Final Jeopardy: The Movies (6-29-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/28/2023) in the category “The Movies” was:
Centenarian ceramic artist Beatrice Wood helped inspire one of the main characters & the narrator of this film from the 1990s
New champ Bryan White, a senior regulatory compliance analyst orig. from Santa Maria, CA, won $20,130 yesterday. In Game 2, his opponents are: Alicia Korenman, an assistant director from Durham, NC; and Tenysa Santiago, an American sign language and English interpreter from Berkeley, CA.
Round 1 Categories: At the Farmers Market – Fun with Airport Codes – Lit-Pourri – Pride of the Museum – 21st Century Television – “I” Before “ee”
Tenysa found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Lit-Pourri’” under the $600 clue on the 13th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $3,000, $400 more than Bryan in second place. Tenysa bet $1,000 and guessed Puck. That was WRONG.
This enduring title character was introduced in an 1881 magazine called Giornale per i bambini show
Bryan finished in the lead with $4,600. Tenysa was second with $4,000 and Alicia was last with $3,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Historic Shorts – World “L” – The Hypocritic Oaf – The Law – Writing: Music – Before & After People
Alicia found the first Daily Double in “The Hypocritic Oaf” under the $1,200 clue on the 21st pick. She was in second place with $6,200 now, $6,400 less than Bryan’s lead. She bet $1,000 and thought it was the Medici. That was WRONG.
Pope Alexander VI, a member of this family, seemed to eschew the Bible with his mistresses, children & murders of rivals. show
5 clues later, Tenysa landed on the last Daily Double in “The Law” under the $1,600 clue. In last place with $3,600, she had $9,400 less than Bryan’s lead. She bet $2,000 and said “shrug” 4 times. She knew that was WRONG.
The 1970 law that ties different crimes into a pattern that can be prosecuted ties 4 words into this acronym show
Bryan finished in the lead with a runaway $14,200. Alicia was next with $5,200 and Tensya was in third place with $1,600. All clues were shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS “TITANIC”?
Beatrice Wood was much more than a ceramic artist. She was a strong-willed free spirit who was whatever she wanted to be whenever she wanted. Art was her primary passion and her nickname was the “Mama of Dada”. James Cameron learned about Wood from her autobiography “I Shock Myself” and found inspiration for the backstory of Rose in “Titanic”, his 1997 blockbuster film. MessyNessyChic.com has an article that shows the many connections to Wood that James Cameron came up with, for example: in the beginning of “Titanic”, there’s a glimpse of Rose working away on her pottery wheel. We also can see what a character Beatrice Wood was, describing her acting career as “a pain in the ass”, and crediting her longevity to “art books, chocolates and young men”.
More info on “Titanic: 1997 Best Picture”, including more Jeopardy! clues about it and other 1997 films.
Tenysa thought it was “Ed Wood”. She lost $400 and finished with $1,200.
Alicia went with “Toy Story”. That cost her $1,500 and left her with $3,700.
Bryan came up with “Ghost”. He lost $2,323 but won the game with the remaining $11,877. Bryan’s 2-day total is $32,007.
A triple stumper from each round:
PRIDE OF THE MUSEUM ($1000) The New York City museum named for this man holds one of the world’s largest collections of paintings by Vasily Kandinsky
THE HYPOCRITIC OAF ($1600) Though he gave us “The Social Contract”, this Swiss-French philosopher abandoned his 5 kids in an orphanage
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “American Authors”
“Camelot”, “The Pilgrims” & “A Postscript by Clarence” are chapters in a classic novel by this author show
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The inclusion of the word “ceramic” in the Final threw me off. I also thought it was Ghost. Without that word, I think I would have gotten it.
And I might be totally wrong, but I don’t recall a narrator in Titanic.
I believe Gloria Stuart narrated the story of her much younger self.
That was funny that Tenysa said “shrug” four times when she didn’t know the answer after Mayim read the 2nd DD clue in Double Jeopardy.
The women put up a brave fight in the first round but couldn’t sustain it. They wagered very meekly on the DDs, and missed them all.
FJ was a toughie. I thought “Ghost” would be right once Bryan’s answer was revealed. It fit the decade and the ceramics hint.
First DD from the Italian magazine was kinda obvious. Didn’t get the other 2 but should have. Stumpers also very tough. All I could get were the Swiss-French philosopher; HEL country; Springsteen’s town; “Wrecking Ball”/reaper;
The only stumpers I didn’t get were the 2-day Sultan in “Historic Shorts” and the speech before sentencing in “The Law”. At least on Law & Order, whenever the defendant does that, it’s not exactly a speech– s/he has to admit guilt so I couldn’t make that connection.
I knew the admission of guilt speech answer only because I watched some Sopranos clips on YouTube. Johnny Sacks admitted there is a mafia in his speech.
There wasn’t much to go on given the clues on FJ. Actually, I wonder if anybody had come up with the correct response.
We went from a triple solve to a triple stumper in FJ! In fact, it was the challengers that kept Bryan from finding all three Daily Doubles but they missed and that led to Bryan having a second consecutive runaway. Darn those daily doubles to both ladies.
That’s also our sixth skunking for the daily doubles this season and our third total bust for wagering clues this month.
Those Darn Daily Doubles were what made Bryan score his 2nd runaway.