Final Jeopardy: 1970s Album Reviews (7-25-19)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/25/2019) in the category “1970s Album Reviews” was:

Rolling Stone said this 1976 album had “the best & worst tendencies of L.A.-situated rock” & was an “unflattering portrait of the milieu”

4x champ Jason Zuffranieri, a math teacher from Albuquerque, NM, has now won $105,300. In Game 5, he is up against: Eric Kaplan, a retired Ob-Gyn physician from Long Beach, CA; and Shari Meyer, a H.S. English teacher from Somerville, MA.

Round 1 Categories: Literary Groups – TV Spinoffs – Useless Body Parts – 3-letter Words With “F” – Milk, This Category – For All It’s Worth

Jason found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “TV Spinoffs” under the $800 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. He was in the lead with $600, $200 more than Shari in second place. He bet the $1,000 allowance and he was RIGHT.

“Torchwood” was a spinoff of this British series; the titles of the two shows are anagrams of each other. show

WHAT IS “DOCTOR WHO”?

Eric finished in the lead with $6,800. Jason was second with $6,000 and Shari was last with $3,200.

Round 2 Categories: Secretaries of War – Gates – Kangaroo Words – Julianne Moore Doesn’t See the End of the Film – Inventors & Inventions – Left on the Board

Eric found the first Daily Double in “Secretaries of War” under the $1,200 clue, with 13 clues left after it. He was in third place with $4,400 at this point, $8,800 less than Eric’s lead. He bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.

In early 1801 Sec. of War Samuel Dexter found himself acting as Sec. of Treasury & State for the last weeks of this President’s term. show

WHO IS JOHN ADAMS?

3 clues later, Jason landed on the last Daily Double in “Gates” under the $800 clue. In the lead with $15,200, he had $7,200 more than Eric in second place. He bet $4,000 and went with Jerusalem. That was WRONG.

The name of this ancient city, home to the Ishtar Gate, means “Gate of the Gods” show

WHAT IS BABYLON?

Jason finished in the lead with $14,400. Eric was next with $12,000 and Shari was in third place with $6,000.

NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS “HOTEL CALIFORNIA”?

Both lines in the clue are in the very first sentence of Charley Walters’ 1977 review of The Eagles’ “Hotel California” album. Charley later had this to say about his most-read review: “I gave it a mixed review, I guess you could say. It was mostly a lot of ‘I did like this, I didn’t like that,’ but little did I know that a zillion people were going to buy it and I’d be hearing about that one for a while.” According to Mental Floss, “Hotel California” is the third best-selling album in American history. “The Eagles Greatest Hits” is No. 1.

Tangentially related clue from 2000: NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD WINNERS ($500) This 1971 winner for Specialized Journalism was the subject of a 1973 song by Dr. Hook (Eagles cover at 1.53 in the video)

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Shari drew a blank. She bet and lost it all.

Eric went for “Rumours” (also recorded in 1976). He also bet the farm and wound up with zero.

Jason went to the U.K. with the Stones’ 1972 album, “Exile on Main Street.” He lost his $10,000 bet and won the game with the $4,400 he had left. His 5-day total is $109,700.

Reversal: 3-LETTER WORDS WITH “F” ($200) It’s found in an idiom with “No…ands, or buts” – Eric got dinged for $400 for leaving off the “s” when the category specified 3-letters

A triple stumper from each round:

MILK, THIS CATEGORY ($600) Some jokingly say that this alternative to dairy milk is just real milk introducing itself in Spanish

LEFT ON THE BOARD ($1200) In a 2019 movie this superhero punched an elderly woman on a train (but she had a really good reason)

2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “The Oscars”

This Brit is the only actor to get Oscar nominations for playing 2 real-life U.S. Presidents, both for 1990s films. show

WHO IS ANTHONY HOPKINS?

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