Final Jeopardy: Oscar-Winning Actors (6-24-22)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/24/2022) in the category “Oscar-Winning Actors” was:

Each of the 3 films for which he won an Oscar, from 1975, 1983 & 1997, also garnered a best lead actress Oscar

2x champ Jeff Weinstock, a marketing lecturer from Miami, FL., won $29,201 this week. In Game 3, the competitors are : Joe Feldmann, a technology professional from Bethesda, MD; and Lauren Drinkwater, a psychotherapist from Rockville, MD.

Round 1 Categories: North American History – Baseball Babes – Palindromic Numbers – 2022 Anniversaries – Foxes – Words in Comparison

Jeff found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Palindromic Numbers” under the $800 clue, with 4 clues to go after it. He was in third place with $2,200 now, $3,200 less than Joe’s lead. Jeff bet it all and he was RIGHT.

Year of James A. Garfield’s entire presidency. show

WHAT IS 1881?

Joe finished in the lead with $6,800. Lauren was second with $5,200 and Jeff was last with $4,600. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: City Park-ing Places – 5-Syllable Words – Spies Like Them – Facts & Figures – People in Poetry – & On Drums…

Jeff found the first Daily Double in “People in Poetry” under the $1,600 clue on the 12th pick. He was in the lead with $11,400 now, $1,000 more than Lauren in second place. Jeff bet $2,400 and took a shot at it with Sandburg. That was WRONG.

His poem “America” says, “Burroughs is in Tangiers I don’t think he’ll come back it’s sinister” show

WHO IS ALLEN GINSBERG?

6 clues later, Joe landed on the last Daily Double in “City Park-ing Places” under the $800 clue. In second place with $11,200, he had $800 less than Lauren’s lead. Joe bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.

An 1880s deal between George Patton’s dad & L.A. led to a park later named for this other World War II general in 1942. show

WHAT IS MacARTHUR PARK?

Joe finished in the lead with $16,600. Jeff was next with $11,400 and Lauren was in third place with $11,200. Two $400 clues were not shown.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS JACK NICHOLSON?

Jack Nicholson won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Randle McMurphy in “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (1975). Louise Fletcher won Best Actress for her portrayal of wicked Nurse Ratched in the same film. Nicholson won Best Supporting Actor for his role in “Terms of Endearment” (1983) while Shirley MacLaine won Best Actress. Nicholson picked up his second Best Actor for “As Good as It Gets”(1997), and Helen Hunt won for Best Actress.

Per Wikipedia’s list, five other actors besides Nicholson have won 3 acting Oscars: Daniel Day-Lewis (3 Best Actor), Frances McDormand (3 Best Actress). Ingrid Bergman and Meryl Streep each won 2 Best Actress Oscars and one Best Supporting Actress. Walter Brennan won 3 Best Supporting Actor Oscars.

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Lauren got it right. She bet $800 and finished with an even $12,000.

Jeff thought it was Marlon Brando. He lost $11,001 and finished with $399.

Joe got it right, too. He bet $6,300 and won the game with $22,900. Joe Feldman is the new Jeopardy! champ.

A triple stumper from each round:

FOXES ($200) With some of the warmest fur of any mammal, this fox species, Vulpes lagopus, can survive temperatures as low as -58 degrees F.

SPIES LIKE THEM ($2000) This British major asked to be shot by firing squad, but since the charge was espionage, Washington had him hanged in 1780

More clues on Page 2

4 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Fictional Places”

Some residents of the place with this name came from Kensington Gardens, where they had fallen out of their perambulators. show

WHAT IS NEVERLAND?

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