Final Jeopardy: Word Origins (1-30-23)
Here are some more clues from the 1/30/2023 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.
NURSERY RHYMES ($400) Kissing the girls made them cry, but when the boys came out to play, Georgie Porgy did this
($600) “Pussy cat, pussy cat” went to London because this person is there
($1000) The black sheep’s not so bad; he’s got 3 bags full of wool for these 3 recipients
GEOLOGY($1000) Rocks formed by heat at great depths within the earth can be called abyssal or this, after the Roman god of the underworld
CHANNELING THE TV SHOWS ($1000) “Celebrity Beef” & “Celebrity Game Face”; it’s big on celebrities
MUSHROOM STEW ($400) Chitin, hard enough to form crabs’ exoskeletons, also makes up these microscopic mushroom germinators
($800) This word that starts with an animal is used of various species of mushrooms thought to be inedible or poisonous
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Sneak Peek clues — SAINTS & THEIR CITIES
($400) Founder of the Franciscan order, Francis of this city
($800) A follower of St. Francis & a patron of the poor, St. Anthony of this city
($1200) Egyptian martyr whose symbol is a spiked wheel, not a library book St. Catherine of this city
($1600) Canonized in 1671, the first saint of South America, Rose of this city
($2000) The first Pole to be made a saint, Stanislaus of this city, formerly the capital of Poland
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All I could think of was Job, and, as such, didn’t come up with a response.
Still not too impressed with Jake.
All three contestants were obviously struggling with FJ. I mean, I couldn’t even make out their scribbling. In fact, Ken Jennings had to go through the motions of asking each one of them what it was that they wrote down.
Hmmmmm…….None of us got FJ right either, but there is always tomorrow.
I didn’t get it either, Rick. Like Sam, I came up with drama and I thought one person would get it right so thanks to Sarah for figuring it out even if she couldn’t finish it.
Agony was another word that crossed my mind, as in the song “Agony” from “Into the Woods”, but I knew that just occurred to me because of the line “what unbearable bliss”, so I didn’t give it serious consideration
Another tough final to start the week as we got a triple stumper.
If only the correct response occurred to Sarah earlier, it would have not been a triple stumper and she would have been the only player to be credited with a correct response.