Mrs. Miniver: 1942 Best Picture
“Mrs. Miniver”, starring Greer Garson, ruled the day at the 15th Annual Academy Awards with 12 nominations and 6 wins, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Supporting...
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Final Jeopardy: 7-21-14 to 7-25-14
Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of July 21, 2014, with links to the full recaps. This was the first week of the 2014 Teen...
W. C. Fields Movie Quotes
It’s a little hard to quote characters played by W. C. Fields without at least giving the preceding line or two, so we’re not even going to try. Here are...
Final Jeopardy: Websites (7-25-14)
The Final Jeopardy question (7/25/2014), in the category “Websites” was: A slang term for Harvard’s freshman register gave this website its name. It’s the last day of the 2014 Teen...
How Green Was My Valley: 1941 Best Picture
Are we going to find way more Jeopardy! clues on “Citizen Kane” for 1941 then we are on the Best Picture Oscar winner “How Green was My Valley”? Probably, but...
Final Jeopardy: Novel Words (7-24-14)
The Final Jeopardy question (7/24/2014), in the category “Novel Words” was: This word for a person without certain abilities has made it from the realm of fantasy to the OED....
Rebecca: 1940 Best Picture
Daphne Du Maurier’s tale of gothic intrigue, Rebeccca, was put on the big screen with Lawrence Olivier playing that tormented total hottie Maxim de Winter, just a year after playing...
Final Jeopardy: Literary Heroines (7-23-14)
The Final Jeopardy question (7/23/2014), in the category “Literary Heroines” was: Fittingly, this character is named for a plant also known as arrowhead that belongs to the genus Sagitarria. Day...
Jonathan Lucroy’s Two Home Runs Power Brewers over Reds
Milwaukee Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy hit two home runs, including a walk off in the bottom of the ninth, to give the Brewers a 4-3 win over the Cincinnati Reds...
Gone with the Wind: 1939 Best Picture
In 1939, so many still great films were nominated for Oscars, that Jeopardy! once devoted a whole category to it: 1939 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $400: Your winner? This period...
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