Final Jeopardy: Oscar-Winning Actors (7-23-13)
The Final Jeopardy question (7/23/2013) in the category “Oscar-Winning Actors” was:
They’re the only 2 Best Actor winners with the same last name; one was a winner for 1979 & 1988, the other for 2005.
New champ, Patrick Geary won $23,800 in yesterday’s game. Today he is up against these two challengers: Sarah Orzalli from Chicago, IL; and David Brown from Palo Alto, CA.
David found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “A Useful Category,” with only one clue left to go. He had a big lead with $6,600, $4,800 ahead of Sarah in second place. He bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
A common type of this home safety device invented in the 1960s works by identifying changes in air ionization.
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David finished in the lead with $7,800. Sarah was second with $1,800 and Patrick was last with $1,400.
Patrick found the first Double Jeopardy Daily Double in “CNN Historic Revolution.” He was in a second place tie with Sarah. They both had $2,200, $5,600 behind David’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
On June 24, 1932 here in Bangkok a group called the Promoters staged a bloodless coup which ended Thailand’s absolute monarchy and led to this type of monarchy named for a document.
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David found the last Daily Double in “Bard ‘M’en.” Back in the lead, he had $10,600, $2,200 ahead of Patrick in second place. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
The name of this steward in “Twelfth Night” is an approximation of the Italian for ‘ill will’.
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David finished in the lead with a runaway $22,200. Patrick was next with $6,800 and Sarah was in third place with $3,000.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO ARE DUSTIN HOFFMAN and PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN?
Out of 7 Best Actor Oscar nominations, the two Dustin Hoffman won for were “Kramer vs. Kramer” (1979), and “Rain Man” (1988), Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Best Actor Oscar was for “Capote” (2005). He has also been nominated for several supporting roles. If anyone’s curious, if they went by first name, the most wins for Best Actor is Paul.
Sarah wrote down the Fondas. She lost $2,900 and finished with $100.
Patrick also had the Fondas but crossed it out, with no time to put in another guess. He lost everything but $1.
David wrote down “Jerry and Daniel Day-Lewis.” The only one who could well afford to bet a lot, he stood pat and won the game with $22,200.
Ellen Brown I believe to be the Mom David talked about in the contestant interviews, she finished in the red on the 6/16/2009 episode. She was(at the time) from the same town David claims to be from. Gong SHow a triple stumper? Alex did years back make negative comments about the show, as it bowed around the same time his first NBC run of High ROllers ended its run.