Final Jeopardy: The Ancient World (1-9-24)
Here are some more clues from the 1/9/2024 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.
“F” IN GEOGRAPHY ($400) Espoo & Lappeenranta are cities in this nation
A RECIPE FOR… ($600) To make this traditional one-word Mexican breakfast, combine fried tortillas with salsa & top with queso fresco
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS’ OCCUPATIONS ($1600) Harry Bosch’s half-brother Mickey Haller
($2000) Martin Dysart in “Equus”
U.S. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS ($2000) His name is on a pact with Aristide Briand, but Aristide had won a Nobel prize a few years before, so he got the 1929 prize alone
4-LETTER FISH( $1600) Dory could tell you that surgeon fish is another name for this blue fish, whose natural habitat is coral reefs
WATERLOGGED WORDS ($2000) This word for totally submerged has a huge body of water in the middle of it
The players missed these 3 clues in SPORTS TAKES:
($400) Stephen A. Smith & Molly Qerim talk sports & more on this ESPN show
($800) The NHL has a penalty for taking this to try to get your team a power play; the rules also it “embellishment”
($1000) An unwritten rule of baseball is to take (not swing) on this count, especially if your team has a big lead
SPORTS TAKES ANSWERS: show
The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern
Sneak Peek clues — 3 OF THE SAME LETTER
($200) To thumb a ride
($400) Creepy, like an unsettling coincidence
($600) Less common, or less well-done
($800) Derived from an initialism, it means to act as host for an entertainment event
($1000) A 7-letter cure for everything
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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Rotimi might have won, but, if he continues his strategy, he won’t get far. He wagered for second place. This tournament is win or go home.
I got FJ wrong. Like the lady in the middle, I said “The Bhagavad Gita”.
This show was definitely Second Chancers. They looked like why they didn’t win their games.
Got a little more than half the TS correct.
Pretty tight game, although I thought Pam’s $6K wager with the lead was reckless, and ultimately cost her the win.
FJ out of my comfort zone. I meekly said Koran, which I figured was not it.
The Phantom automobile was not difficult. Neither was the NY music hall. Those two odd-named cities pretty much gave away the F country. The $1000 Sports clue was a toughie, but I figured it out. The NHL penalty answer was not the one I came up with, but mine might have been acceptable.
What was your answer, in place of “diving”? I’m a big hockey fan, so that one was reflexive. Daniel Brière played for the Sabres about 17 years ago, when embellishment became a penalty, and the NHL sent out a video for referees to see. The absolute first one shown, of a player diving, was Daniel Brière!
I love hockey, but am much more into basketball and football, so I said “flop.”
For lack of a better response, all I could come up with was the Dead Sea Scrolls which I knew wasn’t going to fly. Anyways, it was another great game, and I’m glad that Rotimi was going to the finals.
Rotimi was originally invited back for the High School Reunion Tournament, but he was tested positive to COVID-19.