Final Jeopardy: Cemeteries and Memorials (1-14-22)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 1/14/2022 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.
FEAR ($600) FDR described “fear itself” as “nameless, unreasoning, unjustified ” this feeling
OATS ($800) In the early 1900s, Swiss doctor Maximilian Bircher-Benner devised this rolled oats cereal as a health food
CHARACTER TEST ($1600) This “A Tale of Two Cities” hero goes to his death in place of his lookalike Charles Darnay
($2000) The title of this Salman Rushdie novel refers to Saleem Sinai & other babies born at the stroke of 12 on August 15, 1947
CENTENARIANS ($1600) Grandson of John D., David Rockefeller (1915-2017) was a longtime CEO & chairman of this bank
BOBBING FOR ACTORS ($1600) As Alexander Pierce in “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”, this film legend didn’t see eye-to-eye with Nick Fury
($2000) As Ted Striker in “Airplane!”, he says, “We’re coming in… I guess the foot’s on the other hand now, isn’t it, Kramer?”
FROM “C” TO “Y” ($2000) Hell’s bells! It’s the study of bells
Sneak Peek clues — MISS, MR. OR MRS. SONG
($200) Little Richard: “Good Golly,” her
($400) Kelly Clarkson: “What happened to” her? “No more the need to be defensive”
($600) Styx: “Domo arigato” him
($800) Billy Paul: “Me and” her “We got a thing goin’ on”
($1000) E.L.O.: “A celebration,” he’s “up there waitin'”
ANSWERS: show
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You people don’t fully appreciate the vast overall scope and breadth of knowledge Jeopardy tests if you have any chance to keep on going. Eventually, all of us will get clues that we know and that the very best players don’t, yet overall, we’d have no realistic shot of beating those very best players except in extraordinary circumstances where all of the categories are in our wheelhouse, and that is rare indeed. It gets a little comical when I read how incredulous some people think the champs missing clues they know is. I say it’s par for the course.
I have frequently run across clues that I knew that Jennings, Holzhauer, Amodio and now Schneider didn’t know that I was surprised at. Yet there is no way I could compete with them under anything approaching normal circumstances.
Mike, I don’t think you fully appreciate that you are making the leap for “us people” that because, at one time or another, we got a clue that a superchamp didn’t get, we automatically think we’re smarter than that superchamp or we can beat that superchamp.
Yet, at the same time, you don’t make that leap for yourself. However, you admit that you are surprised (pleasantly, I assume) when you get a clue one of them didn’t get but you don’t think you can beat them.
I wonder if you can appreciate that commenting gets to be quite a drag when people have to qualify their comments with a disclaimer (i.e., I don’t mean I’m smarter than Amy, Matt, James or Ken) because other people read things into their comment that never even crossed their minds!
And, I’m still taken aback that no one could name who played Alexander Pierce! (At least, not on time)
So, there’s two flavors here: “brutally difficult” and “absurdly easy”. Since I lived in Hawai’i, I thought it was easy. The most cogent point, though, was made by Howard, in that, no one made the connection with volcanoes and Hawai’i. And, I might posit that “guillotine” from Victor Hugo is MUCH more obscure than “Punchbowl”.
In any case, I’ll just tell you – parking at Punchbowl on Memorial Day is, essentially, impossible!
My daughter made the volcanoes / Hawaii connection instantly and was very proud of herself esp when the players were all stumped
Yeah, I was like, “Volcano, Hawai’i, obvious” and then staring at their answers. Because Wyoming is famous for its extinct volcanos lol
Mind, I don’t know if I could’ve made that connection on stage, under the bright lights, with all the pressure…
Come on, Amy! Go, go, go!!!
Yup.
This final Jeopardy question was DEEPLY flawed, which is why Amy didn’t get it. Hawaii was not a state until 1959.
Don’t overthink it. The question asked for the location of the cemetery now, not when it was opened. I got it. Easy.
The question said it was “opened in 1949… in this state.” Hawaii was NOT a state in 1949. The correct phrasing should have been “in what later became this state” but of course that would have been too obvious.
Val, Rachel brought up that issue over on Reddit. Said she, Amy, & Luis talked to Ken and the judges after the show. They felt that since Hawaii was not a state in 1949 it couldn’t be the response. She didn’t elaborate further other than to post”C’est la vie.”
I was really surprised no one got this one. Seemed obvious, to me. Maybe that was it. They thought it was too obvious, and out thought themselves. Anyway, I imagine the Punchbowl would be a nice place to be lei-ed to rest. Sorry. I can’t help myself.
since both of my grandparents are buried at the punchbowl i thought it was too easy to be a final jeopardy question…
Congratulations Amy on your 33rd game win on Jeopardy.
Wow, that was one tough finale. I went with Washington in FJ, but it was unfortunately incorrect.
That’s why Ken Jennings won FJ as no one knew about geography.
well, that was quite remarkable. When Amy was losing all those FJ’s and big bets in the first 3 days of the week, I was thinking that if she was Irish, she would think she was jinxing herself by making big bets. 🤣 The Irish are a superstitious lot. 🤣 Then I found out yesterday that she is half Irish, and she got FJ with a low $4K bet. Now lo and behold, she is out $20K today!
Her daily average of around $40K has sunk quite a bit in the last couple of weeks.
I toured the Punchbowl in 2015, so that was a cinch. You’d have thought at least one of them would have associated volcanoes with Hawaii.
We end the week with another triple stumper as today’s FJ was not nice to anybody. As always, nobody knows about geography.
Next week better be better, and it better give me something to work with.
What is that supposed to mean? Amy has been phenomenal and this streak of FJs missed is inevitable in a long streak like she has had. I’d like to see her catch Amodio and become second on the all-time list of consecutive regular season games won.
If you’re that dissatisfied go on the game yourself.
There ya go again. You’re reading things into William’s comment that he didn’t mean at all.
You could have just stopped at your opening question and waited for a response.
How was I supposed to know?
What a tough FJ! week but Amy is now in third place for most consecutives games won.
That is why we got our first losing FJ week of the year.
How is this a tough final jeopardy? I mean anyone who is a fan of the hawaii Five O should know this one. I guess none of the contestants saw that show. I’ve been to hawaii with my family and visited Pearl Harbor one time in 2005 and visited wakiki. But I am happy that Amy won again. Next week should have Amy making a comeback I hope if she can get to Matt’s 38 game total
Yes I too thought the FJ really easy and despite not being too fond of cops (as a pacifist) in general I too regularly watched the original 1968-1980 CBS-TV HAWAII FIVE-0. I am really surprised it proved a Triple Stumper!