(noise) What was the question?

[Richard de Give]

Instead of going through all my tweets, Danny Burstein, what was the Final Jeopardy answer we couldn't get wrong? Was working last night.

[danny burstein]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2021, Richard de Give wrote:

> Instead of going through all my tweets, Danny Burstein, what was the Final
> Jeopardy answer we couldn't get wrong? Was working last night.

warning: likely ot have been an urban legend. But anyway,
the clue was something like this:

"When this radio dramatization was rebroadcast
in [one of them other and backward countries]
two decades after its original 1938 tranmssion,
people in [backward country] rioted and
burned down the radio station."

[Jim Ellwanger]

If you ever want to get the exact text of a "Jeopardy!" clue, you can go to j-archive.com, which generally posts each day's game pretty quickly (often before it airs in much of the country).

The category was Radio History, and the clue read:

A 1949 broadcast in Spanish of this drama from 11 years before caused mass panic in Ecuador & the destruction of the radio station

It was on the front page of the New York Times on February 14, 1949 ("'Mars Raiders' Cause Quito Panic; Mob Burns Radio Plant, Kills 15") -- not an urban legend. (Many of the stories about panic caused by the 1938 U.S. version were what we would today call clickbait, but it was a different story in Ecuador.)

[danny burstein]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2021, Jim Ellwanger wrote:

> If you ever want to get the exact text of a "Jeopardy!" clue, you can go

> to j-archive.com <http://j-archive.com/>, which generally posts each

> day's game pretty quickly (often before it airs in much of the country).

Thanks.

> The category was Radio History, and the clue read:
>
> A 1949 broadcast in Spanish of this drama from 11 years before caused
> mass panic in Ecuador & the destruction of the radio station
>
> It was on the front page of the New York Times on February 14, 1949
> ("'Mars Raiders' Cause Quito Panic; Mob Burns Radio Plant, Kills 15") --
> not an urban legend. (Many of the stories about panic caused by the 1938
> U.S. version were what we would today call clickbait, but it was a
> different story in Ecuador.)

I wouldn't even have the slightest idea as to where
to start, but is there any way to backtrack and try
to find actual, on scene, first hand reporting from
Quito, as opposed to furriner reports?

As you noted, the claims of rioting _in the US_ were
about as founded in reality as the National Enquirer
was in its heydey, so I've really got to question these
types of allegations.

[Richard de Give]

And here we are:
https://aldianews.com/articles/culture/social/other-war-worlds-sowed-tragedy-ecuador/58526

https://historyradio.org/2017/01/21/the-war-of-the-worlds-in-ecuador/

[danny burstein]

They showed his clip _after_ Final Jeopardy!, so lots of
people had already switched the channel and I cringe
at this, but many evil affiliates might have clipped it.

Anyway, some guy, who I kind of recognize but for the
hell of it just am blanking on, picked at his guitar
and added some words to the Jeoardy! theme.

So feel free to embarass the hell out of me and
tell me who it was...

Thanks

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[Jim Ellwanger]

It was Sting, who'd done the clues in a video category in the first round.

[danny burstein]

On Fri, 19 Mar 2021, Jim Ellwanger wrote:

> It was Sting, who'd done the clues in a video category in the first round.

That sound reverberating across the nation, in
a way we hope will amuse, you [a], is my thwapping
my forehead against the nearest wall.

Thanks

[a] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-3YbSMvt5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-3YbSMvt5k

[Devin Pike]

For those who missed the segment (thanks to Evil Affiliates):

https://www.jeopardy.com/jbuzz/clues-categories/sting-recreates-jeopardy-think-music

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