Final Jeopardy: 21st Century Movies (3-6-20)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/6/2020) in the category “21st Century Movies” was:
After its initial release in 2016, it became the first major motion picture to be dubbed in Tahitian
2x champ Paul Trifiletti, an attorney from Athens, GA,, has now won $38,199. In Game 3, he is up against: Lynn Q. Yu, a screenwriter from Los Angeles, CA; and Mahesh Uttamchandani, an intl. development specialist from Falls Church, VA.
Round 1 Categories: World Place Names – British Politics – Flag Creators – Wanna Bet? – Emmy’s Best Drama – French Words in English
Mahesh found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “British Politics” under the $800 clue on the 9th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $3,200, $2,600 more than Paul and Lynn. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
Since 2016 Baroness Evans of Bowes Park has been the leader of this body show
Paul finished in the lead with $7,600. Mahesh was second with $6,400 and Lynn was last with $3,800. After the commercial break, Mahesh benefited by $1,600 on a reversal (see below). That put him in the lead with $8,000.
Round 2 Categories: Literary Awards – Musicals – Inventions – Postal Abbreviation Words – The Saints – March-ing in
Mahesh found the first Daily Double in “Musicals” under the $1,600 clue on the 4th pick. He was in the lead with $9,600 now, $2,000 more than Paul in second place. He bet $400 and, without hesitation, he was RIGHT (and likely sorry he didn’t bet more!)
The protagonist of this musical writes himself letters, hence the name of the show. show
Paul found the last Daily Double in “The Saints” under the $1,200 clue on the 14th pick. In second place with $6,400, he had $4,400 less than Mahesh in the lead. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
Legend says around 300 A.D., this small European republic was founded by a saintly man & his followers & it still bears his name today. show
Paul finished in the lead with $12,400. Mahesh was next with $11,600 and Lynn was in third place with $11,000.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS “MOANA”?
The 2016 Disney film “Moana” featured the voices of Auli’i Cravalho as the title character, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as Maui, a shapeshifting demigod. A Duolingo post notes that Disney helped keep 2 Polynesian languages alive by translating the film into Tahitian and Maori. It was translated into Hawaiian as well.
Another first: According to IMDB trivia, it was the first Disney film with a largely Polynesian cast.
Lynn wrote down “Thor: Ragnorak”. She lost her $9,399 bet and was left with $1,601.
Mahesh got it right. He bet $801, finishing with $12,401.
Paul got it, too. He bet $10,801 and won the game with $23,201. His 3-day total is $61,400.
Reversal: WANNA BET? ($800) A bettor who correctly picks the order of the first 2 finishers in a horse race wins this precisely named wager – Mahesh said “exactor”. Alex said “No. You were close. What is an exacta.” The judges discovered that Mahesh’s response is a common Canadian synonym for exacta and gave him the thumbs up.
2 triple stumpers from the last round:
LITERARY AWARDS ($2000) The 2017 Women’s Prize for Fiction went to Naomi Alderman for this sci-fi novel where women get shocking abilities
INVENTIONS ($2000) William Burroughs, grandfather of the famous author William S., invented the first practical one of these office machines
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Big Business”
Bill Fernandez, who in 1971 introduced to each other the 2 founders of this Calif. co., became its first full-time employee in 1977 show
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Dorr Felt was the inventor of the first adding machine, The Comptometer. He took William Burroughs to court for patent infringement and won.
Looks like they got that clue straight off the National Inventors Hall of Fame website, though.
“William Seward Burroughs invented the first practical adding and listing machine. “
I’ve only seen that movie once. She was also on Ralph breaks the internet. Her father was overprotective because his friend died in the water. Which is why he won’t let her go in the water.
I’ve never seen it but I could watch it right now — it’s on Disney Plus. My granddaughter loves “Frozen” and goes around singing “Do You Want to Build a Snowman”
On the second movie, it tells us where Elsa’s powers came from.
You may need to edit the first daily double in the second round. It shows the same as the final jeopardy.
I really enjoy reading the recaps. It’s one of the highlights in my day reading them.
Thanks a bunch, Rhys. 😀 I fixed it.
So happy to know you enjoy the recaps. Thanks for that, too!
Exacta and exactor are the same thing.
Apparently so, and according to this, they also would have to accept perfecta
Congrats to Paul on his third win. It seems that he might actually win his fourth game next week. But so far we haven’t had any triple solves this week.