Final Jeopardy: Movie Settings (12-15-17)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (12/15/2017) in the category “Movie Settings” was:
The setting for this 1994 Oscar-winning animated film was inspired by Kenya’s Hell’s Gate National Park.
New champ Craig Tollin won $22,001 in yesterday’s game. In his second game, he is up against these two players: Denise Littlejohn, from West Hollywood, CA; and Kiersten Brown, from Champlain, NY.
Alex Trebek opened the show with a tribute to Craig’s victory yesterday: “Winning on Jeopardy! is good. Winning big is better. Winning big after you’ve been in third place for half of the game is, I imagine, the best.”
Round 1 Categories: Coke Slogans Through the Years – Trees – Vote-cabulary – TV Nicknames – Before the Euro – Main Stream Media
Denise found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Before the Euro” under the $600 clue on the 9th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $1,200, $200 more than Kiersten in second place. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
This former currency of Austria sounds like a coin once used in the United Kingdom. show
Craig finished in the lead with $4,600. Kiersten was second with $3,400 and Denise was last with $1,200.
Round 2 Categories: Non-American Gods – Historical Odd Pairs – Only “U” – All My… – Exodus – Live in Texas
Craig found the first Daily Double in “Live in Texas” under the $1,600 clue on the 11th pick. He was in lead with $6,600 at this point, $400 more than Kiersten in second place. He bet $2,000 and guessed El Paso. That was WRONG.
You’ll fit in with all the friendly people living in this big city named for a man buried in Padua, Italy. show
Craig found the last Daily Double in “All My …” under the $2,000 clue, with 2 whole categories still to go. In second place with $8,200, he had $600 less than Denise in second place. He bet $1,000 this time but couldn’t come up with a guess so he was WRONG.
In 1947 Karl Malden & Ed Begley, Sr. starred in this playwright’s first success, “All My Sons” show
Denise finished in the lead with $13,600. Craig was next with $10,800 and Kiersten was in third place with $8,600.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right, as you no doubt expected.
“In November 1991, Disney sent a team of animators to Hell’s Gate National Park in Kenya to do research for the film. Most of the landscapes in the finished movie are based on this park—but not Pride Rock itself, which was created by a Disney artist in Burbank.” Mental Floss: 30 Facts about The Lion King (#20)
Kiersten bet $7,999, bringing her up to $16,599.
Craig bet $6,401. He finished with $17,201.
Denise bet $8,001 bet so she won the match with $21,601 and she is the new Jeopardy! champ. Have a great weekend, everyone. We’ll see Denise again on Monday and, hopefully, you too!
A triple stumper from each round:
TV NICKNAMES ($800) In one episode of “South Park” this character goes south of the border & is referred to as mantequilla
NON-AMERICAN GODS ($1600) In the Bible, Elijah got the better of prophets of this Canaanite fertility deity
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Americana”
While working for a plastics co., Don Featherstone created this iconic lawn decor, basing it on photos in Natl. Geographic. show
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This week marked the one-year anniversary of Cindy Stowell.
When was the last time we’ve had a two-player Final J!?
Looks like October 3rd to me. See the Scores before Final Jeopardy post for that month
The lion king, one of my favorite movies. But it’s sad that mufasa gets killed by scar. Also, VJ, have your kids watched the sequel of the.lion king and any other Disney movies say Peter pan set in London and 101 Dalmatians also set in London?
Yeah, they watched a lot of those Disney movies, both the old and new. I still remember Dumbo and The Fox and the Hound being my daughter’s favorites, though I don’t think she remembers them anymore.
LINK: 8 more clues from the match
In the second film “Simba’s Pride”, Zira mother of Kovu wanted revenge on Simba for killing Scar.
The Aristocats was set in Paris.