Final Jeopardy: Music Legends (12-31-21)
Here are some more clues from the 12/31/2021 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.
The players got all the clues in IT’S YOUR LOKI DAY:
$400: Loki’s dad Fárbauti, or “cruel-striker”, was a jötunn, one of these, like Ymir or in another sense, Eli Manning
$800: Father of the Year Loki gave the world Jörmungand, the serpent that at this final battle comes from sea onto land, spewing venom
$1200: For crimes against the gods, Loki is bound to a rock as punishment much like this Greek Titan; both are gods of fire
$1600: Destiny says Loki & this Norse god who lives atop the Bifrost die at each other’s hand; he probably should’ve seen that coming
$2000: It’s time to give you this goddess, Loki’s daughter who rules over the same-named land of the dead
ANSWERS: show
A few old clues related to today’s FJ! response:
02-09-2015 BUDS ($600) On July 6, 1957, these 2 met in Liverpool; one, the lead singer of The Quarrymen, let the other, then 15, join the band
10-21-2011 THE SONG DYNASTY ($200) From 1964 to 1970 this British songwriting duo churned out a record 21 Billboard No. 1 hits as a team
06-22-1998 20th CENTURY HISTORY ($200) A book by Jim O’Donnell chronicles July 6, 1957, the day these 2 Beatles first met
Sneak Peek clues — TV TALK
($200) This numeric synonym for the fuzz comes from a 1968-1980 TV show
($400) Galentine’s Day originated on this sitcom, with Leslie Knope celebrating her female friendships
($600) Not the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but “Howdy Doody” gave us this surf-y exclamation of enthusiasm
($800) The “Simpsons’ writers thought they’d invented this word meaning to enlarge, but it had actually been coined in the 1880s
($1000) Rachel Dratch came up with this buzzkill character while on vacation with a real-life one
ANSWERS: 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”!!