Final Jeopardy: Presidents & Vice Presidents (1-22-24)
Here are some more clues from the 1/22/2024 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.
WHAT A “DAY” ($600) A CBS news special that aired on April 22, 1970 was titled this: “A Question of Survival”
SO PUT ON ALL YOUR CLOTHES ($1000) (image) This Scottish article of headwear bears the name of a castle
SHORT STORIES ($2000) Kristen Roupenian’s 2017 tale about a date gone wrong, it became a 2023 movie with new events dreamed up by the screenwriter
TEMPERA-MENTAL ARTISTS ($2000) Learning to make it from his artist brother-in-law, he used tempera for the detailed brushwork of his iconic “Christina’s World”
AVIATION PIONEERS ($2000) In 1927 he launched his Wichita aviation company & produced the first of his small monoplanes, the Phantom
JUKEBOX MUSICALS ($1200) “On Your Feet!”: her
($1600) “Girl from the North Country”: this boy from Duluth
($2000) “A Beautiful Noise”: this icon
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Sneak Peek clues — LETTERS OF THE LAW
($200) F: a serious crime, like murder or kidnapping
($400) T: this defense, first used in the case of Dan White, relating to his sugar consumption & mental state
($600) L: the unlawful taking of personal property with the intent of keeping it
($800) R: the self-removal of a judge or prosecutor from a case due to a conflict of interest
($1000) C: a supplementary document that modifies or amends a Will
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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I got Final, I don’t know why. I kinda reasoned it. New Hampshire? What??
And there is a rumor among historians that Jackson may have been born on a ship coming from Ireland!
Got two of three DDs. But, only got about a third of the TS!
After 3 easy DDs, a very tricky Final. Their guesses were pretty good, and better than anything I could think of.
Daniel gave away the win with his all-in wager. If I’m he, I’m betting $4401. That locks out Holly if both she and I are correct, and wins me the game if Ron makes his expected large wager and misses, even if Holly and I miss too.
Daniel had nothing to gain and everything to lose by betting it all.
Oh, how I winced when no one knew the boy from Duluth. And I remember April 22, 1970 very well. I thought the Norwegian weave was semi-obvious.
Here’s my list of what year each state was admitted to the Union and who was President
VJ, Thanks for the “PDF” format. Superb!
You’re welcome, Jacob. Glad you liked it.
I went with Illinois for FJ as I sure thought that was the state in which Abraham Lincoln was born.
That was a tough final as we got our first triple stumper of the week thanks to that evil geography clue.
Well, I cheated, I guess. I knew Lincoln was born in Kentucky and had no idea who the VP might be. As Kentucky wasn’t one of the original 13 states (you’re right, VJ – a significant help) I just stuck with Lincoln and was glad I didn’t have to name the people
That’s not cheating, Sam 😁 You were wise to stick with Lincoln.
Thinking about it after the fact, the states distinction (as opposed to colonies) was there to help contestants who knew Van Buren was the first prez born in the USA. Then they would have nixed Jackson (assuming, of course, that they knew Van Buren came after him).
The first ones I thought of were Lincoln and Breckinridge. I knew Jackson was born in S. Carolina.