Final Jeopardy: Broadway Musicals (2-19-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (2/19/2019) in the category “Broadway Musicals” was:
The title of this musical that opened in 1956 came from the last line of a nursery rhyme about a structure that spanned the Thames
New champ Rachel Fabi, a health bioethics professor from Syracuse, NY, won $8,400 yesterday. In Game 2, her challengers are : Matt Masich, a writer/editor from Denver, CO; and Dana Wayne, an educator from No. Hollywood, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Alex’ Bucket List – Eating Verbs – What’s Happening This Month? – Oscar Records – My God – It’s Full of Stores
Matt found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Oscar Records” under the $600 clue on the 13th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $3,000, $1,400 more than Rachel in second place. He bet $1,600 and he was RIGHT.
Winning for “The Miracle Worker”, Patty Duke is tied for the shortest Oscar speech: these 2 words. show
Matt finished in the lead with $8,400. Rachel was second with $3,600 and Dana was last with $3,400.
Round 2 Categories: It’s Twosday! – McPeople – American Literature – That’s a Clown Category – Paris Potpourri – Crossword Clues “K”
Rachel found the first Daily Double in “McPeople” under the $2,000 clue on the 8th pick. She was in second place with $6,000, half of Matt’s lead. She bet $2,000 and couldn’t get past Mc so she was WRONG.
Randolph (aka Rand’l) was the head of this clan in Pike County, Kentucky. show
4 clues later, Dana found the last Daily Double in “American Literature” under the $800 clue. In second place with $6,600, she had $5,400 less Matt’s lead. She bet $1,800 and she was RIGHT.
In Oz, she’s the good witch who helps Dorothy get back to Kansas. show
Dana finished in the lead with $14,400. Matt was next with $13,200 and Rachel was in third place with $10,000.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
According to Mental Floss: “At first, the show went by Liza, which eventually evolved into Lady Liza. However, Harrison didn’t care for either name because he felt that they both relegated his character to second fiddle status. A number of alternatives were then tossed around—including Fanfaroon, a British slang term meaning ‘one who brags about himself.’ Finally, Loewe and Lerner lifted the words my fair lady from the nursery rhyme ‘London Bridge is Falling Down.’ This three-word title satisfied Harrison, and the rest is history.”
9/18/2007’s FJ: MUSICAL HISTORY: It’s the nursery rhyme that inspired the title of a famous musical based on a 1913 G.B. Shaw work (It was a triple stumper. Maybe that’s why they made it easier this time around.)
Rachel thought it was “All Fall Down,” possibly thinking of “Ring Around The Rosy” and a William Inge screenplay. She lost her $4,401 bet and finished with $5,599.
Matt got it right. He bet $10,799, bringing him up to $23,999.
Dana got it, too. She bet $12,001 so she won the game with $26,401. Dana is the new Jeopardy! champ. We’ll see her again in 2 weeks.
THE ALL-STAR GAMES START TOMORROW!!
A triple stumper from each round:
ALEX’ BUCKET LIST ($800) I want to make a pilgrimage to the Potala Palace, once the main residence of the Dalai Lama in this city, 12,000 feet up
THAT’S A CLOWN CATEGORY ($1200) In 1952, with the help of Hank Aaron, the Indianapolis Clowns won the championship in this organization
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “World Politics”
In August 2015, 3 retired Marines helped raise the U.S. Flag in this city where they’d hauled it down 54 years earlier. show
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Well dana played well today. But still though London bridge has been my favorite song since childhood. Congrats to Matt and Dana on getting this right. I look forward to seeing the all star game players. Furthermore I hope Dana can break the one day streak hopefully this March. Also VJ your kids loves London bridge right? If they watched pbs kids that song is played millions of times especially for Barney and friends But I am surprised Rachel didn’t know hatfields and the McCoys.
@Lou, I love nursery rhymes and fairy tales so I naturally taught them to all my kids and my grandkids. I think Rachel knew that McCoy answer but just had a bad moment there.
LINK: 8 more clues from the round
Before I get to today’s game I would like you ladies and gents a question re the ASG coming up. All the players have already won a lot of money on J and a few on other shows as well. Top prize is 1 M ,divided by three. Do you think J should have made this ASG a charity event or split the money 50/50 between players and charity? Will/could/should the teams split their winnings with charity? They need this money as Saudi Arabia needs oil….
I would really appreciate your thoughts and input. I would enjoy watching the ASG a lot more if players who already won a bundle would share with a worthy cause?
As for today: Congratulations to Dana, yet another champ after yesterday’s winner Rachel crashed. Now Dana will have to wait for 2 weeks. Maybe by then the jinx will be broken??
I do not think it’s the case that all the contestants are necessarily rolling in their money right now. After Brad and Ken, the next highest career totals are about $500,000 (3rd is Roger Craig at $530,200). After taxes, as an example, he probably kept about $300,000. Obviously still a good pay day, but I’m sure a lot of that went to paying off his student loans for his PhD in computer science. I’m sure a lot of the All Stars, after paying taxes and any outstanding loans/mortgages they had, probably did not have more than $100,000 left over, which is not exactly “quit my job and retire” money.
I’m someone who sees charity as highly important, but charitable giving is an incredibly personal thing, and so I tend not to judge individuals, as I don’t know enough about their lives. For example, a contestant could have a sick family member that they help with their winnings, or they might give a lot of charity, whether or not anyone else hears about it (see Ken and his (at least) 10% tithe).
Finally, it’s not as if a contestant “blowing” their winnings on an expensive car, for example, is just wasteful. The buying of expensive cars keeps thousands of people around the world gainfully employed, many who rely on that job to support their families. That’s the beauty of capitalism – everyone benefits when there is a series of consensual exchanges of capital and labor, even if one thinks some are motivated by “greed”.
Trebek makes $10 million per year. Have Trebek donate his salary from the tournament to charity. Have the ABC and Paramount bigwigs donate 2 weeks salary to charity.
I really think ALL the players in the tournament should get $100K for just showing up. After all, Jeopardy will get great ratings for those 2 weeks, and again, Trebek makes $10 million a year for just reading questions and sometimes speaking with a pompous French accent.
@Albert
I take it you don’t like trebek very much? He grew up bilingual, so the French accent sometimes stems from one of his 2 native languages. French (as well as Italian or Spanish) is a much more melodic and softer language than English (esp.American or Australian English) and may sound unusual to a non French speaker, but it’s imo just more elegant and more pleasant to listen to. German, English and all Slavic languages are rather rough sounding in comparison.
I think Alex is a very charitable person already. Here’s an excerpt from an interview a while back:
Q: What’s your take on philanthropy?
A: You have to be careful when you send in donations, because pretty soon you are deluged. One day my accountant said, ‘Why not form a charitable foundation, which you can donate to, deduct from gross income, and determine where the money goes?’
I thought that was a great idea. Over the years I kind of adopted a village in Zambia of 1,700 people, and helped them get clean water, schools, hospitals and housing. We also work with a girl’s school in northern Kenya, and I have done a lot of tours with the USO.
My wife and I have all the money we need to live, and we can’t take it with us. So if there are groups in need, we try to help them.
What is See you tomorrow, Trebek?!