Final Jeopardy: Hit Songs (7-2-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/2/2021) in the category “Hit Songs” was:
Written in 1930, this song was a No. 1 hit in 1960 & was covered by The Band to support a 1976 presidential candidate
4x champ Courtney Shah, a community college instructor from Portland, OR has won $72,058 so far this week. In Game 5, she takes on these two players: Nanci Skinner, a grocery clerk from Warren, ME; and McKenzie Miller, a clinical trial researcher from Cincinnati, OH.
Round 1 Categories: Really Similar Flags – Famous Names – 3’s Company – The Shape of Things – Phrases You Likely Didn’t Do for Real – TV Is So High School
Nanci found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “3’s Company” under the $1,000 clue, with 5 clues left after it. She was in the lead with $4,000, $2,000 more than Courtney in second place. She made it a true Daily Double and took a shot with Mitsubishi. That was WRONG.
In 2018 this company met its goal of producing 5,000 Model 3 sedans in a week show
Courtney and McKenzie finished in a tie for the lead with $2,600. Nanci was second with $1,200. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: The Art of the Limerick – Other Stuff Happened in 1492 – Ends in the Same Vowel Twice – Canadiana – Kiss Me, Kate! – What a Fungi
McKenzie found the first Daily Double in “Other Stuff Happened in 1492” under the $1,200 clue on the 10th pick. She was in the lead with $7,400 now, $2,800 more than Courtney in second. She bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
This Floren-teen gave us a “Battle of the Centaurs”, a relief now in Casa Buonarroti show
Nanci got the last Daily Double in “Canadiana” under the $1,600 clue, with 7 clues left after it. In third place with $6,000, she had $4,800 less than McKenzie’s lead. She bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
Around the year 1000, the Vikings established a small camp on this large eastern island show
Nanci finished in the lead with $12,200. McKenzie was next with $11,200 and Courtney was in third place with $8,600. No clues went uncovered.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS “GEORGIA ON MY MIND”?
Hoagy Carmichael wrote “Georgia on My Mind” in 1930, the same year that Ray Charles was born in that state. Another Georgia native, Jimmy Carter, was 6 years old at the time. 30 years later, Ray Charles scored his first No. 1 hit with “Georgia on My Mind” on Billboard’s Hot 100. In 1976, The Band recorded its cover for Jimmy Carter’s presidential campaign. In 1979, the State of Georgia made the song its official state song.
The Band is rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins’ former backing band (then known as the Hawks). They are most famous for their 1968 song, “The Weight”. They had their own FJ! clue on 9/28/2015.
Courtney thought it was “Happy Days are Here Again” (FDR’s 1932 campaign song). She lost her $1,400 bet and finished with $7,200.
McKenzie wrote down Barry. That cost her $6,001 and left her with $5,199.
Nanci didn’t come up with a response though it looked like she was thinking of something that began with H. She lost $10,300 and finished with $1,900. Courtney Shah wins again. She swept the week! Her 5-day total is $79,258.
A triple stumper from each round:
FAMOUS NAMES ($1000) This ancient Greek wrote “Parallel Lives”, paired biographies of famous Greeks & Romans
TV IS SO HIGH SCHOOL ($600) Both on the Upper East Side, Constance Billard School for Girls & St. Jude’s School for Boys
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Places of Lore”
The first mention of this locale is in Chrétien De Troyes’ 12th century poem “Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart” show
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Question for VJ: on Wed 6/30/21 in the “Colorful Vocabulary” category, would ‘blue bloods’ also be accepted in addition to the accepted answer of ‘purple’? I had blue bloods.
@Albert, I don’t think “blue blood” was acceptable for that clue:
“If you’re part of a royal family, you are “born to” this color”
I said blue blood too and marked myself wrong because you just don’t say someone was born to blue blood or born in blue blood
The phrase is either born to the purple or born in the purple
Thanks. I never heard in my life about the purple expression, even though i know purple is a royal color.
The 2 who lost are definitely champions, imo. Mckenzie answered a question and i never ever heard of the answer in my life. Very impressive.
You’re welcome, Albert.
Here’s something I meant to add to the comments on this game yesterday but didn’t get around to it: I was watching Svengoolie Saturday night and he had extra time at the end of the movie (She Wolf of London) so he got out a book of limericks and read an altered version of Hickory Dickory Dock. (which showed up as the first clue in today’s Limerick category)
At first I questioned McKenzie’s wager, because she had to hope Nanci missed. A $1001 wager would have won the game, as it turned out. But she bet enough to beat Courtney had the latter bet $8600 and they both got the final right.
Disappointed that I didn’t get the final. I knew it was Carter and Ford, and am heavily into pop music from that era, but just didn’t recall the Band doing that song.
While it didn’t hurt the final game result, I feel the answers “night oil” and ” Baskin and Robbins” should have been considered incorrect.
I did not notice the Baskin and Robbins answer but definitely the “night oil” response. I was sure they would come back from the break and correct that mistake. I wondered if it was only my perception of the phrase but googling “night oil” only got me “midnight oil”.
I can see Baskin & Robbins being accepted because they were two different people who co-founded the company. As years passed by the company hyphenated their names.
I thought this was a good game tonight in that the scores were close throughout the match until fj. A big congratulations to Courtney for becoming a 5x champ.
We end the week with another triple stumper.
Too obscure. Unfair to contestants, viewers, and fans. Perhaps the FJ questions could be focus-grouped?
Considering the air-tight security the clues are guarded with, that will never happen.
Courtney made a clean sweep this week as a streaker despite missing today’s final jeopardy. When.the Jimmy Carter hint came up, I immediately thought of Georgia. I guess this one requires the knowledge of US presidents. Was Nanci thinking of Herbert Hoover VJ? Because it looks like that’s what she was writing down. Two triple stumpers in final and.for the first time in four months we got a five day champion. Thank you to jeopardy for making this happen.
No, I doubt she was trying to write down the name of a president, Lou, when the clue was looking for the name of a song
😂