Final Jeopardy: French Towns (1-31-20)
Here are 11 more triple stumpers from the 1/31/2020 Jeopardy! game:
% (PERCENTAGE) ($600) In 2018-19 James Harden of this team led the NBA in usage, the percentage of plays he’s involved in on offense
($800) In the dystopian Netflix show “3%”, kids in the slums of this largest Brazilian city are competing to join an offshore paradise
@ (AT) ($1000) What a pyramid scheme! The landmark here in this ancient Mayan city was dedicated to Kukulkan
* (FOOTNOTE) ($800) A 2016 papal footnote caused a ruckus by saying some divorced Catholics can have “the help of” these, such as communion
SPECIES NAMES ($2000) The gopher tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus, is named for one of these cave-dwelling creatures in Greek myth
14-LETTER WORDS ($2000) Adjective for a space probe designed to travel between earth & Jupiter, for example
HISTORIC PLEAS ($1600) Lycaon, son of this Trojan king, begs Achilles, “Be merciful and spare me”; Achilles kills him
($2000) He asked for mercy from Chester Arthur, arguing that he increased Arthur’s income from $8,000 to $50,000 a year
WORLD TRANSPORTATION ($1200) This U.S. Interstate passes through 8 states on its 2,400+ mile journey from Santa Monica to Jacksonville
($1600) ($1600) Carrying 5,000+ passengers, one of the largest cruise liners, the “Harmony of the Seas” is operated by this company with a “C” name
REAL-LIFE CELEBRITY SUPERHEROES ($2000) Before playing Gibbs on “NCIS”, he sledgehammered the window of a burning car & pulled 2 teens to safety
Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — SYMBOLS:
($200) On the Great Seal of the United States, the eagle grasps this symbol of peace in its right talon
($400) One symbolic representation of Christ is as the paschal type of this animal
($600) Gary Anderson designed 3 chasing arrows as the symbol for this; the negative space on the inside resembles a pine tree
($800) Long a symbol of Communism, this pair represents the union of worker & peasant
($1000) Because of his days as a sailor, the founder of this department store used a red star as its symbol
ANSWERS: show
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I’m trying to find the question/answer tonight that was about poets diminishing stars – something like that. Did anyone catch it? Can’t remember category or round.
@LL, it was in the first round in the * (footnote) category:
($400) A footnote in Richard Feynman’s Caltech lectures scolds these versifiers who say science reduces the stars’ beauty
I couldn’t tell if Audrey was joking when she asked if she could change her bet. Maybe. It was funny though.
Hi, Anne, I couldn’t tell either, but if she was, her deadpan expression was terrific.
Alex Trebek has a great deadpan expression sometimes when he makes a joke, too, but still, there’s a twinkle in his eye 🤣
It was a joke. The joke would have been even funnier if she asked whether she could move to Wheel of Fortune 😁😁😁.
I smell something. It smells like… BLUE CHEESE!!!!
This game didn’t give Michelle much of a chance to nail other daily doubles. Audrey is dismissed and the second contestant eliminated early since Rachel Lin from 2016 and Priscilla Drobes. Congrats to Michelle on her second win. So we wrapped up this week with a couple of double solves and o be triple stumper. If my memory serves me correctly, this reminded me of seth Wilson’s second game, VJ where one of his opponents had a tough time with the daily doubles. Is camembert cheese still sold in supermarket today?
I don’t know, Lou. My tastes in cheese are very simple and I don’t think I’d want to try a sample of cheese that smells like cabbage even if they were handing them out free at the supermarket.
What was up with that cruise line clue? — “operated by a company with a “C” name” — leading me to say Cunard and then the answer is two words with the initials R.C. 🙄
This game had its ups and downs. Darn those Daily Doubles. That was a costly miss for Audrey. But this was really Michelle’s game she just took it away from her & Matthew.
Intentionally or not, Michelle allowed the other two to self-destruct while answering a fair share of the questions. Those of us in the Pacific NW are more familiar with Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce tribe than most others would be. But WAY too many stumpers tonight, once again. I managed to know 5 of them.
Hi Howard. I knew a bunch of them today. My sports knowledge is pretty skimpy but I knew James Harden thanks to Mark’s basketball posts and Papa John’s specials in Houston when his team wins 🙂
I didn’t count Mayan city landmark — I know it from prior J! clues but I would never ring in on it for fear of mispronouncing it and losing $$
Could not believe nobody got the adjective for the space probe on the rebound!!