Final Jeopardy: Famous Families (10-26-23)
Here are some more clues from the 10/26/2023 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.
JACQUES OF ALL TRADES ($1200) A statue of this French missionary who hooked up with Jolliet represents Wisconsin in the U.S. Capitol
LET’S GO LOBSTERING ($1200) In a standard trap, a lobster finds the bait in this aptly named room, moves on to the parlor, & can’t leave
“HOUSE” ($2000) This European songbird takes its name from its habit of building nests in the eaves of homes
OF REPRESENTATIVES ($2000) Upset about taxes? Take it up with this committee, the House’s main one for writing tax bills
Today’s players got one clue in HALL OF FAMER BY POSITION, a repeat category from 2-14-2005
($400) Joe Namath, Joe Montana
($800) Bill Russell, Bill Walton
($1200) Bob Feller, Bob Lemon, Bob Gibson
($1600) Jerry Rice, Randy Moss, John Stallworth
($2000) Gump Worsley, Shrimp Worters, Rat Westwick
HALL OF FAMER ANSWERS: show
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Sneak Peek clues — MOB HITS:
($200) Adriana LaCerva, Jimmy Altieri & Ralph Cifaretto all got whacked on this TV drama
($400) In this 1972 movie, prized racehorse Khartoum is the casualty of a disagreement between a movie producer & the mafia
($600) “But I’m funny how? Funny like a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh?” says Tommy De Vito in this film
($800) When I got into family therapy this was not the “family” I had in mind”, says Billy Crystal in this 1999 comedy
($1000) A 1995 Travolta mob film that Ray Romano took to TV in 2017
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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Montgoflier is what Tony changed the phonetics of the word, Montgolfier. IIRC, he transposed the “F” and the “L”.
Mason looks just like Hank Scorpio (from the Simpsons, back in the day).
Oh, and, one thing I wanted to say, but forgot. Tony reminded me SO much of Hume Cronyn! I mean, but, really!!
Missed just over half the show, so partly dependent on the recap. When I came in, Yoshie had but $400, Tony had maybe a couple thou, and Mason was on his way to a runaway with $7200.
Those DDs were difficult but not impossible. Figured out the “Underwater” one quickly. Knew the 2nd began with “A”: but blanked. Good movie. And Presidents is one of those categories every contestant has to master, along with Shakespeare, Capitals and Royalty.
Pretty lame that no one knew Joliet’s partner, or those last 4 Hall of Famers. A great opportunity for a sports fan to run a category with clueless opponents. The Gumper was one of the last at his position to play without a mask. The tax bill committee was a tough one but I knew it. The other stumpers were very difficult.
I disagree that Ralph Cifaretto was “whacked” on the Sopranos. At least to me, “whacked” means the death was a “hit”. Ralph Cifaretto was murdered by Tony during a fight the two of them got in over a horse. Tony also killed his own cousin, Tony Blundetto. There was a hit out on Blundetto but Tony did it so the NY mob couldn’t torture his cousin.
The DDs were not nice to anybody resulted our third skunking. I hope William Weyser will say darn those daily doubles.
The main 1 I’m saying that to is Mason Maggio. If only he got his Daily Double, he would have been just fine. Instead, Mason struck out again, and Yoshie Hill moves on to the Semi-Finals. Oh, and Yoshie was the champion entering Alex Trebek’s last ever episode.
In today’s interview, Yoshie talked about being on stage for Alex Trebek’s last show. I was absolutely shocked about her story about being on Alex Trebek’s final show. It was an emotional story. She won Wednesday and Thursday but lost on Alex’s last show as a host before passing away. Congrats to Yoshie on advancing to the semifinals.
That tax bill committee reminded me of a champion from 5 or 7 years ago that was Canadian, and had a clue that was that committee, and the champ blurted out “what is the department of (blank)?”, and then said, “I’m Canadian”. I thought, you’re on a US game show, and, “When in Rome, do what the Romans do”. Not an excuse!
Things were rolling along in the J! round, but seemed to slow down in the second. I also thought Mason was going to do it.
I instinctively said “Kennedy”, but then wavered to Rockefeller, but then said, “Wait – 9 kids? Kennedy”. I always think of Joe dying in WWII, and how they mutilated Rosemary.
Yoshie doesn’t strike me as the strongest.