Final Jeopardy: Broadway Musicals (1-21-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (1/21/2019) in the category “Broadway Musicals” was:
Premiering in 2005, its story is divided into spring, summer, fall & winter, each narrated by one of the 4 male leads
3x champ John Presloid, a microbiologist from Perrysville, OH, won $67,200 last week. In Game 4, his challengers are: Kelsey Barcomb, a biomedical scientist from Denver, CO; and Humza Qureshi, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
Round 1 Categories: Teddy Roosevelt, Meet Jackie Robinson – One-Name TV Titles – This & That – Fill in the Full Place Name – Transportation – 3 G Capability
Humzah found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Place Names” under the $600 clue on the 4th pick of the round. He was in second place with $400, $600 less than Kelsey’s lead. He bet the $1,000 allowance and he was RIGHT.
“___-Mesa-Scottsdale Metropolitan Statistical Area. show
John finished in the lead with $9,200. Humzah was second with $3,800 and Kelsey was last with $3,200.
Round 2 Categories: Steamy Science – Foreign Money – Life During War – Bust a Movie – Poet Identification, Please – Rhyme Time
John found the first Daily Double in “Steamy Science” under the $600 clue on the 6th pick. He was in the lead with $10,800 now, $3,600 more than Kelsey in second place. The category was his strong suit so he did the right thing– he bet it all– and he was RIGHT.
Earthquakes have lengthened the average interval between its famed eruptions of water & steam by about 30 minutes. show
John landed on the last Daily Double in “Poet Identification, Please” under the $1,600 clue on the 16th pick. In the lead with $27,600, he had $18,000 more than Kelsey in second place. This category was not in his wheelhouse so he played it safe. He bet $400 and he was RIGHT, and Trebek teased him about not betting more.
“Death, be not proud though some have called thee / mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so” show
John finished in the lead with $29,600, his third consecutive runaway. Kelsey was next with $10,000 and, at negative $2,600, Humzah was out of the game.
NEITHER contestant left in Final Jeopardy! got it right.
“Jersey Boys” is the story of The Four Seasons, the popular hit-making New Jersey quartet whose heyday was in the 1960s. The play opened on Broadway on 11/6/2005 and ran until 1/15/2017. Spring is narrated by Tommy DeVito; summer by Bob Gaudio, who wrote many of the group’s hit songs; fall by Nick Massi and lead singer Frankie Valli narrates winter. Clint Eastwood directed the film version that was released in 2014. (It’s on Netflix).
The first FJ on “Jersey Boys” was on 2/10/2015 and went 1/3. Here’s another clue from 2007 – TONY AWARD WINNERS $400: In 2006 “The History Boys” won for Best Play & this other show with “Boys” in the title won for Best Musical
Kelsey went for “A Man for All Seasons.” She didn’t bet anything so she remained at $10,000.
John had the same response as Kelsey. He lost his $4,600 bet, winning this one with $25,000 even. John’s 4-day total is $92,200.
A triple stumper from each round:
TRANSPORTATION ($600) Circus performer Wesley Williams rides a 25-foot-high one of these
POET IDENTIFICATION, PLEASE ($2000) “Me, who am only Pippa,– old-year’s sorrow, / cast off last night, will come again to-morrow”
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Animal Songs”
The title of this hit from a 1933 Disney “Silly Symphony” inspired a Tony-winning 1962 drama & an Oscar-nominated 1966 film. show
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Hamilton, Mamma Mia, Jersey Boys, and Rock of Ages are of recent vintage
With that, Mary Ann Bohrer is OUT. And yesterday, NFL was officially RIGGED.
What was kind of funny in this game was how Trebek tried to bait John into making a big DD bet on that Poetry category clue. True, at that point, he could have afforded to bet more than $400 but why risk a whole lot if you know your knowledge in a given category is limited. And good for him on going all in on the Science one. I love when the big DD bets work out!!
LINK: 10 more clues from the game
Humzah is dismissed second dismissal since annecke and Jessica faced off in the two player final after another male contestant had been eliminated. Still congratulations to. John on his fourth win so I really hope he gets that fifth win tomorrow. A pretty easy final.despite not getting it right. I’ve heard of Cats the musical but I am not much into the Jersey Boys. John are you into Broadway musicals like Cats?
@Lou
I liked “Cats”, “My Fair Lady” and some songs from “Hair”. Other than that: not really.
We have a new week and what do you know: it started like last week ended.
CONGRATULATIONS to John, quite a gutsy bet but he lucked out with a real easy DD, and eventually giving him the 3rd runaway in a row after a slow start in his first game. Question is: how often can he go to the well like that? Either he is gonna win his 5th tomorrow or will crash terribly. Can he break the 4 game jinx??
All clues played, all DDs answered correctly and Mary Ann is gone. John sits at #14 overall, above Jackie. But the all important fifth win….? ANY win tomorrow would catapult John to at least #8 overall, displacing Gilbert. In addition to the high DD bets John has a wide “range”, so I give him a better than 50/50 chance to win again tomorrow.
Yes he can.
I do believe that John can break that 4 game jinx, but I’m hoping that John Presloid scores a 4th runaway in a row, in order to break this jinx. Heck, in 2016, Pranjal Vachaspati scored 4 runaways in a row in games 2 through 5, and those 4 runaways helped him become a 6-time champion, and win $137,088, before a tough clue did him in in his 7th game.
I have a friend at church in Norfolk, VA that is friends with his mother while they were growing up in Ohio.
I thought this was still a tough clue, even if you knew about Jersey Boys, but one of the most “Ah, of course” moments I’ve had in a while.
I think you really had to be into musicals to get this one, as the category is already a relative weakness for contestants, and the response was not likely to be at the top of the list if studying this particular category in preparation for the show.
I guess you are right, JP. I grew up in the 1960s in the town where most of them are from though. They were our hometown boys so they’re naturally the first thing I think of in connection with seasons. I have not seen the musical but was invited to see the film several years ago. I declined because I had enough of Vincent Piazza as Lucky Luciano in Boardwalk Empire.
P.S. Forgot to post a link to the article I did when the movie was coming out on the “Jersey Boys and the Mob”
Great assessment, JP. I grew up in the 70s in W PA and although I did see the musical, but did not see the movie, the “4 Seasons” part of the clue just jumped right out and unto my lap.
Last Friday most thought the “Regis Philbin” FJ! clue was easy and you had to go back to 2000 to make that connection. This one was 2005 and there really haven’t been that many huge, off-the-charts, Broadway Musical hits in the last 12 to 15 years – “Wicked”, “The Book of Mormon”, “Hamilton”, “Jersey Boys”? At least both players picked a play w/ “seasons” in the title. LOL! That provides some consolation…
@JJ
you are certainly right right with the ” there really haven’t been that many huge, off-the-charts,Broadway Musical hits in the last 12 to 15 years” remark!!
Mary Ann is out.
And also, Jackie Fuchs, because of the Teachers Tournament.