Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Cinema (5-5-22)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 5/5/2022 Jeopardy! game. Please don’t put the answers to these clues in the comments so people who missed the game can have a chance to answer them. It is okay to refer to them by category and clue value or by part of the clue.
ART ($600) Moving from Europe to New York in 1940, Piet Mondrian cut loose & painted 2 major works whose titles contain this rhyming music style
($800) It was for the USA’s centennial that Archibald Willard painted this work showing 3 marching musicians
THE NAPOLEONIC WARS ($800) This country’s Archduke Charles was one of the few Allied commanders able to go head-to-head with Napoleon’s top generals
A GLUTEN-FREE CATEGORY ($1000) This type of logic is named for its twisted nature & numerous holes
NOW FOR THE SECRET WORD ($800) “P” is for this word that refers to communication that’s protected from compelled disclosure in a court of law
ASTRONOMY ($1200) In 2019 Green Bank Observatory found the most massive of this superdense type of star (a teaspoon weighs more than all of humanity)
($1600) Going 1,000 mph, it would take more than 2.8 million years to travel the 4.2-light-year distance to this nearest star system
($2000) This comet with a hyphenated name was broken up by the gravity of Jupiter & fragments of it crashed into the planet in 1994
CROSS THAT BRIDGE ($1200) In March 1945 German troops failed to blow up the bridge at Remagen over this river, allowing U.S. troops an unexpected dry crossing
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Sneak Peek clues — NAME THAT SPORT
($200) kickoff, bubble screen, option route
($400) kickoff, marking, nutmeg
($600) duck, over, googly
($800) time trial, SPDS, brain bucket
($1000) poach, approach, Eastern grip
ANSWERS: show
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I hate to say it but i cant wait for her to lose.
Best show on tv – BUT have trouble understanding Ken – good host, just wish he could talk slower – just sort of mumbles when correcting giving the correct answer to a contestent – I never can figure what he is saying. COME ON KEN PLEASE A LITTLE SLOWER Thank you.
The lady has given us a roller-coaster ride, without seat belts. Breaking through the thin ice, and expecting a “splash”, she proves she can walk on water. I’m glad her streak has equaled her age. Simply amazing!
I completely forgot about the opening newsreel on Citizen Kane, not having seen the movie for many decades. I don’t know how long Miss Roach is going to last (and I don’t want to know), but she has had some squeakers. And there
might be even more!? Every day it’s more adventures of the Perils of Supergirl.
So, in my mind, Mattea continues her run as THE most boring champion I’ve ever seen on Jeopardy! That’s the second time she put some smarmy message on the screen about if it is her last day. Oh, this could have all been avoided if that contestant several weeks ago just knew how to wager.
That bumper with Ken, stating how difficult it used to be to become a contestant, has him saying, “you could win millions of dollars”; perhaps it should get an asterisk with “except if you are Mattea”.
Shortly before 7, I noticed on the Yahoo home page that the #1 trending topic was Mattea Roach.
So I stayed off the internet for the next half-hour to avoid spoilers.
If you know ANYTHING about classic cinema, “Xanadu” and “Rosebud” and “Citizen Kane” are ingrained in your mind. I was sure Sarah would know that; she was SO sharp throughout the game, and pulled off that big DD too.
Also surprised that Mattea missed her DD on bridges. It likely was newsworthy shortly before the show was taped, and if you remembered the Pirates once played in Forbes Field, it was a gimme. But her knowledge of things American is remarkable. Alex occasionally used to point out the disadvantage his fellow Canadians were at on the show.
As sharp as the ladies were, they left a lot of cash on the table. Especially the Archduke’s country; Remagen’s river; the “P: communication; the Archduke’s country; and the Gary Gilmore book. (OK, that last one was tough, but I remember the news story and the Mailer book.)
I remember Tommy Lee Jones played Gary Gilmore in the movie of the same name
I don’t think I would have got the bridge clue correct if I hadn’t got to college, there with my dorm being on Forbes Ave.
Another scare survival for Mattea today and Sarah made Mattea work for that win. Citizen Kane I remember pretty well and I used to have this on a VHS tape once. A memorable movie that i will cherish forever. The girls were pretty much on a roll today and Tj just couldn’t keep up.
Lou, It seems like the stars are lined up in order for Mattea. This was the closest she came to losing. I’m a big fan of the Citizen Kane movie too. Excellent movie.
No, Jacob, in her first week, she got final wrong, and the 3rd place contestant was the only one to get it correct, but made a nonsensical wager, and Mattea slid through. Had the 3rd place person bet correctly, no more Mattea.
Mattea had a close call again. We thought that she would be done but Sarah never watched Citizen Kane and Mattea survived a scare and she will go for two dozen tomorrow.