Final Jeopardy: Bestselling Authors (1-24-20)
Here are 5 more triple stumpers from the 1/23/2020 Jeopardy! game:
IKEA NAMES ($1000) Rugs called Roskilde, Silkeborg & Osted are among things bearing names of towns not in Sweden but in this country
THIS & THAT ($1000) Qualatex, which offers an exam to become a CBA, certified this artist, is a brand of microfoil & latex ones
POST HASTE ($600) In ye olden days this 2-word stuff was thick boiled flour often eaten as a quick breakfast
GEOGRAPHIC NUMBERS ($800) The Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Palatine, Quirinal & Viminal are these
A BRUSH WITH DEATH ($800) A Tahitian girl named Teha’amana stares at the viewer in his painting “Manaò Tupapaú (Spirit of the Dead Watching)”
The players missed 2 clues (*) in 13-LETTER WORDS:
($400) Bodybuilding includes a fair amount of this activity, using barbells & other resistance training devices
($800) The formula for this measure of a circle is pi times the diameter
*($1200) It’s the term for repetitive echoing
*($1600) 13-letter adjective for the fluid that surrounds the brain & other parts of the nervous system
($2000) This adjective with a meaning similar to “rebellious” refers to one who won’t accept the authority of a superior
ANSWERS: show
Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — NEIL BEFORE ME:
($400) Before Neil Gorsuch, A.B. Neil similarly believed in the original meaning of the Constitution as Chief Justice of this in Tennessee
($800) Neil Gaiman won a Newbery Medal for “The Graveyard Book”; this Neil won a Pulitzer for “Lost in Yonkers”
($1200) Before guitarist Neil Giraldo, there was this other Neil from Ohio who piloted the X-15 to the edge of space
($1600) 2 years before Neil Diamond was born there, this “Laughter in the Rain” singer-songwriter was born in Brooklyn
($2000) In journalism, before Neil Cavuto came Neil Sheehan, who got a huge scoop in 1971 with these Defense Department documents
ANSWERS: show
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I’m not much of a reader, but I figured out Danielle Steel about halfway through the music. She’s so prolific, it had to be her. Contestants were pretty good tonight, knew many I didn’t, but I still got 6 that either all 3 missed or someone got wrong on a DD. Kudos to Heather, who is from the small city that’s about 3 miles from where I am.
That “Neil Before Me” was a timely category — Neil Diamond turned 79 years old today.
“Breaking Up is Hard to Do” is a more well-known song than “Laughter in the Rain” for the Neil who was the answer to that clue.
Tough Final Jeopardy today as we end the week with a triple stumper.
It wasn’t a good clue. It talked about her lifestyle and not her writing style. Something hinting at her genre would have been better. The triple stumper is not surprising.
klm, I took a look at the clues about her on J-Archive and the best hints they have are the ones with “metal” or “metallic” in them. I wouldn’t know any of her titles to be honest.
I agree that the clue was not very good.
After a bit more thought, I think the writers were trying to suggest that the author must be one who publishes many books every year (if she’s working almost around the clock), and Steel is probably most well-known as “The romance novelist who cranks out 6 or 7 books a year”.
A bit of a stretch.
I still can’t believe that none of these contestants knew Danielle Steel. The book the long road home talks about how a girl gets abused by her own mother and nearly gets herself killed by a con artist. She befriends a doctor but still didn’t get love from her parents. That should have been a clear hint to point them to the answer. But really, nora ephron? She’s a journalist and not a best selling author. Would you have gotten this one since spy is another one of Steel’s novels, VJ? I wanted a triple solve again today.
We’ll get another Triple Solve 1 of these days. Just be patient, and all you need to know about Danielle Steel is that… I’ve never heard of her.
No I didn’t get this one, Lou, because I am not a fan of the type of novels Danielle Steel writes. I consider her primarily a romance novelist. When I was a teen, my mother used to give me books like that to read and I just really never got into that genre.
Anyhow, when are you going to realize that the players only have the clue before them to work with? The hints were “old typewriter”, “Paris” and “San Francisco” and Bestselling Author in the category.
How in the world does that equate to “The Long Road Home” as a clear hint in your mind?
Well the only reason why I brought that up was because I saw a bit of this information on Wikipedia and thought that Danielle might have used the typewriter for the book I mentioned since she spent long hours writing. Perhaps she did the same with the romance novels but that’s just my guess. I hope that clears up the confusion. Heather’s math was a bit off when she picked Clark just to let you know.