Final Jeopardy: Historic Letters (10-25-23)
Here are some more clues from the 10/xx/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.
PRODUCE ($2000) “Top Gun” & “CSI” are just two of the projects of this last of Hollywood’s mega producers
SHE BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE ($2000) Called the first female M.D. in modern times, she helped found the London School of Medicine for Women in 1875
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($400) Alliterative slang for crying
($800) Morgan Freeman’s first regular TV gig
($1200) In baseball this “punitive” measure began in 1997, & for the Yankees it was over $4.4 million
($1600) The president lives on it
($2000) A Latvian street?
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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Oh, and, I knew it wasn’t Vasco de Gama, because he was in the clue about the river earlier in the game.
I immediately thought Columbus, who thought he’d reached India. Then unfortunately came to my senses when I saw Cadiz and said Magellan. Rats!
When I saw the clue, I immediately thought of these lines from Good Timin’:
🎶 Who in the world would have ever known what Columbus could do
If Queen Isabella hadn’t hocked her jewels in 1492? 🎶
and that song’s been playing in my head on and off all day! 🤣
The one I remember is “Columbus sailed the ocean blue, in 1400 and 92.”
I said “Magellan”. Oh well!
Did Phillip wear his SEAL trident his first time? I don’t recall.
Funny thing, the Lemony Thicket author was a question on MasterMinds today! It flipped out around, with his name given, and looking for Lemony!
Also, MM had a question about the “longest river entirely in France”. I got that right, because of Jeopardy!
Thanks to VJ for the vidcap. The same “smudge” appears in the shot is Phillip from 3 years ago, on the left lapel. The trident he wears is small. His first appearance was before I started posting on FF. I said to my wife then, if he’s a Navy officer, but in civilian clothes, he’s UDT/SEALS. However, there’s someone about a sailor saying he is that, but not wearing his uniform. Back in the 1980s, the NSA director, VADM John Poindexter, when testifying before Congress, and after, when he lost his NSA job, and reverted to Rear Admiral (in the US military, to be a 3 or 4 star officer, you have to have a specific job for it. Leave the job before retirement, you go back to your prior rank), he didn’t wear his uniform, although he does have it on in his official USN photo. An admiral not wearing his uniform? That just sounds wrong.
Did anyone else think the final was kinda easy? I guessed Columbus but didn’t think it could have been anyone else.
My first choice was Columbus, but then I changed it to Marco Polo, and then to Magellan.
And we got our first triple stumper of the week since today’s FJ wasn’t kind to anybody.
I was hoping that Carlos Chaidez would redeem himself from that William Tell Overture fumble 3 years ago, but unfortunately, he couldn’t do it.