Final Jeopardy: Music Legends (12-31-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (12/31/2021) in the category “Music Legends” was:
Of their July 1957 first meeting at a church fair, one of this pair recalled: “I was a fat schoolboy and… he was drunk”
22x champ Amy Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, CA has now won $831,600. In Game 23, she takes on these two players: Dan Patton, a retired cybersecurity specialist from Washington, DC; and Arjun Sivakumar, an attorney from Costa Mesa, CA.
A very Happy New Year to one and all. It’s the last match of 2021 and my 10th year anniversary of recapping Jeopardy’s last episode of the year. The similarities between that 2011 FJ! and today’s were the categories– 2011’s was “Rock Icons.” Also, the number of correct responses to the clue was the same!
Round 1 Categories: The 21st Century – TV Talk – This & That – V”urb”s – The Toast of… – New York-Set Fiction
Amy found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “New York-Set Fiction” under the $600 clue, with 6 clues to go after it. She was in the lead with $10,400 now, $7,000 more than Arjun in second place. Amy bet $4,000 and she was RIGHT.
There are sinister goings on at the Branford apartment building, including Mrs. Woodhouse’s pregnancy, in this Ira Levin classic. show
Amy finished in the lead with $16,000. Arjun was second with $4,800 and Dan was last at negative $400. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: Directional Geography – It’s Your Loki Day – Plants & Animals – Modern Folk Heroes – Poetry in Motion Pictures – Ends in Double Letters
Amy found the first Daily Double in “Modern Folk Heroes” under the $2,000 clue on the 9th pick. In first place with $24,000, she had $18,400 more than Arjun in second place. Amy bet $8,000 and she was RIGHT.
A co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association, he became a migrant worker after his family farm was lost in the Depression. show
8 clues later, Dan got the last Daily Double in “Plants & Animals” under the $1,200 clue. In last place with $2,000 now, he had $33,200 less than Amy in first place. Dan bet $1,500 and said horse ferns. That was WRONG.
Fittingly, these plants seen here belong to the genus equisetum. show
Amy finished in the lead with $42,000. Arjun was second with $11,200 and Dan was last with $2,100. No clues went uncovered.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right, and they all had the same response!
WHO ARE JOHN LENNON & PAUL McCARTNEY?
An article by Emily Retter on the Free Public Library recalls the 7/6/1957 meeting of Paul McCartney and John Lennon. John was a member of the skiffle band The Quarrymen, performing at Woolton’s St Peter’s Church summer fete in Liverpool that Paul also attended. Meeting for the first time, the two lads had a short chat during which Paul showed John how to tune a guitar. John then sang Eddie Cochran’s “Twenty Flight Rock”, Gene Vincent’s “Be-Bop-A-Lula” and a Little Richard medley. Paul remembers John also singing “Come Go With Me”, a 1956 hit by the Pittsburgh doo-wop group the Del-Vikings. In Paul’s memory, the pair were both 12 years old. In reality, Paul had just turned 15 two and a half weeks before the fete and John was a few months shy of his 17th birthday. Also in the article: John’s younger sister, Julia Baird, shares her memories of the event.
By October 1957, Paul McCartney became a member of The Quarrymen and the two began a songwriting collaboration. This led to the formation of The Beatles, the group that would take the world by storm in the 1960s.
Dan thought it was Simon & Garfunkel. He lost his $2,000 bet and finished with $100.
Arjun went with Simon & Garfunkel, too. That cost him $6,999. He had $4,201 left.
Amy made it a Simon & Garfunkel trifecta. She lost a whopping $18,000 but and won the game with $24,000. Amy Schneider’s 23-day total is $855,600.
Not only is $42,000 Amy’s highest score before Final Jeopardy!, $18,000 is the most she has lost in 4 missed FJ! rounds — so far, of course. It is not the most she has ever bet in FJ!– she also bet $18,000 on 12/23/21, but she won that bet.
A triple stumper from each round:
POETRY IN MOTION PICTURES ($1200) A natural for the category, this John Singleton movie includes a cameo by Maya Angelou & features her work
ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS ($2000) It can mean to gather fabric in decorative rows or to bake eggs without their shells
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Art Firsts”
The first French museum to buy this type of painting was the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, in 1901 show
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Happy 10th year anniversary of recapping Jeopardy’s final episode of the year, VJ! It is quite an impressive milestone!! And what are the chances of having the same FJ category and the same results that year, too! And I especially love that my husband was the answer your very first year!!! Thanks so much for the link!!!!
Thanks, Rhonda! That was quite a coincidence. It wasn’t even something I remembered though — I just noticed the 10 year milestone and was as surprised as anyone would be.
You’re very welcome, VJ!! I’m so glad that you told us!
Call me whatever, but, I thought of Lennon/McCartney right away, and S&G didn’t even come to my mind. I’ve always thought that L/M were the “spine” of the Beatles; it’s not that George and Ringo weren’t lights out musicians, but, L/M were more than just the band.
And, despite him being dead for over 40 years now, still, the more I find out about Lennon, the more disreputable I find him.
But, go big or go home! Earlier in the week, when the DD was under an $800 spot (which suggests an easier clue), Amy seemed to get spooked a little, and made what I believe is the smallest DD bet she has since being on. That’s what producers want – big bets, big wins, and big losses! Exciting!!
After a brain fart a couple weeks prior, missing “What is North Dakota?” (I’ve driven through the Theodore Roosevelt National Forest, nearly falling asleep at the wheel!), I finally got my twelfth Final Jeopardy skunk for 2021 on the last possible day. I, too, was torn between Simon and Garfunkel versus Lennon and McCartney, but the church social part of the clue struck a familiar note. Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel are both Jewish, so it would have more likely have been a temple social. Besides, I knew that Simon and Garfunkel’s first hit was in 1957, “Hey Schoolgirl” by “Tom and Jerry,” and that time table seemed just a little too close for comfort. I opted at the last second for “Who is Lennon and McCartney?”
I wonder if any of the three contestants were thrown off like I was by the wording? My first thought was of the Beatles but “this pair” made me think it was a music act of only two people. So I also went with Simon and Garfunkel.
Those of us of a certain age who grew up on Beatles music know all too well that they met at a church fair in 1957 when Paul was a mere 14 or 15. Fun facts: I saw the Beatles live in1964. McCartney’s father was a professional musician whom Paul asked permission to trade in his trumpet for a guitar. And S&G both attended my high school, 10 years earlier. Both turned 80 recently. When my youngest son was born, we were stuck for a name. We narrowed it down to Robert and Paul. I chose Paul specifically because of McCartney and Simon, and wouldn’t you know he’s become a solid guitar player. I suck at guitar, but taught him a few chords when he was 12 or 13, and he just took off from there. His middle name is Roger, so when he and I got to meet famed rock singer Paul Rodgers in 2006 when he was touring with Queen as their lead, I told him my son’s name was Paul Roger, and the singer replied, “I guess I’m in good company.” (He’d formerly been the front man of Bad Company in the 70s. They reunited in 2016 and of course I went to see them.)
Go, Amy! You can do it.
I had little idea of whom it might have been in FJ, but I went with the Everly Brothers.
They were real-life brothers, Rick. They met when Phil Everly was born. 🤣
Yes, I was very much aware of that. In any case, that was one tough finale.
I hope you don’t think I am laughing at you, Rick. That statement (they met when Phil was born) just struck me funny.
I think you’d have to be a pretty diehard Beatles fan to look into and/or retain this information. Some go so far as to scrutinize everything McCartney claims to remember to determine what is true and what isn’t. It’s been claimed that McCartney has contradicted this account on many occasions. All I can say to all that is I don’t really give a rat’s patoot when they met.
Anyhoo, if the category itself was your first approach, you might think which 1960s male acts are considered legends. You might come up with The Beatles, The Stones, The Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, The Temps, The Four Seasons. You’d really only have the Beatles, Stones and S & G to work with. Therefore, I think it makes perfect sense that many people would choose the only pair, S&G. (It would be extremely unfair to expect the contestants to be able to come up with the last names of two members of the Temps, the Beach Boys or the Seasons.)
But Simon and Garfunkel were Jewish, VJ. Why would they be at a church fair?
hi glory, I don’t see why they wouldn’t be at one. I looked up that St. Peter’s church and it’s an Anglican church. Christian kids bought records. I think any group starting out would perform at a church fair. Besides, if it was like that, we could say what was McCartney doing there? He was raised Roman Catholic.
More trivia: That church has a graveyard where an uncle of John Lennon is buried. Also buried there– a real life Eleanor Rigby
I knew it wasn’t Mick or Keith because I don’t think either was ever fat. Also, I recently reread the Keith Richards interview from the October 1989 issue of Playboy magazine and Keith talked about meeting Mick. It was not at a church fair.
In July 1957 Lennon was only 16 years old, and a drunk? That is not something to be bragging about, imo. Imagine that.
Meeting of two people in July 1957 was key to this MUSICAL LEGENDS FJ clue in TV’s JEOPARDY! I am really surprised it proved to be a Triple Stumper (and the same wrong question written by all three contestants)–the John Lennon and Paul McCartney initial encounter that led to The Quarrymen and The Beatles collaborations is quite famous. Music literacy is not my strength by any means. One need not be at the level of Eric Bourgouin of FFF Quebec who archived 40,000 pix of The Beatles and now has helped archive more than 20,000 pix of ace teen eco champion Greta Thunberg as an FFF volunteer leader in Canada to know this. But I did not know some of the clues from the earlier rounds! Good wishes to all for the New Year 2022!
I listened to the beatles a lot so I might try out the fab four trivia to see how much I know about Paul McCartney Harrison, lennon, Starr. But still though does anyone here remember imagine by Lennon? VJ you heard of that right? We could hear it again to honor Betty White who died today. Happy New year to you and to everyone here at fikkle fame! Let’s hope next year Amy will try to get something that she knows for final.
Sporcle has a lot of trivia quizzes on the Beatles. I was never a big fan of the Beatles, collectively or individually, but of course I’ve heard “Imagine”.
And we end the year with a triple stumper for the first time since 2017 and today’s FJ was not nice to anybody. As usual, nobody knows about music.
For the first time this season, all three players had the same wrong responses in FJ! We ended the year with a FJ! that no one got.
That’s why Ken Jennings wins today’s Final.
And Ken also won with “cromulent”!!