Final Jeopardy: American Artists (1-19-24)
Here are some more clues from the 1/19/2024 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.
MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS ($200) Major League baseball’s Cardinals play their home games at this sudsy arena
AGRICULTURE ($2000) This former governor of Iowa served 8 years as Obama’s Secretary of Agriculture, and now has the same position under Biden
EXISTENTIALISM ($1600) Texas prof Robert Solomon appears in this animated Linklater film to link existentialism to a life of purpose & exuberance
FAMOUS FORGERIES ($2000) On trial for selling a work by this Delft master to the Nazis, a Dutch artist avoided a death sentence by proving he’d forged it
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Sneak Peek clues — FROM S TO Y
($200) To move side to side, or to influence someone to change course
($400) This verb can mean to kill; in slang, crack someone up; or more recent slang, kill with one’s fashion
($600) It’s the kind of school where one trains for the priesthood
($800) The Apennines are mainly made up of this, one of the 3 basic kinds of rock
($1000) To taint or tarnish
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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I did reasonably well in the game, but missed the FJ. Actually, one of Calder’s sculptures named ‘La Grande Vitesse’ is located in Vandenberg Plaza in Grand Rapids, Michigan. However, it was never well received by most of the residents there.
The last two DD had me smacking my forehead. That Street is my most favorite show ever – “the musical for people that love musicals”. Then, Clifford Irving I recalled from “The Book of Lists” back in the late 70s and early 80s.
I still don’t understand Rachel’s wager to second place. What don’t these people get about “win or go home”?
Concur, if it’s wires, Calder. Splatter, Pollock. Cubist, Picasso. Impressionist, usu Monet.
I’m happy that Erin won, though. Although I don’t remember her from her first time, something about her was likable.
Not a complete rationalization, but because of the closeness of the scores, Bryan had to bet big in case the opponents did too. Erin really had to wager only $1001 to pass Bryan if she got FJ and he wagered anything and missed. Rachel may have been thinking that Erin would bet $0 and Bryan would bet large. In that unlikely event, Rachel would have $11201 and Erin $11200, with Bryan sinking to 3rd with a wrong answer. As we now know, if Erin had missed FJ, Rachel would have won the game.
Fair enough. I guess it’s just my bias that I think it’s pretty haughty to think the player behind in the count will get Final correct, while the person leading them will get it wrong. That’s not a logical result. Statistically, past performance does relate to future results.
Jason, isn’t it true that the only chance the person who is low man has of winning is if the top score gets FJ! wrong? So it’s not really an assumption, it’s the only hope.
I know next to nothing about art, but to me there was only one answer to FJ.
Thought they’d all get it.
One of those rare nights when I hit all 3 DDs and FJ. Utterly disappointed that Rachel didn’t know the Broadway-area street and Erin the reclusive billionaire.
Great comeback by Bryan in DJ, till he tanked the FJ. Cost him a win.
Guessed right on blank English, and of course knew the Cardinals’ stadium.
Here’s a link to a funny guide on how to recognize painters’ works (If everyone – including the women – looks like Putin, then it’s van Eyck)