Final Jeopardy: Singers (3-21-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/21/2022) in the category “Singers” was:
In 2021 at age 95, this singer achieved a Guinness world record for the oldest person to release an album of new material
2x champ Finn Corrigan, a student from Vista, CA won $39,602 last week. In Game 3, he takes on these two players: Margaret Chipowsky, an attorney from Lawrenceville, NJ; and Karen Johnson, a member acquisition coordinator from Portland, OR.
Round 1 Categories: Picture/Book – Boating Glossary – Dance Off, Bro! – 4-Letter Countries – Films of the 1990s – Let Your Star Guide You
Finn found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “4-Letter Countries” under the $800 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. He was the only one on the board with $400. Finn bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
Sultan Haitham rules this nation on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula show
Margaret finished in the lead with $3,800. Finn and Karen were tied in second place with $1,800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Groups in History – Seismic Activity – The Ancients Speak – Giving You a Plum Assignment – Childhood Homes – 3 Letters in a Row Alphabetically
Karen found the first Daily Double in “Groups in History” under the $800 clue on the 4th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $6,600, $2,800 more than Margaret in second place. Karen bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
Term for businessmen like Rockefeller & Pullman; reformist Carl Schurz wrote of “The Modern” these who “Plunder at Will” show
Karen got the last Daily Double in “3-Letters in a Row Alphabetically” under the $1,200 clue with 3 clues left after it. She was in the lead with $15,200, $5,400 more than Margaret in second place. Karen bet $1,000 and, to her surprise, she was RIGHT.
Apparel for a thespian show
Karen finished in the lead with $15,400. Finn was second with $11,400. Margaret was last with $9,800. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS TONY BENNETT?
Singer Tony Bennett had his first No. 1 hit in 1951 with “Because of You”. His signature song, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco”, came in 1962. Bennett’s duets with contemporary artists brought him renewed popularity and success with audiences from the 1990s through August 2021, when he retired due to his ongoing battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
Bennett’s many awards include 19 Grammy Awards (more than Frank Sinatra) and he holds 5 Guinness World Records. His 2021 duet album with Lady Gaga, “Love for Sale” earned him his 4th (oldest person to reach No. 1 on U.S. album charts for a newly recorded album); and 5th (oldest musician to release a collection of new material). Bennett’s other world records include longest time between U.K. top 20 albums (39 years); oldest person to enter U.K. top 20 album chart (“Duets: An American Classic” at age 80); and longest time between the release of an original recording and a re-recording of the same single by the same artist.
If you really like Tony Bennett, you’ll want to see this article: Tony Bennett Shares His 5 Favorite Duet Partners (and the one that got away).
Margaret got it right. She bet $9,000 and finished with $18,800.
Finn thought it was (77-year-old) Diana Ross. He bet and lost it all.
Karen came up with Ross, too. That cost her $7,401. She landed in second place with $7,999, and that means the new Jeopardy champ is Margaret Chipowsky.
A triple stumper from each round:
FILMS OF THE 1990S ($600) Character actor J.T. Walsh told a story that made Billy Bob Thornton’s Karl very ill at ease in this 1996 film
GIVING YOU A PLUM ASSIGNMENT ($1600) This plant-breeding genius created more than 120 varieties of plum, more than of any other fruit or vegetable
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Movie Musicals”
Water pressure issues in Culver City, home to MGM, impacted the filming of an iconic scene in this 1952 movie musical show
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Ms. Ross won’t be upset, hell, she’s beyond that. I bet she chuckled like I did. Oh, don’t forget to wish her a Happy 78th (not 95) Birthday on the 26th!
@David, Ms. Ross has the same birthday as Steven Tyler, Vicki Lawrence and Kenny Chesney
Two TS about which I can remark: first, I defy you to name ANY Pacific nation with 4 letters. That’s why I thought that that one was about 2/10 on the difficulty scale. The other was the plum brandy – a friend’s wife and family were from Macedonia, so, at the wedding in 1995, it flowed like water. Ken’s pronunciation was SO Americanized. That one I’m not surprised that it was a TS.
Oh, and, I join on the bandwagon with Diana Ross and 95. Yikes! I got Tony Bennett.
Shame on those “kids” for thinking Diana Ross is 95. My fellow Portlander Karen had the game in hand till then.
I am happy that there were no triple stumpers in the second half of jeopardy despite only 5 triple stumpers. Strong group tonight but I was hoping Finn and Karen would have gotten this one. I was shocked too when Karen didn’t get this one.
OMG! Diana Ross is not going to like these fj responses. VJ, you had to have been shocked when watching. I won’t see the show until 7pm east coast time.
@Jacob, I really wasn’t expecting Finn to get it so I wasn’t shocked at his response. I was quite surprised that Karen didn’t get it and rather shocked that she also came up with Ross!
I told Nikki that Diana Ross is going to be pissed. heh heh. It reminded me of my boss being shocked when a couple of people asked if he was my father. He was only 15 years older than me. Those were grown up people — not like little Julie, who thought Alex Trebek was my daddy. 🤣🤣🤣
btw, Tony Bennett made our list of Hottest Male Singers in the ’50s