Final Jeopardy: American Rock Bands (3-5-21)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/5/2021) in the category “American Rock Bands” was:

In 2020 their “Greatest Hits”, with an optimistic ’80s anthem, became only the third album to spend 600 weeks on the Billboard 200

New champ Jim Cooper, a screen writer from Pacific Palisades, CA, won $17,300 yesterday. In Game 2, he is up against: Laura Portwood-Stacer , an author & editor orig. from Livonia, MI; and Ann Mazzaferro, a high school English Drama teacher from San Andreas, CA.

This is Mike Richards’ last day of hosting. At the start of the show, he said it’s has been an incredible honor, truly humbling and a lot of fun to be able to keep the show going. At the end of the show, he said he was looking forward to the guest hosts but didn’t say who was next. My TV schedule shows 2 weeks of Katie Couric coming up.

Round 1 Categories: Broadway Musicals – Business & Industry – Text Message Abbrev. – Army Surplus – Navy Bases – Marine Biology

Ann found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Broadway Musicals” under the $800 clue on the 7th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $1,400, $1,000 more than Laura in second place. She had waited her whole life to say “Let’s make it a true Daily Double.” When she did, Mike Richards said “Yes! Give her a round of applause– it’s fun!” Unfortunately, she thought it was “Hot Mikado” and that was WRONG.

“The Morning Of The Dragon” was one of the songs from this Puccini-based Broadway musical. show

WHAT IS “MISS SAIGON”?

Laura finished in the lead with $6,400. Jim was second with $2,000 and Ann was last with $1,800. The $1,000 clue in “Navy Bases” stayed on the board.

Round 2 Categories: Bad Men & Robbin’ – Globetrotting – 3-Word Book Titles – Ryan Gosling Movie Roles – That’s So 2019 – It’ll All End in “X”

Laura found the first Daily Double in “That’s So 2019” under the $2,000 clue on the 10th pick. She was in the lead with $10,800 now, $7,600 more than Jim in second place. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.

The discovery of Homo luzonensis, an extinct human species that lived in what’s now this country, was announced in April. show

WHAT ARE THE PHILIPPINES?

Laura got the last Daily Double in “Bad Men & Robbin'” under the $800 clue, with 8 clues left after it. In the lead with $18,400, she had $12,200 more than Ann in second place. She bet $3,000 this time, and she was RIGHT again.

In 2005 4 thieves at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport made off with $118 million worth of these bound for Antwerp. show

WHAT ARE DIAMONDS?

Laura finished in the lead with a runaway $21,400. Jim was next with $9,200 and Ann was in third place with $6,600. The $2,000 clue in “Ryan Gosling Movie Roles” went uncovered, which was a crying shame. Jim was acing the category and if he got that clue right, it would have broken the runaway.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO ARE JOURNEY?

In January 2020, Forbes reported that “Journey’s Greatest Hits is now just the third release of any kind in U.S. history to spend 600 weeks on the chart, and it follows in some truly giant footsteps. Both Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon and Bob Marley and the Wailers’ Legend have both passed that milestone as well….” According to SongFacts, the popular resurgence of the 1981 anthem “Don’t Stop Believin'” in the 2000s was due to the 2003 movie “Monster”, starring Charlize Theron as serial killer Aileen Wuornos: “In the movie, the song comes on when Wuornos and Selby Wall (Christina Ricci) are skating to it in a roller rink. They mention how they love the song, and as it builds, so does their passion, and they end up kissing outside the rink.” … Requests started pouring in to use the song in a variety of movies and TV shows, and soon another generation was familiar with the song.”

An old Daily Double: BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONG ($1,400): “We’re Not Gonna Take It” & “Don’t Stop Believin'” (soundtrack)

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Ann went with Aerosmith. She lost her $2,400 bet and finished with $4,200.

Jim got it right. He bet $1,213 and that brought him up to $10,413.

Laura was going for Twisted Sister, but ran out of time for the “r”. (Tell Laura I loved that.) She lost $2,000 and won the game with the remaining $19,400. Laura Portwood-Stacer is the new Jeopardy! champ.

2 triple stumpers from 3-WORD BOOK TITLES:

($1200) Don’t be a birdbrain! Take wing with this fable by Richard Bach that has a bird in its title

($1600) John Harmon is the title acquaintance in common in this Dickens novel

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Constitutional Amendment Math”

Total of the numbers of the amendments banning state-sponsored official religion, ending slavery & repealing Prohibition show

WHAT IS 35?

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