Final Jeopardy: Music Man (10-23-23)
Here are some more clues from the 10/23/2023 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 REALLY OLD COLLEGE TRY ($1000) I come to wive it wealthily at the University of this, founded in 1222 by ex-University of Bologna students
THE NAME OF ($800) To overwhelm with wonder
ALWAYS SAY NEVER ($400) Line that precedes “they simply fade away” in a British army song
($800) In his “Ballad of East and West”, this Brit wrote, “East is east, and west is west, and never the twain shall meet”
($1000) Shelley said of this, “Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert”; Wordsworth said they “soar, but never roam”
A RIVER RUNS TO IT ($400) The Yakima: to this larger Pacific Northwest river
($800) The Platte: This river that runs to another river
($1600) The Hudson: “Upper” this bay
THE HISTORY CHANNEL ($1600) Around the 1850s archaeologists unearthed the great library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, capital of this ancient empire
($2000) This 6th century Byzantine emperor, lawgiver & Christian expelled pagan teachers from the Athens Academy
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Sneak Peek clues — STUPID PROVERBS
($200) “Fight” this “with fire”
($400) An American proverb says “money begets” this
($600) You’ll find things are in order with “a place for” this and “everything in its place”
($800) “Nothing” does this “like success”
($1000) We’re due for this proverb: “Give credit where credit is” this
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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When I first saw Leah, I could have sworn it was Jillian from Workaholics.
We get the show 3+ hours late on Mondays because of football. This one was very up and down, to put it mildly. Way too many wrong responses and total stumpers. And these were all past champions?
Cinch FJ if you know ANYTHING about old music. “1959” and “Lincoln-Mercury” were huge hints.
Very disappointed no one got the last two DDs, the patron saint and Vistula’s sea. The Grant-Hepburn “baby” movie is pretty well-known. “Simply fade away” clue was not difficult. The three missed rivers and the two missed stupid proverbs were inexcusable.
IIRC, Isaac bagged it the last time – by not betting enough. Seriously – if I can’t get on there, they better darn well realize that it is manna from heaven for a second chance, and bet it all. ALL!! Or, alternately, maybe learn the first time what to do the second? I’m definitely not impressed. And I’m a doctor! If Isaac is going to become a colleague, he’s gotta be more aggressive. Or logical, even.
Also, a low scoring venture. I’m not sure who was the “cooler”. Pasquale was sure charismatic enough.
And I have no dramatics for you, VJ! I just love your site, and the work you do!!
Yes, 2/17/2022! His cautious play cost him, this time. It’s logic – go for it all!
I agree with you, Jason. They should just go all in. There are no Wild Cards to worry about and no difference between 2nd and 3rd place prizes. The only exception I can see is if you hate the category enough to stand pat.
And thanks, I’m glad you love Fikkle Fame. We appreciate your visits.😁
We began the with 3 missed DDs resulted our second skunking. I hope William Weyser would say darn those daily doubles to Isaac.
Yes, especially since the material in the National College Championship was not very nice to me, and Isaac Applebaum was supposed to be in last year’s Second Chance, but due to an unspecified scheduling conflict, Erica Weiner-Amachi took his place, and Isaac is getting his Second Chance in this tournament instead.
Unacceptable! The Daily Double “A Woman of the World” should have the date 1993 not 1833 as you wrote in ERROR! You ruined the clue for all of us. There was no Turkey in 1833, so I guessed wrong. How difficult is it to get the dates correct?
Mistakes like that happen from time to time, Paul. Usually, it’s in a money amount but whatever it is, we fix it as soon as we can. Most readers know that mistakes will happen and helpfully point it out without the dramatics.
Anyway, since you know you would have been right if it said 1993, you can count it right. Sorry ’bout that.
Thanks for the correction. I was on a date and the woman I was with wasn’t impressed that I didn’t get all the clues correct. I don’t know that they’ll be second date now. Accidents happen.
Gee, Paul, if she won’t go out with you again because you got a Jeopardy! clue wrong that wasn’t even your fault, we’re inclined to think we did you a favor.