Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Leaders (10-12-22)
Here are some more clues from the 10/12/2022 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.
HAIR ($1000) The name of this pouffy hairstyle comes from the French for “to puff”
WAIST UP, NECK DOWN ($1000) The formation of solid deposits also called choleliths is a common occurrence in this organ
“GO”ING PLACES ($1600) Protruding from the Bosphorus like an appendage from an animal’s head, this colorful inlet helped bring wealth to Istanbul
The players got all the clues in QUICK! NOVELS:
($400) Go ahead & talk about this 1996 Chuck Palahniuk knockout
($800) 2005 bestseller about light-fingered Liesel Meminger
($1200) Pasternak’s masterpiece
($1600) 2003 high flyer from Khaled Hosseini
($2000) Celeste Ng burned up the bestseller lists with this, her second novel
QUICK! NOVELS ANSWERS: show
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For some reason or another, I didn’t think of Neville Chamberlain for FJ. Instead, I picked Pope Pius XII although I knew that the pope did virtually nothing to stop the war.
I said Charles De Gaulle, so, I’m in the same boat.
I got a kick out of the reactions Cris had to missing a couple of clues today. (On both, the right answer came to him right after he was ruled against.) It struck me funny because I’d probably react the same way and also because he generally wears his p-p-p-poker face.
One was the pouffy hairstyle TS and the other was Idina Menzel’s “Rent” clue (Elizabeth got it).