Final Jeopardy: Actresses & Their Roles (5-9-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/9/2023) in the category “Actresses & Their Roles” was:
She made her big screen debut as a teen named Laurie in a 1978 film & in 2022 she played that role for the 7th & last time
4x champ Hannah Wilson, a data scientist from Chicago, IL, won $124,801 so far. In Game 5, her challengers are: Raquel Matta, a copy editor from San Pablo, CA; and Joe Forti, a project manager orig. from Windham, NH.
Round 1 Categories: Less-Than-Stellar Scientific Poetry – People – Grab Bag – 21st Century Quotes – Move Fast – Break Things
Hannah found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Break Things” under the $800 clue on the 20th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $4,800, $3,000 more than Raquel in second place. Hannah made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
This consonant-heavy word means a break in the unity of the Christian church show
Hannah finished in the lead with $13,200. Raquel was second with $3,200. Joe was last with $2,200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: President Who Served – Burt Bacharach – Isthmus Be the Place – Novels – What’s That Smell? – A “Run” for Your Money
Raquel found the first Daily Double in “Novels” under the $2,000 clue on the 7th pick of the round. She was in second place with $5,600, $10,400 less than Hannah’s lead. Raquel made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
The mysterious Anne Catherick strongly favors a certain color in this novel by Wilkie Collins show
On the very next pick, Raquel got the last Daily Double in “Presidents Who Served ” under the $1,200 clue. She was in second place with $11,200 now, $4,800 less than Hannah’s lead. Raquel bet $4,000 and said smallpox. That was WRONG.
Eisenhower did not go overseas for WWI, but earned a medal in part for battling an epidemic of this disease at Camp Colt in Pennsylvania show
Hannah finished in the lead with $26,000. Raquel was second with $14,400. Joe was last with $5,800. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS JAMIE LEE CURTIS?
Jamie Lee Curtis’ film career began in earnest when she was cast as Laurie Strode in the 1978 slasher film “Halloween.” She continued to portray Laurie in “Halloween” movies for many years to come, earning the “Scream Queen” appellation that we might say originally belonged to her mother, Janet Leigh, of the famous shower scene in “Psycho” (1960).
Director John Carpenter is said to have seen Jamie Lee’s hiring as an homage to Alfred Hitchcock, Leigh and “Psycho”. Janet Leigh was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for “Psycho”. Tony Curtis, Jamie Lee’s famous dad, had a brush with the Best Actor Oscar when he was nominated for his performance in “The Defiant Ones” (1959). Jamie Lee did her parents proud when she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for “Everything Everywhere All At Once” (2022).
Joe got it right. He added $5,798 to his score and finished with $11,598.
Raquel got it, too. She gained $8,000 for a $22,400 finish.
Hannah went with “Leigh” (not sure if she meant Jamie Lee’s momma). She lost $3,000 but won the game with the $23,000 she held on to. Hannah Wilson’s 5-day total is $147,801 and she has secured her spot in the next Tournament of Champions.
A triple stumper from each round:
LESS-THAN-STELLAR SCIENTIFIC POETRY ($1000) A 1918 Nobel win/ It is tough to follow / A German physicist / Which kinda rhymes with lyricist? / He’s a man of “constant” sorrow
BURT BACHARACH ($2000) Younger musicians inspired by Burt include this Brit who collaborated with him on the album “Painted from Memory”
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “World Literature”
This 1970s memoir told of harsh places that metaphorically were like an island chain “from the Bering Strait almost to the Bosporus” show
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The responses above regarding the correct betting are still incorrect. Knowing that Hannah has to bet $2,801 to protect her lead, Raquel should have bet all of her money $14,400. Why would she bet only $9,000, she has to get the correct answer to have any chance to win, so if you are going to win, win with the max. I am always amazed at how these smart contestants are soooo stupid at basic math and logical reasoning. This type of poor betting seems to cost someone winning about once every two weeks.
Raquel’s ideal minimum bet would have been $8,800 which would have given her a $23,200 final total as a result of her correct response. Hannah needed to ensure she ended up ahead of Raquel’s best possible final of $28,800, so her best option was $2,801 and, if she missed on the response, she would have totaled $23,199, missing Raquel’s optimal total by a dollar. In a “well-played game,” according to Bialek’s commentary, Raquel blew the chance to unseat Hannah’s champion status. So maybe it was not-so-well-played in the end.
Arithmetic needs to be a strong suit if you’re going to maximize your potential result in Final Jeopardy!
Absolutely stunned by what Raquel might have been thinking with that wager. She had to know that Hannah would have to bet at least $2801 and hope Hannah missed it. (Hannah did look stumped during the musical interlude.) Something close to $9K was the way to go, and instead Hannah backs into the ToC.
Not sure of the $$ amt, but Hannah’s bad answer on the Monroe state that Raquel lucked into may have ensured Hannah a runaway if she’d nailed it.
Very impressed with Raquel getting that Wilkie Collins DD (an author and title I’d never heard of). That Eisenhower DD was tricky. I’d have said smallpox, too. WW1 was a little too late for malaria, which was more common during Spanish-American War. But I thought that epidemic began sometime around the time WW1 ended in 1918.
Wilkie Collins is acknowledged as one of the forefathers of psychological horror. I happened to read “The Woman in White” 3 years ago, and saw the miniseries on PBS with Dougray Scott. Otherwise, I’d not have had a clue! In any case, despite all that, I said “Black Narcissus” for that!
As to Final, it’s incongruous that Hannah knows all that arcanum, yet misses this one. As stated, sometimes better to be lucky than good!
Yes, I went with smallpox too) in the Eisenhower DD.
Would Spanish Flu be an acceptable answer for the daily double about Eisenhower ?
I would have certainly given it to you.
Normally it would be it for Hannah but Raquel didn’t bet enough and she could bet at least 9,000. If she done that, she would have been the winner and we wouldn’t see Hannah again until the Tournament of Champions. But Hannah gets to live another day.