Final Jeopardy: Celebrities (4-11-19)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/11/2019) in the category “Celebrities” was:

This inductee into the video Hall of Fame sold 17 million copies of a videocassette she released in 1982

5x champ James Holzhauer, brought his winnings up to $298,687 yesterday. In Game 6, he is up against: Stephanie Stein, an editor from Brooklyn, NY; and Lewis Black, an attorney from Salt Lake City, UT.

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Round 1 Categories: Dressing Bob’s Burgers – Idioms – War of the Battle – Invented or Discovered – I’ve Got Your Number – TCM at 25

Stephanie found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Idioms” under the $400 clue on the 19th pick of the round. She was in third place with $3,600, $1,400 less than James in the lead. She bet $2,200 and she was RIGHT.

Management consultant Marilyn Loden says she coined this phrase for a barrier to female success in 1978. show

WHAT IS THE GLASS CEILING?

James finished in the lead with $6,600. Stephanie was second with $6,200 and Lewis was last with $5,000.

Round 2 Categories: Movie & Song, Same Title – American Poetry – “Ex” – Around the Indian Ocean – Journalists – Emergency Generator

James found the first Daily Double in “Indian Ocean” under the $2,000 clue on the 4th pick. He was in the lead with $9,800 at this point, $4,800 more than Stephanie and Lewis, tied at $5,000. Naturally, he bet it all and he was RIGHT.

In 1497, this man sailed around Africa and with the help of a pilot crossed the Indian Ocean and reached India. show

WHO IS VASCO DA GAMA?

James found the last Daily Double in “American Poetry” under the $800 clue, with 10 clues left after it. In the lead with $22,400, he had $9,800 more than Lewis in second place. He bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.

Despite his name, he holds with “those who favor fire” for how “the world will end” show

WHO IS ROBERT FROST?

James finished in the lead with a runaway $30,200. Lewis was next with $13,000 and Stephanie was in third place with $11,000.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS JANE FONDA?

In Jane Fonda’s memoir “My Life So Far” (2005), she wrote that her 1982 workout video “remains to this day the biggest-selling home video of all time,” adding the “people started buying VCRs like crazy” after its release. “This is why,” she continued, “I am the first person in the ‘Talent’ category to have been inducted into the Video Hall of Fame, an honor usually reserved for inventors and marketers of hardware.”

From 2001: TILL DEATH DO US PART–NOT! ($200) After splitting with Ted Turner she’s said she’s finished with men, has quit making movies & never exercises

Stephanie went with Madonna. That cost her $4,700 and left her with $6,300.

Lewis got it right. He bet $10,000, bringing him up to $23,000.

James came up with Madonna, too. He lost $3,010 and won the game with $27,190. His 6-day total is $325,877.

2 triple stumpers from JOURNALISTS:

($800) William Cobbett, who wielded a poison quill in England & America from 1794 to 1835, took his pseudonym from this rodent

($2000) NYU’s J-school chose the 100 Outstanding U.S. Journalists of the Last 100 Years; this Post-man is alphabetically last

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “International Symbols”

Now representing an organization, it was formally adopted in Article 7 of the 1864 Geneva Convention. show

WHAT IS THE RED CROSS?

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