Final Jeopardy: Literary Pronouns (10-13-20)
Here are 9 more triple stumpers from the 10/13/2020 Jeopardy! game:
TREE OF A KIND ($200) Japanese, silver, sugar
($600) Norway, Serbian, Sitka
THE NOT-SO-ROARING ’30S ($200) In November 1930 the this of Tennessee failed; it was one of the first but wouldn’t be the last
($400) A NASA study found that one of these that struck 70% of North America in 1934 was the worst in 1,000 years; no wonder it got dusty
NASCAR IN VEGAS ($400) I’m Kevin Harvick: “I might have only won one NASCAR Cup Series points race in 2007, but I sure did make it count, winning this event, the Super Bowl of stock car racing, by .02 seconds”
($1000) Aric Almirola: “I won the 2014 Coke Zero 400 at Daytona driving for the Number 43 motor sports team of this NASCAR legend on the 30th anniversary of his 200th win that came on the same track”
MEDICAL HISTORY ($1600) In 1952 Bjorn Ibsen said, let’s keep the patient intubated & ventilated like in the O.R., creating the first of these hospital units
($2000) This gland was thought useless until 1961, when it was found that the T cells that come from it kill tumor cells
A BUNCH OF SQUARES ($2000) The name of this Cairo square at the center of Arab Spring protests means “liberation” in Arabic
The players didn’t get these 3 clues in OXYMORONS ($800) Working security for MLK, George Raveling ended up with the original this of the “I Have a Dream” speech
($1600) A pattern of negative attitudes & resistance to demands are criteria for this type of behavior
($2000) The Metropolitan Museum once issued a metal button as an admission ticket; the colors changed daily in this oxymoronic “order”
ANSWERS: show
Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — The players missed one clue (*) in TV THEME SONG LYRICS
($400) “Would you be mine? Could you be mine? Won’t you be my neighbor?”
($800) “So no one told you life was gonna be this way, your job’s a joke, you’re broke, your love life’s D.O.A.”
($1200) “Men men men men, manly men men men!”
($1600) “You’re not the boss of me now & you’re no so big”
*($2000) “Sing me a song of a lass that is gone, say, could that lass be I?”
ANSWERS: show
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I’d really have to say that tonight’s game was the absolute worst of the worst. This was the first time since March 12, 2015 that two of the three contestants were dismissed from the game and the first game since the pandemic that this had happened. Not to mention all 3 DDs were missed tonight. Natt just couldn’t get it going and Alex went all out on the last DD before the Double Jeopardy round expired.
On a more positive note, Glad to see Kevin make a conversative bet in Final J! netting him his fourth win. Other than that, what else can I say about this episode?
And to end on a side note, tonight’s episode was pre-empted in many markets due to the postponed NFL game between the Buffalo Bills and the Tennessee Titans so for those of you people who had missed tonight’s episode may have it recorded.
@Ryan, you could say only one DD was missed — the last one, and because of that, Kevin won the game before he even made an FJ bet. .
On that Christopher Plummer clue, my little granddaughter was quick to point out that Alex Trebek mispronounced the character’s name. It’s a long I in the ‘line’ syllable, not like ‘lynn’
I thought of you and Julie when that clue came up, VJ!
We only watch the ones that Christopher Plummer narrates, Rhonda. I showed Julie the movie with Frances McDormand (it’s free on Amazon Prime), but she didn’t care for it.
I’m not a fan of Frances McDormand myself, VJ, she annoys me.
The female expatriate strikes again. I’d bet my left arm Sr. Picasso was under the top row “Cubist” clue.
Kristin Sausville, you are no longer the most recent player to deal with a single-player Final.
This was a painful final jeopardy with Kevin playing solo since Kristin sausville’s previous game. I thought the opponents were at least worthy enough to be in final but to let Alex throw away that 5800 dollar bet was not a good move. VJ, any comments on what Alex could have done differently here?
He took what he felt was his best shot, Lou. Alex had no way of knowing it wouldn’t have mattered because he couldn’t take over the lead and FJ was the softball of all softballs. LOL.
Try not to take it so seriously, Lou. and over-analyze it. It’s not a big calamity. He was coming in second place no matter what he did at that point.
Man, We were shocked to see only one player left in FJ! Alex was doing well until he found the last daily double when Trebek told him now or never, he made it a true daily double and answered incorrectly while Natt couldn’t get things and as a result, both players were out of the game. This is really a double disqualification on today’s show.
The clues weren’t nice to them.