Final Jeopardy: 20th Century History (1-18-24)
Here are some more clues from the 1/18/2024 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.
CLASSICAL MUSIC ($1000) His 7th Symphony premiered in 1813 at a benefit after a battle & its second movement is seen as a funeral march
ON THE MAP ($1000) Lying between Italy’s “heel” & “toe”, the Gulf of Taranto is an inlet of this sea named for a nymph of Greek mythology
A WOMAN’S PLACE ($1200) On Chartres Street in this U.S. city stands the old Ursuline convent, spared by a 1794 fire after ferocious prayer from the nuns
($2000) Hillary Clinton was the first student ever asked to give the commencement address at this college
AN “H” & “R” BLOCK ($1200) It’s the “tranquil” musical term for the combination of pitches heard here
($1600) I say without fear of this, an extravagant exaggeration, Butterbean is the greatest boxer of all time
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Sneak Peek clues — THE PAST, PRESENTLY
($200) Defending a pardon he granted, this President told a Congressional committee he wanted “to change our national focus”
($400) This Germanic people were separated from the Ostrogoths & in 378, not only defeated the Roman army but killed the emperor
($600) The 15th century Church of Santa Maria in this city endured through the 1937 attack that inspired a classic work of art
($800) On Nov. 4 1964 he was exiled from Iran; 15 years later, he was running the place
($1000) Numerical nickname for Mao’s wife & her allies arrested after Mao’s death for actions during the Cultural Revolution
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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Rough show as we got another triple stumper in the final. I know William Weyser would say darn those daily doubles to Nik.
I did.
I’ll be confounded. Once again, my local station stuck it to me. Another football special on the main channel. This time, the channel guide affirmatively said Wheel at 7, and Jeopardy at 7:30. But, again, nooooo! Denied! Dissed and dis-missed! I can’t win for losing.
And, speaking of, I also said Ho Chi Minh. I was 1/3 on DDs. One great help is my wife is a 500 hour RYT (registered yoga teacher).
I jist think of: third time’s the charm, or, three strikes and you’re out?
I assumed it was Ho Chi Minh and never considered anyone else. I do remember the other guy and the Khmer Rouge.
Was that wise of Martha to play for the tie? I figured she’d bet $1.But I guess that works both ways.
Oh Nik, perhaps if you lived here in the NW, where Kesey is legendary, you might have had a great notion of the answer. Then he said “London” for the next DD, even though it was highlighted on the map. I thought it might be Manchester.
Stumpers were somewhat tough, other than Chartres Street city and extravagant exaggeration. 7th Symphony and Clinton’s college might have been knowable by one of them.
I came up with Ho Chi Minh for FJ too, but yes, I did recall the Vietnamese toppling of the diabolical Pol Pot regime in 1979.
This is the first time this season that all three players came up with the same incorrect response in FJ! When was the last time that all three players had the same incorrect response in FJ!
Good question. I’d like to know that also
Last one I found where all 3 gave the same response was in Amy Schneider’s 23rd game
Actually it was on June 1, 2022 when they all wrote Waterloo.
Yes and, in the comments, Kevin Cheng mentioned the earlier one in that season, the one I came across