Final Jeopardy: Composers (3-19-26)
The Final Jeopardy question (3/19/2026) in the category “Composers” was:
In the 1860s he composed one of his most famous pieces to celebrate the birth of longtime friend Bertha Faber’s second son
4x champ Jamie Ding, a bureaucrat & law student from Lawrenceville, NJ, has now won $106,601. In Game 5, his opponents are: Jason Snell, a journalist & podcaster from Mill Valley, CA; and Jordan Haynie Ware, a priest from Edmonton, Alberta.
Round 1 Categories: The Smithsonian Honors America’s 250th – Discontinued – Pen Names – Non-Spanish Vocabulary – First Drafts of One-Word Band Names – Let’s Dance!
Jordan found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Pen Names” under the $800 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. She was in a tie for the lead with Jason. They both had $800. Jordan bet the $1,000 allowance and she was RIGHT.
She used the pen names Flora Fairfield & A.M. Barnard but used her real name on “Jo’s Boys” show
Jordan finished in the lead with $5,400. Jamie was second with $4,000 and Jason was last with $3,600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Oceans & Rivers – Do “U” Remember? – The Only Consonant – Leprosy, Ancient & Modern Affliction – TV Law – Against the Odds
Jordan found the first Daily Double in “Leprosy” under the $1,600 clue on the 6th pick. In the lead with $9,000, she had $3,800 more than Jamie in second place. Jordan bet $4,000 and she was RIGHT.
The causative agent of leprosy was found by Albert Neisser & this Norwegian man the disease was later named for show
Jamie got the last Daily Double in “Do You Remember” under the $800 clue, with 8 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $14,400 now, $1,800 more than Jordan in the second place. Jamie bet $4,400 and he was RIGHT.
Elements of the U.S. Army’s 4th Infantry & 82nd & 101st Airborne Divisions assaulted & captured this location on June 6, 1944 show
Jamie finished in the lead with $20,800. Jordan was next with $12,600 and Jason was in third place with $10,000. Two $400 clues (in Oceans & Rivers and in TV Law) were not shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS JOHANNES BRAHMS?
In his early 20s, Johannes Brahms conducted a small women’s chorus in his hometown of Hamburg, Germany when a mutual infatuation arose between Brahms and 18-year-old Bertha Porubsky from Vienna. The pair corresponded regularly until Brahms stopped writing. Bertha went on to marry Artur Faber, a wealthy businessman and Brahms remained friends with both of them. The Fabers named their second son Johannes, moving Brahms to compose a lullaby for the boy. That work is known worldwide as “Brahms’ Lullaby”. He wanted Bertha to sing it to the baby, knowing she would recognize the melody of a love song he had cleverly incorporated into the lullaby. It was a song Bertha sang to him in the dawn of their love.
Bertha was not the only woman Brahms took up with, only to disappear when things got too hot for him to handle.
Jason thought it was Haydn. He lost $8,401 and finished with $3,600.
Jordan drew a blank. She lost $8,401 and finished with $4,199.
Jamie got it right. He bet $4,401 and won the game with $25,201. Jamie’s 5-day total is $131,802.
A triple stumper from each round:
PEN NAMES ($1000) Howard is the original first name of this author of supernatural novels; she used the pen name A.N. Roquelaure for her erotica
AGAINST THE ODDS ($2000) Louis Zamperini who survived a plane crash, 47 days in shark-infested seas, & a trip to a Japanese POW camp, was the subject of her nonfiction best-selling book, “Unbroken”
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “20th CENTURY NOVELS”
Virginia Woolf disliked this book that was “cutting out the explanations and putting in the thoughts between dashes” show
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This is the kind of FJ! when you slap your forehead in disbelief if you don’t get it in time. 🤣 I thought they wanted the title of the piece at first but switched to the composer alone in time. I still think they would have accepted Brahms Lullaby, though, since his name’s right there.
Jamie is now qualified for the Tournament of Champions having won 5 games. We’ll see if he can sweep the entire week tomorrow.