Final Jeopardy: The Oscars (8-7-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (8/7/2020) in the category “The Oscars” was:

The 2 Best Picture nominees for 1983 that featured astronaut characters

Today we’re watching a rerun of the last quarter-final of the 2002 Million Dollar Masters Tournament that originally aired on 5/7/2002 and featured: Robin Carroll, an instructional designer from Marietta, GA; India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York City, NY; and Babu Srinivasan, a history professor at Prairie View A&M University from Houston, TX.

Round 1 Categories: Play Ball! – French Lit – Welcome Back, Carter – Composers – The Natural World – The New York Times Crossword Clues

Babu found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Play Ball!” under the $600 clue on the 17th pick of the round. He was in third place with negative $400, $3,400 less than Robin’s lead. He bet the $1,000 allowance and he was RIGHT.

This legend was born in Narrows, Georgia December 18, 1886. show

WHO IS TY COBB?

India finished in the lead with $4,800. Robin was second with $2,600 and Babu was last with $1,400.

Round 2 Categories: Playbill – The 1940s – Greece – Women in Labor – 15-letter Words – The Headaches of Millionaires

Robin found the first Daily Double in “Headaches of Millionaires” under the $1,600 clue, with 5 clues left after it. She was in third place with $5,400 now, $7,800 less than India’s lead. She bet $5,000 and she was RIGHT.

Visit Monte Carlo & you’ll be expected to bet big playing this game from which chemin de fer is derived. show

WHAT IS BACCARAT?

India got the last Daily Double in “Playbill” under the $1,600 clue on the very last pick. In the lead with $13,200, she had $4,400 more than Robin in second place. She bet $5,000 and she was RIGHT.

This musical’s “American Dream” ended on B’way after 4,097 performances–& a lot of helicopter flights. show

WHAT IS “MISS SAIGON”?

That put India in the catbird seat with $18,200 and a runaway. Robin was next with $8,800 and Babu was in third place with $6,000.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT ARE “THE RIGHT STUFF” & “TERMS OF ENDEARMENT”?

Frank Capra names the 5 films nominated for Best Picture in this video clip from the 1984 Academy Award ceremonies. Very charming when he takes his time announcing the winner. 🙂 Jack Nicholson can be seen in the audience after “Terms of Endearment” wins the Oscar. He played a retired astronaut in that film and won Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Besides Best Picture, James L. Brooks won Oscars for Best Director and for Best Writing. Shirley MacLaine won Best Actress in a Leading Role.

“The Right Stuff” was all about the original Mercury 7 astronauts. The film won 4 Oscars for Best Sound; Best Film Editing; Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing; and Best Music, Original Score. More films from 1983 and Jeopardy! clues about them.

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Babu got it right. He bet it all and doubled his score to $12,000.

Robin went with “ET and Apollo 13.” That cost her $3,200 and left her with $5,600.

India had “Apollo 13 and The Right Stuff.” She lost $100 but won the semi-final spot with the remaining $18,100.

2 triple stumpers from the first round:

COMPOSERS ($800) In 1927 the Baldwin Piano Co. sponsored this Hungarian composer’s first visit to the U.S.

THE NATURAL WORLD ($800) 18th C. naturalist Georg Steller described the sea eagle, the sea lion & this slow-moving “sea” beast

More clues on Page 2

6 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Opera”

In an 1893 opera that was its composer’s greatest success, Peter & Gertrud are the parents of these 2 characters. show

WHO ARE “HANSEL AND GRETEL”?

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