Final Jeopardy: Landmarks (1-1-24)
Here are some more clues from the 1/xx/2024 Jeopardy! game. Please don’t put the answers to these clues in the comments so people who missed the game can have a chance to answer them. It is okay to refer to them by category and clue value or by part of the clue.
IT’S AN EX-CAR FOR A REASON ($1000) Road & Track said this 3-letter brand’s Gremlin, launched on April Fools’ Day 1970, “stretched the definition of car”
TOUGH 7-LETTER WORDS ($400) Idiomatically, you don’t wanna be naked like this feathered fellow seen here
($1200) Going all the way from A to C, this scientific term means not associated with living organisms
RETIRED ($800) This Ben & Jerry’s flavor, vanilla ice cream with a nutty brittle, was sent up the Amazon river in 1999
($1200) In 1990 Crayola’s first group of crayons to be permanently retired included lemon yellow & this “raw” brown
($2000) Alphabetically, the list of retired hurricane names in the Atlantic runs from Agnes (1972) to this “W”oman (2005)
MISHEARD LYRICS ($800) Many have sung along to the radio, “I left my brains down in” here
($1200) A classic by this singer turns out not to be about a hip minister called “the Reverend Blue Jeans”
KNOW SEA ($1600) Travel southwest from this country across the Sulu Sea & you’ll hit Malaysia
($2000) Both the cute critter seen here (image) & a sea off Antarctica have this 7-letter name, after a British explorer
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Sneak Peek clues — HAUNTING LITERATURE
($200) Scrooge hears from this man that even after being dead for 7 years, he found “no rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse”
($400) The ghost of Delbert Grady advises Jack Torrance on family matters in this novel; that does not work out well for anybody
($600) The ghost of Catherine haunts Heathcliff until he himself exits the land of the living in this 1847 novel
($800) In a sequel, this character plays for the New Orleans Saints, crashes the Exxon Valdez & sees the ghost of Jenny, his childhood friend
($1000) 166 ghosts, one the president’s son, exist in a sort of pre-afterlife in George Saunders’ “Lincoln in” this space
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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Greg seemed flummoxed by that DD. I’d never heard of it, but I confidently said “Thursday”. That was the moment that lost the game for Greg.
As is frequent, Howard and I matched up – I said “l’Arc de Triomphe” also.
My local station shows J! reruns on Saturday. This past Saturday, coincidentally, was Xanni’s game, which was against Cris Pannulo.
Oops, got so involved in football that I missed the show entirely.
FJ seemed tough; I fixated on Arc de Triomphe because a friend of mine was posting pictures from there last week.
Mythology usually stumps me, but somehow, on that DD, I associated thunder god with Thor and then the pertinent weekday.
The “cabbie weekly salary” clue was a toughie, but I recalled the film involved a political campaign, so not a stumper on that DD.
A dear friend of mine had one o’ them Gremlins in the 70s, so that one was easy. The 7-letter “naked as” creature was a softie. Hurricane “W” was pretty memorable and not too long after Katrina.
PS: My friend Sharon’s 2nd chance show is Tuesday. Today she announced that she finished in the top 3.
One of her opponents is a young Harvard student.
Happy New Year VJ! What a way to start 2024 with Xanni winning Group 2 of Second Chance. Group 3 begins tomorrow.
A very Happy New Year to you, Kevin, and to all my readers.