Final Jeopardy: Actresses (11-27-18)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/27/2018) in the category “Actresses” was:

In 1997 she became the first to win an Oscar for a film directed by her husband; her brother-in-law produced the film

New champ Dylan Hamilton, a pediatric dentist from Durham, NC, won $9,199 yesterday. In Game 2, he is up against: Carol Radlo, a family practice physician, from Sammamish, WA; and Myra Guideng, a wine club concierge from Seattle, WA.

Alex Trebek opened the show with his pet peeve about contestant board-hopping that he talked about in a recent interview with Vulture, offering this advice to today’s players: “It is better to start slowly and then build towards Final Jeopardy! rather than the other way around.”

Round 1 Categories: Many Moons – The Writer Speaks – Trophy Hunter – Sports Stuff – Navy Jargon – Hold the Homophone

Dylan found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Sports Stuff” under the $600 clue on the 13th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $3,200, $2,600 more than Carol in second place. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.

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WHAT IS “HOOSIERS”?

Dylan finished in the lead with $10,000. Carol was second with $3,000 and Myra was last with $1,400.

Round 2 Categories: Language – Familial Music – Travel & Tourism – That’s the Name – Bridge Burners – First “in”, Last “Out”

Carol found the first Daily Double in “Language” under the $1,200 clue on the 4th pick. She was in second place with $4,200 at this point, $5,800 less than Dylan’s lead. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.

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WHAT IS BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE?

Myra found the last Daily Double in “That’s the Name” under the $1,200 clue on the 14th pick. In third place with $6,200, she had half of Dylan’s lead. She bet $2,200 and took a shot with Joseph. That was WRONG.

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WHAT IS CHRISTOPHER?

Dylan finished in the lead with $17,600. Carol was next with $9,400 and Myra was in third place with $2,800.

NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS FRANCES McDORMAND?

“Fargo” (1996) was written, produced and directed by the Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan. Frances McDormand, one of the film’s stars, has been Joel Coen’s wife since 1984. She won the Best Actress Oscar in 1997 for her role as Brainerd Chief of Police Marge Gunderson. The Coen brothers also picked up the Best Writing Oscar (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen). Joel Coen was individually nominated as Best Director but lost to Anthony Minghella (“The English Patient”). The film was also nominated for Best Picture, which would have been picked up by Ethan Coen, but “The English Patient” won that, too.

A 2000 clue: MOVIE DEBUTS ($1000) The folks in Fargo know she married Joel Coen, who directed her first film, “Blood Simple”

Myra was going for Julia Roberts. She bet and lost it all.

Carol went with Angelina Jolie. That cost her $3,500, leaving her with $5,900.

Dylan wrote down “Coppola.” He only lost $1,201 so he won this game with $16,399. His 2-day total is $25,598.

A triple stumper from each round:

THE WRITER SPEAKS ($1000) This “Space Odyssey” author: “I predict that a new species could well appear on earth–what I call robo sapiens”

BRIDGE BURNERS ($1200) At San Jacinto Sam Houston burned Vince’s Bridge, making this fleeing Mexican general easy to capture

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Literature”

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WHAT IS “1984”?

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