Final Jeopardy: The Silver Screen (3-1-22)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 3/1/2022 Jeopardy! game. Please don’t put the answers to these clues in the comments so people who missed the game can have a chance to answer them. It is okay to refer to them by category and clue value or by part of the clue.
EDUCATORS ($600) Last name of Carl, the first computer science graduate at Michigan & a teacher & mentor at Michigan State; he had a famous son, Larry
WITH GORGE ($600) Norway’s Toka Gorge is always worth a look, about 25 miles east of this port city, first called Bjorgvin in 1070
($600) America’s highest suspension bridge, Royal Gorge Bridge, is seen here (image), 956 feet above the Arkansas River in this state
ESTEEMED MEN OF ITALY ($2000) Seen here is an electroscope capacitor from this physicist born in 1745 who always went with the current
TV SHOWS BY FINAL EPISODE ($400) This sitcom in 1993: “One for the Road”
Sneak Peek clues — MILITARY MEMOIRS
($200) He recounted some of his campaigns in the 50s B.C. in “Commentaries on the Gallic Wars”
($400) George Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia” offered a firsthand glimpse of the chaos of this country’s civil war
($600) There’s no “Grim” in this title of sniper Nicholas Irving’s 2015 war memoir, also his nickname
($800) “Chickenhawk” is Robert Mason’s true story of the Vietnam War from the point of view of soldiers aboard these transports
($1000) T.E. Lawrence’s chronicle of his desert experiences & participation in the Arab Revolt has this numeric title
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Good, competitive game today. Christine likely would have won if she only had known Fellini, which was not difficult. Legendary Italian director. I applaud her for beating cancer. My own wife succumbed to it after four tough years. I saw a post on FB tonight about how she was receiving treatments during her audition process. But IMO she is not ToC material. She won a nice chunk of change, $75K, and I hope she stays cancer-free and gets the organ she craves to play.
I knew “GWTW” and “It Happened One Night” had both been Best Picture in the 30s, so it was easy to connect the dots from there.
@Howard, please accept my condolences about your wife’s struggle and yes, congratulations to Christine on overcoming cancer.
I have to agree with you about the ToC — there were far too many triple stumpers in Christine’s games for me to think she will do well in the ToC.
As for FJ in this game, I saw all three of those movies and I saw Mutiny on the Bounty with Marlon Brando, too. I prefer the Laughton/Gable film myself but Brando’s has its merits.
The year 1939 was obviously a dead giveaway in FJ as the actor could only have been Clark Gable.
Christine had a great 4 game run and has now qualified for the tournament of champions. Its been a while since our last four day champ John focht made his appearance. The gone with the wind Movie definitely helped me here with Clark Gable since movies trivia in dos also asked the same question in the academy awards category. Now we shall see if Marge can also win four games. But will we see jackie Fuchs in the second chance tournament if anyone here knows?
Lou, I don’t think Christine has automatically qualified for the ToC. If that was the case Ken Jennings would have said something like “we’ll see you in the ToC” but he said “I suspect we have not seen the end of Christine Whelchel.” I’m pretty sure that depends on whether they need to fill the ToC spots with 4x winners by the time they decide to have the ToC. Christine is at the bottom of the ToC Tracker at the moment.
As for the Second Chance Tournament, I don’t believe that is for Jeopardy! champs at all. Jackie Fuchs was a 4x champ in Season 35. I believe The Second Chance Tournament is for people who played really well against unfair odds, like Pam Schoenberg. She was one of the few players who was able to prevent Amy Schneider from getting a runaway. Amy got FJ and Pam did not, but Pam couldn’t have won even if she knew FJ because of Amy’s huge lead.
At any rate, I am hoping they will develop some sensible criteria for the Second Chance Tournament.
Ah I see, Thank you for the information! I definitely hope to see this new criteria and soon. We have had some pretty strong streakers so far in 2021 and this year as well although filling up the spots have been a bit slow with a few 1 day and three game winners who have yet to qualify.
Ken Jennings words don’t sound clear when he gives response to answers.