Final Jeopardy: Continental Geography (1-4-23)
Here are some more clues from the 1/4/2023 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.
THE NATIONAL PAST TIME ($800) This adjective precedes “Free State” in the name of a polity formed in the 1920s with Tim Healy as governor-general
OH MY GODS! ($2000) In the Bible, Elijah led the struggle against worship of this Phoenician god that Ahab followed
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Sneak Peek clues — TV THEME SONGS
($400) “It’s like you’re always stuck in second gear”
($800) “It’s time to play the music, it’s time to light the lights”
($1200) “California here we come, right back where we started from”
($1600) “You woke up this morning, got yourself a gun”
($2000) “Somebody said it could be here, we could be roped up, tied up, dead in a year”
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Colombia = the country.
Columbia = the university.
Columbia – capital of South Carolina
Columbia the Gem of the Ocean (song)
What was the cork or quark question where the answer was strange?
The clue listed 5 of the quarks, up, down, top, bottom, and charm, and asked for the last one, which was strange (that’s the name of the quark).
I said Turkey. Oh well! Got the two TS on page 2.
I’m just doing to say it outright – Lloyd is annoying. I don’t think it’s tics, but, volitional.
Happy to see Lloyd winning again.
Well then, the FJ was in error. I mean, all of Columbia was located in South America prior to the 1903 secession of Panama, and so it obviously did not span two continents. Anyways, I picked Prussia for FJ which wasn’t altogether a bad choice. Either way, there was no possible correct response for FJ.
That final was pretty hard to me. I guessed Egypt and was way off.
I guess many folks know construction of the Panama canal began in 1903 but the rest of the clue is hopelessly ambiguous. I also checked the Omniatlas, VJ, and agree it seems to contradict the FJ answer.
Once again, I wish the Jeopardy clue writers would confine their “answers” to verifiable facts.. I can tolerate poorly written clues but it’s frustrating when several sources contradict each other. That said, congratulations to Lloyd for winning his second game. I’m also looking forward to seeing Ray Lalonde in the TOC.
Sam, I agree, and I’m glad it’s not just me that saw it that way.
Sam, I saw it the same way. This clue was ambiguous imo. I’m really happy Lloyd won again.