Final Jeopardy: Advertising & Music (1-30-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (1/30/2020) in the category “Advertising & Music” was:

In 2008, 34 years after it made Billboard’s Top 10, this song title was used by a Southern state in a tourism campaign

New champ Joshua Swiger, a private tour company owner from Kapolei, HI, won $16,400 yesterday. In Game 2, his opponents are: Michelle Paul, a managing director from Newark, DE; and David Haughney, an accounting manager from Seattle, WA.

Round 1 Categories: Boots – The World of the 1800s – Stop It! – Websites – Author Last Name in Common – Big Play in the Team’s Super Bowl Win

Michelle found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Boots” under the $400 clue on the 11th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $3,400, $1,600 more than Joshua in second place. She bet $2,000 and guessed soccer. That was WRONG.

Chukka boots are said to get their name from a period in this sport. show

WHAT IS POLO?

Michelle finished in the lead with $4,600. Joshua was right behind her with $4,200 and David was last with $1,400.

Round 2 Categories: Reboots – Capital Islands – That’s Politics – Y is the Only Vowel – Medical – Who Speaketh in the Bible?

Joshua found the first Daily Double in the “Bible” category under the $2,000 clue on the 9th pick. He was in second place with $3,000 now, $2,000 behind Michelle’s lead. That was right after 2 triple stumpers in the same category. Alex asked him if he was a little worried. Joshua said “nope.” He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.

“Fear not, Mary: for thou has found favour with God” show

WHO IS GABRIEL?

Joshua found the last Daily Double in “Medical Procedures” under the $2,000 clue, with 9 clues left after it. In the lead with $12,800, he had $1,400 more than Michelle in second place. He bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.

A keratoplasty is another name for one of these eye part transplants. show

WHAT IS A CORNEA?

Joshua finished in the lead with $21,000. Michelle was next with $13,400 and David was in third place with $4,200.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS “SWEET HOME ALABAMA”?

In 2007, then Alabama Governor Bob Reilly announced that the state was adopting the motto “Sweet Home Alabama” for a multi-million marketing program to be implemented in 2008. That was decided after research showed both Alabamians and out-of-state residents overwhelmingly preferred “Sweet Home Alabama” over other choices. The tourism agency planned to sell T-shirts and caps with a red, blue, yellow and white logo with the words “sweet” and “home” flanking the stylized word “Alabama.” In addition to paying Universal Music a 6% royal, they shelled out a $25,000 licensing fee. They also came up with a new license plate design.

State Tourism Director Lee Sentell said: “‘Sweet Home Alabama’ is the third most-played song identifying a destination, behind ‘New York, New York’ and ‘I Left My Heart in San Francisco.'”

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David got it right. He bet $3,577, bringing him up to $7,777.

Michelle got it, too. She bet $4,500 for a $17,900 finish.

Joshua started out with “Georgia On My Mind”, then crossed out Georgia for Carolina. Either way, that cost him $7,500 and left him with $13,500. That made Michelle Paul the new Jeopardy! champ.

2 triple stumpers from WHO SPEAKETH IN THE BIBLE?:

($1200) “Suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me. And I fell unto the ground”

($1600) “Let me die with the Philistines”

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “U.S. Authors”

In his 1958 essay “Essentials of Spontaneous Prose”, he compared a writing technique to a jazz musician’s style. show

WHO IS JACK KEROUAC?

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