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
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
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
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.
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
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
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Btw VJ & Rhonda, I forgot to mention that Jeopardy won the Emmy last night for Best Game Show. The ladies in my family were watching the Emmy Award Show & yelled to me that Jeopardy won. I got to the Media Room just in time to hear Mike Davies acceptance speech. He mentioned having worked with Merv Griffin. Now I know what Mike Davies, the Executive Producer, looks like on TV anyway. Seemed like a down-to-earth person.
I almost forgot to mention. There was no mistaking his British accent which I always enjoy listening to. It sounds so distinguished imo.
Oh, yes, Jacob, I agree with you about the way the British accent sounds. I was also watching last night and was pleased that Jeopardy won another Emmy for best game show.
is there a video of the emmy speech posted online? can someone please post the link? thanks.
klm, I looked around for a video of that part but I can’t find one on YouTube or anywhere else. You can stream the whole show on Paramount Plus if you have that, or with a free trial if you want to go that route.
It’s also possible that Jeopardy! will put the clip up on their site by Monday.
thanks for the effort VJ. i hope Jeopardy puts it up.
I’m liking Joe. He looks like a well-rounded contestant. Lauren was sharp too. Good match. Both did Maryland proud. I figured Jeff would become toast after he missed the Hewlett Packard clue. That’s basic Business courses knowledge.
Without having read all the comments, I’d not have known you were ailing. I hope that whatever it is doesn’t affect you much longer. Your site is a real treasure.
Very good group tonight. The missed DD was gettable if one knew the Burroughs reference. Not a lot of famous Beat poets to choose from.
FJ was a cinch. If you knew any one of the winner’s 3 movies’ years (I happened to know all of them), it wasn’t too hard to know who the male star of that movie was. And not a lot of men have won 3 Best Actor Oscars. (The corresponding winners were Louise Fletcher, Shirley Maclaine, and Helen Hunt.)
Hmmmm…….In FJ, .I went with Robert Redford, but oh well..
VJ, I hope you feel better soon. Don’t worry about the site – you already did all the important stuff. However, I wanted to agree with you about the Pope poem. Never liked it. Didn’t care if it was satire or criticism. You surely went above and beyond with the second chance. Maybe I will try The Essay on Man. Even at this late date (for me), my mind can be changed. Again, thank you for all you do for us fans. You and your site are gems!
Thank you, Sam. Pope was a Roman Catholic, as you may know. That’s why I mentioned my high school. I wondered why they didn’t teach us the Essay on Man when you can see Pope’s very Catholic views in it. Most likely, they just taught what was in the textbook for that year.
So many quotes come from Pope’s works. “Hope springs eternal” is from the Essay on Man. However, as Brilliant as he was, he just didn’t know when to shut up. You’ll see what I mean by that!
I had a really hard time trying to get my winners image today and now my right arms hurts so much, I gave up till later.
To borrow a phrase from a certain WW2 General, I shall return.
But before I go and rest my arm, I wanted to say that I went to a Catholic high school and we had to study that Alexander Pope poem that was a TS. I disliked it so much it almost turned me off Pope for all time. But I gave him another chance and as it turned out, I love the Essay on Man.
I also will agree about the Pope poem as I am not a huge fan of it either. So maybe I will catch up on the essay of man as well. Praying that your arm will recover soon VJ
Oh and happy to see Joe winning. Congrats to the challengers from Maryland getting final.
Thanks for the prayers, Lou.