Final Jeopardy: Oscar-Winning Films (12-10-19)
More clues from the 12-10-19 Jeopardy! game:
The players got all the clues in BEHIND THE MUSIC:
($400) Freddie Mercury approved the use of this son in “Wayne’s World” just weeks before his death
($800) Gloria Gaynor recorded the vocals to this No. 1 hit while in a wheelchair due to a spinal injury
($1200) Irving Berlin gave Kate Smith this song for her radio shows to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the end of WWI
($1600) George Gershwin composed this 1924 piece as a 2-piano score, leave Ferde Grofé to arrange 1 piano part for full band
($2000) The ancient libation, revived in hip-hop culture, i honored in “Pour Out a Little Liquor” by Thug Life featuring this late rapper
ANSWERS: show
Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — DOUBLE DOUBLE O:
($400) West Indian religion derived from African cult worship
($800) Goodbye! So long! This old-time informal synonym
($1200) Doc’s, this type of billiards establishment, is an important setting in the novel “Native Son”
($1600) Never-failing: the clue is this!
($2000) A bugle boy, or a rhyming form of instrumental blues for the piano
ANSWERS: show
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You go girl!
55/61 right is one of my highest ever.
The film which won the 1970 Oscar was Midnight Cowboy. Patton won in 1971
The ambiguity between a film’s release year and its award year had always bothered me.
The way I see it, it doesn’t change the year of the film’s release just because it wins an award the following year
I learned today that it is “Hasty Pudding”. For years I always thought is was “Hasty Pudding(s)”. The pedantic judges never would have accepted the added ‘s’.
For the question where “pool room” was accepted, would “saloon” also have been an acceptable answer?
Maybe the judges would have to check if alcohol were served in the “pool room”. I don’t know.
I don’t think so. “saloon” only has a single double ‘o’. For whatever reason, “snooker room” came to my mind instead of “pool room”, which, although fulfilling the category name, world probably not have been accepted.
I’m surprised at the triple stumper, given how many times it has appeared on the show.
I had the identical thought.
At last we got a five time winner in Jennifer Quail. The last five time winner we had was Sam Kavanaugh so all Jen needs is one more win to surpass Sam’s score.
Bridge on the River Kwai? That was a 1957 film and it was only nominated for the awards in 1958 and not the 1970s. Did shane misread the clue here VJ? I’m glad that the board was cleared by everyone.
Yes, congrats to Jennifer. She’s cleaning up. Ben was doing a good job of catching up there till he ran into that Daily Double. Jennifer would have had to bet more if he had been able to break her lock, right?
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