Final Jeopardy: Hit Songs (12-1-11)
The Final Jeopardy question (12/1/2011) in the category “Hit Songs” was:
Inspired by a Meher Baba saying, this 1980s Grammy winner was the first a capella recording to top the Billboard 100.
Our latest champ, Jan Zasowski, faced off against these two new challengers today: Gillian DiPietro from Brooklyn, NY, and Logan Schultz from Kentucky.
Jan got the Jeopardy! Daily Double before the commercial break in “Brit Speak.” He made it a true Daily Double with the $1,000 he had on hand. His guess was close but it was WRONG, so down he went to zero.
A lido is a public one of these: on a cruise ship you’ll find one on the lido deck. show
Jan was able to recover and finish in first place with $6,400; Logan was next with $1,800 and, thanks to some bad guesses and one incorrect one that Alex thought was right, Gillian was in third with $400.
Logan got the first Double Jeopardy Daily Double in “Track and Field.” He was in third place with $3,400 and chose to make it a true Daily Double. Fortunately, he did not have to deal with buzzing in (he seemed to be having quite a time with that). He was RIGHT so he leaped into second place with $6,800. Jan had $11,600 at this point.
Mike Conley had a personal best of over 27′ in the long jump & over 58′ in this event. show
Gillian got the last Daily Double in “Miner Classics.” With $8,400, she chose to risk $3,000. She lost by naming an author who had one name in common with the real author, immediately realizing her mistake. OUCH!
“1917’s ‘King Coal’ by this author was to the mining industry what an earlier work had been to the meat-packing industry.” show
Jan finished first with $18,800 and neither Logan, with $8,800, nor Gillian, with $7,000, could hope to beat him.
Gillian was shaking her head negatively as the Final Jeopardy music ended. “Don’t worry if you didn’t get it,” Alex said. Awww, how clever. ONE contestant now knew he was right.
WHAT IS “DON’T WORRY, BE HAPPY”
“Don’t Worry, Be Happy” stayed in the No. 1 spot in the last week of September and first week of October. It was preceded by Guns n’ Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine” and succeeded by Def Leppard’s “Love Bites.” At the Grammys in 1989, “Don’t Worry” picked up Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Bobby McFerrin won Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.
Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894-1969) often used the expression “Don’t worry, be happy” in parts of his communications with Western followers. Not intended to be a message of irresponsibility, his messages would include the direction: “Do your best … Then, don’t worry; be happy in My love. I will help you.”
Gillian just had a question mark. She bet $6,997 and ended up with $3.00.
Logan wrote down something but Alex couldn’t make it out. It looked to us like it said:
“What is It’s All Ri Dont wurr .. be happ”
Look at the screencap of his answer. See any y’s? Looks like he was having a bit of trouble writing it out or ran out of time. Would you have given it to him?
It cost Logan $5,302. He went to second place with $3,498.
Congrats again to Jan. He had the correct answer, a $1,000 bet, bringing his total to $19,800, and a 2-day total of $46,601.
Note to Van: The answers in “Miner Classics” were:
($400) Jack London; ($800) D.H. Lawrence; ($1200) Pennsylvania; ($1600) “How Green Was My Valley”; ($2000 – Daily Double) Upton Sinclair
