Final Jeopardy: Buried at Westminster Abbey (7-1-25)
The Final Jeopardy question (7/1/2025) in the category “Buried at Westminster Abbey” was:
In 1991 he became the first actor in over 85 years to be interred in Poets Corner & rests near Shakespeare’s memorial
New champ Dave McBride, a compliance consultant from Fuquay Varina, NC, won $22,401 yesterday. In Game 2, his challengers are: Heather Kompanek, a product support manager from New York, NY; and Jason Singer, a real estate agent from Portland, ME.
Round 1 Categories: I Love Lamp – Homophones – Places Named For Places – Sounds Like Royalty – Please Welcome To The Stage… – Sting!
Jason found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Homophones” under the $800 clue on the 13th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $3,400, $1,800 less than Heather in second place. He made it a true Daily Double and he came up with the correct response one second after the time out sound so he was WRONG.
Illegal & to provoke a response show
Heather finished in the lead with $3,600. Dave was second with $3,200 and Jason was last with $2,400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Roman Britain – Stanford Alumni In Your Life – Tough TV – Literary Characters – Art House – “Sh”!
Jason found the first Daily Double in “Art House” under the $2,000 clue on the first pick. The scores were the same as above. Undaunted by his bad luck in the first round, Jason went for a Daily Double again. This time, he was RIGHT. Whew!
One of the lonely scenes painted by this American is 1925’s “House by the Railroad”, utterly devoid of people show
Jason got the last Daily Double in “Tough TV” under the $1,600 clue, with 10 clues left after it. In the place with $11,200, he had $1,200 more than Heather in second place. Jason bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
JFK famously dubbed this show that’s still around today “the fifty-first state” show
Jason finished in the lead with $17,800. Heather was next with $11,200 and Dave was in third place with $6,000. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS LAURENCE OLIVIER?
Per Westminster Abbey’s website, Laurence Olivier, Baron Olivier of Brighton (1907-1989), died at his home on 7/11/1989 but it was not until 9/16/1991 that his ashes were interred in front of Shakespeare’s memorial in Westminster Abbey. Olivier was considered the greatest actor of the 20th century by many (because when you’re that great, someone has to pop up and say you’re not)!
Particularly admired in Shakespearean roles, Olivier won the Best Actor Oscar for the title role in “Hamlet” (1948). He also was nominated for Best Actor 9 other times, once for Best Supporting Actor and once for Best Director. On top of that, he got 2 Honorary Oscars.
Dave wrote down “Yorrick”. To me, that signified he knew who it was but didn’t think he had a chance at winning. Dave lost his $1,300 bet and finished with $4,700.
Heather got it right. She bet $4,000 and finished with $15,200. Since her only chance at winning was if Jason was wrong, I guess she decided to hang on to as much as she could.
Jason got it right, too. He bet $4,601 and won the game with $22,401. Jason Singer is the 13th new Jeopardy! champ in a row, tying the 2002 record for most one-day champs. Jason also wished they would bring his wife, Susan McMillan, back. She had a runaway game on 3/26/2021.
A triple stumper from each round:
PLEASE WELCOME TO THE STAGE… ($800) In 2001 Nick Jonas, single digits in age, debuted in “Annie Get Your Gun”, starring this legend of country music
TOUGH TV ($2000) In 2018 this foreign-born sitcom star continued her reign as the highest-paid TV actress
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “CLASSICAL MUSIC”
Composed around 1720, this group of instrumental works was dedicated to a younger brother of Prussian king Frederick I show
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0/3 on DD, but got FJ. I remembered him due to a rather risqué skit on Saturday Night Live. I’m not sure if I can share it here.
That’s a funny coincidence that Yorick was mentioned 2 shows in a row!
Sir Larry made The Boys From Brazil after his harrowing part as Dr Christian Szell, “der Weiße Engel”, (“The White Angel”) in Marathon Man. He played a Nazi in one (“is it safe”, reigniting millions of people’s fears of the dentist), so had to play a Nazi hunter in the next.
@Jason, I have no idea why your post went into moderation. Just saw it.
p.s. This was a clue in the 2/3/2015 Teachers’ Tournament game:
THAT’S A REALLY GOOD QUESTION ($800) Laurence Olivier wants an answer to this 3-word question in “Marathon Man”, then he strikes a nerve
It was a triple stumper but I remember it because Alex did an impression of the answer.
“Alas, poor Dave McBride, I knew him well.” Yorrick? Seriously? Buried in Westminster? After crashing on all 3 DDs, Final came to me in a second. BTW, according to Wikipedia, he was cremated and buried in Poet’s Corner in Oct 1989, not 1991 as stated in the clue. Didn’t see a lot of his films, but my favorites surely are “Sleuth” and “Boys from Brazil.”
Great comeback by Jason. I thought he got in in time on the 10 Jews praying clue, and was a whisker too late on the DD. All players were good, he was the best and got to try all 3 DDs. Methinks Jason will break the streak of one-and-done champs.
Knew the 10 Jews praying, guessed the high-paid TV star and the legend of country music. Knew 4/5 of the SH clues, all but the dog breed, which should have been the $2K clue, not the shillelagh.
VJ: thanks for the feedback on Bush v Gore. I’d forgotten about the appellate process and that the Fla court overturned the earlier result in Bush’s favor. My memory these days is hanging by a chad. 🙂
Howard, the clue isn’t wrong. They held a memorial service after he died in 1989 but didn’t inter his ashes over there until 1991.
His widow, Joan Plowright, died in January of this year.
🤣 about the chad.
Thanks so much. Wiki definitely wrong, then.
Two of my favorite Sir Larry roles are Heathcliff in “Wuthering Heights” (1939) and George Hurstwood in “Carrie” (1952), based on a Theodore Dreiser novel. It also starred Eddie Albert and Jennifer Jones, as the woman they both fall in love with. Ray Teal was in it, too. That old boy was in so many films plus he was the sheriff on Bonanza.
“A Place in the Sun” with Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor and Shelley Winters is another film based on a Dreiser novel.
I like the Sir Larry appellation, but of course he moved up the nobility ladder and became a Baron/Lord. Ken even called him Lord Olivier.