Final Jeopardy: English Literature (1-29-25)
Here are some more clues from the 1/29/2025 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.
THE REST IS HISTORY ($400) Our listeners have to deal with some Britishisms: In 1790, jailers were gobsmacked to find that Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette had scarpered. They were trying to get to the protection of Marie’s brother, Leopold II, of this country; but they were captured & really copped it
RELIGIOUS WORDS & PHRASES ($1600) Louis XIV was christened “Dieudonne”, meaning this, so he really thought he was this alliterative phrase
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Did anyone else (besides VJ) notice the acceptance of “Atticus” rather than “Finch”? In the past week at least two contestants have been dinged for adding a superfluous “s:” to otherwise correct answers. I was very surprised this error wasn’t noticed.
VJ, the ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’ board games are available on eBay, but they’re not cheap.
Thanks for the info, Rick!
Anytime VJ.
Oh my, what a beatdown, pretty rare for a ToC affairs, I’d guess. At least for anyone not name Holzhauer. We have a potential champion here.
Good on them for getting FJ. I was all over the place, including King Lear and Gulliver’s Travels. Greg’s correct response gave him $1031 to match his Halloween birthday (also mine). I thought he’d nail that last DD, it was semi-obvious.
Were all the stumpers listed tonight? I got the Eugene Jerome actor and thought I’d known another one, but don’t see any here that I knew. I had a slightly different response for “Dieudonne,” but they might not have accepted it.
I only saw 4 stumpers, Howard. 2 in each round.
Also, Howard, I’m sure they would have to accept your translation of “Dieudonne” — I was wondering how they expected the contestants to translate it any other way than literally.
It was another great game, and I again performed about average. Wow, chemistry was actually one of my stronger subjects, but I only managed 2/5 in that category. Anyways, for lack of anything better, I went with ‘The Canterbury Tales’ by Geoffrey Chaucer. Yeah, I knew that wasn’t going to get off the ground. For one thing, ‘The Canterbury Tales’ was written several centuries earlier, and it was all in Middle English.
I hope William Weyser will say darn those daily doubles to Greg.
He’s been saying that since Hunter Appler failed to take the lead away from Pranjal Vachaspati and Buzzy Cohen.