Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category 1970s Singer-Songwriters) for Friday, January 28, 2022 (Season 38, Game 100):
While speaking to Congress in 1985, he explained that his 1973 hit, now a state song, wasn’t about drugs
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Jay Foster, an engineer from Rancho Palos Verdes, California
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Kirsten Greenwell, a communications associate from Washington, DC
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Carrie Cadwallader, a business intelligence manager from Aurora, Colorado (1-day total: $7,500)
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Correct response: Who is John Denver?
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In the 1970s, John Denver faced censorship and radio stations banning his song “Rocky Mountain High”, the stations assuming that it was a drug reference. However, as Denver testified to Congress in the 1980s (when Congress was debating on whether or not Congress should mandate rating systems on music lyrics):
“This was obviously done by people who had never seen or been to the Rocky Mountains and also had never experienced the elation, the celebration of life, or the joy in living that one feels when he observes something as wondrous as the Perseides meteor shower, on a moonless and cloudless night, when there are so many stars that you have a shadow from the starlight, and you’re out camping with your friends, your best friends, and introducing them to one of nature’s most spectacular light shows for the very first time. Obviously a clear case of misinterpretation.”
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Jay $13,600
Kirsten $6,800
Carrie $5,000
Tonight’s results:
Carrie $5,000 + $4,500 = $9,500 (Who is Bob John Denver)
Kirsten $6,800 – $6,800 = $0 (Who is Woody Guthrie?)
Jay $13,600 + $0 = $13,600 (Who is John Denver) (1-day total: $13,600)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Carrie $6,600
Kirsten $1,600
Jay $600
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) SCIENCE & NATURE $400 (clue #4)
Carrie 400 +1000 (Kirsten 0 Jay 0)
2) RHYMING AMERICAN ROAD TRIP $1200 (clue #13)
Jay 5800 +3000 (Carrie 4600 Kirsten 800)
3) ONE-SYLLABLE ADJECTIVES $2000 (clue #20, $12000 left on board)
Carrie 6200 -4000 (Kirsten 3600 Jay 12000)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 87
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: IT HAPPENED IN EUROPE $1000
DJ! Round: SINKER $2000
Total Left On Board: $3,000
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 16 (0.16 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Jay $11,800 Coryat, 14 correct, 2 incorrect, 23.64% in first on buzzer (13/55), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
Carrie $8,400 Coryat, 18 correct, 6 incorrect, 38.18% in first on buzzer (21/55), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Kirsten $6,800 Coryat, 14 correct, 3 incorrect, 27.27% in first on buzzer (15/55), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $27,000
Lach Trash: $12,000 (on 11 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $12,000
Carrie Cadwallader, career statistics:
40 correct, 14 incorrect
3/3 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
39.64% in first on buzzer (44/111)
2/5 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$4,000)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $11,600
Kirsten Greenwell, career statistics:
14 correct, 4 incorrect
1/2 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
27.27% in first on buzzer (15/55)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $6,800
Jay Foster, career statistics:
15 correct, 2 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
23.64% in first on buzzer (13/55)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $3,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $11,800
Jay Foster, to win:
2 games: 43.997%
3: 19.357%
4: 8.517%
5: 3.747%
6: 1.649%
Avg. streak: 1.786 games.
Today’s interviews:
Jay has his lineage traced back to Edward I.
Kirsten likes to foster cats and dogs with her husband.
Carrie judges Knowledge Bowl in Colorado.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Although it sounds like Kirsten said in-studio that she may have been “at a generational disadvantage”, I think that’s even more reason to bet $1 instead of $0 for Jay (because any clue that Kirsten is likely to get is probably going to be even easier for Jay.)
- Because this is always asked: when changing a judge’s ruling, the show has to subtract (or add) twice the value of a clue, as it takes $2,000 to go from +$1,000 to -$1,000.
Link to the box score: January 28, 2022 Box Score
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It wasn’t until many years after “Rocky Mountain High” came out that I learned the line “I’ve seen it raining fire in the sky,” was about the Perseid meteor shower. Sure hope Carrie gets this one or she will have some explaining to do back home in Colorado.
I got this answer right away—no doubt about it—For me…so easy…John Denver and “Rocky Mountain High”.
When I got back from Vietnam August of 73 I was hitchhiking across the country and in Boulder Colorado John Denver and his wife were passing out sandwiches and drinks at a park there.
And so here we are again, back to ordinary Jeopardy. I can’t imagine how anyone could watch Amy Schneider or Matt Amodio play and say they’d rather see this. Understand, this is not to disparage these candidates in any way. Not at all. But when you get the chance to watch an extended run by one of the greatest players ever, I can’t imagine wanting anything else.
“Ordinary” Jeopardy suits me fine. I watch to match myself against the clues, not the contestants.
How do know one of these players will not go on a run? You didn’t know Matt or Amy were going to go on a run after one game.
Playing not to lose is a great way not to win. At least it didn’t burn Jay here.
Back in the plus column! This was a fairly easy guess. Yeah, I like the scenario where you have two extra chances of winning outright also (by betting $1 instead of nothing).
Colorado represent!
Rocky Mountain high and john Denver was what i got. Easy final here as i am a huge fan of john Denver. He will forever be in my memory. But congrats to Jay on a win.
Huge fan of John Denver here as well…after bouts with alcoholism and multiple DUIs, his life was really getting back on track, with rumors he and Annie were going to get remarried.
As for the crash that took his life, John had purchased the plane used, and the previous owner had the gas tank selector valve moved from between the pilot’s legs to over the shoulder. As I understand the valve was sticking and hard to turn anyway, but especially when trying to do so over your shoulder. Also, one of the fuel tank gauges was located near the valve, and not visible to the pilot, only the rear passenger. If he had somebody sitting in the back, they could’ve seen the guage, and perhaps could’ve turned the valve to the reserve fuel tank easier.
I think that we have gotten very spoiled watching these “Superchamps” this season. Matt winding down Season 37, and starting Season 38, and then winning a total of 38 games, being overtaken by Jonathan Fisher who then won 11 days. Then came Tyler and Andrew who both won 5 days in succession. And then came Amy who one 40m games. And in the middle of her run came the Professors Tournament. And now after Amy has gone, we have three days straight and three different winners. So have we become spoiled? Perhaps so. So maybe we can enjoy these one day champs and one day, find a 5 day champ soon. But enjoy the ride.
My understanding is that both Colorado and West Virginia have adopted John Denver tunes as official state songs. I miss John Denver. Gone too soon.
Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads” is one of West Virginia’s state songs. I have no idea how many people have written a state song of more than one state, but probably not many.
I was thinking of Take Me Home, Country Roads”, but I still got John Denver right.
I don’t really understand betting $1 vs. betting $2000. If you miss it and the other person gets it right then you probably lose. I guess you don’t lose as much if you miss it.