Spoiler Talk: CotD (Wed)
It’s time for a look at the NY Times Clue of the Day for Wednesday’s game. This clue may be today’s Final Jeopardy! If you know it (or even if you don’t), you can make a prediction on how many players will get it right and/or leave a hint on the right answer BEFORE 11:15 A.M. CENTRAL (And, yes, we are all aware that the results are sometimes put up earlier elsewhere, but we play fair here).
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Clue of the Day
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An old row: This was the $2000 row in the last round of the Jeopardy! match that originally aired on 6-19-2003.
1901: In 1901, the year before his death, this author revisited “Erewhon”
4-LETTER FILMS: Robin Cook cooked up the story for this ’78 thriller; Michael Crichton directed it
FLORIDA: Harry Truman chose this Florida island locale for his “Little White House” in 1946
SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS: This 1939 winner’s debut at the Met in 1955 was the first for an African-American soloist
AUTHORS’ MIDDLE NAMES: O. Henry’s real middle name
IT’S “OVER”: In 1857 John Butterfield helped found this mail company
ANSWERS: show
Today’s Quote: Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care ~ Theodore Roosevelt
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TUESDAY’S PREDICTIONS: VJ and JJ correctly predicted 2 players would get mercury
Early Spoiler results are usually updated around 12 p.m. Central.
Let’s take a shot with 1/3 correct answers.
My wife and I have been watching an old season of the UK’s “University Challenge” on YouTube, in which Brandon Blackwell, who competes on Jeopardy! today, wore a shirt with an image of Alex Trebek on it. The episode was apparently recorded just after Alex announced his cancer diagnosis.
Brandon has by far been the most entertaining contestant on University Challenge we’ve seen, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see him perform very well in today’s show.
Thanks for the info, JP.
As for today’s clue, I agree with your assessment. I’ll try ONE right
Decoding “meso” is easy. “Noxian” more difficult. I’ll say 2/3 today.