Jeopardy First Edition -- Game #2

Hi friends!

As part of the MS-DOS Jeopardy! series, I hope to write a post-game review of the clues after every game. The goal is to highlight any clues that may be out-of-date and to provide some additional trivia about some of the more interesting clues.

Notes are in the order they appear in the original video, which you can find here.

Wikipedia is my primary source for much of this material (so take that with a grain of salt).

Jeopardy! Round

Categories: The Bible, Famous Pairs, Number Please, All the Ologys, Songs of the '60s, and Art Museum

• Number Please ($400): I was correct about the game show reference. Three on a Match was a game show hosted by Bill Bullen and airing from 1971-1974. The superstition "three on a match" dates back to either the Crimean War or World War I--the idea being that a soldier lighting a match for a cigarette would be spotted by the enemy in the dark; the second lighting would allow the enemy to aim; and the third lighting would allow the enemy to fire.
• Number Please ($300): Wikipedia has everything you need to know about the code, called 10 codes. They were popularized on 1950's TV shows, but have fallen out of favor.
• Number Please ($500): Star 80 was the name of the film in the clue, describing Dorothy Stratten's death by the hands of her husband. The name of the film comes from a license plate appearing on the husband's car: STAR 80.
• The Bible ($500): It's literally the fourth verse of the first chapter of the first book.
• The Bible ($300): Mount Nebo is real; it is in west-central Jordan, just north-east of the Dead Sea. Deuteronomy 34 explains the situation. "God said 'I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not cross over there.'" And that was that. Moses dies in the next verse at age 120. The end. No soup for you.
• The Bible ($400): My Catholic school education failed me. The kings of Israel were Saul, then David, then Solomon.
• Songs of the 1960s ($400): The song is called "The Letter" and was made famous in 1967 by The Box Tops. (They still perform as of 2022!) Rolling Stone placed the song in its 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list (at #372). The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame named it as one of the 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2011. Certified RIAA gold -- the top single in the US according to Billboard for four weeks in September and October 1967.
• Songs of the 1960s ($500): This may be one of the stranger rabbit holes I've researched about this game. "Judy's Turn to Cry" was sung by Lesley Gore. It was a sequel to her previous hit "It's My Party". Not just one song after another, but a continuation of the plot in the first song! Johnny appears as a character in both songs. Another surprise: both songs were produced by Quincy Jones!
• Art Museum ($100): Art Garfunkel earned a Master of Art in Mathematics Education from Columbia University in 1967, and he completed coursework towards a Doctorate in Mathematics Education, but dropped out.
• Art Museum ($400): Art Buchwald passed away in 2007. He worked for the Washington Post and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1982. He was a Marine during World War II. Interesting fact: he sued Paramount Pictures over the film Coming to America, which he claimed was his idea...and he won the case!

Double Jeopardy!

Categories: 1950, Late Nite TV, Early Man, Weather, Football, Begins with "A"

• Late Nite TV ($600): The Midnight Special aired from 1973 through 1981 and aired on Fridays immediately after The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. (The Tomorrow show from an earlier clue would get the slot Mondays through Thursdays.) Wolfman Jack passed away in 1995 at age 57.
• Early Man ($1000): The order goes Stone Age, then Bronze Age, then Iron Age.
• Football ($400): The Raiders were the Los Angeles Raiders between 1982 and 1994. Super Bowl XVIII capped off the 1983 NFL season. The AFC wouldn't win another Super Bowl until 1997.
• Football ($600): The Four Horsemen were the Notre Dame backfield in 1922-1924 (think quarterback, halfback, fullback, etc.) They lost only two games--both at the University of Nebraska. Sportswriter Grantland Rice coined the term in 1924 after a Notre Dame victory over Army. They were declared National Champions after the 1925 Rose Bowl. Crowley coached in the first ever televised football game in 1939 (at Fordham). Layden would serve as the first commissioner of the NF:. All had coaching careers after college.
• Starts with A ($200): It turns out the Andrews Sisters were all born in Minneapolis. Patty lived to age 94, passing away in 2013. The group itself disbanded in 1953.
• Starts with A ($400): Popeye is still syndicated and new first-run strips appear today.
• Weather ($800): According to the National Weather Service, there are over 900 observation stations worldwide that release weather balloons twice per day. The National Weather Service releases over 30,000 of them each year. If you find the remains of a weather balloon, there are instructions attached to the balloon for how to return it to NWS.
• 1950 ($200): Milton Berle first appeared on television in 1929(!), and his career lasted until his death in 2002. His Texaco Star Theatre on NBC was the #1 show on Tuesday nights--claiming up to 97% of the TV viewing audience. He later became Mr. Television. He challenged sponsors that did not want black performers on his show (remember, this was still the Jim Crow era in much of the Southern U.S.) In 1951, NBC signed him to a 30-year exclusive TV contract at $1,000,000 a year, though by 1960, he was reduced to hosting the show Jackpot Bowling. Strangely, Berle died on the same day as Dudley Moore and Billy Wilder.
• 1950 ($600): Shirley Temple was an ambassador for Ghana and Czechoslovakia. Charles Black was a businessman and one of the richest men in California at the time.
• 1950 ($1000): As a Wisconsin native, I'm sorry for Joseph McCarthy. If it's any consolation, he passed away at age 48, likely from cirrhosis of the liver caused by alcohol. He remains one of only 6 U.S. senators to be censured by the Senate.

Is any of the above trivia incorrect? Did I miss any other interesting facts? Let us know in the comments, and stay tuned for the next post!