Final Jeopardy: Presidential Proclamations (10-2-23)
Here are some more clues from the 10/2/2023 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.
ARE YOU SHAKESPEARIENCED? ($600) “Neither a borrower nor a lender be”
($1000) “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players”
A BUG’S LIFE ($400) The chigoe is a sand-dwelling variety of this insect
NATIVE AMERICANS ($1000) It was the “spectral” central ritual of the messianic 19th century religion founded by the Paiute Wovoka
SOUTH AFRICA ($400) Of South Africa’s 12 official languages, this 4-letter African one is the most spoken in the country
THEY PLAYED WYATT EARP ($1200) In 1994’s “Wyatt Earp”, he played Earp to Dennis Quaid’s Doc Holliday
($2000) Long before he was Grandpa Walton, he played Earp in “Winchester ’73”
SIGNS & SYMBOLS ($1200) Proofreadersuse asymbolthat lookslikea tic-tac-toeboard toindicate “insert” this (3rd mark from bottom)
($2000) In heraldry, this word follows “bend” to denote a diagonal line ending the lower left
HODGE PODGE ($400) In 1874 Charles Hodge argued that the perfection of this human sense organ makes it obvious we were designed
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Sneak Peek clues — GEOGRAPHY “B”
($200) This capital city of Iraq was founded around 762 A.D.
($400) Home to about 5.4 million, it’s the province seen here
($600) A British colony until 1973, this country made up of many islands is only about 60 miles SE of Florida
($800) Look way up in the Himalayas to find this small country of Asia
($1000) The 2 countries of South American that begin with “B” are these 2
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I read an article online that said 10 of 12 categories in this game were retreads. So, I don’t know if I knew the response, or was recalling it from the first time.
And, on reflection, it was kinda harsh for Ken to say “Lincoln didn’t have foreknowledge of his death”, or something similar, to Emily, IIRC.
Jason, Ken didn’t say that to Emily. After getting a Lincoln from all 3 of them, Dane’s response being revealed last. he told them it was the successors of Lincoln and FDR. “Lincoln,” he said, “obviously didn’t know in advance.”
idk how all 3 of them misinterpreted the clue, but these are not second chance players, they are Jeopardy! champs. That’s why I was shocked.
Thanks for that, VJ. I just recalled the sentiment, far after the fact, which is why I forgot to whom it was aimed. It seems extraneous.
And, to their credit (about 2 cents worth), I misinterpreted it, too.
well, he didn’t say it in a condescending or snarky way, Jason. I think Ken goes out of his way to console the players on wrong responses.
It’s a terrible idea to play the shot game every time he says “I’m afraid”
Chester Arthur and Lyndon B. Johnson came to my mind for FJ, but I knew that wasn’t going to fly. Regarding FDR, I just couldn’t imagine that there would be a national day of mourning.
Rick, if you click on the link to the American Presidency Project that I supplied in the recap, you’ll see how each President’s death was handled. One thing I noticed: Only two of the proclamations actually have “National Day” in the title (for the deaths of Kennedy and Gerald Ford).
The titles are clickable if you want to read what the proclamations and executive orders actually say.
Kind of a choppy show, but I thought all the DDs and the categories in general were pretty tough. Only stumpers I got were the freestyle gold medal; “Neither a borrower nor a lender be;” and the human sense organ.
Disappointing that no one got FJ. It was not that difficult. You have to know your presidents on “Jeopardy!” The first one who came to mind was Lincoln in 1865, then I added 80 and got FDR. They both died in March/April, so from there it was an easy progression to Andrew Johnson and Truman. And all that logic took me fewer than 10 seconds.
There were four presidents who had died in office from natural causes including William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor and Warren G. Harding. Lest I was mistaken, none of them were afforded a national day of mourning.. Actually, I would imagine that such an event was typically attributed to those who had met tragic deaths. That begged the question: What made FDR the exception other than he died during the conclusion of a world war?
He was a mostly-beloved, four-term president. My mother was 20 when he died. She told me (many years later) that the whole country was in shock and saddened when he died.
Burt got half of the answer right, not Abraham Lincoln.
And we got a triple stumper to start the tournament.