
Swapna mentioned that her 8-year old son wanted to be a game show host during the chat and at the end of the show, Alex Trebek let him take over the hosting duties
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Entertainment Weekly’s 50 Greatest Movie Directors”
He “inaugurated a new depth–both visually…and emotionally…and (had) a voice that paid the bills until he died” show
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I just remembered to put in the screenshot of the end of the game when Alex brought Swapna’s future game show host son onstage. That was cute!
Thanks for doing that, VJ. I had already turned the tv off and didn’t see it. What a cutie he is!
Does anybody else think Emily resembles Mary-Louise Parker, especially when Emily smiles? Just my observation.
@ Albert
A little. Body language would help, since that often establishes a resemblance, but you don’t see that on J. that much. LOVED “West Wing”, btw… too bad there are no reruns.
I wonder if we will see a religious related FJ tomorrow. It’s All Saints’ Day…?
Yeah, I almost forgot: HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
In Lahaina it’s a big deal, hundreds of people fly from the mainland for the Front Street Parade and festivities in Lahaina. Fortunately it stopped raining, yesterday would have been a bummer!!! You spend hundreds of bucks (or more) and then you get rained out!! So don’t let the ghosts get you (come to think of it, FJ was kind of a “tongue in cheek” or “scary” clue for the day…)
And don’t eat too much candy , you don’t want to get a tummy ache😒!!!
I know🤢. After the kids get sick and after the candy gets crazy in the stomach, you will have to eat healthy fruits to make it stop. Then the kids will have enough candy for the whole entire year.
Not down here — it’s raining cats and dogs!!
That’s hilarious!
Happy Halloween! HA HA HA HA!!!
I am just too young for that, but that’s no trick. Emily Frey got it right and waged A BUNDLE. The words “chocolate syrup” in the clue sounds familiar, coming out from the WWTBAM 2nd Edition PS1 game, but the other two, I don’t know. I have some questions:
1. What is casaba melon?
2. What are your favorite Hitchcock films?
@J C B
1. A yellow melon with some flesh inside that looks and tastes somewhat like Papaya
2. “To catch a thief (C. Grant, G. Kelly).North by Northwest.
@JP, Good points. As I mentioned earlier on Spoiler Talk, the clue meant nothing to my under age 30 daughter. She isn’t into black & white films to begin with. On the show, there are times when the players just blank out, so it’s not right to just assume that s/he didn’t know it.
Still, for someone who is planning on being on the show, it’s a good thing to know that “Psycho” is one of their go-to ’60s movies. “West Side Story”, “The Graduate” and “Easy Rider” are others I can think of off the top of my head.
LINK: 11 more clues from the game
@VJ
Absolutely. And I think it was an easier FJ than “Grendel” last week, a way more generation FJ and everybody got it. Sometimes you think “Everybody HAS to get it….” BUT…
And then it’s a clue where you think “NO WAY, anybody gets this”. But by coincidence a player read about it in a magazine on the flight to L.A. S/he would have had NO CLUE 2 days ago, but now: BINGO. I guess it’s one of the reasons why J is so popular and attractive: there is NEVER a 100% sure thing and you know that I am usually not to fond of “0” or “3” predictions, but this was an exception.
@JP
I didn’t want to bother you . But since you brought it up I figured you had to be under 40 or even 30. But some things you KNOW or at least you SHOULD know, regardless of age, e.g. “Who was the first man on the moon” or “What date was the invasion of the Normandie”, “Who was President during WW II”). I am sure you know those things and you were not around yet???
I agree that you need not have lived through something in order to have knowledge of it, and your examples are good.
However I think a distinction can be made between those historical facts, and more pop culture oriented facts (movies, television, and music) which tend to be learned by osmosis rather than formal education. It is these older pop culture questions that put younger people at a disadvantage, on my view. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, as younger people have their own advantages.
@JP
You are right. Give me an iphone with 10 apps and I’m lost.
PS
Bridgetown isn’t exactly a WORLD capital anymore (used to be when you still had the times of the West India Companies and all the colonial possessions in the Caribbean,,primarily Dutch and British). I wonder if Emily recognized the bridge or just took a well educated guess? Maybe she’ll say something. Haven’t seen the show yet.
Adam didn’t stand a chance with the ladies today. And also goldfinger is a james bond film starring Sean Connery which I am sure VJ and John, you guys remember right? What was Adam thinking in his response? Emily made a big risk today and it actually paid off for her. Though I hope she continues her winning trend this week and get a streak going. Happy Halloween to you guys on fikkle fame
@Lou
And as I said: a behavior analyst??? Oh the irony! Who should know if not Adam??????
And I can’t actually remember a lot of blood in the 007 movies to begin with. People drowned, were blown up, were poisoned and if they were shot blood made rather a fleeting appearance. Psycho was SO graphic, the music together with the screams…jeez….
Yes, Lou, I saw “Goldfinger” eons ago. Shirley Bassey had a big hit with the theme song of that film.
And all of us struck out again, the unanimous THREE prediction was rendered incorrect by….drumroll…..a behavior analyst = sort of shrink. How is that for irony for a movie like “Psycho”????
I know, speak no evil of players, but under what rock is he living? Even people who never saw the film know about this shower scene. It’s just about the most famous single scene in a movie, not just of that genre. But, there is always a BUT…. like:
BUT then the 2 ladies seemed to have Adam left and right anyway. He did not even have half of Swapna’s second place total before FJ.
Emily risked quite a bit in the world capital category which eventually won her the game. (Net 4.600 in all 3 DDs). CONGRATULATIONS to Emily.
I haven’t seen the movie, but am familiar with the shower scene. There is nothing in the clue in any way that pointed me to the shower scene from Psycho, so I was just as lost.
@JP
The chocolate syrup was the dead giveaway for me. That was mentioned every time the movie was mentioned or talked about.
I think I was disadvantaged being under 30 years old. It’s not a part of my age group’s cultural lexicon.
It often seems many people here set up a formula for how a clue should be solved:
C + F = A
Where ‘C’ is the content in the clue, and ‘F’ is some fact or set of facts, and ‘A’ is the answer. In other words, if you read the content of the clue and know F, you should get the answer without fail.
And then when a contestant doesn’t get the correct answer, you assume they don’t know the fact(s) in the equation, and then berate them for not knowing this fact that everyone must surely know.
(i.e. ‘ but under what rock is he living? Even people who never saw the film know about this shower scene. It’s just about the most famous single scene in a movie, not just of that genre.’)
However, that formula is typically incorrect. In most Final Jeopardy clues there tends to be some variable X in the equation that is actually required to solve the clue:
CC + F + X = A
In today’s example, I’d say the ‘X’ would be the knowledge that chocolate syrup was used for the shower scene. Sometimes that ‘X’ is additional fact (like the chocolate syrup), or it might be some inference or educated guess that has varying degrees of obviousness to different people.
I bring this up because it is something I’ve noticed recur again and again here over the months, and I find it surprising that people who are obviously very bright would make this mistake in reasoning again and again.
Oh, and while we’re at it, JP, let’s not tar every poster on here with the same brush —
(i.e. And then when a contestant doesn’t get the correct answer, you assume they don’t know the fact(s) in the equation, and then berate them for not knowing this fact that everyone must surely know)
There are a couple of over-the-top remarks on here from time to time and people read them differently but the majority of posts are not knocking anyone. I read John’s ‘living under a rock’ remark as an exaggeration of his shock that someone missed the clue although he didn’t have to go there with it.
Ironically, just the other week, John jumped all over Albert because he thought that Albert insulted Alan Dunn by saying the show prefers young and cool players to old and boring ones. A poor choice of words, perhaps, but Albert has said at least 3 times on here that he is over 50 years old himself so if he was knocking an age group, it was his own.
Tough day for Adam, the girls were too fast today.