Final Jeopardy: Female Music Superstars (10-22-19)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (10/22/2019) in the category “Female Music Superstars” was:

With more than 30 Top 10 albums since 1963, this singer-actress ranks No. 1 among the Billboard 200’s Greatest Women Artists of All Time

New champ Ryan Bradley, a TV animation marketing exec. from West Hollywood, CA., won $9,199 yesterday. In Game 2, his opponents are: Martha Bordogna, an attorney from Indian Trail, NC; and Andre Havrylyshyn, a Ph.D student from Irmo, SC.

Round 1 Categories: A Tree Grows in Book Land – 21st Century Television – British Prime Ministers – What Do You Love? – Comma, Comma, Comma, Comma, Comma – Chameleon

Andre found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “A Tree Grows in Book Land” under the $800 clue on the 4th pick of the round. He was in second place with $800, $200 less than Martha’s lead. He bet the $1,000 allowance and he was RIGHT.

“It was a right motley company that gathered about the noble greenwood tree in Sherwood’s depths” in an 1883 tale of this hero. show

WHO IS ROBIN HOOD?

Martha finished in the lead with $6,800. Andre was second with $5,200 and Ryan was last with $2,000.

Round 2 Categories: Bridges Galore! – Potpourri – Moving the Saints – On the “B”-List – Classical Music – Giving Away the Movie’s Ending

Andre found the first Daily Double in “Moving the Saints” under the $1,600 clue on the 12th pick. He was in the lead with $12,000 at this point, $2,800 more than Martha in second place. He bet $3,400 and thought it was Florence. That was WRONG.

According to tradition, St. Mark’s remains were stolen from Alexandria, taken to this European city, lost & rediscovered. show

WHAT IS VENICE?

Martha found the last Daily Double in “Classical Music” under the $800 clue, with 8 clues left after it. In second place with $10,800, she had $2,600 less than Andre’s lead. She bet $3,500 and took a shot with “The French March.” That was WRONG.

This piece by Tchaikovsky depicts Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow. show

WHAT IS THE 1812 OVERTURE?

Andre finished in the lead with $10,600. Martha was next with $9,700 and Ryan was in third place with $8,000.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS BARBRA STREISAND?

I was able to get a pass to see the most current (10/15/19) Greatest of All Time Billboard 200 Women Artists. The Top 10 rankings:

Top 5: Barbra Streisand, Taylor Swift, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Madonna
6-10: Adele, Celine Dion, Janet Jackson, Miley Cyrus, Carole King

Of course, these Billboard 200 charts are fluid and subject to change, like all the Greatest of All Time types, but there are some achievements that won’t change, like the fact that Streisand is the only artist to have achieved No. 1 albums in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s, to wit: Encore (2016) Partners (2014), Love Is the Answer (2009), Higher Ground (1997), Back to Broadway (1993), The Broadway Album (1986), Guilty (1980), Barbra Streisand’s Greatest Hits, Volume 2 (1979), A Star Is Born (1977), The Way We Were (1974), and People (1964).

Streisand’s acting career began on the Broadway stage with “Funny Girl” in 1964. She won a Best Actress Oscar in 1969 for “Funny Girl” (tying with Katharine Hepburn, as seen in a clue last week). See all her film awards on IMDB

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Ryan thought it was Cher. He bet and lost it all.

Martha got it right. She bet $6,700, bringing her up to $16,400.

Andre came up with Cher, too. He lost his $8,801 bet and landed in second place with $1,799. That made Martha Bordogna the new Jeopardy! champ.

2 triple stumpers from the last round in CLASSICAL MUSIC:

($1200) Joseph Haydn helped create this orchestral form & wrote more than 100 of them, many with nicknames like “The Hen”

($1600) In this piece, the oboe & bassoon help depict a celebration on the treeless mount Triglav

2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Etymology”

This 8-letter word meaning “cultured” or “intellectual” originated with a phrenology concept. show

WHAT IS HIGHBROW?

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