Final Jeopardy: The Western U.S. (1-20-21)
Here are 8 more triple stumpers from the 1/20/2021 Jeopardy! game:
GIRL YOU KNOW IT’S TRUE ($800) On International Women’s Day 2020 the Celebrity Edge set sail as the first cruise ship with an all-female this control center
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ($1200) Appropriate first name of California settler Trask, dad to Aron & Cal in “East of Eden”
($1600) In “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, he gets himself transferred into the psychiatric hospital for “fun & entertainment”
SCIENCE GLOSSARY ($400) These rod-shaped structures in a cell’s nucleus carry its genetic information
($1600) These subatomic particles are named for physicist Enrico
MEN OF MYTH ($800) The villainous Procrustes stretched or dismembered victims to make them fit onto his iron this
ACTORS’ FILMOGRAPHIES ($1600) “Mad Max: Fury Road”, “Venom”
($2000) “The Mountain Between Us”, “Long Walk to Freedom”
Sneak Peek clues – ’80s HITS
($200) “Another Brick in the Wall” from this group was a No. 1 hit in 1980
($400) We’re halfway there! Bon Jovi topped the charts with this tune in 1987; you’ll make it, I swear!
($600) This comic “rapped”, “I was an ugly kid, I never had fun (no respect, no respect), they took me to a dog show & I won!”
($800) Rolling Stone’s “20 Biggest (’80s) Songs of the Summer” had “The Power of Love by this group
($1000) Taco had a Top 5 hit covering this Irving Berlin song that says “Why don’t you go where fashion sits?”
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The players are more relaxed with Ken as host. Ken never got annoyed in the least when the players missed three in a row in the ‘Actors’ category. That is so welcome and refreshing a quality to have in a host. Ken is the best.
Great categories today and congrats to all on.the triple solve. Hopefully Brian has gotten his confidence back and keep the winning going. Speaking of the gold rush, do you remember Dawson from the Yukon trail, VJ? They had a lot of people trying to stake gold as a claim. I wonder if any of them actually found gold in Nevada or Sacramento?
Kind of a sloppy game with so many misses and triple stumpers, but I was impressed at the FJ triple-solve, with so many people not even knowing the capitals of CA and NV.
So funny that they had that “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” category today with their 80s songs theme.
I was singing that to my brother on the phone last night after I invited him to dinner and told him to write it on the calendar.