Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category American Rock Bands) for Friday, March 5, 2021 (Season 37, Game 115):
In 2020 their Greatest Hits, with an optimistic ’80s anthem, became only the third album to spend 600 weeks on the Billboard 200
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Today’s contestants:
Ann Mazzaferro, a high school English & drama teacher from San Andreas, California
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Laura Portwood-Stacer, an author & editor originally from Livonia, Michigan
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Jim Cooper, a screenwriter from Pacific Palisades, California (1-day total: $17,300)
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Correct response: Who is Journey?
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Journey’s Greatest Hits album, buoyed by the strength of ’80s anthem “Don’t Stop Believing” (the bane of karaoke hosts worldwide) and other tracks, has spent very significant time on the Billboard 200. Later in the album, “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)” served as my sign-off song for a time during my bar hosting days; to me, “Separate Ways” is a fitting song as well for the final episode of Mike Richards’ time hosting the show.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Laura $21,400
Jim $9,200
Ann $6,600
Tonight’s results:
Ann $6,600 – $2,400 = $4,200 (Who are Aerosmith?)
Jim $9,200 + $1,213 = $10,413 (Who is Journey?)
Laura $21,400 – $2,000 = $19,400 (Who are Twisted Siste??) (1-day total: $19,400)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Laura $6,400
Jim $2,000
Ann $1,800
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) BROADWAY MUSICALS $800 (clue #7)
Ann 1400 -1400 (Jim -200 Laura 400)
2) THAT’S SO 2019 $2000 (clue #10)
Laura 10800 +2000 (Jim 3200 Ann 2200)
3) BAD MEN & ROBBIN’ $800 (clue #22, $10800 left on board)
Laura 18400 +3000 (Jim 2000 Ann 6200)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -65
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: NAVY BASES $1000
DJ! Round: RYAN GOSLING MOVIE ROLES $2000
Total Left On Board: $3,000
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 157 (1.37 per episode average), 2 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Laura $19,200 Coryat, 20 correct, 0 incorrect, 27.27% in first on buzzer (15/55), 3/3 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Jim $9,200 Coryat, 16 correct, 6 incorrect, 38.18% in first on buzzer (21/55), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
Ann $8,000 Coryat, 13 correct, 2 incorrect, 25.45% in first on buzzer (14/55), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $36,400
Lach Trash: $8,200 (on 8 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $6,400
Jim Cooper, career statistics:
38 correct, 12 incorrect
2/4 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
37.84% in first on buzzer (42/111)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $0)
2/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $11,400
Laura Portwood-Stacer, career statistics:
20 correct, 1 incorrect
3/3 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
27.27% in first on buzzer (15/55)
2/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $5,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $19,200
Ann Mazzaferro, career statistics:
13 correct, 3 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
25.45% in first on buzzer (14/55)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$1,400)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $8,000
Laura Portwood-Stacer, to win:
2 games: 62.605%
3: 39.194%
4: 24.538%
5: 15.362%
6: 9.617%
Avg. streak: 2.674 games.
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SMH, thought for sure it was Bruce Springsteen and E St band 😒🤦♀️
I thought it was the Eagles!
Finally!! The only FJ I’ve answered correctly this week.
Was this factoid big news in 2020? I don’t remember hearing about it. This might be one of those questions that gets harder the more you know about a topic. Don’t Stop Believin’ has become an iconic time (according to Wikipedia it’s the best-selling digital track from the 20th century, which might even be a more interesting fact than the one in FJ), but it didn’t have the same impact upon release (Who’s Crying Now and Open Arms both outcharted it from Escape).
Anyway, I managed to not overthink it and got this one. Like Jane, Born in the USA crossed my mind, but it’s not exactly “optimistic”… unless you’re Ronald Reagan.
I understood that Born in the USA was intended to be satirical. So not exactly “optimistic” to anyone.
Absolutely, Charlie. But the satire appears to have been lost on Reagan, who wanted to use it on the campaign trail in 1984:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-lists/stop-using-my-song-35-artists-who-fought-politicians-over-their-music-75611/
I just see “Born in the USA” as a catchy tune heard on the 4th of July…everything is political *sigh *
I mean, Woody Guthrie’s guitar literally had “This machine kills fascists” on it; so, yes, music is political.
Yes I realize that…thanks for your insight though. I think it’s okay to just enjoy music without minding all the cryptic or not so cryptic messages 🤓
I loved Laura’s “Twisted Siste(r)” response. “We’re Not Gonna Take It”–an optimistic 80’s anthem indeed!! 🙂
I probably would have guessed the Eagles. Yes, I get that they’re 70’s, not 80’s, and I’m not sure which of their songs would be considered an “optimistic” 80’s anthem–but when I think of greatest hits rock albums, that’s what first comes to mind for me…
Four out of five week, haven’t done that in quite a while.
Game situation – the players coming from behind played top to bottom and missed out on the last clue. Jim was one $2K clue away from being alive for the Final, and knew his Gosling!
To take that logic to its conclusion though…assuming because of the time one clue was going to be left anyway…subtract from Jim’s total any of the three dollar amounts he got right ($1600, $1200, or $800), and replace it with $2000, he still falls short.
(You said you were a glutton for punishment! 🙂)
Kidding aside, you actually make a good point. If they had gone bottom up, the $400 clue would have been the only one left. The sad part is that Jim himself made the ultimate fatal mistake of starting at the top.
A little trivia for those who follow the Billboard charts (I suspect there’s a few of you), there was a period of 18 1/2 years (1991-2009) when albums more than two years old were moved to a separate chart apart from the Bb 200, at the end of 2009 this rule was discontinued and any album could chart there regardless of how old, so while ‘Journey’s Greatest Hits’ is listed as having charted over 650 weeks (13 years), it could actually be as much as 1500 weeks if not more (about 30 years)….in theory anyway, there’s always at least a dozen albums from the 20th century that are listed on said chart today.
Also the two other albums with officially at least 600 plus weeks charted are Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ and ‘Legend, The Best Of Bob Marley and the Wailers’.