Final Jeopardy: Oscars (4-18-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/18/2023) in the category “The Oscars” was:
Born in 1932 & the son of a percussionist in the CBS radio orchestra, he’s been nominated for 53 Oscars
New champ Daniel Ciarrocchi, a writer from Baltimore, MD won $16,001 yesterday. In Game 2, he takes on these two players: Deb Bilodeau, a winemaker from Oakland, CA; and Jeremy Felton, a chemist from Cary, NC.
Round 1 Categories: Secrets of the Elephants – Let’s Guess Your Wait – Horoscopes – ____ & ____ – Ok Millennial – U.S. + Canadian Postal Abbrevs.
Deb found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Horoscopes” under the $1,000 clue on the 6th pick of the round. Deb and Jeremy were tied for the lead at $800, $200 more than Daniel in second place. Deb bet $1,000 and was RIGHT.
Known for passion & determination, this first sign of the zodiac bears the item sought by Jason & the Argonauts show
Daniel finished in the lead with $7,000. Jeremy was second with $3,600. Deb was last with $3,200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Savoir Fair – Their First Published Novel – Old War – The Otto Club – TV Moms – Definitions from the Devil’S Dictionary
Daniel found the first Daily Double in “Old War” under the $1,200 clue on the 12th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $12,500, $6,900 more than Jeremy in second place. Daniel bet $2,500 but drew a blank. That counts as WRONG.
1462’s Battle of Piltown was the only major battle fought in Ireland as part of these dynastic civil wars show
Just two clues later, Deb got the last Daily Double in “Definitions from the Devil’s Dictionary” under the $1,200 clue. In last place with $4,400, she had $3,100 less than Daniel’s lead. Deb bet $2,500 and was RIGHT.
From Medieval Times: “The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith” show
Deb finished in the lead with $16,500. Daniel was second with $8,300 and Jeremy was last with $8,000. All clues were shown.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS JOHN WILLIAMS?
American composer, conductor and pianist, John Williams has won so many awards in his storied 7-decade career that he has his own Awards and Honors page on Wikipedia. His many nominations are also included. According to that page, he “currently holds the record for the most Oscar nominations [53] for a living person, and is the second most nominated person in Academy Awards history behind Walt Disney with 59, as well as the only person in the history of the Academy Awards to have received nominations in seven consecutive decades.”
Williams won 5 Oscars. His first win came in 1972 for Fiddler on the Roof in the category for Best Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score. His other four Oscars were all in the Best Original Score category: 1976-Jaws, 1978-Star Wars, 1983-E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and 1994-Schindler’s List.
A FAMILY AFFAIR: Now that they included John Williams’ father, Johnny Williams, in a clue, perhaps a future clue will feature John’s son Joseph Williams, an on-and-off member of the rock band Toto.
Jeremy bet it all and doubled his score to $16,000.
Daniel bet $8,202 and finished with $$16,502.
Deb bet $101 and won the game with $16,601. Now Deb Bilodeau is a Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
THEIR FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL ($2000) Introducing George Smiley, “Call for the Dead” (1961)
OLD WAR ($1200) In 732 he defeated an invading Muslim army in the decisive Battle of Tours, earning the nickname “The Hammer”
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Astronomy”
As Huygens observed in 1656, a weapon in this constellation contains a nebula, one of a few that can be seen with the naked eye show
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Very strong race down the stretch for Deb. I thought writer Daniel would run that First Novel category, but Deb nailed most of them. But I was surprised none of them knew George Smiley’s creator. (Haven’t read his books, but knew the character. And that famous author’s name is a pseudonym.)
Didn’t hurt to know that JW was lauded for his 90th birthday last year. But pretty easy FJ anyway after a long run of toughies.
That French Olympics city was tough, but we sports junkies remember stuff like that. I winced when Deb pronounced the “x” in Chamonix. “Cool your (blank)” was a low-$ softball of a clue.
Didn’t matter in the long run, but “Dynastic war” was a near giveaway on that DD clue.
Daniel has only one wrong in the show today, because of the Daily Double blanking.
Here is another interesting source I found for the “cool your” TS that connects it with horses.
As a very old equestrian, I loved this!!! On a completely different note – modern age slang was “cool your jets” and prison was once referred to as a “cooler” which was also the name of a movie starring William Macy as a casino employee hired to break up a customer’s winning streak. (Sorry but I’m on my third cup of coffee)