Final Jeopardy: Movie Musicals (3-16-20)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/16/2020) in the category “Movie Musicals” was:
Water pressure issues in Culver City, home to MGM, impacted the filming of an iconic scene in this 1952 movie musical
3x champ Jessica Babbitt, a personal stylist from Austin, TX, won $71,598 last week. In Game 4, she is up against: Sarah Schmitt, a podcaster & stay-at-home mom from Columbus, OH; and Sid Katz, a retired school psychologist from Cherry Hill, NJ.
Round 1 Categories: Clues Across America – That’s What I’m Walking About – X Marks the Middle Spot – Recent Events – The Woman of the Century – Radio Active
Jessica found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Woman of the Century” under the $600 clue on the 8th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $1,600, twice as much as Sarah in second place. She bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.
Anne Boleyn show
Jessica finished in the lead with $4,000. Sarah was right behind her with $3,800 and Sid was hot on her heels with $3,600.
Round 2 Categories: North Korean Geography – A Novel Passage – Rods & Cohns – Shakespeare Means Something Else – Architecture History – Radioactive
Sid found the first Daily Double in “Architecture” under the $1,600 clue on the 4th pick. He was in the lead with $5,600 now, $1,200 more than Jessica in second place. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
Bernini meant for his design of the colonnades in front of this basilica to represent the encircling arms of the church show
The last Daily Double was in “Radioactive” but the last 3 clues in that category went uncovered so we didn’t get to see it!
Sid finished in the lead with $18,400. Jessica was next with $12,000 and Sarah was in third place with $5,400.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS “SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN”?
According to “Singin’ in the Rain” trivia on IMDB, homeowners using their lawn sprinklers caused the low water pressure problem when they first tried to film the “Singin’ in the Rain” sequence and they had to do the number over the next day. Gene Kelly’s widow, Patricia, confirms that in a Radio Times interview, but she says that “milk in the water” stuff is “really preposterous. What it was, is really, really terrific cinematography and lighting.”
A 2007 clue: WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? ($600) If you have pluviophobia, the fear of this weather condition, we probably won’t find you “singin’ in” it
Sarah went with “The Wizard of Oz”. She didn’t bet anything so she stayed at $5,400.
Jessica got it right. She bet $12,000 and finished with $24,000.
Sid got it, too. He bet $7,474 and won the game with $25,874. Sid Katz is the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
RECENT EVENTS ($800) This game involving scavenging was first announced at the 2011 Spike Video Game Awards but didn’t become available until 2017
A NOVEL PASSAGE ($1600) “Now, Mr. Earnshaw did not understand jokes from his children: he had always been strict and grave with them”
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “U.S. Government”
Before signing the bill creating this, Pres. George W. Bush noted its “nearly 170,000 employees” & “a new kind of war” show
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Jessica played well for three days but I don’t think she is added to the toc. We shall see how long sid can last. Speaking of singing in the rain, VJ. Are there any record albums that have gene Kelly and the best of his music, or maybe a cd rom of his best hits? Sarah couldn’t build any rhythm today.
Did you ever see ‘Xanadu’ with Gene Kelly?
I think I did, but I might check if there is a dvd available for that. Furthermore, it’s been forever since I last saw that movie
Well, tough cookies.