The DCO Jeopardy Challenge

[Antares]

Everyone has seen the game show Jeopardy, right? Here's your chance to show your knowledge of film trivia and history. Those who sign up to play will be pitted against each other in a turn by turn competition to see who has the most film knowledge on the DCO. The same rules apply here as they do on the television program. The first person to respond, to the question revealed, will be awarded the point value associated with the answer. If you get it wrong, you will be docked that point value from your overall score.

When the first contestant posts their response, I will either post the following...

(Contestant) is correct for ? points, select the next question

or

That is incorrect, another contestant may submit their response

Each round will also contain questions that are Daily Doubles, which are bonus questions that you can wager all or nothing of your accumulated point total. If you have 1000 points or fewer, you may wager up to 1000 points if you find a Daily Double. This goes for anyone who is in negative point total territory also. Round 1 will have 1 Daily Double and Round 2 will have 2.

As with the television game, the higher the point value, the harder it will be. When I put a strike through on a point total, it has been selected and answered already. (i.e. 100)

At the end of both rounds, anyone with a negative point total will be out of the game. Those remaining will play Final Jeopardy, where you can wager any amount up to the total of points you have accumulated during the game. You will send me your point wager through a private message, and when all Final Jeopardy contestants have done so, I will reveal the final question. You will have 48 hours to PM me your answer and I'll tally the final scores.  

All responses, except for Final Jeopardy where you'll submit by PM, are to be posted in this thread.

As soon as I have at least 3 people sign up, I'll reveal the categories for Round 1 and we'll start the game.

Jeopardy Round 1

Disney 100 200 300 400 500

Would'a, Should'a, Could'a 100 200 300 400 500

Oscar Moments 100 200 300 400 500

The 80's 100 200 300 400 500

Remakes 100 200 300 400 500

Ghoulish Greats 100 200 300 400 500

Category Descriptions: Disney - Questions pertaining to films made by Walt Disney. Would'a, Should'a, Could'a - Many times in Film History, some actor or actress was originally considered for a famous role in a famous picture. They either turned it down, started the film and was dropped or died during filming. Questions in this category will deal with those instances. Oscar Moments - Weird speeches, protests, a streaker or any unique moment in Academy Award history. The 80's - Syntho-pop music scores, teen rebellion films and very big hair made up this very strange decade in film history Remakes - Seems pretty obvious Ghoulish Greats - Questions will deal with Horror film icons throughout the last 80+ years.

Jeopardy Round 2

Film Noir 200 400 600 800 1000

Sagebrush Cinema 200 400 600 800 1000

IMDB 250 200 400 600 800 1000

Looney Tunes 200 400 600 800 1000

Original Names 200 400 600 800 1000

Acting Families 200 400 600 800 1000

Category Descriptions: Film Noir - Questions pertaining to my favorite genre of film making. Sagebrush Cinema - Westerns IMDB 250 - Questions in this category will be about a film that is currently in the IMDB top 250 films Looney Tunes - Overture, curtains lights, this is it, we'll hit the heights! Let's see who knows their Termite Terrace trivia Original Names - Guess the actor or actress from their original name Acting Families - Questions will deal with members of a family with more than one actor in it

Final Jeopardy

Answer

[Antares]

Here's the final scoreboard...


SCOREBOARD

Jon 100

Rogmeister       6600

Dragonfire       1100

D J Doena       0

Kathy    2000

Critter    0

Halo2    6200

Lovemunkey187           0

The winner is ROGMEISTER, Congratulations
I hope everyone enjoyed this game, and I'll probably do it again in a few months. Thanks to all who played. 

[Jon]

I'll play, but I don't know how!

Everyone has seen the game show Jeopardy, right?

Nope. We have no such thing in the UK!

[Antares]

I'll play, but I don't know how!

Everyone has seen the game show Jeopardy, right?

Nope. We have no such thing in the UK!

OK, seeing as how you don't have this show over there, I've amended the rules to remove the requirement "to respond in the form of a question".

If you've never seen the show, this will confuse you completely and will make you drop out when you start to lose points for it.

[Rogmeister]

I'm in!  I just hope there aren't too many horror categories!    And I love Jeopardy!  I do hope to see at least one western category, of course. 

[Rogmeister]

I see the values in the first round start at $100...you do know the regular Jeopardy! has increased those, right?  In the first round, their questions are $200 through $1000...what you have listed for "Round 2".  And they don't call it round 2, I don't think...that's referred to as "Double Jeopardy"...  Am I too anal about the rules? 

[Dragonfire]

I'll try...I'll probably do horribly, but I'll try.

[Antares]

Am I too anal about the rules? 

A bit 

I'm using the old values, so that if someone takes a commanding lead in the beginning, everyone will have a chance to catch up in the second round.


I know I said I'd start the game after three people signed up, but I want to give everyone here at least the chance to see the thread. We'll start tomorrow, OK?

[DJ Doena]

I loved Jeopardy. It was one of the last quiz shows where you actually had to know the answer (or the question for that matter).

Nowadays you onl need a bit of luck and a one-in-four chance (Who wants to be a Millionaire) or you just have to gues the right suit case (Deal or no Deal)


@Rog: The way Antares built the board was the way the game was played here in Germany. Two rounds. First 100-500, second 200-1000 and then the final round.

[Rogmeister]

Okay...then I don't have to check back until then.  During the game, can I call you Alex?  

[Antares]

I loved Jeopardy. It was one of the last quiz shows where you actually had to know the answer (or the question for that matter).

Nowadays you onl need a bit of luck and a one-in-four chance (Who wants to be a Millionaire) or you just have to gues the right suit case (Deal or no Deal)

So does that mean you want to play?

[Antares]

I hope some people aren't confused by the three people statement I mentioned in the first post. More than three people can sign up to play, I only wanted at least three to start the game.

[DJ Doena]

yeah i want

[Kathy]

I'm in too. Who knows, I might even get a couple right!

[Antares]

Categories are up. Descriptions of the categories are below the First Round game board.

To start the game I selected a player at random.

That player was Kathy, she'll pick the first topic and point amount.

Good Luck to all!