Final Jeopardy: Military History (10-17-23)
Here are some more clues from the 10/17/2023 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.
THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS ($1000) St. Ambrose credits this mother of Constantine with finding the True Cross of Jesus
DUST TO DUST ($600) In Genesis “God said unto” this creature “dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life”
($1000) In “King Lear”, Albany tells her, “You are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face”
THE MOUNTAIN WEST ($2000) The highest peak in the Atlas Mountains, in the western part of the range, is Mount Toubkal in this monarchy
WORLD WRITERS ($800) Long a bestseller in this native land, Olga Tokarczuk found a world audience after her 2018 Man Booker & Nobel Prizes
WEEDER’S DIGEST ($800) Its name is from the French for “lion’s tooth”
3-LETTER WORDS ($2000) Not sew, but you do this to make lace using knots & loops
The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern
Sneak Peek clues — ANIMALS IN ITALIAN
($200) Don’t be afraid– this animal is a pollo
($400) This animal, gatto, got your lingua?
($600) After all the gelato, I feel as big as a balena
($800) Tell Leon il cavallo has arrived
($1000) Farfalle are these creatures, but please don’t eat them
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
We may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases made from Amazon.com links at no cost to our visitors. Learn more: Affiliate Disclosure.
I am embarrassed to say that I got the 1912 Olympic DD wrong. That was the Olympics that George Patton was in, where he placed 5th in the Modern Pentathlon, and was also the Olympics where Jim Thorpe did his heroics. I kept saying “Antwerp, Antwerp!”
George Patton did his first year at my Alma Mater, before he went to West Point.
I saw this game more as if the two dudes lost the game, vs Lucy winning. Regardless, I do think she earned it, and would not bet against her in the finals.
VMI, according to Wikipedia, after turning down Princeton. Followed in father’s and grandfather’s footsteps.
You doxxed me, Howard! I was class of 1992.
A very uneven game, to put it mildly. Joe totally tanked in DJ and really had to scratch his way back into the black. Lucy is a solid player, but she scored big-time after the guys gave wrong answers. She never should have risked $6K on that DD, and was fortunate it worked out. Yes, she could have put the game away, but she also risked losing her runaway and possibly blowing FJ.
FJ and the 3rd DD perplexed me, but I did get the first 2. “You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din” is (or at least was) Kipling’s famous line about the water-bearer. Sports are my specialty, so the 1912 Olympics site came to me after I momentarily thought it was Oslo.
Any experienced cruciverbalist (crossword enthusiast) knows the 3-letter word for make lace. And someone probably should have known the weed derived from “lion’s tooth.” I believe Ken J got into crosswords after his “J!” run and participated in national competitions.
All 3 DDs were missed resulted our first skunking of the season. Good thing that we got spare from a total bust. I am sure William Weyser will say darn those daily doubles to Lucy.
It’s not just Lucy, but to Joe also, but props to Joe for going from -$4,800 to $400, and being around for Final Jeopardy!, instead of just standing there and saying “Hey, I had a great time.”