Final Jeopardy: History & The Movies (11-1-24)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/1/2024) in the category “History & The Movies” was:
This 1935 Best Picture Oscar winner tells of a 1789 event near the isolated Pacific volcano of Tofua
New champ Greg Jolin, a system specialist & accountant from Raymond, NH, won $24,001 yesterday. In Game 2, he competes against: Julie Phillips, an attorney from Alexandria, VA; and Sam Cameron, finance manager from Fargo, ND.
Round 1 Categories: That’s So 19th Century – Also a Cooking Verb – Only Murders in Buildings – Logos – Styling Hair – Resting in Forest Lawn Cemetery
Greg found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Also a Cooking Verb” under the $1,000 with 9 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $6,000, $3,200 more than Sam in second place. Greg bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
To become pale or white with fear show
Greg finished in the lead with $7,800. Sam was second with $4,400 and Julie was last with $3,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: On the Map – Reptiles – Classical Musicians – Among the Top British Baby Names – Prime Numbers on TV – 6-letter Synonym Pairs
Sam found the first Daily Double in “Prime Numbers on TV” under the $1,200 clue on the 13th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $12,400, $600 more than Greg in second place. Sam bet $5,000 and guessed Seven. That was WRONG.
Her real name turns out to be Jane Ives, & she developed powers due to involvement in the government’s MK-Ultra program show
Greg found the last Daily Double in “On the Map” under the $1,600 clue with 9 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $12,200, $1,200 more than Sam in second place. Greg bet $6,000 and he was RIGHT.
This country at the southwest tip of the Arabian Peninsula borders Saudi Arabia & Oman show
Greg finished in the lead with $23,000. Sam was second with $13,000 and Julie was last with $6,600. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS “MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY”?
“Mutiny on the Bounty” won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1935 at the 8th Academy Awards ceremony. The film told the story of the 1789 mutiny on the HMS Bounty led by Fletcher Christian (Clark Gable). The ship’s captain, William Bligh (Charles Laughton) was set adrift with 18 others about 30 miles south of Tofua. Bligh set sail for Tofua in search of provisions. That part of the story is on Pitcairn Islands Study Center
Fikkle Fame has a post dedicated to the 1935 Mutiny on the Bounty film with additional info, including more clues on other 1935 films and more clues connected to the Bounty.
Julie thought it was “How Green Was My Valley”, 1941’s Best Picture. (She had “Is My Valley” but that didn’t matter.) Julie lost $6,598 and finished with $2.00.
Sam had the same movie as Julie. That cost him $10,001 and left him with $2,999.
Greg got it right. He bet $3,001, winning the game with $26,001 and breaking the 1-day champ streak. Greg’s 2-day total is $50,002.
2 triple stumpers from the last round. (Please don’t put the answers in the comments)
REPTILES ($400) The North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher has these animals at the north end of their natural range, including a popular albino one
CLASSICAL MUSICIANS ($2000) L.A.’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion opened in 1964 with a performance by this Lithuanian-born violinist & longtime USC teacher
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “WORLD CITIES”
The name of this city may come from “dur”, meaning water, a reference to the Helvetian people’s settlement on a lake show
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How did two people give such an off the wall same wrong answer? It’s suspicious.
No, I can assure you that the Jeopardy game has always been above board since its debut in 1964 with Art Fleming.
In hindsight FJ wasn’t that impossible, but I just couldn’t think of it. I did see a version of the movie, probably the 1960s one. I was holding my breath to see if Greg would know the cooking term equivalent to pale/whiten.
Never would have known that middle DD. Have heard of the show and even that character’s name, but otherwise don’t know it. The 3rd DD exposed my utter lack of geographical know-how. Shaking my head how they didn’t recognize the machine that deepens harbors. The Forest Lawn clues were fun and not hard.
Sam sure did well to stay in the game, even after missing a big DD.
As for the 1935 movie, I also couldn’t recall any particular film for that year that would have rated the Best Picture Oscar winner. Actually, I quickly thought of Greta Garbo, but none of her films would match the clues.
These are all the other movies that were up for Best Picture. David Copperfield (W.C. Fields) and Les Miserables (Charles Laughton) are films I would watch again. I remember parts of Captain Blood, Top Hat and Naughty Marietta, but not sure if I saw the whole film.
Alice Adams
Broadway Melody of 1936
Captain Blood
David Copperfield
The Informer
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Les Misérables
Naughty Marietta
Ruggles of Red Gap
Top Hat
You mean that were eligible that year, right? At that time, they only nominated 5.
Well, I got that list from the Oscars website. Wikipedia has the same — looking it up, I found this info: the nominations weren’t limited to 5 until 1944.
Before that, it was
1930: 3 films
1933: 8 films
1934: 10 films
1935-36: 12 films
1937: back to 10 until 1944
I got FJ. For idiot savant reasons, I knew it instinctively. I don’t actually think I’ve seen it (despite all the TCM I watch).
2/3 on DD. Haven’t seen the show with Jane Ives.
Alex Trebek often said “How Green Was My Valley” (1941) was his favorite Oscar-winning movie. That film was set in Wales in the late 1800s.
It was still another great game, and Greg was the only contestant who got the FJ right. Actually, no one should have missed the FJ (including myself) as those clues were just staring at you. Well, I just took a wild stab at it in FJ, and went with Casablanca (which I knew was going to be dead in the water).