Final Jeopardy: Awards & Honors (10-24-23)
Here are some more clues from the 10/24/2023 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.
WAR & PEAS ($800) In the 1940s General Mills helped the war effort with dried pea soup; also, cereal bars for these “alphabetical” army rations
($1000) Every Thursday, this country’s armed forces get served a traditional pea soup called ärtsoppa
THE USTA ($200) USTA youth tennis progression goes red: age 5-7, orange: 7-9, green: 9-11, the colors referring to this
WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLINER? ($600) Obviously, you know that this felt hat got its name in the late 1800s (image)
($1000) Naturally, you’re familiar with the 5-letter term for the hat-shaping mold seen here
INVENTED FIRST ($1000) Bunsen burner, Geiger counter, Leyden jar (click here)
GARDENS ($800) The U.S. Botanic Garden is on the National Mall & its acting director is the person in the post “Architect of” this
($2000) A National Historic Site of Canada, these gardens on Vancouver Island include the beautiful Sunken Garden seen here
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA ($2000) In 2021 the Met premiered its first opera by a Black composer, this jazz trumpeter 5 months younger than Wynton Marsalis
COUNTRIES THAT BORDER INDIA ($2000) In the northeast, India’s Arunachal Pradesh state shares a border with this nation’s Kachin state
CONTRONYMS ($1600) This adjective describes both something that moves quickly & something that doesn’t move at all
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Sneak Peek clues — “POUND” KEY
($200) This word can come before microscope or fracture; the first is definitely better
($400) Traditionally, one of these requires 16 ounces each of butter, sugar & flour
($600) Where you go to retrieve your car after it’s been towed for being parked in front of a fire hydrant
($800) 20-word official name for the standard monetary unit of the United Kingdom
($1000) A harsh debt payment insisted upon, it was Antonio’s obligation to Shylock in “The Merchant of Venice”
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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Jilana’s wager was a bit off. Had she gotten it wrong, and Steve correct, she would have lost by $1000. Since his max would have been $19,200, she just needed to wager $201.
Still, a good win for her. Unusually, she is a Second Chance player that doesn’t look like there was a reason they weren’t champion.
I blanked for a moment, but then got Final with much time to spare.
I haven’t looked to see if the producers are still going to have the winner of Celebrity Jeopardy! in the ToC. That will be a rude awakening for Ike, if he is in it!
If you like a 2-person horse race, this was the match for you. Jilana is a terrific player. Confident but not brash. Steve stuck with her until some faux pas late in the game.
Challenging FJ, which I knew cold, so it’s tough to say if someone who didn’t know it could have deduced it somehow. I clearly remember him winning both awards.
The army rations and the $1000 Invented First clue weren’t terribly tough. We visited those gardens on Vancouver Island in 1994. It was late on a summer day and it got dark before we could fully explore them.
VJ, I forgot all about the discussion we had on FF in 2016 about Bob Dylan. I said it back then and repeat “He deserved the Award.” I will also repeat what I’ve said over the years. If contestants study FF they stand a better chance on Jeopardy imo.
Who would have ever thought that a singer would receive the Nobel Prize in Literature based on nothing but a song? In any case, I didn’t come up with the correct response.
It wasn’t just one song, though. It was his whole oeuvre, as it were. The Sex Pistols got into the R&R Hall of Fame on one album, but his breadth is much greater. I, personally, love “Tangled Up In Blue”. As Dylan said, “It was 10 years in the livin’, and 2 years in the writin’!”
If you haven’t read his speech, you should. Even not spoken, but read, it is good (and, ironically, that’s part of what it’s about). He didn’t go to the ceremony, and gave his speech 8 months later in front of a few members. If you don’t give the speech, you don’t get the prize, or the prize money.
John’s score at the end of Round 1 was -400. He really struggled throughout the game as he was in the negative for most of the game but so delighted to see him got out of the red so he could play FJ! Jilana currently remains undefeated after winning Second Chance last month.