Final Jeopardy: Songs & U.S. History (10-29-21)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 10/29/2021 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.
LANDSCAPING ($1000) This material (image), meaning “rocks that came straight from where they were found” makes a rustic-looking wall
SATELLITES ($2000) Explorer 1 made the first scientific discovery by satellite when it detected this radiation belt in 1958
Tyler ran the FOUL PLAY category:
($200) In boxing this rhyming 2-word bit of downtown illegality is frowned upon for good reason
($400) If you get 2 of these warnings as a player in a soccer game, you are no longer a player in a soccer game
($600) In hoops, when an offensive player runs into a foe who has established position, this foul is called
($800) Lumberjacks wailed in 2016 when the NFL made this thigh-or-lower block illegal on run plays as well as pass
($1000) Don’t step over the 3/8-to-1-inch wide foul line that’s 60 feet away from the nearest target in this sport
ANSWERS: show
Sneak Peek clues — THE VILLAIN OF THE PIECE
($400) Tom is the first name of this talented Mr., the villain of a 1955 Patricia Highsmith novel
($800) Anton Chigurh is the implacable coin-tossing hitman in this Cormac McCarthy novel
($1200) Nobody cries when this big bad Bill comes to a bad end in “Oliver Twist”
($1600) This “Treasure Island” bad guy was a former sidekick of Captain Flint, “the bloodthirstiest buccaneer that sailed”
($2000) In a Thomas Hardy novel, Alec D’ this brings young Tess to ruin
ANSWERS: show
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I missed the show entirely due to work. What was the answer to the question with the image of the rock wall? Also, the $1000 “Foul Play” clue above is a repeat of the $800 clue re lumberjacks.
Surprised no one knew the prez from Braintree or the one when the White House burned. Presidents is one of the categories most contestants know cold. And Tess’s family name? Tsk tsk. As I always say, there’s a marked difference between the GOATs and the merely excellent players.
@Howard, I fixed the rock wall clue and also the $1000 clue in Foul Play. Thanks for letting me know.
Re: Tess’s family name, Emily did buzz in with a close response but she left out the first “R” so it cost her $2K.
The correct response would have been “What is the Marines’ Hymn?” (with an Apostrophe) But Jeopardy accepted his response so . . .
I always thought it was “The Marine Hymn”. I just checked, and Taylor left out the apostrophe.
Hi, Folks,
For the Final Jeopardy, would “The Marine Corps Hymn” be a righteous answer?
Thank you for a response.
Michael
Well you sure beat me as I could only come up with ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ which I knew would be incorrect. Your question was very close, but unfortunately, I doubt that It would have been accepted.
Michael, I’m not entirely sure that they would reject The Marine Corps Hymn — they called it that in this 2000 Daily Double: The Marine Corps Hymn was written following the capture of this foreign capital in 1847
It’s probably not a good argument because it’s not in quotes, but there are other instances online, including a video, where it is called “The Marine Corps Hymn”
I guess if you said “Marine Corps” song and left out the “Hymn” part it wouldn’t have been accepted?
yeah, Rhonda, I’m a lot more sure Marine Corps song would have been rejected.
Funny that I was anticipating at least one “Marine Corps Hymn” title or one “From the Halls of Montezuma” reply this morning. The wrong responses today were as far from the right response as Queensland and New Zealand were yesterday!
I figured as much, VJ. Funny that I never knew the correct title of that song, I remember first hearing it as a very young child, I don’t know that it’s heard that much at all today.
This seems like a great time to post a link to The Armed Forces Medley article on wikipedia. It gives the titles of the individual songs for 6 branches of the Armed Forces, including (as of 2020) the Space Force. I took a cursory look at the separate articles and put an asterisk next to the titles that are designated “official”
*Semper Paratus
The U.S. Space Force March
*The U.S. Air Force (orig. song: Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder)
Anchors Aweigh
*Marines’ Hymn
*The Army Goes Rolling Along (orig. song: “As the Caissons Go Rolling Along”)
Regarding the 2000 Daily Double (and as you pretty much had alluded to), it didn’t state what the hymn was actually called, but rather that it was an inherent feature of the U.S. Marine Corps. As per the video, it would have simply been in error. Personally, since the OP was merely a Jeopardy fan, I would have opted to give him credit.
I had The Marine Fight Song. I dont know if that was acceptable.
I don’t think they’d accept Fight Song, Albert
Tyler could possibly sweep up next week and secure a spot in the toc. This final reminded me of military songs I learned in grade school like frere jacques marine hymn and so forth.
Congrats to Tyler on his third win but he had good opponents today.