FJs for the 12/27/21 week

[MarkBarrett]

12/27 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
20th CENTURY THEATER

12/27 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In 1955 Peter Hall directed the first production of this play in English without having "the foggiest idea what some of it means"

12/28 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
EUROPEAN RIVERS

12/28 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The flooding of this river in 1966 destroyed or damaged some 14,000 works of art, many of them priceless

12/29 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
THE 20th CENTURY

12/29 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In the morning of April 15, 1912 officer Charles Lightoller became the last of about 700 people to board this ship

12/30 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
EXPLORERS

12/30 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Confirming a theory, fossils found with this explorer in 1912 included a plant from more than 250 million years ago

12/31 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
MUSIC LEGENDS

12/31 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Of their July 1957 first meeting at a church fair, one of this pair recalled: "I was a fat schoolboy and... he was drunk"

Correct responses in spoiler box:

Spoiler

Waiting for Godot
the Arno
the Carpathia
(Robert Falcon) Scott
John Lennon & Paul McCartney

The players were 6/15 (40.00%) with a 2-1-2-1-0 success pattern.

The extra clues have two right by the players sandwiching a triple stumper.

STREETS OF AMERICA $1000: Beale Street in this city has historically served as a magnet for blues musicians

I AM WOMAN $2000: In 2021 she became the first female governor of New York state

DRAWING $1000: Our image of how Santa looks, with a jolly smile & a beard, dates back to some 1860s drawings by this political cartoonist

Correct responses in spoiler box:

Spoiler

Memphis
Kathy Hochul
Thomas Nast

[MarkBarrett]

Tiber
Leif Erikson

Kathy…

[LucarioSnooperVixey]

[Volante]

Tue - Seine
Fri - S&G

Only managed the 'H...' part of the NY Gov's name

[DBear]

(Dr. Zhivago) (Tiber) ( Titanic) (Jagger/Richards)
(nuthin')

[Leander]

First guess Wednesday was Titanic, didn’t bother to reconsider.
Laughably off base Friday.

Have crossed the Arno in Florence on the Ponte Vecchio.

[seaborgium]

Seine on Tuesday. I might have gotten Memphis but was beaten to it at home before I could solidify things in my mind. Overall not a bad way to finish the year.

[davey]

Cluelessness on Tues and Fri, memory lapses on Wed and Thurs...
I saw the last 2 Broadway revivals of Waiting for Godot, with Ian McKellen-Patrick Stewart and Nathan Lane-Bill Irwin. I missed the famous off-Broadway one in the 80s with Robin Williams-Steve Martin. As these names might indicate, the play is no longer considered all that hard to understand...

[Lefty]

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I guess I wasn't in a New York State of mind.

The Lennon-meets-McCartney story was long familiar to me so it's hard to opine about how hard or easy the question was, but the "schoolboy" self-description might suggest an age difference of more than 23 days. On the other hand, it might have been meant to evoke the New York City pair's 1957 release "Hey Schoolgirl".

I am quite surprised to see only two prior FJ appearances by Robert Falcon Scott in the archive. His diary seems made to order for the purpose. Perhaps one or two or missing; in particular, I'm sure I remember "it seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more".

I've seen and photographed Nast's tombstone too, but I don't want to become known as the graveyard guy.

[TenPoundHammer]

Got only Beale thanks to "Walking in Memphis".

Said S&G on Friday

[Plactus]

I've been doing this for a while. This is my first box of shame. Good riddance to December.

No guess, Danube, Titanic, no guess, Simon & Garfunkel

Never read or seen Waiting for Godot.
I've been to Florence, so I probably saw the Arno.

[squarekara]

I was aware that S&G met as youngsters at school. "Church fair" and "drunk" also seemed to rule them out, so I was confident in Lennon and McCartney.

[Bartleby]

[This Is Kirk!]

Saw the Arno in person for the first time in October during a Mediterranean cruise. Our ship docked in Livorno, but I opted to visit Lucca rather than Florence, so I crossed the Arno but didn't see it in Florence proper. Perhaps I would have heard about the 1966 flood had I done a Florence tour, but Lucca was cool, too!