Final Jeopardy: The Roman Catholic Church (10-23-24)
Here are some more clues from the 10/23/2024 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.
HELLO & GOODBYE ($1000) The title of that 1960s hit often sung tauntingly at sports venues is “Na Na Hey Hey” these 3 words
3 WORDS & A COMMA OR 2 ($400) The title of Johann Strauss’ 1869 waltz “Wein, Weib und Gesang” translates into this trio in English
LITERARY TITLES EN ESPANOL ($400) “El pony colorado”
($600) “La comedia de las equivocaciones”
($1000) “Mil soles espléndidos”
QUOTH THE PRESIDENT ($400) Grover Cleveland, at an 1886 dedication: “Light shall pierce the darkness… until” this “enlightens the world”
($1200) At his second inaugural on March 4th, 1865, Abraham Lincoln eloquently called for malice toward none & this for all
($2000) Truman, on criticism from this general: “When an egotist is punctured, a lot of noise and whistling always accompanies the escaping air”
BROADWAY’S LEADING LADIES ($1000) These two Broadway legends seen here have rhyming first names (image)
EPONYMOUSLY YOURS ($800) Made a national memorial in 1959, this presidential mausoleum is in Riverside Park, overlooking the Hudson
THE TROJAN WAR ($800) A masterpiece of ancient sculpture shows the Trojan priest Laocoon & his sons being squeezed to death by “sea” these
($1600) The “Iliad” ends with the lighting of this warrior’s pyre after several days spent gathering wood
OUR 4-LEGGED FRIENDS ($2000) It’s not a mouse, it’s not a mole, it’s its own type of critter & makes distinctive runways connecting its burrows
AN “ODE” TO A CATEGORY ($800) Kerry Christensen is a master of this style of singing changing from natural voice to falsetto & then back again
($1200) It’s an early form of manuscript, like the pictographic Maya one seen here
($2000) Phylum of marine invertebrates that includes sea urchins & starfish
The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern
SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: BE WITCHED
($200) This witch in “The Wizard of Oz” tries to thwart Dorothy & is almost certainly aquaphobic
($400) Long used by witches as a symbol of protection, it has points representing earth, air, fire, water and spirit
($600) In “Macbeth” the song of the witches that begins “Double, double toil & trouble” mentions this pot used to cook potions
($800) It takes a gathering of at least 3 witches to form one of these to practice witchcraft, & typically up to 13
($1000) It’s the term for a witch’s helpful guardian spirit & may take the form of a pet or even a non-physical entity
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 did say “Darn Those Daily Doubles!” to Sophia. Brett, not your day. Will, at least, you ended a short carousel of 1-Day Champions.
Yeah, Sophia bad answered herself right out of competition. That was remarkable, in not the good way.
I missed FJ. I said “Epiphany”.
Holy spirit! Had no clue on FJ but said Pentecost just to have something.
First DD wasn’t tough; second easy but only in hindsight.
Sophia surged into the lead, then faded like a cheap suit. I don’t think we see a crash like that too often.
Old enough to remember the Na Na Hey Hey title as well as the band. That was a big-$$ question long ago on “Millionaire.” “La Comedia” title not too hard to figure out. The name of Truman’s critic has “faded away” over time. The rhyming Broadway legends were a cinch. The sea squeezers also somewhat obvious.
It was a clear runaway for Will. Wow! Now, that Spanish category might not have been particularly easy even for Spanish speakers, but I got most of the clues.. In sum, I did about average in the game, but with an easy FJ.
I thought the clues tonight were pretty hard. Tough material.
Awful show. All 3 DDs were missed resulted a skunking and a double stumper in the final resulted our fourth epic fail on wagering clues. I hope tomorrow’s episode will be much better.
I felt bad for Sophia. She played so well and I thought she was going to be the new champion, but she missed all three daily doubles and her attempt to catch back up didn’t work out well for her as she took a lot of incorrect responses knocking her out of contention. She was dangerously close to zero but did stay eligible for Final while Brett’s attempt to do so ended up short. Darn those daily doubles to Sophia and Brett wasn’t able to get any cash at all.
I wasn’t paying that close attention in the second round so I was shocked when Sophia hit that last DD and only had $2,800. I had to go watch that round over. She held the lead until she lost $2,600 on the 4-Legged Friend DD, almost half way into the second round. Then she was tied with Will and he took over the lead on the next clue.
Way too many stumpers in this game with bad guesses taken at roughly half of them.
This is just like last Wednesday.
I know Porter from the 2016 Teen Tournament and Shanu missed all the 3 DDs as well.