Final Jeopardy: Musicals (1-7-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (1/7/2021) in the category “Musicals” was:
4 songs from this 1968 musical made the Billboard Top 10, including one with an astrological theme that was No. 1 for 6 weeks
New champ Yoshie Hill, an executive assistant from Colma, CA, won $6,800 yesterday. In Game 2, her challengers are: Natalie Craig, a government analyst from Sacramento, CA; and Tracy Lee, a data scientist from Newark, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Hobbies & Crafts – Body Language – Slow Transportation – Literary Kings – Queens – Jocks
Tracy found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Literary Kings” under the $800 clue on the 15th pick of the round. She was in third place with $2,200, $1,200 more than Natalie’s lead. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
As a title character he’s only a prince, but Caspian eventually becomes a king in this fantasy land. show
Yoshie finished in the lead with $6,400. Tracy was second with $5,400 and Natalie was last with $4,400. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: Black Heritage Stamps – Science & Math Groupings – Mythology – Above & Beyond – Television – Good after Noun
Yoshie found the first Daily Double in “Above & Beyond” under the $2,000 clue, with 7 clues left after it. She was in second place with $12,000 now, $4,600 less than Tracy’s lead. She bet $4,600 and took a shot with Korea. That was WRONG.
The name of this country that stretches along the South China Sea means people beyond (China’s) southern border show
2 clues later, Yoshie got the last Daily Double in “Good After Noun” under the $1,600 clue. In third place with $7,400, she had $9,200 less than Tracy’s lead. She bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
From the Latin for “made flesh”, it often comes after “the devil” show
Tracy finished in the lead with $16,600. Yoshie was next with $12,400 and Natalie was in third place with $9,200. No clues went uncovered.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILSr9BbhoJQ
WHAT IS “HAIR”?
“Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical” is a rock musical that moved from off-Broadway to Broadway in 1968. Celebrating the anti-Vietnam War movement and the hippie counterculture, it caused quite an uproar at the time. It was later made into a film simply called “Hair”, starring John Savage, Treat Williams and Beverly D’Angelo.
The original Broadway cast recording of “Hair” was No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for 13 weeks in 1969 and earned a Grammy for Best Score from an Original Cast Show Album. As for the Billboard Top 10, the 5th Dimension topped that chart for 6 weeks with the medley “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In”, which also won Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Group. The other three songs in the Top 10 were “Hair” by the Cowsills (No. 2); “Good Morning Starshine” by Oliver (No. 3) and “Easy to Be Hard” by Three Dog Night (No. 4).
Natalie got it right. She bet $9,000 and finished with $18,200.
Yoshie got it, too. She bet it all and doubled her score to $24,800.
Tracy was going for “South Pacific”, a 1949 musical. She lost her $8,201 bet and finished with $8,399. That made Yoshie Hill a 2-day champ with $31,600 in winnings.
A triple stumper from each round:
JOCKS ($1000) The unconventional methods of this long-hitting 2020 U.S. Open champ include using a protractor on the putting green
GOOD AFTER NOUN ($2000) John Updike’s second book about Harry Angstrom is “Rabbit” this, meaning “brought back”
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “1940s History”
Air Force pilot Gail Halvorsen earned the nickname “Candy Bomber” for his actions during this 1948-49 event show
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1st all female episode since 4/28/20. I was glad to see one finally.
Are Roger and Natalie related?
Possibly she did mention she had a brother in her interview. However Roger does seem older than Natalie. I wish Natalie won tonight.
Well after three triple stumper fj has ended, the correct response might let yoshi get her third win. Hopefully she can keep her wins going. Still though we will miss alex after this. Good thing Katie Couric will also guest host jeopardy as well. Hair is a great musical but I haven’t seen it in a long time. When was the last time you saw this Broadway musical, VJ?
I really don’t recall when I saw “Hair”, Lou, and it was the film, not the Broadway play. I know it was before another time when my older kids were watching that sitcom “Head of the Class”. The students were putting on a production of “Hair”. That was their first acquaintance with it.
After three straight killer FJs, we finally have correct responses from today which means we’re not going to have a week with tough FJs. How will Yoshie wrap up with Alex Trebek’s last show? Will it end on a high note? We’ll have to find out tomorrow.