Final Jeopardy: British Musicmakers of the 90s (11-24-14)
The Final Jeopardy question (11/24/2014), in the category “British Musicmakers of the 90s” was:
One critic called them “a social phenomenon”, “the most widely recognised group …since John, Paul George & Ringo”.
Jennifer Healy is the returning champ after the 2-week TOC. She won $17,001 on 11/7/2014. Today she goes for a second win against: Doug Perez, from Monrovia, CA; and Courtney Jordan, from New York, NY.
Round 1: Jennifer found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “That’s a Lot of Kids!” under the $1,000 clue. She was in a tie for the lead with Courtney. At $4,000, they both had $1,200 more than Doug in second place. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
He came from a family of 9 kids & had 11 of his own; sadly, he died before his youngest, Rory, was born in 1968. show
Jennifer finished in the lead with $7,800. Courtney was second with $4,600 and Doug was last with $4,400.
Round 2: Doug found the first Daily Double in “Welcome to the Jungle Book” under the $1,600 clue. He was now in the lead with $16,000, $4,600 more than Jennifer in second place. He bet $1,000 and he got it RIGHT after a bit of a pause.
In 1981 Paul Theroux got the itch to publish this novel set in the jungles of Central America. show
Courtney got the last Daily Double, the very last clue. It was in “Sculptors” under the $2,000 clue. In third place with $9,800, she had $7,200 less than Doug’s lead. Trebek made a typical observation that she could take the lead away from Doug. She only bet $2,000 and took a guess with Borglum. That was WRONG.
Teddy Roosevelt said “The soldier, the cowboy and rancher, the Indian” will live “for all time” in his bronzes. show
Doug finished in the lead with $17,000. Jennifer was next with $12,200 and Courtney was in third place with $7,800.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
“The Spice Girls were the biggest British popular music act of the Nineties and probably the biggest selling pop act in the world during the latter half of that decade,” David Sinclair says in his 2009 book Spice Girls Revisited
In an earlier 2004 book, Sinclair said the group ushered in “a global renaissance in pop” and said their music would eventually be regarded in the same light as Abba. Not by the looks of these responses:
Courtney wrote down “Oaisis”. That cost her $7,700 and she finished with $100.
Jennifer thought it was Duran Duran. She lost $7,000, finishing with $5,200.
Doug wrote down “Bunny”. He didn’t bet anything so he remained at $17,000 and became the new Jeopardy! champ.
Doug writing down Bunny would have been pretty funny on any day but it was particularly funny today since the Spice Girls all had nicknames. When Trebek read his answer, Doug looked to his left and winked so Bunny must have been in the audience. During the chat, Doug talked about getting to meet Buzz Aldrin a couple of years ago.
2 years ago:: NONE of the players got this FJ in “PLACE NAMES”
Built in 1911, this Wisconsin home was named for a Welsh bard associated with King Arthur. show
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with the players today i wonder if they would have been able to come up with the names of the beatles, where only ringo starr (real name richard starkey) had a stage name. john lennon, george harrison and paul mccartney used their real names.
funny you said that — there was a $1,600 clue in Julia Collins’s quarter-final (with Joshua Brakhage and Jim Coury) asking for Paul McCartney’s real first name. Julia got it.
I still love the music of the 80’s more than any other decade, and am pretty familiar with it. My iPod is still filled with Depeche Mode, Duran Duran and a dozen other such groups. If it was me, I would have bet heavily. But I would have lost. The Spice Girls were to me a ultra-commercial one-hit wonder of no real artistic or cultural significance. The critic’s comments could have been made about any of two dozen other groups. My guess would have been The Police. Bad FJ, almost impossible to win.
there was just a “void” at the time and they had obviously a good p.r. manager. took them about 4 years anyway before the “breakthrough” came. but still, if you know who beckham is, you should know the spice girls. whenever his wife is with him, that group is mentioned ad nauseam.
Their biggest hit was their first single, “Wannabe”, “Yo, I’ll tell you what I want, what I really really want”. No. 1 in many countries in 96.
They have a discography page on wikipedia — 4 Top 10 hits in USA (only Wannabe No. 1). 9 No. 1’s in UK. They have a Greatest Hits album.
the police were formed ’77, so that would have been some 20 years off. and although i know the spice girls, i could not tell you a single “hit” they had offhand.
Is my face red! I thought the clue was for the 80’s. My bad.
Doug was smart to wager zero. If I wasn’t a David Beckham fan I would not have had a clue as to who the Spice Girls were. When I read male magazines about David Beckham there’s normally some type of reference to his wife Victoria as a former Spice girl. Some articles about David Beckham that mentioned Victoria also told how the group was compared to the Beatles when they started in the 1990s. Not really surprised that this was big triple stumper.
Without having been a fan of David Beckham when he played Soccer I would have had no clue about who the Spice girls were.
Well played game and very smart contestants despite the triple stumper.
judging by the bets in fj i presume nobody was really comfy with the category.
i am really surprised that nobody got that. anyone ever heard of david and victoria beckham, victoria being the former “spice girl”??
The clue was just too vague, as Andrea pointed out in the CotD. The male group mislead, throwing in the entire decade. Heh.
Alex actualIy said “if I said Ginger, Posh, Baby, Sporty and Scary, you would have come up with…” and of course, then they got it.
I asked my daughter the question at dinner. She had no idea where to start. She was really only 6 when they became famous so I wouldn’t have asked her except for the dolls. I mentioned the dolls, too, but she didn’t get it till I said the word girls.