Final Jeopardy: 1980s Movies (9-20-21)
Here are some more clues from the 9/20/2021 Jeopardy! game:
The players got all the clues in A WORD IN SPANISH, except the first clue (*):
*($200) A Spanish idiom for “Don’t worry about it”, literally “nothing happens”, is no pasa this word
($400) Lionel Richie sang of celebrations in many languages: “We’re going to party, karamu,” this Spanish word
($600) This fish in the tuna family is also a masculine adjective for “pretty” in Spanish
($800) Stand down, Sir Francis Drake; Spanish-speaking countries such as Argentina use this to mean their navy
($1000) In Spanish it’s not someone taking the law into his own hands, it’s just a watchman, like a night watchman
ANSWERS: show
Sneak Peek clues — VENTRILOQUISM FOR DUMMIES
($200) The U.S. loves ventriloquists! 3 have won this NBC competition show with Simon Cowell as a judge
($400) Shari Lewis had her own children’s show featuring this “sheepish” puppet
($600) Before winning an Oscar for playing an imprisoned serial killer, he partnered up with a spooky dummy in “Magic”
($800) Bubba J & the cranky Walter are the dummies featured in this comedian’s act
($1000) Edgar Bergen’s most famous dummy, this character was based on a newsboy but classed up with a monocle & top hat
ANSWERS: show
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Tracy was attempting to put a lot of pressure on Matt hoping that he missed it and he did.
Tracy did an amazing job of catching up in Double Jeopardy. She got all the clues in youthful pop stars.
Anyone else notice Mayim correcting Matt’s “what’s” a few times in the first round?
Yes, I noticed Mayim repeating Matt’s answer and changing “what’s” to “who” twice in the first round. I wasn’t paying that close attention in the last round although I did notice Matt trying to buzz in on 3 clues in the Pop Stars category.
Tracy was faster than him on all of them except the $800 Ricky clue. Carlo beat Matt and Tracy to the punch on that one but got it wrong with Ricky Martin. (He wasn’t even born yet when the Ozzie and Harriet series ended in 1966.) Then Tracy beat him on the rebound and got it right.
Being ancient, I cringed when he said Ricky Martin and not Nelson.
That final stumped me big-time, but darn, Tracy had the win right there waiting to be taken.
Matt continues to average in the neighborhood of Jennings’ winning scores.
lol, Howard, I was also taken aback by that. I published an article on male singers from the 50s to 80s earlier this month and both of those Rickys are named for the decades they were most popular in. Poor Ricky Nelson, died too soon.
Well I am glad Carlo got final jeopardy today despite the fact he couldn’t get much going. but I was hoping for a triple solve. Overall I remember watching Roger rabbit many times as this wasn’t that tough of a final. Also VJ do you remember Roger rabbit and baby herman? That baby was so funny acting like scarface all of a sudden. Dune reminded me of that old command and conquer game dune 2000. Matt played great today even if he didn’t take the other two daily doubles. Not bad for the 2k loss.
I never saw that movie, Lou. I was looking at that list of the Top 10 highest grossing films of 1988. I saw 6 of them, and 2 of those twice. (Rain Man and Twins) That’s pretty good for me. I wasn’t big on movies back then. I was more wrapped up in night-time soaps like Dallas, Knots Landing and Falcon Crest.
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