Final Jeopardy: Children’s Books (1-5-24)
Here are some more clues from the 1/5/2024 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.
BLACK HISTORY YEAR ($800) At John Glenn’s request, Katherine Johnson verifies the computer’s planning of Friendship 7’s flight
($1000) Just after World War II, Jackie Robinson integrates Major League Baseball
THIS & THAT ($400) In 1993 the Supreme Court said “claims of actual” this from new evidence aren’t grounds for appeal–you must have been shafted at trial
ALLITERATION ($1600) Old West mom, did you little one burn himself? Administer this stuff made from the fat of the gander
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Sneak Peek clues — NYMING -NYMS
($200) Writers once had some pizzazz using these -nyms! Ben Franklin was Silence Dogood & Washington Irving wa Jonathan Oldstyle
($400) In addition to being an acronym, this device that determines an object’s distance & velocity is also a palindrome
($600) A retronym is a new term created to show the difference between new & old forms, like paper book or this rhyming postal term
($800) A cryptonym is a secret name or codeword; this 1960s Vietnamese leader had several, including Agent 19
($1000) Crohn’s Disease, the Ferris Wheel or Parkinson’s Law (for Burrill, George & C. Northcote, respectively) are these -nyms
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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Come to think of it, I might have the 1949 film ‘The Secret Garden’ on VHS tape. In fact, I’ll look around for it today, and perhaps transfer it onto DVD. Actually, I believe that I did see the film before, but it was a very long time ago.
For Final, I first thought of “Where the Red Fern Grows”, but, about ten seconds later, I got it right, notwithstanding I’ve never read it.
I got the second two of the DDs. The first one I said “Finnegan’s Wake”, another I’ve never read.
I thought there was a TS that I got, but I don’t see it here. I just remember being, ever so slightly, full of myself.
I’m still going with Matt to win it.
Jason, maybe it was this one where Ken asked Michael to be more specific: “Harmonic analysis helps predict the rise & fall of these, but it’s tough to account for local variations in shore & seafloor”
Michael said waves. Someone needs to tell Ken that when he asks the player to be more specific, the player thinks s/he gave part of the answer (as it always used to be). That’s what Michael thought so he offered “tidal waves”, then Randall got it with tides.
This was a repeat of that plankton / phytoplankton / algae mess.
On the other hand VJ, the players in question were given a chance to clarify their responses. Ken couldn’t help it if they failed in that regard.
Yes, Rick, of course Michael failed because he thought he’d given part of the answer. It was just like the other time when Emma was asked to be more specific about plankton, Tyler rang in with phytoplankton. The answer Ken wanted was algae. Perhaps Tyler or Ed would have said that if Ken rejected plankton.
If we’re going to go down this road, it seems that Ken can ask someone who rings in with flower to be more specific if the answer is daffodil or carnation.
Ah, I can’t find it. I looked on the archive. Maybe it wasn’t even a TS. I know I got the Resolute desk, but so did Matt. I DID, though, get it before he did!
Ooh, tough Final. My sister, a recently retired elementary school reading specialist, likely knew it. These guys are really good, though. But I think Michael should have nailed that first DD. The two black history years weren’t a cinch but still very knowable. At least to seniors and baseball fans.
I couldn’t come up with the correct response for FJ, but I did well in the game otherwise.
And that is our first triple stumper of the new year as today’s final was a tough one.
Hi VJ! Repeats seem the fashion this season – Final Jeopardy was Landmarks on the 1st and 2nd. I still have my copy of A Child’s Garden of Verses which was my first exposure to poetry. Much to my parent’s dismay, limericks followed! Thanks for the info about Samoan postage stamps honoring RLS. You do great work!
Thanks, Sam. There is a lot of fascinating info about the countries RLS visited in his South Pacific travels on that stamp site.
Also, idk if you ever watched “Death Valley Days” but there’s an episode called The Great Amulet about how Stevenson met his American wife and traveled to California to marry her. He certainly got around in his too short life.
I never seen someone score 0 in the first game of the tournament finals. I feel so bad for Randall. This is the first triple stumper of the new year.
That’s 2 days in a row something about Robert Louis Stevenson showed up. A Child’s Garden of Verses was my favorite book when I was 5 years old. I still know several of the poems by heart.
Fun fact: Samoa has honored RLS with postage stamps, the first in 1935