Final Jeopardy: TV Finales (12-26-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (12/26/2022) in the category “TV Finales” was:
In a reunion over 40 years in the making, Dolly Parton appeared as an angel named Agnes in the final episode of this comedy in 2022
7x champ Ray Lalonde, a scenic artist from Toronto, Ontario, has now won $192,700. In Game 8, he is up against: Sarah Schmeer, an executive assistant from Portland, OR; and Bobby Freitas, a middle school teacher from Long Beach, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Word Puzzles – The 18th Century – The Office – Vacation Isles – Apps & Websites – Remember the Alamo Bowl
Ray found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “The 18th Century” under the $800 clue on the 9th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $1,800, $200 more than Sarah and Bobby who were tied in second place. Ray made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
Early works on popular science appeared, like one on this British scientist “For the Ladies, or Dialogues on Light & Colors” show
Ray finished in the lead with $7,000. Sarah was second with $4,400 and Bobby was last with $3,400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Sounds like a University – Stage Musicals by Song Lyrics – Africa – Your Elemental Hit Parade – Write Place – Wrong Time
Ray found the first Daily Double in “Africa” under the $1,200 on the 9th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $13,800, $10,200 more than Sarah in second place. Ray bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
Battlefields of this war include Spioenkop in the Kwazulu-Natal Province show
Sarah got the last Daily Double in “Wrong Time” under the $1,600 clue on the 17th pick of the round. In second place with $6,800, she had $9,600 less than Ray’s lead. Sarah bet $4,000 and she was RIGHT.
This idiom applies literally if you promise to pay 10 bucks on Tuesday & show up with 9 on Wednesday show
Ray finished in the lead with $21,600. Sarah was in second place with $11,600 and Bobby was last with $3,400. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS “GRACE AND FRANKIE”?
Jane Fonda was Grace and Lily Tomlin was Frankie in the popular Netflix comedy “Grace and Frankie.” The two co-stars had previously starred with Dolly Parton in the hit comedy “9 to 5” (1980) as 3 working girls whose boss is an incorrible male chauvinist. “Grace and Frankie” wrapped up its 94-episode run in its 7th season with Parton in a cameo appearance as Agnes, a working-class angel in another nod to “9 to 5”.
At the end of the show’s run, “Grace and Frankie” became the longest-running original Netflix series, beating “Orange Is the New Black”‘s 7 seasons, 91 episodes. According to Digital Spy, “This is even more impressive when you take into account Netflix has become notorious for calling time on its shows at around the season four mark….”
Bobby didn’t have a response. He lost $3,000 and finished with $200.
Sarah got it right. Her $11,500 bet brought her up to $23,100.
Ray got it right, too. He bet $5,000 and won the game with $26,600. Ray surpasses the $200K mark today with an 8-day total of $219,300.
A triple stumper from each round:
THE OFFICE ($600) A popular office snack is the granola bar made since 1975 & named for this place we think is between Death Valley & Silicon Valley
WRITE PLACE ($1600) This classic 1934 novel opens, “I am living at the Villa Borghese”, Henry Miller’s name for Paris’ Villa Seurat
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Famous Americans”
After his public comments were criticized by FDR, he resigned his Air Corps Reserve commission in April 1941 show
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Another example of why I think Ken is the best host – I don’t know if he had it on his notes, but, in the TS about a platonic female, he said the film mentioned by two, which were wrong, was from 1940. Whether extemporaneous or not, it sounded like it, and didn’t sound forced.
As for FJ, I saw Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in my mind, but, I said “Frankie and Johnny”! I knew it wasn’t right, but, I don’t have Netflix, and I have never seen “Grace and Frankie”.
Jason, Imo Ken is a walking encyclopedia. Don’t forget he has written numerous trivia books (I think the publications are in the double digits), has been on several trivia shows such as Masterminds, the Chase, etc., and has been nominated for an Emmy as well as a Grammy in the spoken word category. For the latter award nomination, he played a huge role in the Alex Trebek audio book when Alex was terminally ill.
I’m not aware of too many people who have achieved what Ken has at such a young age.
I think, no, I am sure, my favorite moment was when he pointed at the picture and said, “As Dean Martin would have said, “that’s a moray!” “
Sarah was so close beating Ray but she is likely to come back for the second chance tournament. Happy to see Ray winning game 8 now. He has tied with Jennifer Quail and mackenzie Jones with the number of wins.