Final Jeopardy: Female Singers (5-27-24)
Here are some more clues from the 5/27/2024 Jeopardy! game. Please don’t put the answers to these clues in the comments so people who missed the game can have a chance to answer them. It is okay to refer to them by category and clue value or by part of the clue.
BESTSELLERS ($400) This memoir of Barack Obama’s early days is subtitled “A Story of Race & Inheritance”
MY JOB IS BEACH ($600) In a Drifters song, “Under the boardwalk, down by the sea”, “You can almost taste” these 2 paired types of food they sell
“V”-8 ($400) Seen here is this early model of phonograph whose trademarked name would later be applied to other record players
YOU CAN’T GET ANY FURTHER NORTH ($1600) In Ireland: Banba’s Crown in this county alphabetically between Derry & Down
HEY BABY, WHAT’S YOUR SCIENCE? ($400) Ancient sites can be found without digging when using radar & lidar; NASA calls the practice space this “-ology”
($800) This “art of fire” deals with the science & deployment of flash pots & mortar hits
AT THE MUSEUM ($1600) Baby, do you work for the IRS? Because your way of classifying animals & plants is really putting a… this
“Y” IN THE MIDDLE ($1600) This highly flammable gas, C2H2, is employed for welding, cutting & illumination
($2000) Equipped with sturdy teeth, one of these is used for grooming Arabians & Appaloosas
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($400) A rapper; has 2 kids with Rihanna; actor in “Dope” & 2018’s “Monster”
($800) Cassie on “Euphoria”; star of “Anyone But You”
($1200) President Coriolanus Snow in a franchise; Detective Klute in “Klute”
($1600) “Oblivion” singer; mother of Techno Mechanicus Musk
($2000) Starred in “Bio-Dome” & “Encino Man” stand-up stage alter ego was “The Weasel”
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I went with Diana Ross. I thought back to the College clue, when someone said that she was 90!
I’m guessing Tim is with the US Coast Guard, with search and rescue, and Sitka. I thought he was going to make it into a game.
Diana didn’t go solo till 1970
Another thing I remember about Brenda is that picture of her at age 13 with Elvis Presley. The funniest part of that video is about 0.54 when it looks like she’s trying to hang on to her wig 🤣
Connie Francis is another with the powerhouse vocals who started young but is in her 80s now. Maybe the angels were giving out the big pipes in December — Connie’s birthday is a day after Brenda’s.
That was a tough final that you had to know, otherwise impossible to guess. I saw Brenda perform that last winter on a TV special and was well aware that it rose to the top of the chart. My former college roommate adores her, me not so much. The song of hers I like is “All Alone Am I.”
First DD wasn’t so difficult. The “Under the Boardwalk” lyrics are ingrained in my memory. Someone definitely should have known the V phonograph. No one could deduce the NASA -ology? Remembered the stars of “Klute” and (unfortunately) “Encino Man,” although I never saw that one.
Props to Amar for winning 4X; we’ll see if the 4-win curse hits him, or will he (earth)worm his way into the ToC?
I went with Petula Clark for FJ as she is still an active singer. In fact, she came out with a new album about 4-5 years ago. At the same token, I knew that she was some 90 years old now so that would obviously leave her out.
I didn’t think Dolly was a bad guess. She actually started out in the business around the same time as Brenda Lee but it took Dolly longer to become famous.
Dolly released her first record “Puppy Love” in 1959. Dolly (b. 1/19/46) is roughly a year and a month younger than Brenda (b. 12/11/44).
Cher (b. 5/20/46) is 4 months younger than Dolly, but Cher first became famous as part of a duo and didn’t release a solo record until mid-60s.
And we start the with a triple stumper as today’s final was a tough one.