Final Jeopardy: Royalty (10-13-23)
Here are some more clues from the 10/13/2023 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.
WE WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK ($1000) We provide you the best in classical whistling with this piece heard here
AWARDS & HONORS ($600) Sign language played a big part in this 1980 Tony Award winner for Best Play
LIKE A ROCK ($400) The object of a pursuit, such as a hunted animal
($600) In earlier days, this pro-am golf tournament on California’s Monterey peninsula was called the Crosby Clambake
LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES ($2000) This landlocked African country was once called Nyasaland
CRAFTSMANSHIP ($2000) I’m giving an invitation this kind of fancy detail, also called a feather edge
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($400) Before he entered “The Matrix”, he helped us choose Kellogg’s Corn Flakes
($800) “30 Rock” was far in her future when she suggested we go to Mutual Savings Bank
($1200) Near the “Inception” of his career, this now-superstar informed the world that Bubble Yum “keeps it poppin'”
($1600) With no pandas, Kung Fu or otherwise in sight, he hawked “Pitfall” for the Atari 2600 (in a pith helmet)
($2000) One minute you’re selling Corn Pops in a 1999 ad, the next, meth on AMC 9 years later– such is this young actor’s life
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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It is amazing what people know and don’t know. Ranier was easy for me, but there are Finals about astronomy where I am a fish out of water. Also, in Oceanography I am a fish out of water.
Missed the show entirely, so dependent on the recap.
Had no clue about the FJ answer, but I said Prince Rainier as a desperate guess.
Knew the a-e-i-o-u word from a long time ago. Supposedly the only one with vowels in order.
Some of those stumpers weren’t too impossible. The 1980 Tony winner; hunted animal; California golf tournament. That course is open to the public, but last I heard cost about $500 to play a round, and probably more for a caddie if that’s required.
I can’t believe I forgot “facetious”. That is my go-to word for all the vowels in order.
I didn’t even pick up on what Ken said for Lawrence. I thought he didn’t say what was the solution. In any case, I said “John Paul II”, because I recalled being in residency, at Duke, and there was a bracket for who would be the next Pope. I remember, because, in one spot, they had “Duke”! That was during Duke basketball heydays, and was just after the NCAA tourney, which is what made it funny.
My late wife was a solid Catholic, but even she would not have called any of the popes royalty.
But it was “head of state”, notwithstanding the Cardinals being “princes of the church”. Royalty might have been the category, but the clue wasn’t, and it has been shown that the writers play fast and loose on some of them.
You are correct. The pope is technically a prince.
A tough FJ, and I went for Prince Philip.
A decent guess, but he died in 2021, not 2005.
Yes, I know now.
Tough break for Lawrence. Congratulations to Sam, though. Good luck in the Finals.
We end the week with another triple stumper as today’s final was a tough one thanks to Lawrence being penalized for putting Rainier as a king.
That was a heartbreaker to see that Lawrence was ruled incorrect by putting down Rainier was a king and not a prince. That’s the sort of mistake that the judges will not accept. But Sam survives a scare on this Friday the 13th and becomes our first finalists. We’ll find out who the other two finalists will join him next week.
Here’s a post of 21st Century Monarchy Changes that I intend to update soon. There are several changes due to abdication — Juan Carlos I is one of them.
Wow! I like that list! Great work, VJ!!
Thanks, Jason 😁