Final Jeopardy: Movie Theme Songs (3-23-23)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/23/2023) in the category “Movie Theme Songs” was:

Monty Norman, the composer of this character’s theme, said the staccato riff conveyed sexiness, mystery & ruthlessness

3x champ Melissa Klapper, a professor from Merion Station, PA, has now won $59,100. In Game 4, her opponents are: Alec Chao, a management & program analyst from Fort Lauderdale, FL; and Daisy Donohue, an actor and artist orig. from St. Paul, MN.

Round 1 Categories: That’s Cold! – On the “J.V.” Squad – With a Sculpture on Top – 5-Letter Literary Characters – Post – Apoca-Lipstick

Melissa found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “With a Sculpture on Top” under the $800 clue with 7 clues left after it. She was in last place with $1,400, $3,400 less than Alec’s lead. Melissa bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.

Commissioned by brewer Carl Jacobsen, a sculpture of this fairy-tale figure sits atop a rock in Copenhagen Harbor show

WHO IS THE LITTLE MERMAID?

Alec finished in the lead with $7,200. Daisy was second with $3,400. Melissa was last with $3,200. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: Historic Names – Science – Pulitzer Prizes – TV Show Lingo – Foreign Words & Phrases – The Lincoln Highway

Melissa found the first Daily Double in “Foreign Words & Phrases” under the $1,600 clue on the 19th pick She was in second place with $9,600, $3,200 less than Alec’s lead. Melissa bet $4,000 but didn’t have a response so she was WRONG.

An architectural digest headline said this term “dictated the layout of” a “light-filled residence in Beijing” show

WHAT IS FENG SHUI?

Melissa got the last Daily Double in “Science” under the $2,000 with 8 clues left after it. In second place with $6,400 now, she had $7,600 less than Alec’s lead. Melissa bet $4,000 and guessed scandium. That was WRONG.

Atomic number 87, this element named for a country by Marguerite Perey is the heaviest of the alkali metals show

WHAT IS FRANCIUM?

Alec finished in the lead with a runaway $15,200. Melissa was second with $6,800. Daisy was last with $4,600. All clues were shown.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS JAMES BOND?

Monty Norman was a British composer, musician and singer, who is most well-known for the “James Bond Theme” he composed in 1962. Fatherly.com has a list of “5 Things You Didn’t Know About the James Bond Theme Song”. According to No. 4: “Despite the fact that Monty Norman’s ‘James Bond Theme’ appears in all 25 ‘official’ James Bond movies, he only wrote the score for Dr. No. … Because John Barry arranged Monty Norman’s Bond theme for Dr. No, he actually claimed partial authorship of the song many times. This led to several lawsuits.” In one of those lawsuits, Monty Norman supplied figures to the court showing he earned approximately £485,000 in royalties between 1976 and 1999.

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Daisy crossed off the start of a response and couldn’t finish another. She lost $2,500 and finished with $2,100.

Melissa went with Lara from “Dr. Zhivago”. That cost her $5,000 and left her with $1,800.

Alec got it right. He bet $305 and won the game with $15,505. Alec Chao is the new Jeopardy! champ.

2 triple stumpers from HISTORIC NAMES:

($800) While in the service of the Dutch East India Company, he became the first European to sight New Zealand & the Fiji islands

($2000) Before he got the boot for good in 41 A.D., this emperor wanted a statue of himself placed in the Temple in Jerusalem

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Broadway Roles”

Of the more than 15 actors to play the lead in this musical, Howard McGillin holds the record with over 2,500 performances show

WHAT IS “THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA”?

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