Final Jeopardy: Jazz Classics (5-23-19)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/23/2019) in the category “Jazz Classics” was:

In one account, this song began as directions written out for composer Billy Strayhorn to Duke Ellington’s home in Harlem

25x champ James Holzhauer, a pro sports gambler from Las Vegas, NV, has won $1,939,027 now. He’s so close to $2 million! In Game 26, his challengers are: Laura Schulman, a public defender from Seattle, WA; and Nate Scheffey, a technology consultant from New York, NY.

Round 1 Categories: American History – Numeric Phrases – Los Angeles in the Movies -The 2018 Ig Nobel Prizes – The Common Factor – Newspeak

Nate found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Numeric Phrases” under the $800 clue on the 14th pick of the round. He was in second place with $3,400, $2,000 less than James in the lead. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.

Owing to the traditional location of a grave, this term means to get rid of something, especially at sea. show

WHAT IS DEEP SIX?

Nate finished in the lead with $10,200. James was second with $6,600 and Laura was last with $1,600.

Round 2 Categories: Lesser-Known Brothers – Science – Musicals Based on Literature – Mountains – Change Your M*I*N*D* – News Speak

Nate found the first Daily Double in “Science” under the $2,000 clue on the 4th pick. He was in the lead with $13,400 now, $6,800 more than James in second place. (We’ve got us a game now, folks!) He bet $6,000 and he was RIGHT.

Frederic Clements & Victor Shelford coined this 5-letter word for a zone of life, such as desert or deciduous forest. show

WHAT IS A BIOME?

2 clues later, James found the last Daily Double in “Mountains” under the $1,600 clue. In second place with $8,200, he had $11,200 less than Nate’s lead. He bet all of it and he was RIGHT.

All of Romania’s mountains are part of this 900-mile-long range. show

WHAT ARE THE CARPATHIANS?

James finished in the lead with $31,200. Nate was next with $25,800 and Laura was in third place with $1,200.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS “TAKE THE A TRAIN”?

Songfacts has a lot of trivia on the signature song of the Duke Ellington Orchestra, including how Duke Ellington met Billy Strayhorn and the events leading up to getting directions to Ellington’s home in the wealthy Sugar Hill neighborhood of Harlem. Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington are both Songwriter Hall of Fame inductees.

This was a clue in Ryan Fenster’s 5th game on 2/2/2018 (the one he lost and then got to come back in July because of a clue snafu): BILLY ($1600) Billy Strayhorn’s lifetime collaboration with this legend led to hits like “Chelsea Bridge” & “Take the ‘A’ Train”

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Laura wrote down “Take 5” (the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s signature song). With a zero bet, she stayed at $1,200.

Nate got it right. He bet $10,000, bringing him up to $35,800.

James was trying to fake everyone out with worried looks but he got it, too. He bet $20,908 and won the game with $52,108. His 26-day total is $1,991,135.

A triple stumper from each round:

NEWSPEAK ($600) Taking place every day after morning wake-up, “physical jerks” were these & were mandatory

MUSICALS BASED ON LITERATURE ($1200) Characters from “War and Peace” populate “Natasha”, him “and the Great Comet of 1812”

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Art & Pop Culture”

The Brooklyn mural seen here is an homage to this fictional group whose first appearance came in 1984 show

WHO ARE THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES?

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