Final Jeopardy: Movie Quotes (11-27-19)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (11/27/2019) in the category “Movie Quotes” was:

The 2 single-word quotes on AFI’s list of the Top 100 Movie Quotes; 1 is from 1941, the other from 1967

2x champ Beth Stewart, a receptionist from Naperville, IL, has now won $53,601. In Game 3, she takes on these two players: Ben Zhang, a medical student from Hempstead, NY; and Ellen Keane, a librarian from Stoneham, MA.

Round 1 Categories: British Novel Haiku – Back to Black – The Hollywood Walk of Fame – Here, Kitty – Get “In” – On the Ground Floor

Ellen found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “On the Ground Floor” under the $800 clue, with 4 clues left after it. She was in the lead with $5,600, twice as much as Beth in second place. She bet $1,600 and she was RIGHT.

The massive underwriting room occupies the ground floor of the London headquarters of this company. show

WHAT IS LLOYD’S OF LONDON?

Ellen finished in the lead with $7,400. Beth was second with $3,800 and Ben was last with $3,400.

Round 2 Categories: In the Opera Cast – Words, Words, Words – Joshua Fit the Battle – Celebrity Artists – Pharmacy Knowledge – We Share That Water

Ben found the first Daily Double in “Words, Words, Words” under the $1,600 clue on the 7th pick. He was in second place with $7,000 now, only $400 behind Ellen’s lead. He bet $3,500 but drew a blank so he was WRONG.

This adjective once indicated craftsmanship; now it means “fake” show

WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL?

Beth found the last Daily Double in “We Share That Water” under the $1,600 clue, with 8 clues left after it. In second place with $7,800, she had $5,600 less than Ellen’s lead. She bet $4,800 and was only half right so her answer was WRONG.

Lake Powell– 2 of the Four Corners states. show

WHAT ARE UTAH & ARIZONA?
Beth said Nevada & Utah

Ellen finished in the lead with a runaway $14,200. Beth was next with $5,400 and Ben was in third place with $5,100.

NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT ARE “ROSEBUD” & “PLASTICS”?

In this countdown video of the Top 47 AFI Movie Quotes, “Rosebud” from Citizen Kane (1941) is at 5.33. That’s Orson Welles uttering Charles Foster Kane’s dying word. Rosebud was his childhood sled. That is the only quote from Citizen Kane on the entire list.

“Plastics” from “The Graduate” (1967) is at 1.04 in the video. In context: at the party celebrating Ben’s (Dustin Hoffman) graduation from college, Mr. McGuire (character actor Walter Brooks) tells Ben there’s a great future in plastics. Also on the list from “The Graduate” at No. 63: “Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me. Aren’t you?”

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Ben wrote down “What are nuts and”. Alex said he could have put “bolts” for humor. Ben only lost $302 and finished with $4,798.

Beth went with “Stella” for the first one. (That was a 1951 film). That’s all she wrote and she lost $4,801, dropping her down to $599.

Ellen was half right with “Rosebud” but she, too, was stumped on the second quote. She lost $3,000 and won the game with $11,200. Ellen Keane is the new Jeopardy! champ.

A triple stumper from each round:

BACK TO BLACK ($800) Germans enjoy a sandwich of this black bread, slathered with lard, between 2 slices of rye

CELEBRITY ARTISTS ($2000) Among this African-American actor’s paintings are self-portraits as Lando Calrissian

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Familiar Phrases”

In the 1870s this phrase meant a hairdo, using a British word for bangs; now it’s an extreme group on the edge of a cause. show

WHAT IS THE LUNATIC FRINGE?

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