Final Jeopardy: Historic Americans (1-12-22)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 1/12/2022 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.
HOW PROVINCIAL ($800) When Gander’s Airport welcomed 6,500 passengers on U.S.-bound flights on Sept. 11, 2001, its province was still called this
IRON MAN ($1000) Called the NBA’s Iron Man, A.C. Green played 1,192 consecutive games & also collected 3 championship rings with this team
ROYAL WOMEN ($400) In 2019 she shared her first Instagram photo, a letter from Charles Babbage to her g-g-gf Prince Albert
($1200) In 2020 this country’s Queen Margrethe celebrated her 80th birthday
ONE LETTER DIFFERENT ($800) “The City of Light” & destinations there like Montsouris & Bois de Boulogne
REPTILIAN WORDS & PHRASES ($2000) Jesus calls the scribes “ye serpents, ye generation of” these venomous serpents
JEOPARDY BOX SCORES FOR JANUARY 12, 2022
Sneak Peek clues — CHINESE CALENDAR ANIMALS
($200) Bengal
($400) a capuchin
($600) a merino
($800) a Norway (also known as a brown)
($1000) a krait
ANSWERS: show
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I thought the contestant said ‘Rock the Vote’ instead of ‘Rock the Boat’, but I may have misheard lol
Surprised at the double-stumper in FJ. I have written about “Fred Doug”‘s house in SE DC though I have never been there and in 2020 finally read his harrowing book-length account of being enslaved. Some of the Jeopardy round and Double Jeopardy round clues were frankly much harder than this was–to me at least.
Same for me. I thought this was a high school level question.
Oh, and, I totally got a laugh when Amy said “dragon” for krait! If you don’t know, a “krayt dragon” is from the Star Wars universe!
That was one tough finale, and I was certainly stumped. Actually, I was only surprised that no one came up with the Redd Foxx show earlier in the game which was a very popular sitcom.
Regarding the “extra s” part of the clue, I could find no corroboration that Frederick Douglass “added it for distinction” unless it means he was consciously trying to elevate his social status. A 2018 book “Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846” by Alasdair Pettinger states: “We don’t know for sure why the surname of Walter Scott’s James Douglas [Ellen’s father] acquired an extra ‘s’,” noting a biographer’s suggestion that it was the way prominent black families in the North spelled the surname.
It is also noted that the 1840 Federal Census shows that the surname “Douglass was 3x more common in the USA than ‘Douglas'”. That makes sense to me as a way to distinguish first and last names.
Disappointed episode as all 3 DDs were missed resulted our first skunking in over a month.
I got $12K in Triple Stumper clues, including the first round DD. Amy had $23K going into FJ and got FJ! wrong. Interesting.
I hope someone gets today’s players to watch an episode or two of that Redd Foxx sitcom. When my NJ granddaughter (age 20) was down here last year, I shared 3 classic sitcoms with her, just so she would know about them: the Redd Foxx sitcom, I Dream of Jeannie & The Beverly Hillbillies. She said Redd Foxx was the funniest, hands down!
Those sitcoms were my childhood favorites vj. I dream of Jeannie and bewitched plus red Foxx not to mention beverly hillbillies. Difficult board for double jeopardy so it’s no surprise Amy missed this final. But still is she getting a bit tired? We got our first daily double skunking for the new year. I hope Amy can make a comeback tomorrow
If William Weyser was here, he would say darn those daily doubles.
Louis that was the vibe I was picking up – getting tired. I believe it was Arthur Chu who said that it was tiring.
I shall admit, I was, at first, stumped, but, the FJ did come to mind. However, I would have been VERY close.