Final Jeopardy: Fictional Characters (8-17-22)

Today’s Final Jeopardy clue in the category “Fictional Characters” was:

Introduced in 1938 & inspired by movie character Torchy Blane of the Morning Herald, she has since gone on to win a fictional Pulitzer

13x champ Amy Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, CA has now won $536,400. In Game 14, she takes on these two players: Erin Creed, a middle school teacher from Williams Bay, WI; and Do Park, a sportswriter from Minneapolis, MN.

THIS GAME IS A RERUN FROM DECEMBER 20, 2021. CLICK HERE FOR THE ORIGINAL RECAP.

Do Park was selected to compete in the Second Chance Tournament coming up in October 2022

Here are two categories, one from each round of this game:

JEOPARDY! ROUND: The contestants got all the clues in WE 5 “KING”s:
($200) This nursery rhyme guy called for his pipe, his bowl & “his fiddlers three!”
($400) The title Shah Jahan translates as this 4-word phrase, heard in the movie “Titanic”
($600) As its name implies, this type of bird seen here dives into water to feed
($800) Any large sum of money; one was actually paid for the release of Richard the Lionhearted
($1000) Part of ancient Thebes, it was the burial site of many Egyptian pharaohs

ANSWERS: show

DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND: The contestants also got all the clues in “B” MOVIES

($400) 35 years after this film, Harrison Ford reprised his role as Rick Deckard in a sequel set in 2049
($800) Ice Cube inherits this title business & grows into his role as a mainstay of the community in the sequels
($1200) Cameron Diaz did plenty of swearing on the job when she was supposed to be instructing students in this 2011 comedy
($1600) A homeless teen becomes a star football player after he’s taken in by Sandra Bullock in this film based on a true story
($2000) Charlize Theron played Megyn Kelly in this 2019 film about a group of women who take on Fox News CEO Roger Ailes

ANSWERS: show