Final Jeopardy: 1970s Top 40 Hits (10-22-21)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 10/22/2021 Jeopardy! game. Please don’t put the answers to these clues in the comments so people who missed the game can have a chance to answer them. It is okay to refer to them by category and clue value or by part of the clue.
PEARLS OF WISDOM ($400) Fittingly, the Pearlmaster watch is part of this Rolex collection
CELLO ($600) The uncrowned king of the cello, David Popper has a work titled this, what you’d sing under the window of your beloved
YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION ($2000) Early in the Arab Spring, this country’s Jasmine Revolution was named for the country’s national flower
PLANETARY SCIENCE ($800) Ancient astronomers finally realized Phosphorus, seen in the morning, & Hesperus, in the evening–both this planet
($1600) In 1675 he discovered a division within Saturn’s rings, which he declared to be made up of little moonlets
($2000) HD 209458b was the first planet discovered via this eclipse-like event where planets cross in front of stars
Sneak Peek clues — THE AUTHOR’S CHARACTERS
($400) The doomed Frances Earnshaw, mom of the less doomed Hareton Earnshaw
($800) The snobby Lady Catherine de Bourgh & the treacherous John Dashwood
($1200) José Arcadio, so magically real & Fermina Daza
($1600) Charles Lindbergh & Sophie Portnoy, a good smother… I mean a good mother!
($2000) Tralfamadorians & (God bless you,) Eliot Rosewater
ANSWERS: show
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Lea did exactly what she needed to do, bet big on the first DD, but unfortunately missed that tough one. She very likely would have won had she nailed it. Jonathan very impressive considering he didn’t flesh out a single DD.
60s-70s music is something I know well, but I honestly thought the final was “Lady Marmalade.”
I don’t particularly like this song, mainly because it is so repetitive and there’s not much to it in the way of lyrics. VH-1 has a list (slideshow) of 15 most repetitive songs and “Roxanne” came in at No. 15.
They have Lambchop’s “Song That Never Ends” as No. 1 on there. The list was made in 2015. “Baby Shark” would certainly knock “Roxanne” off the list, if updated. However, I don’t think kids’ songs should have been included. There’s a legit purpose to them being repetitive.
I actually prefer “Baby Shark” to “Roxanne”. By the way, the answer to today’s FJ finally popped into my head around noon time lol. The hints about The Police were of no help to me, I didn’t know they were responsible for it lol. I never cared much for Sting.
I’ve referred to “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” as “the song that never ends” for decades now.
So, ” nananana, hey Jude…” didn’t make the list.
Cece!! LOL!! I thought “Hey Jude” would be on there myself but it has more lyrics than “Roxanne”. Instead, they had “Let It Be” for the Beatles’ entry with 36 repetitions of the title (ugh!).
So glad to see your comment. I’ve been thinking about you this week and wondering if you were still reading at least ow and then 😁
VJ!! I think about you all the time, and yes, still take great pleasure in reading your recaps. Sometimes I have to play catch up and read 3 or 4 at a time, threatening everyone in the household who dares to interrupt me. 🙂
Anyway, thanks for the link to the list — it amused me, and made me think of your comment a while back on Hey Jude. 🙂
Hope you’re doing really well.
“Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone” by Bill Withers drives me nuts. I know, I know, I know, I know ugh, I can’t stand that song.
Funkytown is another one — if you take out all the repetitions, that song has maybe 7 lines!
Super-tough FJ today I had zero idea about whatsoever!
Jonathan had a great two week run so far despite missing some easy final jeopardy clues. Still though Matt would be proud of him having winning 10 games so far. Jon is very close to Seth Wilson’s 12 game total. We wrap up this week with another clean sweep and a few triple stumpers in final along with some big challenges for our returning champion. Speaking of Cyrano de bergerac wasn’t there another guy that also fell for Roxanne in that play, VJ? His name was christian. You remember how that guy wrote a poem for Roxanne but can’t finish it, right? That play brought back so many great memories for me and I think Roxanne once said that love is going to die.