Final Jeopardy: The Movies (5-21-24)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/21/2024) in the category “The Movies” was:
Louise & Lisa Burns, twins featured in this 1980 film, told a magazine, “We’re naturally spooky!”
4x champ Grant DeYoung, a grocery clerk from Prescott, AZ., has now won $81,203. In Game 5, his challengers are: Sam Spar, a CPA orig. from Burlington, VT; and Chris D’Amico, a verifications specialist from Lakewood, OH.
Round 1 Categories: Here Comes the Son – The New York Times – Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch – Expensive Graduation Gifts – Perfectly Unbalanced
Grant found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Perfectly Balanced” under the $800 clue on the 1st pick of the round. Nobody had any money. Grant bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
Industrial Workers of the World, give us this unsteady word for a member of that group show
Grant finished in the lead with $3,800. Chris was second with $3,400 and Sam was last with $600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Band Books – 5-letter Chemistry – An Organization With Alliteration – TV – 19th Century Britain – “I” Is The Only Vowel
Grant found the first Daily Double in “Organization with Alliteration” under the $1,600 clue on the 14th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $9,800, $1,600 more than Chris in second place. Grant bet $4,000 and guessed Ladies Con Leche. That was WRONG.
The 7 women who founded this breastfeeding advocacy group in 1956 chose a name that combines English & Spanish show
Grant found the last Daily Double in “Band Books” under the $800 clue with 7 clues left after it. He was in second place with $9,800, $1,600 less than Chris’ lead. Grant bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
Salman Rushdie’s “The Ground Beneath Her Feet” merges rock & roll with the myth of this lyre-playing hero show
Chris finished in the lead with $12,600. Grant was second with $12,400 and Sam was last with $3,400. All clues were shown.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! righ
WHAT IS THE SHINING?
Louise and Lisa Burns (10 years old at the time) played the dead Grady girls in “The Shining” (1980). The film starred Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall, and was based on Stephen King’s novel of the same name. The Grady ghosts appear to Danny Torrance (5-year-old Danny Lloyd) with this scary invitation: “Come and play with us, Danny, forever, and ever, and ever.”
The Burns twins talked about their “Shining” experience in a 2015 interview with The Daily Mail. They said director Stanley Kubrick never intended to use twin sisters for the Grady girls. “If we hadn’t auditioned then the roles would probably have gone to two girls of different ages, like the characters in the book.” They got the roles because Kubrick “decided twins were just spookier.”
Sam bet $1,999. She finished with $5,399.
Grant bet $399, finishing with $12,799.
Chris bet $12,500 and he won the game with $25,100. Chris D’Amico is the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
HERE COMES THE SON ($1000) They’re the 3 first names (or initials, fine) of J.S. Bach’s most famous son, whose work bridges his father’s time & Mozart’s
BAND BOOKS ($1200) This “numeric” Emily St. John Mandel book finds the “Traveling Symphony” playing tunes in a post-apocalyptic America
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “LITERATURE”
A contemporary review of a novel by this man said he “commands attention as a kind of literary James Dean” show
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I did better than average in the game, but missed the FJ. Actually, I never did care for the1980 film.
Personally, I thought the book was scary. The movie not half as much.
I was in NJ in 1965. The Newark Evening News ran a Sunday contest some years before that where people would rate pictures of women by their beauty. My mom won one week and split a $9K prize with 2 other winners.
Personally VJ, I thought that the movie was a dud.
FJ stumped me. Never read the novel or saw the film. Exterior shots of the hotel were done in what’s now my home state. At least I got the first and last DDs.
I still know exactly where I was on 11-9-65 when that not-so-“Great” event happened in NYC. The $3 trillion company is near and dear to me. I assumed that at least 1 of 3 people could figure out the highest peak in HI, especially after two botched it.
Grant’s multiple faux pas eventually caught up to him. If he returns against elite players, his margin for error won’t be as great as it has been.
As nearly always, concur. That first half of the first round was downright scary. At least the game picked up as time went on. It got good as the race to the last clue happened.
The new champ looked like he was having vision problems. Maybe that was just me.