Final Jeopardy: Hollywood Legends (4-28-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/28/2021) in the category “Hollywood Legends” was:
This director was quoted as saying, “I believe I can take any 60 pages of the Bible and make a great picture”
New champ Dana Schumacher-Schmidt, an English professor from Tecumseh, MI, won $20,600 yesterday. In Game 2, she takes on these two players: Hari Parameswaran, a college student from Xenia, OH; and Leah Caglio, a product manager orig. from Phoenix, AZ.
Round 1 Categories: Would You Look At That? – Flag on the Play – “Land” Fill – In-Car-cerated – Modern Hebrew – America Before 1800
Dana found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “America Before 1800” under the $600 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. She was in the lead with $600, $600 more than both Hari and Leah. She bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.
In December 1732, Benjamin Franklin published his first edition of this, for the coming year show
Leah finished in the lead with $5,000. Dana was second with $4,800 and Hari was last with $200. Two clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: Authors Not Going Places – Their TV Roles – What a Hoard! – We Have Such Chemistry – “AU” – Get Off of My Cloud
Hari found the first Daily Double in “Authors Not Going Places” under the $1,200 clue on the 1st pick. He was in third place with $200, $4,800 less than Laura’s lead. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
Bram Stoker consulted the 1865 book this region: “Its Products and Its People” to write about a place he never went show
Hari got the last Daily Double in “Get Off of My Cloud” under the $1,600 clue, on the 10th pick. In first place now with $10,200, he had $3,600 more than Leah in second place. He bet $4,000 and he guessed “nacreous.” That was WRONG.
Poet John Milton coined this “precious” term for the upside of a cloud show
Hari and Leah finished in a tie with $13,800. Dana was next with $10,000. Two clues went uncovered.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS CECIL B. DEMILLE?
This was a tough quote to pin down and the only similar one I found was in a 1950 edition of a Long Branch, NJ newspaper after I searched on “60 pages from the Bible”. On Brainy Quotes, DeMille said: “Give me any two pages of the Bible and I’ll give you a picture,” which appears to be most prevalent. In any event, Cecil B. DeMille was legendary for his biblical epics, including two versions of “The Ten Commandments” (1923 & 1956), “The King of Kings (1927) and “Samson and Delilah” (1949).
An old clue from 2013: “DE” BEST PEOPLE ($1200) This director of “The Ten Commandments” was a founder of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
Dana got it right. She bet $5,000 and finished with $15,000.
Hari went with “Mel Gibson.” That cost him $13,800 and left him with nothing.
Leah got it, too. She bet $3,795 and won the game with $17,595. Leah Caglio is the new Jeopardy! champion.
2 triple stumpers from THEIR TV ROLES:
($1200) Angela Bower on “Who’s the Boss?” & Shelly Pfefferman on “Transparent”
($1600) Tilly Mitchell in “Escape at Dannemora” & Dee Dee Blanchard in “The Act”
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Geographic Nicknames”
This term for an area of the Atlantic originated in 1964 in Argosy, a pulp magazine show
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Many of the female contestants bet like they’re shopping and they want to spend the absolute least.
The wagering is truly unbelievable. Hari arguably is the only contestant that plays it “correctly” here. Leah’s wager is designed to prevent losing to Dana if they both get it wrong, but HOW can that be her main concern? She HAS to wager everything like Hari does. And if Dana is going to win, she has to assume that the other two both wager everything and miss, so why not go all in and wager everything but $1, or if you don’t want to win with only a buck, I don’t know, wager $9900 which could leave her as a $100 winner. I understand that it’s not necessarily “wrong” to wager the $5K (she still wins if the other 2 wager “correctly” and miss) but we’re here to both win AND make as much money as possible, right? So if you’re in for $5k, why not more?
Leah’s wagering strategy would have cost her had Hari been correct and won the game.
She bet $3795, which would have been enough to beat Dana if both women had missed Final.
But her relatively small wager meant that Hari also had to be wrong with a sizable bet, or correct with a small one.
Dana’s 5K bet was more or less proper; she had to be right and hope the other two missed Final or bet $0. As it played out, though, she’d have won the game with a large enough wager.
One of those games with many possibilities.. Leah’s cloud had a silver lining.
Now that i am 53 i love when a young person loses due to lack of experience. If i ever got on the show i would love to go up against 2 girls in law school. Girls in law school are high on themselves and are lacking knowledge due to their youth, which makes a perfect storm of disaster for the young ladies.
We actually quite often have good young contestants Albert. Some notable examples from this season are Morgan Briles, Brayden Smith (who sadly passed away recently), Zach Newkirk, Ryan Hemmel, and many more. Today’s young contestant ended up missing an easy daily double which cost him the lead however he still would’ve lost even had he gotten it.
well, I just have to say that I particularly admired Hari’s performance in Chemistry, a category I certainly couldn’t compete in at his age or ever. Many young contestants are criticized for knowing more about pop culture than anything else. That certainly doesn’t describe Hari. He’s a brilliant young man.
Yes he played very well for a college student. I was rooting for Leah but it was impressive that somebody that young did so well.
For Hari, Mel Gibson is ancient history.
That’s really funny. Reminds me of the younger people who ask if Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings.
Cooper has a weird time lag in his response to correct answers.
Which he seemed to correct right after Leah said, “Oh, I guess not,” following his extended pause. They must have talked to him.
I noticed something a little strange, also.
It would have been great to see another tie in final jeopardy. But still a great game by the players. I’ve never heard of nacreous clouds before ever since learning about the weather during grade school science. This is pretty new to me.
What was Hari thinking of with Mel Gibson?
Lou, Hari was unwittingly making JJ’s wish that someone would say Mel Gibson come true. 🤣🤣 Mel did direct “The Passion of Christ” though.
I was rooting for Hari to win, it’s a shame he was too young to come up with DeMille. He was still a baby when “Passion of the Christ” came out.
Rhonda I’m still traumatized by the triple stumper on Canal Street. I thought it was well-known outside of New York city. I guess not.
I was quite surprised at that, too, Jacob, but I must say I had no idea that it appears in movies so frequently.