Final Jeopardy: Oscar-Winning Songs (5-18-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/18/2022) in the category “Oscar-Winning Songs” was:
Johnny Mercer’s lyrics to this 1961 Oscar-winning song once began, “I’m Holly”
3x champ Ryan Long, a rideshare driver from Philadelphia, PA, won $70,000 so far. In Game 4, he takes on these two players: Adrianna Ramírez, a writer from Pittsburgh, PA; and Audrey Kamzan, a pediatric hospitalist from Los Angeles, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Historic Americans – Beastly Book Characters – Museums for Foodies – Planes, Trains & Automobiles – Setting, the Broadway Stage – Spot “ify”
Ryan found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Beastly Book Characters” under the $1,000 clue on the 9th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $2,600, $400 more than Audrey in second place. Ryan bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
This rabbit relative character shows up at a party in “Alice in Wonderland” & dips his watch into his tea show
Ryan finished in the lead with $8,600. Audrey was second with $3,200. Adriana was last with $2,800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: You Never Take Me To… – Trojan War Handbook – Science – Hodgepodge – TV Comedies by Siblings – From the Greek for…
Ryan found the first Daily Double in “Trojan War Handbook” under the $800 clue at the halfway point. He was in the lead with $15,400, $9,800 more than Audrey in second place. Ryan bet a big $8,000 and he was RIGHT.
A prophecy said that Troy could not be taken without this warrior, so the Greeks tracked him down & brought him to the battle show
Adriana got the last Daily Double in “You Never Take Me To…” under the $800 clue with 6 clues left after it. She was in third place with $800, $25,800 less than Ryan’s lead. Adriana bet $1,000 and guessed Decatur. That was WRONG.
Champaign, Illinois, only to this seat of Champaign County show
Ryan finished in the lead with a runaway $26,600. Audrey was second with $7,200. At negative $200, the game was over for Adriana. All clues were shown.
WHAT IS “MOON RIVER”?
Henry Mancini (music) and Johnny Mercer (lyrics) picked up the Oscar for Best Music, Original Song for “Moon River”, the theme song of the 1961 film “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, starring Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly. According to Second Hand Songs, Henry Mancini was first to record it on 12/8/1960. The first theatrical release on October 5, 1961 was Audrey Hepburn’s version with Johnny Mercer’s “huckleberry friend” lyrics. Since then, there have been over 850 covers of “Moon River”, although only Jerry Butler, Danny Williams and Andy Williams had major hits. Connie Francis recorded it in English and German, and Allan Sherman did a parody called “Chopped Liver”! Can you imagine how many CDs it would take put together a collection of all of those covers?
For true Moon River lovers: Check out songwriter, Jim Irvin’s “Moon River: The Biography Of a Song” if you haven’t seen it before. He has the “I’m Holly, like I want to be” lyrics, profiles of Johnny Mercer, Henry Mancini, Truman Capote and more.
Audrey got it right. She bet $5,000 and finished with $12,200.
Ryan wrote down “Hi, Mom!” That cost him a whopping 10 grand, but he won the game with the remaining $16,600. Ryan’s 4-day total is $86,600.
A triple stumper from each round:
SETTING, THE BROADWAY STAGE ($1000) As of 2022, it’s the longest-running current show with Northern Uganda as a setting
TROJAN WAR HANDBOOK ($2000) This leader of the Greek forces foolishly angered Artemis by boasting of his hunting skills
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “It’s All Greece to Me”
This area of Greece, home to Pan, is synonymous with a rural paradise; it’s a setting for Virgil’s shepherd poems the “Eclogues” show
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You go boy
I didn’t get FJ. However, I did say, out loud, “That’s Holly Golightly”. Just couldn’t think of “Moon River”!
As per usual, I got about half of the TS.
I was begging Adriana not to bet a lot on that Daily Double.! She got that on the heels of 3 triple stumpers in the same category and I was just saying nooooooooooo!! Don’t put yourself in the hole!
Then I was begging Ryan to let her have that $400 clue but nooooooooooo!!
That was a pretty tough one. I knew it because way back in 1971, I attended the Sigma Delta Chi (national journalism society) convention in DC, and connected with a bunch of students from U of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. (i was a college senior and president of our chapter.)
Cinch final, at least if you’re older than the movie it was from.
A little surprising no one knew the Blue cavern’s name or the 2 Dutch cheeses.
That daily double was not kind to Adriana.
Well looks like Ryan is in good position to be in the toc, but Christine Welchel might be out if Ryan wins game 5. Audrey played well today.
This song was one of my favorites, especially the renditions of Moon River from musical legends like Andy Williams, Jerry Butler and so forth. Does anyone have a preference of which Moon River singers they like the best?
I really never liked this song that much so idk what my opinion is worth, but I’d surely nominate Danny Williams (not Andy) as the best male version and Connie Francis as the best female version