Final Jeopardy: 1-11 to 1-15-21

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of January 11 through January 15, 2021:

Mon, Jan 11 – Correct answers: 2
1960s SONGS: The name of this title song from a 1964 movie can be translated from Spanish as “long live the meadows” show

Tue, Jan 12 – Correct answers: 1
FAMOUS ANIMALS: When she first came to the world’s attention in 1957, she was dubbed “Muttnik” by U.S. Journalists show

Wed, Jan 13 – Correct answers: 2
WORLD GEOGRAPHY: The Oyapock River forms part of Brazil’s 400-mile border with the territory of this European country show

Thu, Jan 14 – Correct answers: 2
CHILDREN’S BOOKS: This 1969 book was first printed in Japan because no U.S. company would then make a book with so many holes in the pages show

Fri, Jan 15 – Correct answers: 1
QUEEN ELIZABETH II: Of the last 12 sitting U.S. Pres., the only one Elizabeth never met; she had her youngest child 3 months into his presidency
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This week, there were no triple stumpers and no triple solves. Two players solved three FJ! clues and only one player got the other two. Both clues that went one of out three were on the difficult side, in terms of remembering details of an event that happened in a foreign country over 55 years ago. The easiest is a toss up between 1960s SONGS and CHILDREN’S BOOKS. For me, the “long live” song was easiest.

Here is an earlier “long live” song from Bill Haley with Caterina Valente, called “Vive Le Rock ‘n Roll”.

It was a number in a 1959 West German musical, “Here I Am, Here I Stay” (German title: “Hier bin ich – hier bleib ich”).

Jim Gilligan became champ in the last game hosted by Alex Trebek, which aired on 1/8/2021. He returned for his second game on Monday 1/11, the first game to be guest hosted by Ken Jennings. Jim lost Game 2 to Tanay Kothari. Lucy Ricketts sent Tanay home on Tuesday. She won 2 more games and a total of $79,499. Jennifer Linde won Friday’s game and will be the returning champ.

From Jeopardy!’s YouTube channel: Here is the EARTH AT NIGHT category from Monday’s game.