Final Jeopardy: Television (1-20-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (1/20/2023) in the category “Television” was:
Mike Post combined the sound of a slamming jail door, an anvil & 100 men stomping on a floor for this series that debuted in 1990
New champ Troy Meyer, a music executive from Tampa, FL, won $27,600 yesterday. In Game 2, his competitors are: Eric Kerr-Heraly, a teacher and school administrator from Houston, TX; and Mark Fabros, a strategy consultant from New York, NY.
Round 1 Categories: Moonstruck – Whirled Events – Repetitive Music – “D” Adjectives – Safe – Sound
Mark found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Safe” under the $600 clue on the 19th pick of the round. He was in second place with $4,600, $800 less than Troy’s lead. Mark made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
Your money is as safe as it would be were it in the bullion depository in this Kentucky site, named for our first Secretary of War show
Mark finished in the lead with $10,000. Troy was second with $7,400 and Eric was last with $2,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: American Lit – This Piece of Paper Will Tell You What to Do – 2-Word Science Terms – Street Smarts – Jason – As the French Say
Troy found the first Daily Double in “American Lit” under the $2,000 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. He was in the lead with $10,000, $200 more than Mark in second place. Troy bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.
Loosely based on historical events, this 1985 Cormac McCarthy novel is subtitled “The Evening Redness in the West” show
Troy got the last Daily Double in “As the French Say” under the $2,000 clue on the 19th pick of the round. In the lead with $29,600, he had $20,000 more than Mark in second place. Troy bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
This 2-word phrase refers to one involved in shameful behavior, perhaps like Dennis the Menace show
Troy finished in the lead with a runaway $33,400. Mark was second with $10,400 and Eric was last with $7,600. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS “LAW & ORDER”?
Mike Post, prolific composer of numerous TV theme songs, is perhaps best known for composing the theme for “Law & Order” as well as the famous “Dun Dun” sound effect. In an interview with the Television Academy Foundation, Post recalled when “Law & Order” creator Dick Wolf tapped him to create the iconic theme. Wolf knew Post from when he’d been a writer on “Hill Street Blues” and knew that Post wrote that show’s famous theme song. After NBC picked up the show. Wolf then asked Post to create a unique sound he could use for the show. Post did’t want to do it but relented and created the famous sound that is usually called “dun dun”. Post says he calls it “ching ching” because he gets royalties.
In the Foundation video, Post relates how CBS turned the series down before NBC picked it up. He says it was like turning down the Beatles and he also recalls how Dick Wolf likes to rib him about his reluctance to create the one thing he will probably be remembered most for.
Eric thought it was “Home Improvement”. He lost $2,000 and finished with $5,600.
Mark got it right. He bet $4,801 and finished with $15,201.
Troy also got it right. He bet $1,600 and won the game with an even $35,000. Troy’s 2-day total is $62,600.
3 triple stumpers in the whole game:
REPETITIVE MUSIC ($800) In an incredible moment of branding in 1982, this Mark Hollis band band found “All you do to me is” this this
SAFE ($600) The OED’s first attribution regarding this cautionary acronym dates back to 2002 & a Dave Matthews Usenet newsgroup
AS THE FRENCH SAY ($1600) This French phrase, literally “like this, like that”, is used to mean “so-so”
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “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 show
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Dann Florek, who played Captain Don Cragen, called it “the doink doink”, and Richard Belzer, who essayed Detective John Munch, described it as “the Dick Wolf cash register sound”!
lol, Jason. Another video I looked at today has a funny segment with Anthony Anderson joking that Mike Post is so rich, he has his own post office and his own bank on his property.
Last night on “Jeopardy!” there was a guy from California (I forget his first name, and they don’t use last names) who said he’d lost on the show, but his sister had won over $200K and gone to the ToC. I imagine someone here will know whom he meant. Can’t be all that many women who’ve won that much. He and his teammates split $140K last night when Buzzy crashed in the final round.
Sorry, I meant last night on “The Chase.” And the guy said he’d lost on “Jeopardy!” I just looked around and saw his name is John.
Howard, J-Archive has his player profile – John Lance — with a link to the profile of his sister, MacKenzie Jones.
MacKenzie went over the $200K mark in her 8th game and she lost the next day. John was in the 9-20-19 game (Jason Z’s 16th game). MacKenzie was in the same ToC as Jason Z, although they were never in the same game.
As we saw, Jason Zuffranieri & Mackenzie Jones did well in their regular games.
Thanks so much.
A slam dunk for FJ. Yes, ‘Law and Order’. I mean, what else could it have possibly been? Actually, both my mother and I came up with the correct response, and rather quickly in fact.
I thought the Final was the show ‘Cops’.
Well at least you were on the right track.
Two of Mike Post’s greatest hits were “Theme to Hill Street Blues” which hit #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 the week ending November 14 1981 and “The Rockford Files,” which also got as high as #10 on Billboard the week ending August 9, 1975. But certainly his “Dun Dun!” sound for L&O has become a cultural touchstone or maybe, more accurately, a meme!
So we end the week with finally a 2 day champion after we had a couple one day winners. 35,000 was the highest payday of the week.