Final Jeopardy: Music Stars (2-24-20)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (2/24/2020) in the category “Music Stars” was:
On July 26, 1972 he testified before a Senate Subcommittee on national penitentiaries.
5x champ MacKenzie Jones, a program development director from Tulsa, OK, won $130,803 last week. In Game 6, she is up against: Jennifer Aziz, a lawyer from Toronto, Ontario; and Steve Goodreau, a professor from Seattle, WA.
Round 1 Categories: Fairy Tale Police Report – Around the World – Game Time! – Lifetime Movie Titles – 4-Letter Words With 1 Vowel – American Women & Politics
Steve found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Around the World” under the $600 clue on the 6th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $1,000, $200 more than MacKenzie in second place. He bet it all and he was RIGHT.
The co-Princes of this tiny country in the Pyrenees are the French president & the Bishop of Urgell. show
Steve finished in the lead with $7,000. MacKenzie was second with $2,800 and Jennifer was last with $2,800.
Round 2 Categories: Electricity – City Films – Only the Good Characters Die Young – 19th Century History – 3 Os for You – Macho Cheese
Steve found the first Daily Double in “19th Century History” under the $2,000 clue on the 13th pick. He was in the lead with $12,200 at this point, $5,800 more than MacKenzie in second place. He bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
After success at Second Bull Run Confederate armies began an invasion of Maryland; this Sept. 17, 1862 battle stopped them. show
MacKenzie found the last Daily Double in “Good Characters Die Young” under the $2,000 clue, with 7 clues left after it. In second place with $8,000, she had $8,800 less than Steve’s lead. Fully aware that this was her only chance to catch up, she bet $7,000, and she was RIGHT.
After saving some kids’ lives in “The Outsiders”, Johnny tells this main character to say gold, then joins our category. show
Steve finished in the lead with $16,400. MacKenzie was next with $15,800 and Jennifer was in third place with $6,800.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS JOHNNY CASH?
In his book “The Spectacular Few”, Mark Hamm says Folsom Prison’s fame did not arise from the ‘legendary roster of criminals” who served there (“Hell’s Angel founder Sonny Barger, the Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver, the Soledad Brother George Jackson, 1960s icons Timothy Leary and Charles Manson, R&B/funk musician Rick James, the rap mogul Suge Knight, and the Mendendez brothers, to name a few)…. the prison is known for a legendary cultural event that occurred there on the morning of Saturday, January 13, 1968, the making of “Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison”….” Cash went on to champion prison reform in many ways, “including a meeting with President Nixon in the Oval Office in 1972…. On July 26 of that year, Cash testified before the Congressional Subcommittee on National Penitentiaries. Cash called for sweeping reforms to eliminate unequal sentencing…”
The California State Library has a page on Johnny Cash and Folsom Prison. There’s a link to his full congressional testimony on there.
Jennifer got it right. She bet $6,700 and brought her score up to $13,500.
MacKenzie got it, too. She bet it all and doubled her score to $31,600.
Steve thought it was Elvis Presley. He lost his $15,201 and landed in third place with $1,199. That resulted in another big payday for MacKenzie Jones. She retained her title and she has a 6-day total of $162,403 now.
A triple stumper from each round:
GAME TIME! ($1000) The spy is the only piece that can nab a marshal in this game that’s basically tabletop Capture the Flag
ONLY THE GOOD CHARACTERS DIE YOUNG ($1600) Schoolboys Gene & Finny are the best of friends; one doesn’t make it out of this John Knowles novel alive
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Name the Novel”
“I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet” show
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I’m surprised nobody got the clue about A Separate Peace. That book is a high school English class staple, which is how I first came to read it.
That category would have been a perfect time to drag in some Shakespeare, because there’s a very on-point quote from Richard III foreshadowing the deaths of the young princes in the Tower: “So wise so young, they say, do never live long.”
It was an optional summer reading book in my high school, but I chose to read Black Like Me instead. Oops!!
Steve Goodreau, no relation to Stefan Goodreau and John Goodreau.
@Richard Corliss — not as far as I know, no. But all American Goodreaus are descendants of two brothers who came to Quebec in the 17th century, so we’re at most 9th cousins or so!
Another great comeback from Mackenzie thanks to that daily double on good characters die young. Congrats to her on winning game six. She reminded me of Kerry Greene in where she dominated throughout her run. Although if Mackenzie didn’t bet anything, she Still will win regardless. But seriously, Elvis Presley? I thought Steve had heard of Johnny cash and decided to go for the king of rock and roll whom is honored by Jimmy Carter, VJ?
There you go again, Lou, knocking a player for what you think is a bad guess when it actually wasn’t. Obviously, Steve knew about Elvis and Nixon’s 1970 meeting. Seriously, indeed!
Plus Elvis had a HUGE hit w/ “Jailhouse Rock”! Doesn’t that semi-qualify him as an expert on penitentiaries?! 😋
Steve Goodreau here. I had the word “Folsom” stick in my head but couldn’t get beyond it, so went with the name I could pull out in the time I had remaining. It’s stressful up there!! . Mackenzie and Jennifer are both wonderful people and I am happy to see Mackenzie rocking it!!!
Hi Steve, thanks for stopping by. I think you did a darned good job under the stress up there just by finishing in the lead going into FJ! MacKenzie has gotten some super paydays in games with great challengers like yourself 😃
Thanks VJ!
MacKenzie, you are owning this! Go, MacKenzie! Whoo!!