Final Jeopardy: Music (2-22-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (2/22/2021) in the category “Music” was:
Just 24 notes, this piece is nicknamed “Butterfield’s Lullaby” for the U.S. Army general who arranged it
New champ Sam Stapleton, a college consultant from Los Gatos, CA, won $33,100 last Friday. In Game 2, he is up against: Natalie Tyson, an academic advisor from Walnut Creek, CA; and David Maybury, a magnetics engineer orig. from Richmond, VA.
Round 1 Categories: The Celeb Chef Won’t Eat That! – Pre-Columbian America – Water We Doing – Political Slang – There’s a Book in My Movie – Crossword Clues “T”
Sam found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Political Slang” under the $800 clue on the 4th pick of the round. He and Dave were tied at $600, the only ones with any money. He bet the $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
Astroturfing describes artificial attempts to create the appearance of this 2-word kind of political campaigning. show
David finished in the lead with $6,400. Sam was second with $6,200 and Natalie was last with $4,000. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: Throwing the Book at You – Historic Seconds – “P” for Science – Hamburgers – Animals Within Words – Paging Dr. TV!
Sam found the first Daily Double in “Historic Seconds” under the $2,000 clue on the 20th pick. He was in second place with $11,800 now, $3,000 less than David’s lead. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
Tragically, in 1881, shortly after taking office, he became the second president to be assassinated. show
David got the last Daily Double in “Animals Within Words” under the $1,200 clue, with 3 clues worth $5,600 left after it. In the lead with $18,400, he had $3,200 more than Sam in second place. He bet $10,000 but ran out of time before he come up with a response so he was WRONG.
After sighting one of these horned animals in Africa, we busted out a magnum of champagne. show
Sam finished in the lead with a runaway $17,200. David was next with $8,400 and Natalie was in third place with $5,200. No clues went uncovered.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS “TAPS”?
On TapsBugler.com, Taps historian and professional bugler, Jari Villanueva writes: “Taps began as a revision for the signal of Extinguish Lights (Lights Out) at the end of the day. Up until the Civil War, the infantry call for Extinguish Lights was printed in Silas Casey’s (1801-1882) Infantry Tactics and other manuals, the music which had been borrowed from the French. The music for Taps was adapted by Union General Daniel Butterfield for his brigade (Third Brigade, First Division, Fifth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac) in July, 1862.” In another article on the lyrics to Taps, he says that the U.S. Army still continued to refer to the bugle call as “Extinguish Lights and did not officially change the name to Taps until 1891.” Mr. Villanueva includes the first lyrics for Taps as well as these (which I learned in 5th grade music class, along with other Civil War songs like “Goober Peas”):
Day is done, gone the sun,
From the lake, from the hill, from the sky.
All is well, safely rest, God is nigh.”
Natalie got it right. She bet $3,201 and finished with $8,401.
David got it, too. He added $2,001 to finish with $10,401.
Sam wrote down “Love. Baby don’t hurt me no more”, lyrics from “What is Love”, a Haddaway hit song. He lost his $100 bet and won the game with $17,100. Sam’s 2-day total is $50,301.
3 triple stumpers from PAGING DR. TV!
($800) Oliver Platt & Torrey DeVitto do some Windy City doctoring on this NBC show
($1200) A few parallels with this title doc & Sherlock Holmes–both had the address 221B & played musical instruments
($2000) Syrian refugee Dr. Bash Hamed got a job at a Toronto Hospital after saving the life of one of its doctors on this NBC show
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “British Authors”
Born in 1866, he has been called “The Shakespeare of science fiction” show
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I live in the Palm Springs area and we saw an old episode tonight 2/22/21 with Alex Trebeck. What the heck!!
Unbelievable. David chose not to protect his $3200 lead, and handed Sam a runaway victory.
Obviously he thought it was worth $10000 to find an animal’s name inside another word.
Even with a right answer, he would not have had his own runaway.
The final was a cinch, and David’s foolhardy DD wager cost him a bunch of $$ and a return visit.
Good analysis. I thought the same thing.
David would agree with you, judging by his stricken facial expression.
There are tens of thousands of people who would be great Jeopardy hosts. Why not chooses a person from the Clue Crew? Is the Clue Crew a dead end job?
Mike Richards game show hosting experience paid off tonight. No note cards when interviewing contestants. Quite at ease and stood up throughout the show. Exemplified a man on the move. I can see why Sony hired him away from being the producer of the Price is Right (another favorite game show for me to watch when I want to laugh) to produce Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune. When I see his name at the end of both shows I had to google his name to see if it was the same person and it was. Sharp guy! Not sure he was fond of the champ’s fj written response. Although we may never know.
I agree, Jacob. Bravo, Mike Richards! “Living the mantra – the show must go on!”
And I love that he repeated Alex’s kindness message at the end of the show.
It was a curious FJ response from Sam. Since he started writing quickly (and he wrote a lot) it would seem that he intended right along to go for a “joke” response. If he was legitimately giving his best effort why not wait to see if you suddenly “get it”? But then again, why wager anything at all if you intend to try humor rather than being correct?
Curiouser and curiouser.
Despite a risky 10K bet by David on that daily double, he actually came through in final jeopardy. Congrats to him and Natalie. But that funny response by Sam definitely got a good laugh out of me and you VJ. What is love is a song to be remembered for life. Also VJ have you watched Chicago Med or ER?
I didn’t think Sam’s response was funny, Lou. My college-age granddaughter watched the show with me and before the FJ answers were revealed, I was telling her that everyone would get FJ unless David went with a wrong response to save face. I said that’s what I would do because people would then conclude that I would have lost anyway. So I was very surprised when it was Sam who went for the throwaway response.
I know he said he had no idea what the right response was. I told my granddaughter maybe it’s true but I find it hard to believe. She said he started writing right away so he didn’t even try to figure it out. But yikes — he had to know that would only make Dave feel worse.