Final Jeopardy: Singer/Actresses (11-25-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/25/2020) in the category “Singer/Actresses” was:

This California-born woman won a Best Leading Actress Academy Award in 1988, when she had 2 top 20 hit songs

Returning champ, Henry, a software engineer from Lafayette, CA, has won $61,400. In Game 3, he takes on these 2 players: Ryan, a legal technology professional from Los Angeles, CA; and Antonette, an 8th grade humanities teacher from San Diego, CA.

Note: This is Nikki, VJ’s daughter, filling in for my Mom while she is in the hospital, in case you missed her message on the Jeopardy Calendar post. Due to my own time constraints, the recaps will be shorter than usual, but my Mom will work her magic when she returns.

Round 1 Categories: Oh, Hello Songs – ____ the ____ – Put it in the Cabinet Department – Historic Women – All A”board” – Where’s this Train Headed?

Ryan found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Historic Women” under the $400 clue on the 4th pick of the round. He was tied in second place with $200, $200 less than Antonette in first place. He bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.

Lady Jane Grey was proclaimed Queen to keep the throne from this woman, who lived up to her nickname by having Jane executed. show

WHO IS BLOODY MARY?

Ryan finished in the lead with $4,800. Antonette was second with $3,800 and Henry was last with $3,400. No clues went uncovered.

Round 2 Categories: A La Cartography – Authors – Global Cheers – The American League – Chase Scenes – A letter, then a Word

Henry found the first Daily Double in “A La Cartography” under the $800 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. He was in last place with $1,800, $3,000 less than Ryan in first place. He bet $2,000. He was RIGHT.

On Mercator maps these parallel lines gets farther apart as they get more distant from the equator. show

WHAT ARE LATITUDE LINES?

Henry got the last Daily Double in “The American League” under the $1,200 clue, just 3 clues later. In second place with $5,400, he had $600 less than Ryan. He bet $3,000. He answered the NAACP and he was WRONG.

nul.org is the website for this organization that’s been working for African Americans & Civil Rights since 1910. show

WHAT IS THE NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE?

Ryan finished in the lead with $12,000. Henry was next with $10,000 and Antonette was in third place with $4,600. No clues went uncovered.

ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS CHER?

Antonette’s answered Madonna and that was wrong. She bet $4,599 and finished with $1.

Henry took a chance with Whitney Houston and that cost him $799, leaving him with $9,201.

Ryan wrote down Cher and was right. He bet $8,001 and won the game with $20,001.

Some triple stumpers from Round 2:

It’s a general term for maps used by ocean navigators; there’s a book of these “& Coastal Views of Captain Cook’s Voyages”

Charles Dickens may have based Uriah Heep on this Danish author, who left a bad impression when he visited Dickens

This 1998 movie named for Japanese mercenaries gets thrills out of a BMW & a Peugeot speeding through Paris

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