Final Jeopardy: Foreign-Born Authors (1-24-23)
Here are some more clues from the 1/24/2023 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.
DANTE’S CIRCLES OF HELL, DEFINED ($1000) Eighth, containing alchemists & seducers: Legally this 5-letter word is any activity that uses deception to gain money
3.7 TRILLION FISH IN THE OCEAN ($400) To live in frigid waters, the icefish has blood glycoproteins that function as this, also a product made by Valvoline
EUROPE A-GO-GO ($1600) This isolated region on the Peloponnese became synonymous with a rural paradise to Greeks & Romans alike
The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern
Sneak Peek clues — WHAT SEASON IS IT?
($200) Mother’s Day in the U.S.
($400) Olympic Peninsula Apple & Cider Festival
($600) Precedes “blues” in another term for seasonal affective disorder, often featuring hypersomnia
($800) Not with its own holiday like the end has,the beginning of World War I is solemnly commemorated
($1000) Duck hunting season (not wabbit season) starts in Louisiana & Minnesota
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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I didn’t think all 3 would know FJ. I figured out the narrator/book after a short while, then it took a few more seconds to remember the author. Had to erase DH Lawrence and Henry Miller from my mind before I could come up with it. I don’t recall whether I read the book (might have) but definitely saw two versions of the film.
Considering it was the last/least “in between” category, someone probably should have known that mint family plant.
I said Henry Miller, myself. I asked myself if he was born in the UK. So, I cheated a little, and looked it up. When I saw Miller was born in NYC, then, I know it was Nabokov. So, a miss for me!
The TS about the circle of Hell, that surprised me no one got it. But, who is in the lowest circle of Hell? The treacherous.
I’ve been trying to remember all day when the correct pronunciation of Nabokov came up before and I finally found it.
It was on a list of authors’ mispronounced names that I linked to in Feb. 2021.
The correct pronunciation is na-BOE-kof with the stress on the second syllable
Also, Otto brought it up in the comments on the 12-9-22 game. Ken read a clue in Russian Writers that contained Nabokov’s name.
I’ve always been more of a reader than a listener, so I can spell almost anything but mispronounce many words and names. I always thought it was nuh-BOCK-ov. Not too far off.
I still remember reading aloud a paragraph in 8th grade class and pronouncing “disciple” as DISS-uh-pull.
I can see that, Howard — it’s so similar to discipline
The FJ wasn’t a slam dunk for any of us this time around, ;but I’m glad that all of the contestants came up with the correct response.
I hope my son watches the show tonight. I know he will get a kick out of that Elton John clue. I had those lines on my quote wall when he was a teenager. 😁
Another one he always gets when it comes up on J! is the ““How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child” from King Lear 🤣🤣 (I liked to pull that one out when I was feeling unappreciated)